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Publishing Storyline 360 Projects and using Azure for Public Distribution
Can Storyline 360 projects be published for web distribution and then accessed through Azure? My organization wants me to use Azure over AWS S3 for a public URL and I'm hitting roadblocks. Has anyone done this? Is it possible?
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Hello NateBraunhut-76! I'm not super well-versed in Azure but if it is similar to AWS, then you should be able to host your published Storyline 360 projects. In AWS, you have to upload the entire published output folder and then grab the URL for the story.html file.
If those steps aren't similar to Azure, do you mind sharing what roadblocks you're running into?
Sorry for the delay - just seeing this post. This is more of a research question than anything. I uploaded my course into AWS and it is wonderful. Our goal is to move into Azure to avoid any potential costs associated with AWS (small as they are).
I have no idea how to upload things into Azure. Is there a documented process anywhere? Is it even possible? I've researched online and there isn't much available.
Hi NateBraunhut-76,
Did you get your e-learning to work in Azure? I'm in the same position and would like to hear how it went.
Hi,
My organization has used Azure storage for many years to host our eLearning. It worked great until January 2023 when v.3.72.29654.0 came out and we started noticing a bug with the seekbar where (in browsers other than Firefox) if a user clicked the seekbar, the narration would reset to the beginning. This was a large enough glitch that we decided to only published using the pre-January 2023 version of Storyline going forward. We are currently still doing this. I did reach out to Articulate support and we confirmed the issue was the compatibility with Azure hosting but they seemed unwilling to resolve the issue through a software update - instead advising that we look for a new host.
It's a real shame because Azure is otherwise a cheap and effective hosting service.
As for how to upload an eLearning course to Azure, you need to set up a Blob container and dump the published files into it. I don't know how to do that as my IT team did it.
