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Need help uploading to university web server
Hello,
I have published and downloaded the course ZIP file to my computer. My plan is to send it to my university so they can upload the files to their web server. We are trying to create a link that will take anyone directly to the modules without login barriers. However, the university told me that I will need to send them a direct link to the files in order for it to work. Can someone explain how this is supposed to be done? I am completely new at this so I have no idea how to create a direct link with the Articulate ZIP file.
I suggest brownies or cookies to the University. I don't know of any university that makes access to a website available to anyone. These are questions that can only be answered by IT or the person in charge of the web server. Talk to them in person, if that is possible, (which in most universities it isn't), or email whoever told you to send the direct link. Attach the zip file, and tell them they need to unzip the file, to upload it to wherever they want it on the web server, and to point the link on the web page to the story.html file. They need to make sure the people who the University wants to take the course have access to all the folders, sub-folders and files. These are all steps that must be done by administrators, not regular users like you. If they want the course accessed by means other than a link on the website, after it is uploaded, they need to make that URL (direct link) available to those people somehow.
Our university uses Instructure Canvas LMS. Next to Blackboard its the most used LMS on universities worldwide. I guess your uni has either Canvas or Blackboard.. so then its publishing as Scorm and thats fine.
