Publishing Storyline to CD

Hi Shaun,

Producing content and playing content on a Mac are two different things, and the creation of a Mac based software has been a popular feature request, so you may want to share your thoughts here with our product development team. In the meantime, here are suggestions on how to work within Storyline while on a Mac and using a VM.

As for viewing content, you'll want to ensure you're using one of the supported browsers here for PC, Mac or HTML5.

And, when you publish content for CD or another offline location (DVD, kiosk, etc.), it's important to note that content published for CD launches in a form that's based on Internet Explorer, and you'll notice that hyperlinks will also open in Internet Explorer. This is by design, the hyperlinks will always open in Internet Explorer—even if a different browser is the default browser.

If you don't have an LMS, have you looked into web server options as well? There are a few detailed in this article.

Hello Ashley, thank you for your reply. Sorry it's taken me a few days to get back to you.

We have an LMS, but there are management issues in regard to this that often make it difficult to use it for adhoc or "just-in-time" training requirements. Hence the need for other output selections where assessment might not be a priority. I did as you suggested and placed a feature request in. I think some type of direct Mac interaction, especially a software version, would be beneficial as this is a reliable and popular platform now, so had my say.

Virtual environments, although something a motivated design/developer might look to, isn't something the end user wants to worry about. I use VM Fusion and it's ok, but presents some cumbersome issues in my view as it isn't native Mac environment, but does work well and is a good solution for a design/developer. An end user just wants to use the product with no issues/worries, and this would be one that would push the end user away from eLearning.

That said, your the other links to articles at the end have satisfied my query, especially the last. It provided me with a solution for Google Drive that works excellantly. I recommend looking at this for others as it provides an instant solution to training needs like those I have. Make sure that it is exported, not as a CD, but for the WEB with html5 selected and follow the article, preseto.

Your speed in response and clear direction made this easy, although I did find some of the material myself from the links above prior, there was some I didn't, this was one of them and was the solution. Happy Chappy.......

Thanks heaps.

Thanks Shaun for the update and I'm glad you were able to use the information in the last article. Having a Mac software version has been a popular feature request, and although you can't develop within Storyline natively on the Mac, it shouldn't cause any problems for the users to access published output from a Mac using one of the recommended browsers. 

Here is my dilemma. I am distributing to users who are not particularly computer savvy. Instead of hunting around a web published folder looking for story.html, I would rather they just click the published.exe file. I published this way (CD) and all is fine. But is there a cleaner way to display just the Launch_Story.exe without the autorun, loader file, etc displaying to the user?

I'm not actually publishing to a CD per se, but trying to simply what the user needs to click once they locate the module on the network. Ideas?

Thanks in advance!

add all files into a fsub-older create a shortcut to the exe and put that outside the subfolder (you could even change the icon and call it what you want

I assume this would be the directory structure to use if we decide to burn CDs? So essentially the user just sees one folder and a shortcut and that's it.

Thanks Phil-I'll give it a shot!

Thanks for sharing Valerie :)

Hello,

I have been following this conversation with keen interest.  I may be developing Articulate Studio modules for CD-ROM in the coming months.  I have always created and published modules for the web and for an LMS, never for CD-ROM.  I recall that this is an option and I have viewed the tutorial on how to do so. 

I have never seen the resulting module on CD-ROM to know how it will look and work for the student.  I realize that students would not need Articulate Studio to view and access the module on a CD-ROM. 

My question is - what WOULD they need?  Internet access?  A web browser such as Internet Explorer, even if it's disconnected from the Internet?  Please advise on what software / hardware (not Macs) needs the students would need to have to successfully run modules off of a CD-ROM.

Thank you, Barbara

Hi Barbara! Looks like Phil assisted you here.

Glad to hear it Barbara! Please note that responding to the forums via e-mail attaches your signature, but you are welcome to pop in and edit that if needed.