When I complete a project in storyline, I can only share it internally with co-workers and SME's through the LMS. I possess only one of 3 licenses for using Storyline. This becomes an issue if changes need to be made, then re-publish, creating another version in LMS for them to view.
There has to be a better way. Any help from the community would be helpful.
This gives you a link that is active for 10 days, then the course is automatically deleted. All you do is publish, zip it and drag the zip file on to the box as shown on the page.
Failing that, I've had no problem sharing a published course over something like SharePoint. You can either upload the zipped version and give them instructions on how to download and view, or uploaded the unzipped version and share the link to the launch html file.
These are excellent suggestions I didn't know were available. It just might stop my multiple version issue. Thanks for the quick response and will give it a go.
I use Publish to Word and send that document to others to review and provide editing comments. I put a lot of content onto layers rather than ontop of each other in the time line to ensure that the reviewers can see the material when published to Word.
Another thing we've done here is publish to CD and place that published folder on a network group drive that is accessible to all our reviewers. Then you just direct them to the location of the file folder and to click on the exe file to launch the course.
The only drawbacks we've discovered so far:
You cannot insert a link to the file path within an email (Outlook). They can launch the course from within the email using the link, but then they cannot play any embedded videos.
Resource links (top right side of player) seem to always open up behind the course.
Does your co-worker have Storyline as well? You mention editing and they will not be able to edit the published file.
When working on an Articulate Storyline project in a collaborative environment with other developers, use the following workflow:
After creating, editing, or publishing a Storyline project on your local hard drive, copy the project file to your network drive for storage and sharing.
When you need to edit or publish the story again, copy it back to your local hard drive.
Edit and publish as necessary.
Repeat steps 1-3.
By working with the project files on your local hard drive, you'll prevent loss of resources, file corruption, and other erratic behavior that can occur due to network latency.
Also, check out this article by Tom Kuhlmann for information and video instructions on using a couple of free applications that'll synchronize your local files with a network drive.
If you truly were asking for a way to share the published output, I invite you to check out this article.
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Hi Glen
Are you wanting to share the project for them to be able to review it, or for them to be able to make changes to it?
Glenn,
Just review and send me suggested changes at this point.
Thanks.
Hi Glen
In the first instance, I would use Articulate Tempshare: http://tempshare.articulate.com/
This gives you a link that is active for 10 days, then the course is automatically deleted. All you do is publish, zip it and drag the zip file on to the box as shown on the page.
Failing that, I've had no problem sharing a published course over something like SharePoint. You can either upload the zipped version and give them instructions on how to download and view, or uploaded the unzipped version and share the link to the launch html file.
Glenn,
These are excellent suggestions I didn't know were available. It just might stop my multiple version issue. Thanks for the quick response and will give it a go.
Let me know how you get on :)
Glad that Glenn was able to assist you here Glen ;)
I use Publish to Word and send that document to others to review and provide editing comments. I put a lot of content onto layers rather than ontop of each other in the time line to ensure that the reviewers can see the material when published to Word.
Thanks for sharing your suggestion as well here :) Much appreciated and I've seen many other community members share that method as well.
Another thing we've done here is publish to CD and place that published folder on a network group drive that is accessible to all our reviewers. Then you just direct them to the location of the file folder and to click on the exe file to launch the course.
The only drawbacks we've discovered so far:
Thanks Melanie for sharing your set up here as well.
My thanks to all in the community who responded. Nice to know there are so many willing to help.
Glad you got the help you needed here Glen, and please let us know if you need anything else.
Hi,
I need to publish and send to my co worker for editing. How do I do this?
Hi Cheryl!
Does your co-worker have Storyline as well? You mention editing and they will not be able to edit the published file.
When working on an Articulate Storyline project in a collaborative environment with other developers, use the following workflow:
By working with the project files on your local hard drive, you'll prevent loss of resources, file corruption, and other erratic behavior that can occur due to network latency.
Also, check out this article by Tom Kuhlmann for information and video instructions on using a couple of free applications that'll synchronize your local files with a network drive.
If you truly were asking for a way to share the published output, I invite you to check out this article.
Thank you so much. I appreciate your help :-)
Of course Cheryl! Let us know if you need anything further.
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