Great question! Once the published course is burned to a CD, the viewer should be able to access it from the CD without having to download anything additional.
Sorry to be a pain on this. I have burned the files to CD but all that happens when I view the CD is the files appear and do not play automatically. Are you sure I do not have to download anything additional ?
Sorry again just can't understand why its not working.
You may find that CD-published content doesn't always autorun as you'd expect. See the following reasons and solutions, depending on the type of computer you're using.
You're Using a Windows PC
There's an autorun.inf file in CD-published output that lets your course automatically launch when it's burned to a CD and played on a Windows PC.
If your course doesn't autorun as expected, make sure the published output is burned to the root of the CD, not a folder on the CD.
If your course still won't autoplay, see these Microsoft articles for solutions:
CD-published content launches from an executable (*.exe) file. Since executable files aren't compatible with Mac computers, your content won't automatically launch.
You can manually launch CD-published content on a Mac by double-clicking the story.html, presentation.html, quiz.html, or interaction.html file in your published output (depending on the authoring app you used to create the content). However, local security restrictions may prevent your published output from working properly.
For the best viewing experience on a Mac, we recommend publishing for web, Articulate Online, or LMS.
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Hi Nicola,
You may find this step-by-step tutorial on how to publish a course for CD helpful for that! :)
Thanks for that. Will clients have to download articulate player to view the course?
Hi Nicola,
Great question! Once the published course is burned to a CD, the viewer should be able to access it from the CD without having to download anything additional.
Hi Ali,
Sorry to be a pain on this. I have burned the files to CD but all that happens when I view the CD is the files appear and do not play automatically. Are you sure I do not have to download anything additional ?
Sorry again just can't understand why its not working.
Hi Nicola!
Sounds like you are asking about auto-run:
You may find that CD-published content doesn't always autorun as you'd expect. See the following reasons and solutions, depending on the type of computer you're using.
You're Using a Windows PC
There's an autorun.inf file in CD-published output that lets your course automatically launch when it's burned to a CD and played on a Windows PC.
If your course doesn't autorun as expected, make sure the published output is burned to the root of the CD, not a folder on the CD.
If your course still won't autoplay, see these Microsoft articles for solutions:
You're Using a Macintosh Computer
CD-published content launches from an executable (*.exe) file. Since executable files aren't compatible with Mac computers, your content won't automatically launch.
You can manually launch CD-published content on a Mac by double-clicking the story.html, presentation.html, quiz.html, or interaction.html file in your published output (depending on the authoring app you used to create the content). However, local security restrictions may prevent your published output from working properly.
For the best viewing experience on a Mac, we recommend publishing for web, Articulate Online, or LMS.
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