My group often teaches in remote locations. Our current scenarios use .pdf files that we have people load on their laptops due to their world-wide acceptance/use, small file size, etc.. What is the best way to use Articulate story lines in remote locations? Any experiences out there? Thank you!
OK. Thanks. But each publication has 40-50 files (vs. a .pdf which is one). I was hoping for an easier way, If not, does each publication have to be self-contained on the thumbdrive?
best practice is to have all your assets on your local drive before you do the publish. If you have a resource doc in the resource tab, after publishing a copy of it will be put into the content > external files folder.
That is true (many files) but they are all within one directory. Most can copy a directory as Windows (or MacOS) handles the rest. Then they just open the story.html file. I've delivered military courses this way which are opened in places without any internet connection and have never had complaints that the users couldn't copy or open the file.
Copy X directory from the thumbdrive to your local hard drive. Open X directory on your hard drive and double-click the story.html file.
You could always zip the directory for more portability but it brings another step and some OSes don't have an unarchiver preinstalled.
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NOTE: There are no videos involved...just quizes
Publish to CD (one of the publishing options). You can then use it on thumbdrives or CD.
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OK. Thanks. But each publication has 40-50 files (vs. a .pdf which is one). I was hoping for an easier way, If not, does each publication have to be self-contained on the thumbdrive?
Hi Quincy
best practice is to have all your assets on your local drive before you do the publish. If you have a resource doc in the resource tab, after publishing a copy of it will be put into the content > external files folder.
That is true (many files) but they are all within one directory. Most can copy a directory as Windows (or MacOS) handles the rest. Then they just open the story.html file. I've delivered military courses this way which are opened in places without any internet connection and have never had complaints that the users couldn't copy or open the file.
Copy X directory from the thumbdrive to your local hard drive.
Open X directory on your hard drive and double-click the story.html file.
You could always zip the directory for more portability but it brings another step and some OSes don't have an unarchiver preinstalled.
Michael/Wendy - Thank you both!
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