Flash Ending

The ton of work is needed. Many IT depts. are already restricting Flash. I doubt that courses with Flash will play reliably in any browser after Dec. 2020.

Here's Articulate's article about the end of Flash: https://community.articulate.com/articles/4-simple-steps-for-updating-your-flash-based-courses 

Hi James,

I'll defer to you and your colleagues for the decision-making, but I did want to share our documentation on what to expect from your older published courses:

How the End of Flash Affects Articulate Apps and Courses

Flash content is indeed going away. I'm surprised Articulate hasn't removed it from the Publish format options yet.

Thanks all! Yeah, I'd read those articles. Just wanted to be sure I was on the right track.

Hi James,

Just for the record: I’m still using Storyline 2 and my modules (published to HTML5 and embedded into a Bootstrap 4 webpage) work fine in Internet Explorer. Here’s an example: http://anneseller.lifescienceinteractive.com/animal-cell/index.html.

So, it seems that content authored in SL2 or older and published in Flash will not play reliably. (If you have older content published in HTML5, try embedding it into a Bootstrap 4 webpage if it isn’t playing as it should.)

Cheers,
Anne

So I'm still not sure about this. How do I know if I have flash content or not? We have courses that were authored in Storyline 2, but I have 360 so I can republish them if need be. If I do that and I publish to HTML 5 it's all good? The videos in the media folder are .mpg files, so I assume they are ok?

Hi John,

Videos that are using .mpg should be fine, Flash videos will show as .swf .flv or .f4v.

As mentioned above by Leslie, you might want to reference the article How the End of Flash Affects Articulate Apps and Courses, specifically the note: Note that HTML5 output from Storyline 1, Storyline 2, and Studio ‘13 works in Google Chrome and Safari. However, it won’t work reliably in other browsers. (Studio ‘09 doesn’t publish HTML5 output.)

In Publishing Your Course (Storyline 2)

By default, Storyline publishes Flash output, but you can add mobile output by marking the HTML5 and/or Articulate Mobile Player options. Select what you want, and it's a one-time publish.

It might be a good option to republish your courses to make sure they'll work reliably everywhere that your learners access them. As long as you publish to HTML5, you should be good to go. 

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,

Tyler