Force HTML5 even with Flash

Hi Eric and Welcome to E-Learning Heroes! Unfortunately I do not think that is possible, unless someone in the community has a creative way of doing so.  You can see how Storyline determines which version of your content to display when users view it here. I hope this helps and have a great day!

Anyone else have an idea about this.  I tried to edit the html5 and player css file to change the look of the course when viewed online.  It works fine when I view just opening the html5 file in a browser but when I try it on Blackboard I get a 404 error.  If I leave the code alone, Blackboard plays the course fine.  If I edit code Blackboard will not play it.  It would be very helpful for me if I there was a way to force html5 playback.  Thanks for any help.

Instead of linking to 'http://myserver.com/MyCourse/story.html', you could link to 'http://myserver.com/MyCourse/story_html5.html'. This should always play the HTML5 version, no matter if Flash is installed.

Just to add to this (coming to the conversation rather late!), I was looking for a similar solution but for the LMS package. If you edit the "index_lms.html" file and change the script tag at the top to remove the iOS/Android check, it will then simply read:

<script>
var strLocation = location.href.replace("index_lms", "index_lms_html5");
location.replace(strLocation);
</script>

This will automatically push the package to the HTML5 version every time.

Better late than never, thanks Duncan for chiming in! 

Alternatively, if you just want to temporarily force HTML5 for testing purposes, you could set a browser rule to block Flash on your LMS. In Chrome, it's dead simple to enable/disable this rule:

• Open a new tab and navigate to chrome://settings/content/flash?search=flash
• Add a "Block" rule and enter the URL for your LMS

Thanks for adding that tip to the discussion here, Kristian!