Storyline Presentation on Google Sites
Nov 29, 2012
Google Sites is a hosted web site tool where the creation and editing is done on-line. There is no uploading to an FTP server, at least not one that is visible to the user.
I wanted to put an Articulate Storyline presentation up but the output files are designed for upload to FTP. There is; however, a page type on Google Sites called File Cabinet. When I saw that the File Cabinet pages could be arranged hierarchically, I thought I would try using those to duplicate the file structure of the Articulate Storyline web output. I simply named the upper level page the same as ...output folder and the lower level page story_content and copied in the respective files. I then copied the address from the "view" link of the story.swf file in the output folder and used it to create a link on the page from which I wanted to run the presentation. As it turned out, it works very well.
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing, David.
Great information, David!
And timely. I seem to recall there was someone just the other day wondering about getting a course on a Google Site. Now to track that down...
as you use this....remember that google scans every bit of data that ingests into their world...they slice and dice the data for a detailed analysis...
so if you don't mind having them plow thru your stuff...go for it...
Johnathan makes an excellent point. Any and everything you run through them is digested and filed away for some unknown future "feature." Personally I would tread very carefully there.
Great tip. Thanks for sharing and the excellent details.
BUMP! HaHa.
I'm trying this right now and getting the following:
ERROR: Could not load the file 'story_content/data.swf'
Ideas? Thanks.
UPDATE: Solved!
Hi David:
Thanks for sharing the idea! I am not very much familiar with Google and I have only gmail email account other than that I have not used
for anything. Can you please guide me, what type of account I would need to get posted these at the Google Sites? Any type of
assistance will be highly appreciated. Again GREAT Idea!
Regards,
Pummi Bais
Do you know if there's a way to run story.html, rather than story.swf from google sites? I need to do this for Tin Can purposes. When I try running the .html file, it just gives me a download link. Creating a new link also just gives me a download when I fire it up in a browser. I also tried with wix, but wix doesn't seem to allow you to upload external content (and doesn't seem to have file cabinet capability). I guess it's not a hosting service. Any success running an .html with either google sites or wix -- especially running an .html file from Google Sites.
Thanks
Hi Frank,
If you're looking to run the course from Google Drive you'll want to change the story.html to index.html as described here.
I have tried to use the method outlined above but it doesn't seem to publish all my content - i.e. it looks really weird and jumbled up. I had more files than the examples given above. I had a output folder, story_content folder and a files folder. Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks
Hi Eleanor and welcome to Heroes!
Are you following the steps as detailed here for uploading your published content to Google drive?
Using David's instructions above, I have been able to publish to Google sites. Everything looks fine with one major (for me) exception: Links to You Tube videos don't work (I don't think any links work, but I've focused on YouTube videos since they are a major component of what I've developed over the past couple of years.). Does anyone have any suggestions for getting links to work.
I've tried both inserting a hyperlink (and embedding, etc.) and inserting a web object. The links work in tempshare and the guy at support got them to work on Google drive. When I publish to CD, everything works (locally). When I publish to Web, everything but the links works fine. When I copy everything to Google Sites, everything but the links works fine.
I'm using Storyline 1. Does anyone know if Storyline 2 works better (easier/faster)? Using the instructions above, it takes a good 15 minutes to copy all the files for a project that's not all that large.
Hi Dave,
I haven't heard that YouTube links don't work - and that would be a surprising element to me. Have you looked at testing on another site, just to confirm you've set the links up correctly? You could also try tempshare as another testing platform.
In regards to Google drive, I know that they changed some of the structure recently, so you'll want to make sure you're using the correct link to share that with users to access the course.
The links do work(a) on tempshare and (b) when I "publish to CD". They don't work (a) on Google Sites or (b) when I select "publish to web." I can put any links I want on Google Sites itself. It's just not as seamless (for my students) as having links that I can embed in Storyline.
For now, I a downloading my YouTube videos as MP4s. They work when I "insert video." So, at least I can use videos I made (but I suspect I'll soon run out of space on Google). I just can't link to YouTube videos someone else made (which is a problem).
Hi Dave,
If it's working on Tempshare, you would have needed to publish Storyline to web to upload there, so I'm a bit confused?
Does anyone know if this method of publishing will accept and preserve data entry from a regular Storyline 2 quiz template? Where would it be stored and how would one access it? Thanks so much!
Hi Alissa,
We don't support reporting to an external database or text file as you may use on a Google site. I'll defer to the community for assistance here as I know a number of folks send the information and data using something such as Javascript.
I didn't think so, but I really appreciate the quick response! If there are alternative solutions I would be interested. I'm used to working with an LMS but need to make something publicly accessible yet able to gather data for a new project. Just curious as to how others without an LMS are able to do it. Thanks Ashley!
Has anyone figured out how to publish the story.html file with Google Sites?? I was not able to publish neither the .swf or .html!! Do I have to turn de initial page to File cabinet format, or keep the web format?
Hi guys, I figured out how to publish using Google sites, although this way of sharing only works for the swf files. So, i decided to publish at google drive, as was discussed here too.
Thanks a lot!! :)
Thanks for the update Sara. Just wanted to share some documentation for others as well.
Articulate Storyline doesn't support publishing to a single SWF file. See this article for more information.
Hi Asley,
I could not do that.
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.
Any other way ?
Hi Rahul,
This thread is a bit older, and Google did remove the functionality to play/host those HTML files there.Were you unable to upload to Amazon S3 or another web server? What additional part do you need assistance with?
Thanks a lot .
I need further info about uploading to Google sites . The folder (which I
have published as web folder ) contains multiple sub folders like Mobile
etc. How to upload it ?
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