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Date limit or password protect course
Hello,
I'm looking into ways of protecting our courses from being illegally redistributed or accessed after a certain date. The two ways I have thought of so far are either to use the built-in JavaScript functionality to get a password from a server and having the user enter the same password to proceed beyond the first slide, or to disable any access beyond the first slide after a set date.
Is something like this feasible either through current features, or JavaScript inside Storyline 2? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Any update on this topic?? any possible update on this in near future?? it's an important function that has been asked 8 years ago.
Hi John and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
How are you publishing and sharing your file? I would utilize an LMS to provide an expiration to any course content.
Hopefully others in the community will be able to chime in and share how they handle a need for this requirement.
Happy to pass along your insight to our team, John! In the meantime, it may be something that folks in the community could help you accomplish using Javascript or another custom method.
Hi Matthew
I look at your ExpiryDate.story above. Neat.. but then how to incorporate this ? I suspect this is the first slide.
You would add a trigger like
Show layer "expired" when "courseExpired" changes, if "courseExpired" is equal to True
and have a layer on that slide that says "Expired, please obtain a new version" and a a trigger on the layer that says:
Exit course when the timeline reaches xx second
and in case the "courseExpired" is false a trigger on the base layer that says:
Jump to Next slide when "courseExpired" changes, if "courseExpired" is equal to False
Is that about correct ?
Dear Articulate Storyline,
Not everyone distributes e-learning on their own LMS. We provide off the shelf content that our customers want to host themselves. I don't imagine this is a terribly rare occurrence.
Can you please look into adding the expiry date functionality so that our content is secure even when distributed as a zip file.
Thanks.
Hi Markus!
Neither of these are 'out-of-the-box', but someone in the community should be able to assist you and I would advise checking out this thread as well.
Hi, Markus -- I see that Matthew has provided you with one potential solution involving JavaScript, so I just wanted to note if you should decide to go that route, unfortunately we are not able to provide support for JavaScript coding. In case you wanted to take a look, here is a document on recommended JavaScript Best Practices.
I am new to Storyline 360 and am wondering if a course expiry date is a standard out of the box feature in the latest release? Thank you
Hi Leslie
Thanks for your reply. I would like to achieve this within the Articulate suite rather than a LMS.
I believe the feature is in Adobe Captivate but am trying to find a way of doing this in Articulate.
Surely this is a simple task for your Devopps team and there are plenty of users who will test it for them. Thank you.
Hi Matthew, Thanks for replying. I am a newbie to Articulate and have no programming experience but I will certainly give it a go.
