Right sizing a file for an LMS

Have you published the course and then checked to see how big the file size is? Publishing the course compresses it dramatically. I did a quick check and it looks like published file sizes are roughly 1/4 the working file size. Depending on your publishing settings.

Hi Ralph,

You might find this post on how to publish SCORM content in Storyline useful: http://www.learnupon.com/how-to-publish-scorm-content-in-articulate-storyline/

Caroline

I have published the file several times. I rework it and it is getting smaller but this is taking days of effort. How can I tell what the sizes of the various components of the file are? If I knew which portions were larger or smaller I could get the result I need (5MB or less) much quicker than how I am going about it now. The PowerPoint file that the Storyline class was built from is 494KB. It has animation and text but not narrative because the class was instructor-led. When I imported the file into Storyline originally it became huge, over 16KB. The PowerPoint file had 5 tables and 3 forms. When they came into Storyline they were all converted to Pictures in Storyline along with the PowerPoint custom bullets.. That can account for some of the file size increase. I removed the bullets and replaced the tables with text boxes in Storyline. I can't do the same thing with the forms though. Part of the tutorial is spent on how to fill each form out properly. I need the forms in the tutorial.

Ralph Nichols
Trainer
Yavapai Gaming Agency
rnichols@yavapaiga.com
928 515 5146

Have you tried adjusting the publish quality settings? See Step 4 of this guide by Articulate's David Fair: https://community.articulate.com/articles/publishing-a-project-for-lms

You may find it helpful to chunk out your learning into smaller courses that are also easier to complete in a reasonable time frame.  For more information on chunking I wrote an article about the things I take into considersation http://jennifervalley.blogspot.com/2014/06/smaller-chunks.html

I think part of the problem here is that 5MB is unreasonably small. A 5 MB limit basically rules out most videos and severely limits narration and interactivity. I have a 20 question test that runs about 5 MB.

Thanks.

Ralph Nichols
Trainer
Yavapai Gaming Agency
rnichols@yavapaiga.com
928 515 5146

Sounds like a default upload limit on the host. 5MB is likely going to be constraining for any package containing media. If you have access to the host configuration, change the limit. If not, request that the host increases the limit. This is relatively easy in PHP and Windows based environments.