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8 TopicsRise 360: Share Content with Learners
There’s more than one way to share Rise 360 content. You can submit it for publishing in Reach 360, export it for LMS distribution, host it on your own web server, or download it as a PDF file. Here’s how. Publish to Reach 360 Publish an LMS Package Publish a PDF File Publish Web-Only Output Publish to Reach 360 If your Articulate 360 team uses Reach 360, you can submit training directly from Rise 360 for an admin to review and publish. If you're aReach 360 admin, you can publish directly to Reach 360. Non-Admin Reach 360 Roles Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Reach 360. The Submit to Reach 360 window displays (if the training was previously published, you'll see the date of the last publication). Set completion parameters. Learners can complete the training by viewing a specified percentage, passing a selected quiz lesson (in courses only, microlearning doesn't support quizzes), or both. You can also chooseNo Requirement. Note: If you lower the passing score of a quiz after the course is published, learners have to retake the quiz in the republished course to gain the benefit of the lowered score, even if their prior score would be a success with the new parameters. Selecting the Course Duration option displays the estimated time it takes learners to complete the training on the overview page. This is 30 minutes by default but can be overwritten with your own value. The Completion Celebration option displays an animated, confetti-filled, celebration for learners when they meet the completion parameters. Enable Certificate for course completion to provide learners with a downloadable completion certificate. Training has no due date by default, but you can select a set number of days to complete the training after a learner is enrolled or specify a due date. Use the searchable drop-down menu to select a specific admin to notify and add a note, such as if you'd like the training to be included in a specific library or if it's part of a learning path. Click Submit to complete the submission process and return to the training. For courses, if you haven't added content to every lesson, you'll be reminded to do so before you can submit a course. Once a Reach 360 admin reviews your submitted course and completes the publishing process, it’ll be available for learners. Reach 360 Admin Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Reach 360. The Publish to Reach 360 window displays (if the training was previously published, you'll see the date of the last publication). Set completion parameters. Learners can complete the training by viewing a specified percentage, passing a selected quiz lesson (in courses only, microlearning doesn't support quizzes), or both. You can also chooseNo Requirement. Note: If you lower the passing score of a quiz after the course is published, learners have to retake the quiz in the republished course to gain the benefit of the lowered score, even if their prior score would be a success with the new parameters. Selecting the Course Duration option displays the estimated time it takes learners to complete the training on the overview page. This is 30 minutes by default but can be overwritten with your own value. The Completion Celebration option displays an animated, confetti-filled, celebration for learners when they meet the completion parameters. Enable Certificate for course completion to provide learners with a downloadable completion certificate. Training has no due date by default, but you can select a set number of days to complete the training after a learner is enrolled or specify a due date. Turn on library visibility. You can also select in which libraries the training appears. Assign topics, if any. Click Publish to finish the publishing process and return to the training. For courses, if you haven't added content to every lesson, you'll be reminded to do so before you can publish a course. Once published, the training is live in all specified libraries. Publish an LMS Package Export Rise 360 content as an LMS package when you need to track learners’ progress. Rise 360 supports xAPI-, SCORM-, AICC, and cmi5-compliant LMSs. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select LMS. Choose an LMS standard: xAPI (Tin Can API), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, AICC, or cmi5. Note: For xAPI and cmi5,if you alter the pre-generated identifier, don't use special characters. Select a Tracking option: completion percentage, quiz result (in courses only, microlearning doesn't support quizzes), or Storyline block. If you're tracking by course completion or a quiz result and exporting a SCORM, AICC, or cmi5 package, you also get to choose a reporting option. Note: For microlearning content, only select complete/incomplete options are available for reporting. Decide if you want to display an Exit Course Link for learners and/or Hide Cover Page. Selecting these options can help resolve third-party LMS issues. Note: You can't hide the cover page for training created from Next Big Idea Club content templates. Click Publish in the upper right corner again to generate the package. (If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask if you want to edit the content or continue.) Click Back to... in the upper right corner to continue working while Rise 360 generates your zip file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the zip file before you have a chance to go back to the editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Contenton the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. Upload the zip package to your LMS. If your LMS requires you to identify the launch file, point to indexapi.html. Note: If you delete a lesson in your course, then update the course in your LMS, some learners might see a blank page. If this happens, selectMore settingsand click theReset Learner Progressoption when you export your course. Then, when learners launch the newly updated course in your LMS, their progress will be reset. Their quiz data will be retained. This option isn't available for xAPI exports. Publish a PDF File Need to print Rise 360 content? Or download it for compliance documentation? Good news! You can export it as a PDF file. Here’s how. Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select PDF. The PDF file is auto-generated. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask if you want to edit the content or continue with the export. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to keep working while Rise 360 generates your PDF file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the PDF before you have a chance to go back to the course editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Contenton the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. That’s it! You can read the PDF file offline, print it, distribute it to others, or even attach it to your Rise 360 content as an optional download using an attachment block. Want to see a video demonstration? Click here! Here’s how the interactive parts of your Rise 360 content appear in the PDF file: Hyperlinks work as expected and launch in your default web browser. Audio clips, videos, and web objects become static placeholder images. Interactions, such as labeled graphics and tabs, become a series of screenshots, one for each item in the interaction. (Each flashcard becomes two screenshots, one for the front and another for the back.) A Storyline block becomes a screenshot of the first slide in the project. Quiz lessons and knowledge check blocks display questions and answer choices. They don’t show correct/incorrect responses or feedback statements. Publish Web-Only Output If you don’t need to track learners’ progress, you can export Rise 360 content as web-only output and host it on your own web server. It’s easy! Open the content from your Rise 360 dashboard, click Publish in the upper right corner of the screen, and select Web. The zip file is auto-generated. If there are any errors, such as a blank lesson, Rise 360 will ask if you want to edit the content or continue with the export. Click Back to... in the upper right corner to continue working while Rise 360 generates your zip file. When it’s ready, you’ll receive an email notification with a download link. (For small deliverables, you may immediately be prompted to download the zip file before you have a chance to go back to the course editor. Just choose a location on your computer and click Save.) Click the download link in the notification email, then click Download Contenton the web page that opens. Choose a location on your computer and click Save. Extract the zip package and upload the contents to your web server. If you don't have access to a web server, here are some free options: Amazon S3 offers free hosting with generous usage limits. If you go over your limit, you'll be charged a small fee. See this video tutorial by Tom Kuhlmann to learn more about Amazon S3. Google Cloud also has a free hosting service. You'll be charged a small fee if you go over the free limit.See this video tutorial by Tom Kuhlmann to learn more about Google Cloud. When the files are uploaded, give learners a link to the index.html file.11KViews0likes0CommentsStoryline 3: Assigning Questions to Result Slides
Each question in Storyline 3 can be tied to aresult slidefor tracking and feedback purposes. This article describes two ways to assign a question to a result slide. Assigning a Result Slide in Form View Assigning a Result Slide in Slide View Assigning a Result Slide in Form View InForm View, go to theQuestiontab on the Storyline ribbon and use theResult Slidedrop-down list to select the result slide that should track the current question; or selectNoneif the question doesn’t need to be tied to a result slide. Assigning a Result Slide in Slide View InSlide View, go to theQuestion Tools—Designtab on the Storyline ribbon and use theResult Slidedrop-down list to select the result slide that should track the current question; or selectNoneif the question doesn’t need to be tied to a result slide.26Views0likes0CommentsStoryline 3: Publishing a Course for LMS Distribution
If you're using a learning management system (LMS) to distribute and track e-learning content, you'll want to use the LMS publishing optionin Storyline 3. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Enter Additional Project Info(Optional) Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Choose to Publish a Slide, a Scene, or the Entire Course Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Publish Distribute Your Published Course Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Publish. When the Publish window appears, select the LMS tab on the left. Enter the Title the way you want it to appear in your published output. It defaults to the name of your project file. (Changing the title won't affect the name of your project file.)The maximum length for a project title is 80 characters. Use the Description field todefine the purposeof your course.It won't appear in your published output. Use the Folder field to choose where you want to publish your course—for example, your computer desktop. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a location. Storyline will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to operate your course. Important: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can cause problems with your published output. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to your LMS for testing and distribution. Step 2 (Optional): Enter Additional Project Info Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field todefine additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step). The image below the Title field will be the course thumbnail in the Articulate Mobile Player library. By default, Storyline uses an image of the first slide in your course, but you can choose a different image. Just click the hyperlinked text below the image, then select a different slide or click Picture from File to choose an image on your hard drive. Enter values for Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords if you'd like. