Single File Offline Course Version
May 06, 2013
Hello All:
We are using Storyline for our course creation and publishing to our LMS which is working fine.
We have very technical training courses which our field staff need to refer to in locations without internet access. So, we have strong requests for offline versions of our courses.
I don't want to have to create two versions of every course.
I would really like a single file I can provide to students after completing the online version of the course.
I know Storyline does not support publishing to a single .SWF file. I wish it did.
I have seen the publish for web and CD options which is what we use now to provide an offline version. But it is not a clean solution as you get an entire directory and need to navigate to the correct file to view the course.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to compile the published files from Storyline into a single file? Our courses have a lot of interactions so I guess it would need to be .SWF or HTML5 not just a movie.
HTML5 would be ideal as our sales force will be getting ipads shortly. But if SWF is the only way that would be better than the directory full of files we need to deal with now.
Thanks!
-js
7 Replies
HTML5 is going to be a series of files as well
there is no way to compile to a single file, you could record the course and provide a video.
You could put in a feature request.
Joel,
Curious about the CD option. This should launch automatically when the CD is inserted in a drive (no navigation to the correct files needed). When you publish it out to CD, in the published output, you'll see a Launch_Story file and an autorun file. These two files make the magic happen.
Mike
Thanks for the reply’s.
Phil thanks for the point about HTML5 being more than 1 file.
Mike, yes I understand the autorun if I publish the CD and actually burn it to a CD. This is not a solution. Our IT department does not allow CDs anymore due to security / encryption restrictions. Additionally, having our field reps carry around a bunch of CDs is not a practical solution. I am publishing to CD just distributing the directory and having staff run the .exe file.
So, does anyone know of a third party application that would allow me to compile the multiple SWF files into a single file?
-js
Hi Joel, There isnt one, the published files are more than a series of swfs, if this existed it would have to have been built specifically to compile Storyline, anyone who had one of those would have made themselves noticed on this forum by now. Sorry
Of course, once folks get iPads, you could enable downloading of the course into the Articulate Mobile Player library on the iPad for offline viewing. Still be multiple files but the course would be on the iPad.
You could also record the course with a third-party tool like Camtasia or Captivate and create a single file for distribution.
We had a similar issue here, and we handled it that way (please, be aware that was not a real solution, it was just an alternative way to handle it):
- publish the package for CD, in the destination folder (that users will get acess to);
- create another folder, named something like "system files" (to prevent people opening it), and move all the multiple published files into this new folder (including the launch and autorun files);
- create a shortcut for the launch file, then move it to the destination folder, and rename it to something more intuitive, like "Course X - click here to start".
So, users only will see 1 file and 1 folder:
- "Course X - click here to start"
- "System files" (wich in fact contains all the storyline published files).
Best regards,
Beatriz
Thanks Beatriz for sharing here - even though this thread is older it's always good to know what folks have been up to and accomplished.
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