Forum Discussion
Articulate Mobile Player (AMP) End Support?
Hi,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day, I am just here to voice a major concern about the coming end of life of the AMP.
I am a multimedia developer for an E-learning firm based in Cana...
Hello David,
Thanks for reaching out!
We are actively tracking requests for new ways to allow learners to access an offline version of a course. We haven't made any development decisions as of yet, but we will update you here if we make a change that will help.
Let me know if there's anything else I can do. I'm happy to help!
But this is NOT a new feature request. This is a continuation of a feature that seems to have been a major selling point for your product for a lot of us who chose to purchase Articulate.
Greetings Ruth:
I agree, and the above discussion was speculation on how we might find an alternate solution for downloads. Here's the email I sent to Articulate requesting that the company reconsider creating an HTML5 version of the AMP that continues to allow downloads. It would be helpful if other users were to send similar emails directly to the company.
______________________________________Greetings Folks:
I've been a loyal Storyline/Articulate user since 2015. I use Storyline exclusively to create all my eLearning courses. One of the attractive features that Articulate offered was the ability to view courses offline. As it stands now, all of my 12,300 eLearning customers have the option of downloading their courses to their iPad or Android tablet device. This was a major selling feature for my courses and one of the main reasons I chose Articulate over other eLearning creation software.
Given Adobe's elimination of Flash beginning next year, I understand that downloads will no longer be available via the Articulate Mobile Player (AMP). I find this troublesome since downloads are a necessary feature that is now disappearing with no HTML5 download replacement offered by your company. It seems to me that this is a great disservice to all those, like me, who purchased your product anticipating that this feature wouldn't disappear.
Given Articulate's resources and its obligation to its customers, it seems reasonable that you'd create an HTML5 download replacement for the AMP. As far as I can tell from the Articulate forums, no such replacement will occur. Therefore, I'm asking that you reconsider this decision and consider offering an alternate means of downloading Storyline-created eLearning courses to a mobile device.
Please remember that I, and many others, purchased Storyline primarily because of its “downloading” feature. Now this feature is disappearing. While I don't want to tell you how to run your business, it seems to me that it would be relatively easy for your company to create an HTML5 replacement version of the AMP that allows downloads.
I sure do appreciate your consideration here. I look forward to hearing your response to my request.
Sincerely,
Rod Machado
www.rodmachado.com
