Articulate Storyline on Mac

Hello Noelle, I have been using Storyline 2 on my Mac for app 12m through Parrallel and Windows 8.1.  I have found that it all works very well, though it was an adjustment getting used to sharing files across the two platforms.

To simplified the set-up, I bought retail (disc copies) of both Parrelle and Windows as I found this easier to install for me.  I have since upgraded Parrellel from online download, which was very easy having already previously set-up. 

In addition to Parrellel I also purchased PC version of Microsoft Office (add $300 Aus) to run on the virtual Windows machine.  Whilst I use Mac utilities normally (ie Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Mail), PowerPoint is very usefully to use with Articulate.  

Goodluck! Christine

Thanks Christine!  Well first of all I don't have a cd port on my iMac so everything will have to be downloaded electronically.  I have Microsoft Office and I attempted to download Windows so maybe that step is done.  I'm just not clear on what the Parallel does and what to do with it once its on my computer.  Do I download the Parallel and then I download Storyline? :-/

Hi Noelle -

Did you see this video series: https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-for-mac 

It does  a fairly good job walking you through installing Parallels, Windows on your Mac. In the example, I used an .iso file that I downloaded from Microsoft.

Hi, Noelle -- In addition to the resources and input David and Christine have shared, I thought I might also pass along the following discussions in case you would like to take a look:

• Experiences with Storyline on Mac via Parallels
• Articulate Storyline 2 with Mac
• Running Storyline 2 on a Mac

Hope that helps! :)

David, thank you so much!  I was able to download everything using these videos.  Such a relief!  Now I can start playing. :)

Alright I have a new hurdle...I've been playing with Storyline and created a portfolio I would like to share with potential employers but I can't figure out how to make it a link to send them.  I figured I could save it on my Google Drive but everything I try to download and open just looks like a document of coding instead of actually opening up the  course.  

When I publish the course I get a confirmation windows with the following options:

Email  FTP  ZIP  Open  HTML.5

When I click Email I'm told there is no default mail client.
I'm not totally clear on what to do with the FTP and ZIP
Open and HTML.5 allow me to view the course but that link is a local file so it can only be viewed on my computer.  

Anyone have some guidance??

Hi Noelle

here are a some previous posts that may help you.

• Hosting elearning projects

• Publishing and uploading elearning courses

oh man!  Thank you for the resources Wendy!  I had to try about four different things to get this to work but FINALLY figured it out.  Thank you so much!!

Yay Noelle! Glad you're all sorted.

Hi Noelle

I am definitely not the best person to reply to this, as I equally had the same learning experience in my early days.

There are some good tutorials in the community about this - but the summarise basically you need to either:

- share via Dropbox (Note: it is the .story file that you are pointing to, but still need to include all in folder, and this only works if you have a paid business Dropbox account (I understand). This is how I now work; or
- alternatively the easiest way is to upload the published course to the Articulate Tempshare webpage. You will be given a link to share, which will be accessible for two weeks.

Regards Christine

Thanks Christine!  I saw the Dropbox option but it sounds like the person I'm sending it to has to have a Dropbox account and I didn't want anything keeping an employer from viewing it.  

The Tempshare definitely sounds like an option, even if I have to redo it every two weeks.  LOL!

Hi Noelle,

If the folks you are sharing it with also have Storyline than you can send them the .story file, but otherwise you'd need to share a copy of the published output for them to access and using tempshare is definitely a great suggestion. You can see another option for Amazon S3 here.