Publish Web-Only Output

Hi Heather,

A zip file is a collection of files compacted into one folder, like all of your clothes and accessories into a suitcase.

When you publish from Storyline/Rise using the Web option, you create a series of files that are, in essence, a static website. The "story.html" file serves as the "index.html" file which is the homepage of the website.

If you publish for an LMS, you will publish in a SCORM format, which ends up being a zip file. If you double click the zip file, you will see a lot of the same files that were in the Web output, plus some extra things that the SCORM package uses to track user activity and report to the LMS.

You can host a static website on different places, including the Google Cloud and Amazon options you mentioned. These serve as storage places.

Before uploading, you should rename the "story.html" file to "index.html" so that it works properly.

I use Google Cloud and when I upload all the files from the Web publishing of a Storyline/Rise project, Google Cloud creates a public URL for my index.html file. By sharing this URL, other people can access the static website that Google Cloud is hosting. Or, I can embed the public URL in an iframe on a website and allow the static website on Google Cloud to sit on a page on a different website and still be interactive. This is what I have done on my own website, Memorable Learning. 

You can try hosting these static websites on SharePoint, but I am not guaranteeing your success. First, you may need to change the index.html page to an ActiveServer page by renaming it "index.aspx". Then, you may have to have your admin, unless you have admin privileges, allow scripts to be run on SharePoint.

Here are some articles for more insight:

How to host static HTML sites on modern SharePoint site collections - HANDS ON SharePoint

Viewing Articulate 360 Content in SharePoint Online | Articulate - Community

I believe I have tried putting these static websites on our SharePoint, but have not yet been successful. I had a meeting with IT about it months ago, but have not heard anything else from them about it since.

If you get it to work on SharePoint, please write back and let me know how you did it.