When module is opened from the swf or exe file it displays with correct formatting/fonts etc. When opened from the html5 file (which is the preferrred link for our students), formatting is lost, text is clunky and blurred. Is there a way to prevent this?
Looks like Susi has popped in to assist you here. In addition to publishing and sharing in the intended environment as she's mentioned. Be sure that the content is being viewed in a supported environment as defined here.
We have spent 2 years developing these resources for students state wide. Now that we are distributing them via LMS, it is disappointing to see such poor quality in final presentation.
First we published to CD and told students with PC to run the exe file and students with Mac to run the html file.
That worked well until latest IOS update caused problems loading from the html file and Mac students could not access lessons.
As a fix up we told students to download stand alone flash and to link to swf file.
But we want these resources to not need 'fix-ups' every time there is a system upgrade. And preferably just have the one link for ALL 7000+ students, Obviously with so many students - there are a lot of different operating systems!!!
So we republished for LMS - to have it available from Blackboard - and have linked to html5. That is when we noticed the formatting issues. We have put so much time, effort and quality assurance into these resources (approx 400 lessons) that we want them to be the best they can be for our students. Should we link to the swf or html from our LMS?
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Hi,
are you previewing this on your pc or did you upload it? The local preview sometimes has issues displaying everything right.
Hi Judith!
Looks like Susi has popped in to assist you here. In addition to publishing and sharing in the intended environment as she's mentioned. Be sure that the content is being viewed in a supported environment as defined here.
Previewing on my PC is fine. It is when I publish and load to LMS. I link to the html5 file and that's when I have formatting issues.
We have spent 2 years developing these resources for students state wide. Now that we are distributing them via LMS, it is disappointing to see such poor quality in final presentation.
Hi Judith!
We typically advise sharing the story.html file vs the HTML5 file.
Articulate Storyline lets you publish courses for Flash, HTML5, and the Articulate Mobile Player app. To distribute your published content, upload it to your web server or LMS, then link to the story.html file in the published output. Here’s how Storyline determines which version of your content to display when learners view it.
As the documentation I shared above states, the following shows the HTML5 supported environments:
Here's a brief history of things we have tried:
First we published to CD and told students with PC to run the exe file and students with Mac to run the html file.
That worked well until latest IOS update caused problems loading from the html file and Mac students could not access lessons.
As a fix up we told students to download stand alone flash and to link to swf file.
But we want these resources to not need 'fix-ups' every time there is a system upgrade. And preferably just have the one link for ALL 7000+ students, Obviously with so many students - there are a lot of different operating systems!!!
So we republished for LMS - to have it available from Blackboard - and have linked to html5. That is when we noticed the formatting issues. We have put so much time, effort and quality assurance into these resources (approx 400 lessons) that we want them to be the best they can be for our students. Should we link to the swf or html from our LMS?
Hi Judith! The story.html file as detailed here when published to LMS and users should be viewing in a supported browser as detailed above.
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