As stated by Nancy, the Storyline project will always be much larger than the published project. The project file contains additional components needed for authoring that are not included in the published project.
As David said, the .story file contains all components associated w/ the course, including screen records if any. This is nice compared to Presenter where you have a .ppt and .ppta file. Only one file to keep track of.
Once you publish the SL publish settings kick in and will compress the final output based on the settings. I have an 84mb .story file that crunches down to about 32mb for output. MInd you this is a large course w/ lot of screen shots and screen records.
Wait until you start embedding videos in SL ... the compression is massive! A 210Mb SL file ended up as 29Mb when published - and that's without any loss in size or quality!
The thing is that I need to deliver a SCORM zip, and it's 54Mb that I need to upload it in a Moodle LMS. And this is only a very small part of the course... I still haven't added audios nor syncing, the character doesn't move yet...
Anyway, if it has to be this size is ok, as long as I still can upload it to the LMS.
Hi Belen, there are a couple of things you can try to make the file size smaller if you have not already done so. Before publishing try disabling the publish to html5 and iPad options. The course won't run on the iPad mobile app if launching fom Moodle so you do not need the extra files the iPad publish option creates.
If you have a lot of duplicate images on you slides, you might want to try moving the to the master slide.
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Hi Belen, have you published the output in Storyline? The Storyline file can grow rather large, but the published output should be small.
Belen,
As stated by Nancy, the Storyline project will always be much larger than the published project. The project file contains additional components needed for authoring that are not included in the published project.
I hope this helps!
Hi,
As David said, the .story file contains all components associated w/ the course, including screen records if any. This is nice compared to Presenter where you have a .ppt and .ppta file. Only one file to keep track of.
Once you publish the SL publish settings kick in and will compress the final output based on the settings. I have an 84mb .story file that crunches down to about 32mb for output. MInd you this is a large course w/ lot of screen shots and screen records.
Wait until you start embedding videos in SL ... the compression is massive! A 210Mb SL file ended up as 29Mb when published - and that's without any loss in size or quality!
Dear all!
Thank you for your kind answers,
The thing is that I need to deliver a SCORM zip, and it's 54Mb that I need to upload it in a Moodle LMS. And this is only a very small part of the course... I still haven't added audios nor syncing, the character doesn't move yet...
Anyway, if it has to be this size is ok, as long as I still can upload it to the LMS.
Thanks again!
Hi Belen, there are a couple of things you can try to make the file size smaller if you have not already done so. Before publishing try disabling the publish to html5 and iPad options. The course won't run on the iPad mobile app if launching fom Moodle so you do not need the extra files the iPad publish option creates.
If you have a lot of duplicate images on you slides, you might want to try moving the to the master slide.
Hi Nancy and all,
Thank you very much for your advice.
I finally found what was going on... oops! I added an attachment that was 60 Mb, so... this was the reason why.
Now I have a published course that is slightly bigger than the Presenter one.
Thanks again and sorry for any inconveniences.
I'm glad you found the solution.
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