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Publishing Storyline Content in Canvas LMS
Hello! I just wanted to share a recent success I had with getting my Storyline files in to the Canvas LMS. Although I haven't quite found a way to use SCORM reporting features, this is an option to upload your presentations into Canvas that will allow for all of the great interactions we so love in Storyline!
The trick is, when you publish, you have to make sure to choose Launch Player in a New Window. Here are all of the steps I followed (including making it work for iPad).
In order for Storyline presentations to work in Canvas, you have to publish with these player options:
BEFORE you publish, you have to go in to the Player - Other - Launch Player in a New Window
If you choose Prompt to Resume, make sure to leave the "Ignore Flash Cookies in LMS" option UNCHECKED.
It should look like this:
When you publish, make sure to have LMS selected, and checkmark all the boxes in the Publishing for HTML5 and mobile devices.
In Canvas, you need to navigate to the course and page (assignment, module, etc.) where you will be adding the content. THIS IS VITAL. You have to be in the course you want to add the content in before you choose the FILE option on the left-hand side.
Choose "Files" option in the left-hand navigation.
Create a new sub-folder for the course and then choose the upload zip file. Upload the Storyline zip file into the subfolder.
Now create the assignment, announcement, module, etc. that you wanted to create. Choose Add File from the right-hand menu. Navigate to the subfolder you created. Once there, you need to find the "launch.html" file and click on it to add it to your assignment. If you want to allow iPad users to see your content, you also need to click on the IOSLaunch.html file and add it to the assignment.
Save your assignment.
Make sure you have popup blockers off, and then test it out. It should launch in a new window on all browsers. On iPad, you need to have the Articulate Mobile App to interact with the content.
Hope this helps!
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Hi Stanford,
I'm sorry to hear that you've run into difficulty with this latest course, and it's taken some time to figure out. This thread is a bit older, so I"m not certain that other users are still subscribed to assist but with that in mind I did want to ask a few other questions to help figure out next steps for you:
Are you using Storyline 1 or Storyline 2? Are you on the latest update of whichever version you're using, Update 10 and Update 7 respectively?
Have you looked at testing it in SCORM Cloud to see if it loads and behaves normally there? Since it's an industry standard for LMS testing it's a good place to start to rule out issues with the file and isolate it to how the LMS is behaving. You could use this article to walk through the troubleshooting/uploading steps.
Have you reached out to Canvas or their Support to see if there is additional information that they may have?
Hey Ashley, thanks for responding. I am using storyline 2.7. I have not tried uploading to scorm cloud, I will give that a shot to troubleshoot, though I am certain it is an LMS issue.
It seems that Canvas doesn't offer much in the way of support. Im gonna try a few more things. I will update this thread If I find a solution that works for me. Thanks.
Hopefully there are other Canvas users in the forums who can weigh in here for you as well - but feel free to keep us posted what you find out!
Hello, Stanford. Do consider submitting a support case to Instructure. They were helpful in diagnosing a problem recently with an Articulate Presenter loading problem. If you send them a URL, they will likely be able to view a diagnostics console that shows what is/is not loading as expected.
Thank Kevin for the response.
It seems as though I have fixed it, at least for me. I started with a new .story file and added one element at a time from the non-working file and uploaded it to canvas until it broke.
I have found that the second I add a .jpeg file the storyfile in canvas freezes up. So I changed all my images to .png files and it works great. Hope this helps!
Interesting find Stanford and thanks for updating us - did you reach out to Canvas to see if something changed in regards to how they handled .jpeg files?
I do not think this works anymore with Storyline 2 (update 9). When I attempted to launch the file using "launcher.htm" I receive error messages and nothing appears. When I try "story.htm" the file appears but does not work properly. The first slide displays but when I perform any interaction, the wheel appears like Canvas is thinking.
We just started moving some of our courses to Canvas, and I've encountered the loading issue (spinning wheel) for content published in Studio '13 when uploading through Files. Oddly, we don't have the issue with the content published in Studio '09. Our workaround, which isn't a good one, has been to publish the '13 material for LMS and upload it through the Canvas SCORM tool. The problem now is that the content is housed in the Assignments area and displays in the Grades, when it's neither an assignment nor something that would be graded. But, at least it plays and we can add it to a module.
Hi Mitchell,
This thread is a bit older, so I'm not sure if Stanford is still subscribed, so you may want to message him directly using the "contact me" button on his profile as I can't speak to the specifics of how it's going to operate in Canvas.
Thanks for sharing your solution Tim. As you can see in this thread, we haven't heard back from users that reached out to Canvas to better understand.
I could use some help. :)
I'm having problems with the way in which my SL2 files are posting in the Canvas gradebook.
Tracking is set to incomplete/complete when I publish and my Canvas gradebook is set to post incomplete/complete. Yet, when student's complete one of my online lectures, it's posting in Canvas as incomplete - and posting an X in the Canvas gradebook.
Should I publish differently? Change a a setting in the Canvas gradebook?
Thanks!
Hi Holly,
I am not sure that other users are still subscribed here to weigh in on Canvas specific issues, so you may want to reach out to the Canvas LMS Team that you work with or message individual users directly using the "contact me" button on their ELH profile.
You could also look at testing the content within the SCORM Cloud as it's a industry standard for LMS testing. That way you could compare the behavior there with your LMS and use that to help determine next steps or information to share with your LMS team.
