Publishing Storyline Content in Canvas LMS

Hi Shauna,

Here is how we import Storyline content into Canvas. Most of the time we have an interest in tracking completion of the learning objects, so my directions are focused on that goal.

1. Publish from Storyline for the LMS 
-- we tend to use SCORM 2004 v.3 with the Passed/Incomplete setting
-- we usually base completion on a certain score on a final quiz or a course completion trigger at the end of the module

2. ZIP the published output.

3. In Canvas, enable the "SCORM" LTI tool in you navigation settings.

4. In the SCORM tool, click "Upload" and select your ZIP package.

5. Import the ZIP package as a graded assignment.
This will host your files in a cloud-based storage location since Canvas itself cannot host the files and have them function as a trackable object.

6. You'll now have an assignment in Canvas and there will be a column in the Grades tool for the assignment. The Storyline object needs to be launched in a new window. 

We've also uploaded non-SCORM (therefore non-trackable) Storyline content into the Canvas Files tool, but since there are so many files involved it creates quite a mess if your Canvas course has a lot of other learning objects. 

We've had some trouble with the completion scores of Storyline objects resetting (from 100% to 0) if the learner re-launches the content after completion -- so would be interested to hear from anyone who has overcome that challenge. 

Regards
-Kevin

This is an older post, but I'm replying because I may have some info that might help future users who stumble upon this post. In my experience with Storyline and Canvas, here are some keys:

1. Publish using SCORM 1.2, with the appropriate tracking option set, and with Passed/Incomplete for reporting. According to the SCORM standard, this option is the only way a score gets passed back to the LMS.
2. Use the Canvas SCORM LTI for importing, rather than the Files area. This automatically links up the Storyline project with an assignment (graded or ungraded).
3. Once you import as either a graded or ungraded assignment, this cannot be changed. You must reimport using the SCORM LTI.
4. Remember to publish the assignment to test it in Student View and/or make it available for students.
5. If you've done all of the above and have problems capturing completion data in Canvas, there is some JavaScript you can place on the last slide of your Storyline project to force submission of a 100% score and completion status. If your project has a quiz, you'd want to pass the quiz score rather than 100%, but that's outside the scope of my reply.
   
   This is the "when all else fails" JavaScript for the last slide of your project. Keep in mind that Articulate doesn't provide user support for JavaScript and it's always possible that future changes in the product could cause the code to stop working:

var player = GetPlayer();
function findLMSAPI(win) {
 if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;
 else if (win.parent == win) return null;
 else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}
var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
lmsAPI.SetScore(100, 100, 0);
lmsAPI.SCORM_CallLMSSetValue("cmi.core.lesson_status", "passed");

This worked for me a couple of weeks ago but now I am adding a Storyline to a new course in Canvas and it keeps hanging - the player opens but that nothing else happens.  I have tried importing the new storyline into the player that I used originally but that hasn't helped either.

Any ideas or help would be gratefully received.

I just love Storyline and Canvas, it is shame we have so much bother trying to get them to work together.

Thanks.

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for sharing that here and I hope that it's able to assist someone else! 

Storyline module is very slow to open - if at all. I embedded a video in there - could this be causing sound "compression" issues?

Hi Kat and welcome to Heroes! 

It sounds like your course is slow to open from your LMS? There is a compression that occurs when a course is published in regards to audio, video and images. Although the compression is done to help make your course load faster. Could you tell us more about how you're accessing the published course and if you see this behavior in different browsers? You may also want to test this out by loading the course to SCORM Cloud, which is an industry standard testing method for SCORM content. 

I just provided someone with the answers, they were asking the following:

I've made a module overview in Storyline. How do I get it to embed and play on a page?

I can't get my storyline file to play, even when I follow the instructions above,  posted by Andrea, exactly. I get this error message:

"Unable to aqcuire LMS api."

Any ideas?

Joanna

Hi Joanna, 

If you receive an "Unable to acquire LMS API" error when launching Articulate content in your LMS, this may be caused by the version of Java that you have installed.

Some LMS’s use a Java API object to load content. Since content created in Articulate does not require Java, please do the following:

*  Contact your LMS provider and ensure that your installed version of Java is compatible with the version of the LMS you are using.
*  Ensure that you have published your content properly as described in the following article. 

Hope that helps and feel free to let us know if you need anything else! 

Hi Kathy,

I can't speak to Canvas specifics, but are you using SL1 or SL2? You mentioned a new course, so I wasn't sure if you meant that you were adding in a newly developed version or similar as you also mentioned importing into a new player?