Forgive the newbie's questions...
Dec 04, 2013
Hello everyone,
I'm brand new to the e-learning world. I am in charge of the training at our statewide domestic violence/sexual assault coalition. We are venturing into the e-learning world and one of our sister coalitions uses Articulate Storyline.
I'm wading through all the tutorials at the moment. I see that it says you can publish to "ipad", my question is will the courses work with all apple products and how hard is it for folks to use a course on a Mac? My users will have no technology expertise AT ALL...so anything that will require them downloading apps etc will prove to be difficult and frustrating for all of us. Thoughts?
Also, I noticed a few threads about elearning conferences. Are there any that you are all aware of that are specifically for nonprofits? There is no way we could afford a $1200 conference. But I'm a "hands on" person and would love to be at a conference to wade through all this. Ironic since I'm now in charge of convincing others like me that e-learning is the way to go. 
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Hi Jennifer and welcome to the Heroes community!
Storyline can publish three ways...
1. Standard desktop browser (flash based)
2. HTML5 (for mobile devices)
3. For the Articulate iPad app.
Option 1 will play in your standard PC/MAC browsers.
Option 2 will play in mobile Safari (for example, the iPad browser) and in most desktop browsers.
Option 3 requires the user to download the Articulate iPad app to view.
The reason for #3 existing is that HTML5 (option 2) is an incomplete specification and is still being developed by the various governing bodies that do such things. Hence, you will find that a course you develop will perform much better when published for 1 or 3. So we want to make sure folks on iPads can have a great course experience and the app allows that to happen.
What you can do is publish to all three formats and then post to your LMS/server. The Storyline course will then determine what format to serve up based upon how the learner is accessing the course.
As for conferences...we are planning a series of Articulate Community Roadshows...here's a thread if you'd like to chime in: http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/40733.aspx
I hope this helps!
And once again...welcome to the community! We're glad you're here!
Mike
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