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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Hi there, I've been using this tip successfully since it was first posted! However, I've just run into a new issue and going back through the comments, I don't see anyone else with this same problem, so I figured I'd post and see if anyone could help: I have everything uploaded, folder and files are set to public, files are NOT being uploaded as docs, and I've changed the presenter.html file to index.html. When I create the https://googledrive.com/host link all I have is a blank white screen, however the tab in Chrome displays the correct name of my course. The Articulate loading circle never appears. Any ideas? The files did seem to transfer fairly quickly, so I'm wondering if something is missing that I can't see (I've compared the files I have and they match other courses I'm hostin... Expand