Google Drive: Anyone using it to store & share development files?

I've been using Google Drive to keep Articulate files for a little while now.  The drive already had my google docs/forms in it, so it felt like a natural fit.

The one gap (and this is probably just because I haven't figured it out yet) is that I can't share output on the drive; for that reason Dropbox is still my go-to for Articulate files.

Google Drive works great for viewing courses. The two main things you need to do are make sure the sharing setting for the folder containing your course is set to Public and rename the course launch page from story.html or player.html to index.html. 

Here is a quick walk through of how it works. 

Hi, Mike.  Thank you for your tutorial on using Google Drive to share courses.  I'm working in Articulate Studio '09, not Storyline, and I need to have my external client view what I've created.  Does the process you described work the same for my Presenter/Engage/Quizmaker files?

Yes, Francesca.  The only difference would be which file you rename to index.html.  For Presenter output rename the player.html file to  index.html and it should work as along as the folder is shared as "Public".   Hope that does the trick for you! 

HI, Mike.   I followed the process as you describe in your tutorial, but I'm getting nowhere.  I have a Google drive account, but when I try to move my folder to it, it just doesn't move over.   Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

It could be the browser you are using. Google Chrome works best and the drag and drop method works by default when using that one. For other browsers you might need to Enable folder upload which is a java applet.

You'll need to enable folder upload in non-Chrome browsers each time you visit your Google Drive.

Hi, Mike.  Thanks for the tip about Chrome.  Yes, I was able to move the folder over to Google drive when I used Chrome.  . 

I followed your instructions and things were going well until I copied the end of the link and added it to googledrive.com/host/  It didn't work, "Error found."   The link  looks like this:

?tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0B066EVgZrdjRSi1SSlQzZ3Rfanc

Do you think it has anything to do with the ? at the beginning?

Thanks.

Are you in the folder that contains your published content when you copy the end of the URL? It should look something like this.

Copy FROM:

Paste TO:

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.  Deadlines....

Anyway, thanks for helping me out with this.  I found out that my company has an IT group that takes care of all that.  (This is my first project with them).  So I won't need to use Google drive or Drop box.  Thanks again.

Okay, well thanks for the update Francesca

Hi

I would like to know if is possible to share an engage interaction in Google Sites. I already did all the steps that Mike posted, but I'm having troubles sharing it through Sites.

Any recommendations? 

Hi Gisselle and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!

At what point are you having difficulty? Are you getting an error? Users cannot see material?

Hi Giselle! I don't think it works the same way on Google Sites/Google Apps as it does Google Drive. I've only ever been able to get it to work with a personal Google Drive account and not any of the organizational/company Google Sites/Apps accounts. 

I thought I'd share this HOW TO document that helped me get it uploaded properly. 

Thanks for popping in to share Karen :)

Hi Mike - I've tried these steps as well, but I also get that error message Francesca got (screen shot attached).

Any ideas why it might not work?

Hi D,

Google stopped allowing for the hosting of .html files in Google drive sometime last year (2016) - so sadly you won't be able to use that any longer to host your published output. You could look at using Amazon S3 which is what our team also uses to host published files. 

Oh - that is too bad!  Thanks for the info on Amazon S3 though.  I'll look into that.