How to Share Your E-Learning Course for Free With Google Drive
UPDATE: Google is deprecating this feature and it'll no longer work after August 31, 2016. Consider using Amazon S3 or your own website instead.
For a quick and easy way to share your published Articulate projects, you might want to consider Google Drive. You probably already know about Google Drive’s file sharing capability, but did you know that Google recently added a web hosting feature? This new feature means that Google Drive can host your published Articulate projects.
STEP 1: How to upload your published Articulate project to Google Drive:
1. Log in to Google Drive.
2. Create a new folder.
3. Set this folder’s sharing settings to “Public on the web”
4. Upload the published output from your Articulate project.
5. Rename the appropriate launch file to index.html
- For a Storyline course, rename the story.html file.
- For a Presenter presentation, rename the player.html file.
- For a Quizmaker quiz, rename the quiz.html file.
- For an Engage interaction, rename the engage.html file.
STEP 2: How to find the link for sharing:
1. From within the folder containing your published content, copy the characters after drive.google.com/#folders/ from the address bar as shown below.
2. Then, to get the link you to use for sharing with others, paste those copied characters to the end of http://googledrive.com/host/
https://googledrive.com/host/0B-p5Xrlt8ArKaTlPd3RSOHdjSG8/
HELPFUL HINT: I have found that Google Chrome is the best web browser to use with Google Drive. Not all Google Drive features work by default in other browsers.
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Karen - There's a story_HTML5 file that, on my computer for some reason, is the one that needs to get changed to index. I keep the story html file as it is. Give that a try. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn and I can walk you through some other possibilities via phone. I also found that this file path https://googledrive.com/host/ is kind of quirky for me. It took me awhile to get it just right. For me it was going to the public drive of google drive and adding everything after the "folders/" to https://googledrive.com/host/ This won't get them to the exact file you want to show. What it will do is get them to the public folder, where you can then navigate to the index file and launch it. If you get that far, just copy the link in the address and that will bring them directly to t... Expand