Course File Size - How big is too Big

Hi there,

 When working with one of our clients, course size grew to 1.2GB size.  Luckily for us, it had around 25 independent modules (progressive lessons, non-interlinked), we split them to into 25 story files & interlinked them into one big course through main menu. It worked to our advantage in multiple ways.  We published some simple tips on this in our website blog. See if it makes sense to your requirement -    

 Tips for building large interactive course using Articulate Storyline

Thanks for stopping in to share your insights, Mary Ann and Manjunath! I'm sure others will find that info helpful, as well. :)

Thanks so much Mary Ann and Manjunath.  The link to your page, Manjunath, is incredibly useful, so many great tips.  Thanks for sharing.    I will have to investigate the possibility of breaking my project up into distinct sections, which will be interesting, as it is a choose your own adventure game, with complex interconnected branches!   Hmm, lots to consider.  Thanks again.

I just lived same situation. Multiple times i couldn't published my course. I cleaned my cache files and fixed registry files with a tool like CCleaner and closed all of the softwares that use RAM. Then i realized that the folder i use was in Local Drive D: which has not much free space. So i changed the published folder to Local Drive C:... So i'm not sure about the solution but it works for me after multiple tries. I think when you have a big Storyline file than it should be much better to use a Local Drive with more space and have more RAM...

This was an interesting read I just came by.  I am having issues with a vendor file that needs to go into our LMS but it is 167 MB and our LMS should take 100 MB but I usually get an error after 75 MB.  I thought they had a ton of videos but they don't and just web objects, so I discovered it is massive due to the quality of alot of images...so in the end I convinced our organization to just link to their module on their server....than at least if they update it we will always have current.  And they did create a certificate at the end so our folks can print it and scan to manager, not as good as the LMS but saves me a big headache :)

Most of the replies on this are several years old so I am wondering if there is any update on the file size for the latest version of Storyline 360.  I am at one GB right now on a course and just found out I need to add quite a bit more content.  Will I be okay or do I need to break up the course into two?  Thanks for your help!