Publish to LMS - Where to store content?

Nov 26, 2013

Deanna McMillion
By Deanna McMillion

Hi All,

I'm in the midst of a pretty steep learning curve here, and could use some assistance.  My company is just implementing our first LMS, we haven't finished configuration yet.  At the same time, I am trying to learn Storyline well enough to produce some content to try out in the LMS test environment once configuration is done.

Can someone please clarify what this part of the "Publish to LMS" tutorial means?  Below is a clip, and this is the full tutorial.   

Does this mean that any content created for the LMS should only be saved on a local drive, that I should not save work on the company server? Or, is it just during the act of publishing that the location matters, and once published, I can move the published content to wherever I would like to permanently house it? The LMS we chose is a SaaS product and we are not able to have them host content; we can only use the LMS to point to where we have it hosted. We are working with IT to have a dedicated server, but this blurb in the

tutorial is making me pause...

I must be missing some basic concept of how this process of publishing from one to use in the other actually works, and I don't want to cause ripples with implementation simply because I can't publish a file properly for testing!
3 Replies
Michael Hinze
over 10 years ago11/26/13 at 1:13 pm (UTC)

Hi Deanne, this may just be a slight misunderstanding. The 'blurp' is right, WHEN YOU PUBLISH, you should always publish to a local folder. Once published however, you then UPLOAD the published (local) content (e.g. a SCORM-compliant course in zip format) to a web server, GoogleDrive, some SaaS platform or dedicated LMS for hosting. For example, I am currently working on a project for a clicent. I develop the Storyline project on my laptop, then publish it for LMS to my local hard drive. Then I send the zipped SCORM package to the client for testing and eventual hosting in their LMS.

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