Posting Course on Box.net

I use dropbox  for sharing published courses for clients to review which is a similar application to your portfolio idea. Basically you publish your files, copy them to your dropbox folder and then you share just the link to the player.htm file (right click on the file and copy link and paste into an email) and it references the rest. Works great for me. I've only emailed the page though, but you could copy the link into a basic wordpress widget.  Have not tested that, though! Let me know if it works  

Hi Christina

You might like to check out SCORM CLOUD too.   Their free account enables you to host 10 courses with some degree of tracking etc.

Christina,

Did you figure out a way to upload to box.net?

Rebekah, as far as I'm aware, Box.net only allows you to upload files (not folders).  Therefore even if you do push all your files up there, it's going to take time plus I suspect the course may not run due to the nature of the hosting.  Give SCORM Cloud a shot - it's free and runs SCORM 1.2 courses exactly as they should be run.  Alternatively go with Dropbox - at least that maintains file integrity on your local drive. 

Thanks. I found a way to upload folders to box.net, but the public link doesn't really work the same way as it has been described from Dropbox. I can't access Dropbox at work, but I was able to register for SCORM Cloud, so I'll check it out.

Thanks again,

Rebekah

Rebekah,

Were you able to view the course at all through box.net? I was able to upload all the folders and documents as well but cannot seem to get the course to play. The html document opens as if it were being read by notepad, not as a launch page.

Jessica, to my knowledge Box.net is purely an online storage repository, i.e. a place where you upload/share/download documents.  That's why all you see is the contents of the HTML file.  I don't think you can "run" any kind of file.  You'd be better off trying Dropbox or SCORM Cloud.

Simon,

You stated that SCORM Cloud allows you to host 10 courses for free. From looking at their site, it looks like it allows 10 people to access a single course for free, any additional courses would cost a fee. Do you have experience using SCORM Cloud? Does a user have to register when the access a course - even if you use a public link?