Link to multiple SL lessons
Aug 04, 2013
By
Saul Jacobs
Hi
I'm looking for a simple solution to create a menu with links to a number of published SL lessons that are in separate published SL folders.
I have created a menu in SL with a number of buttons/links that allows users to open a linked SL lesson in a separate window.
My issue is that you cannot make multiple links as all files are dumped under the external_links folder.
One solution is to manually copy in all the SL published folders and then create new html files that each link to the story.html file in each folder.
I'm hoping someone has a much simpler solution.
Thanks
Saul
21 Replies
Hi Saul:
What you are asking for help with is, a MultiSCO project.
Storyline is only capable of creating single SCO courses.
The Reload Editor is a free tool that you can build a MultiSCO product using.
http://www.reload.ac.uk/editor.html
If anyone knows of other tools that can be used to insert "Storyline" courses into a MultiSCO, please add your links.
Best Regards,
Dennis Hall
Hi Dennis
Thanks, I will check it out.
I was hoping there was a way to tweak the xml's and do it all in SL.
Saul
Hi Saul:
The process required to create a MultiSCO is, in fact, to not use the original Storyline manifest files. You can, however, recycle, the SCO identifiers and resources from the original Storyline manifest files.
Best Regards,
Dennis Hall
Thanks Dennis, can I ping you on IM for more details?
Hi Saul! Glad that Dennis is helping you out, just let us know if you need anything further.
Hi Leslie
Dennis is referring to a solution that supports Scorm, where our case is much simpler. We need to provide a number of SL published lessons offline, on a flash drive to the end-user, and want a menu page that links to each SL lesson.
It also needs to support iOS. I've see that the CD publish option may not work on iPad.
Appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
Saul
Hi Saul:
You are correct about the CD publish option not supported in iPad. The CD publish option requires the end user have IE installed.
The code below can be copied into a text file or you can click the linked document to get it as an HTML file:
I set the script to be used without JavaScript, but you can also uncomment stuff to use JavaScript.
Once copied (or downloaded), you need to edit all the lines that state "Title of Story #" and "path_to_story_#", then edit the src="path_to_default_story" in the iframe tag.
Once completed, save the file as index.html.
This should work fine for you.
If you have any issues, you will need to use a Web Server on a stick type of product to allow for local links to be opened from within your story files.
Best Regards,
Dennis Hall
Hi Dennis
This is great.
Thanks for the effort.
Saul
Hi Dennis, when I download and open your index.html file I can't see any lines for "Title of Story #" and "path_to_story_#", so I'm unable to edit these. I'm not a coder, so maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I opened the html file in Notepad++ and see lots of lines of code, but not the ones you reference. Can you advise further. I'm in a terrible rush to get something to a client today if possible, so your help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!
Lance
Hello Lance!
This thread is over a year old, so Dennis may not be subscribed. Hopefully someone can jump in here to assist.
Please help. I am trying to do the same. I have over 50 micro lessons that I want to create a Table of contents or menu for which the uses can navigate back and forth between the different modules. What software do I use, Storyline or Studio?
Hello Shabana,
You may want to take a look at the article here comparing the features of Storyline vs. Studio.
Hi Emily,
We did research both but need guidance on how to combine all my microlessons in to one big course. What feature will allow me to do what Aggregator does in Captivate.
Hi Shabana,
Unfortunately i am not familiar with Captivates features. Hopefully other members will jump in with some assistance.
This seems to be a common problem. Has anybody come up with a solution? I have the same issue. Please help.
Hi Penelope,
This thread is a bit older, so I'm not certain that folks are still subscribed. You may want to message them using the "contact me" button on their profile to reach out as there is not a built in way in Storyline to link multiple published files together.
Thank you Ashley.
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I'm having the same need. Are there any SL2 templates that can open additional SL courses? I need to publish to CD. Please help!!!
Hi Mark,
I don't know of any templates for this as it's going to be up to you as the author to publish and connect each of the courses. I've seen users mention something as simple as publishing the last section/course and uploading to the web server, and then using that URL to place it on the last slide in the next section/course and publishing that one, and so on following that same set up.
You mentioned publish to CD though, so I'm not aware of a set up that would work for that need.
Hello,
We had the same problem : call several SL projects from a menu page.
We published every one of the separate lessons (for LMS), then change the file name 'story.html' to 'index.html' in the published folder.
All the published folders were set in the same place on the local disc. Then the lessons are linked in the menu as web objects, opening in a new window when the menu is clicked.
When the selected lesson is finished, the user only has to close the window to go back to the menu.
We published it for LMS and tried it on Moodle. It seems to work quiet well. But each lesson is followed as 1 slide only in the LMS.
Hope it will help.
Thanks Sophie for sharing that info here and I hope the set up is able to assist others.
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