Presenter on iPAD

Hi Ann

Have you received any more input on this topic?

Would love to hear some views on practical experiences.

Hi Ann, I've got little experience with playing Present on an iPad but I have done some tests this year. The last two options, so called flash enable internet browsers, always seem a bit wonky in my experience. Looking at the HTML player James created (nice work by the way) it seems to support static content but I guess you would need to try it out for real to see if it works.

Have you thought of downloading the 30 day trial for Storyline and importing your projects and publishing for iPad? Presenter'13 will most likely do the publishing to iPad too but that will probably be somewhere around Q3 (not sure about Articulate's timeline here)

Hi and thanks for your responses.  I did download the Storyline 30-day trial and converted a couple of courses to the HTML5 format for the iPad. I found that it wasn't a 100% smooth process. A few slides I had to move some text or graphics around. I had to redo any Engage Interactions.  Quizzes were fine. However, I was pleasantly surprised that I a series of slides I had set up with an "A" and "B" choice that I used links withint PowerPoint came over fine.

The trickiest issue was some of the audio was not properly synced. I felt that syncing in Storyline was tedious and that syncing in Articulate is a piece of cake.

Of course once you do that, the course is now a Storyline course, not an Articulate course. You can't have it both ways.

In December I made an animated Articulate "end of year" letter and sent this to my personal mailing list, together with instructions to install the Rover browser.  Not a very large scale test, but it was successful for all iPad users!

Peter, That's great.  Is there anything tricky about installing Rover? Or is it a simple matter of following the steps on this link?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rover/id483262612

Then did you launch courses through an LMS, or a simple link?

Thanks again!

Ann

Ann

I simply said the following:

Those of you using an iPad may know that Apple Inc decided sometime back that they will NOT support Adobe Flash.   But don’t feel left out:  All you need to do is download and install Rover – The Browser for Education from the App Store.  It’s free, and may be useful to you in future.

I then gave them a link to a folder on my personal website where I had uploaded the web output from Presenter.

The only problem I picked up was that on some users' machines the launcher process appeared not to start immediately, so they clicked on the Launch button, resulting in two instances running simultaneously, and two sound tracks running simultaneously but out of sync.

Thanks for the additional information. I appreciate it.

The classes displayed without any hitch, including the Engage interactions?

No.  It was simply a Christmas letter, using Articulate Presenter and nothing else!

No "classes"! The only "lesson" was the first lesson which begins in a young boy's voice "Once in Royal David's city, Stood a lowly cattle shed, ..."