Embedding Storyline into BlackBoard (again!)

Hi, Deirdre -- Thanks for reaching out here and sorry for your troubles! As I am not familiar with Blackboard, I will need to go ahead and defer to your fellow peers here in the community to assist you further. 

Hi Deirdre,

I don't know much about Blackboard, so I'd defer to the community or your team - but you mentioned publishing to SCORM and then it sounds like you're linking to the story.html file? Typically the latter is the file you'd use within a publish to Web set up. If you truly need to using the SCORM output you'll want to publish to LMS and then point to index_lms.html for SCORM/AICC content.  Here are our general directions for embedding content as well. 

Thank you so much for the responses. We really would prefer to embed the link from our server and NOT publish to LMS, since that tends to cause versioning problems...a change is made to the server version that doesn't get republished to the LMS, etc... However, when I use the iframe code (in the "general directions" link above), it doesn't work...just gives a blank box with a little computer and doesn't play the tutorial. Anyone else have this issue? Any ideas?

Hi Deirdre,

I saw you were also talking with Jon in this forum discussion, and he may be better suited to discuss issues with Blackboard. To clarify though - are you publishing for web or publishing a SCORM output? The web publish is what you'd use with the embed/iframe directions and that would be to a web site or server. The SCORM output is what you would upload to your LMS directly. You mentioned versioning issues - are you needing to have a copy within your LMS and on the web server? 

No, there is no reason why we would need a copy on the LMS...if it works just as well to link to a copy on our server, we would prefer to do that. Is it better to upload it to the LMS for any reason? We have multiple groups accessing the tutorials, some within BB and some directly from the website, so from my viewpoint it would be better to just find a way to embed the link pointing to the server copy. I have it published to the server as "publish to web", so I am trying to link to the story.html, but the iframe code given here in the thread about embed code isn't working.

Hi Deirdre,

An LMS is typically designed to be able to track a users progress in a course or restrict who can access it by requiring a log in. So if you don't need to do that for your users who are accessing through Blackboard, than I guess no need to maintain separate copies. I don't know if Blackboard allows you to embed content as that link describes - that link I shared was specific to embedding on a website. You will want to reach out to Blackboard for specifics, as they may require SCORM files or may not be able to embed HTML files. 

Hi there! 

I just had this problem today and upon using Google, I found this slightly old thread. My coworker actually had the fix! 

Wherever you see "http" for your URL, change it to "https". See if that works!

So your iframe HTML code would say: "<iframe src="https://<link to folder>/story.html" width="980" height="658"></iframe>

Thanks for adding that tip here, Stephen. That's super helpful! 🎉