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Storyline that your LMS uses to identify your course. If you're republishing a course that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. When you're finished customizing the project information, click OK to return to the Publish window. Step 3: Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Use the Properties section of the Publish window to make last-minute changes to your course player and quality settings. The Player property shows the name of the player currently assigned to your project. (The player is the interface learners see around the perimeter of your course.) To make adjustments to your player, click the player name to open the player editor. The Quality property lets you control the compression settings for audio clips, videos, and pictures. The quality settings default to whatever you used the last time you published a course. To change them, click the Quality property, make your adjustments, and click OK. Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings: optimal video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 56 kbps, and JPG image quality of 100%. Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings. Drag the slider for any of the three values to change the compression. Higher values give you higher-quality output but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times). Lower values give you smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower as well. Tip:The image compression setting only affects JPG files. Mark the Optimize Audio Volume box to normalize audio throughout your course for consistent volume across all slides. Tip: If your course audio already has consistent volume, you can speed up the publishing process by unchecking this option. Step 4: Choose to Publish a Slide, a Scene, or the Entire Course By default, Storyline will publish your entire course. However, you can now choose to publish a specific scene from your course or even just a single slide. This is helpful when you want to publish multiple courses from the same project file. Just click the Publish property, then choose the entire project, a single scene, or a single slide. Step 5: Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Click the Reporting and Tracking button to open the following window, where you can choose how your LMS reports and tracks learners' progress. Click the Reporting tab in the upper left corner, then choose a specification from the LMS drop-down. Ask your LMS administrator if you're not sure which spec to use. Storyline supports xAPI (Tin Can API), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. Complete the fields in the section called LMS Course Information and, if you're publishing for SCORM, the section called LMS Lesson SCORM Information. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Storyline that your LMS uses to identify your course. If you're republishing a course that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. If you choose xAPI and need to change this value, avoid special characters and spaces. If you choose xAPI, you'll see a field called Launch URL. Enter the full URL for the story.html file if you plan to host the content on a server that's separate from your LMS. In the LMS Reporting section, choose the wording you want your LMS to display for learners' statuses in reports. (This section isn’t available or necessary for xAPI content.) Click the Tracking tab on the left side of the window and choose one of the following options: Track using number of slides viewed: Mark this option to trigger course completion when learners view a specific number of slides. Track using quiz result: Mark this option to track learners based on their quiz results. If your course has multiple quizzes, choose the one you want to track. (This option will be grayed-out if your course doesn’t have any result slides.) Click OK to save your changes. Step 6: Publish When you're finished making selections, click the Publish button. When the publishing process is complete, you’ll see the Publish Successful window with several follow-up options. View Project This launches the published course in your default web browser. However, it’s best to upload the published course to your LMS for proper testing. Email This opens a new email message with a zipped file of your published course attached. This option is helpful if you need to send your course to an LMS administrator for deployment. FTP This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a server. Zip This creates a zipped version of your course files in the same location where your course was published. This is the most common choice when you publish for LMS. Upload the zipped course to your LMS. Open This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Storyline just created. There will be multiple files and folders for a published course. Tip:If your LMS requires you to identify the file that launches your course, point to index_lms.html. Step 7: Distribute Your Published Course Now that you've published your course, it's time to upload it to your LMS. The steps for this are different for each LMS. Contact your LMS administrator if you need help uploading, launching, or tracking content.480Views0likes0CommentsQuizmaker 360: Publishing a Standalone Quiz for LMS Distribution
If you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track e-learning content, you'll want to use the LMS publishing option in Quizmaker 360. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Enter Additional Project Info (Optional) Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Publish Distribute Your Published Quiz Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Go to the Home tab on the Quizmaker ribbon and click Publish. When the Publish window appears, select the LMS tab on the left. Enter the Title the way you want it to appear in your published output. It defaults to the name of your project file. (Changing the title won't affect the name of your project file.)The maximum length for a project title is 80 characters. Use the Description field to give learners a synopsis of your quiz. Use the Folder field to indicate where you want to publish your quiz—for example, your computer desktop. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a location. Quizmaker will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to operate your quiz. Important: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can cause problems with your published output due to latency. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to your LMS for testing. Step 2 (Optional): Enter Additional Project Info Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field todefine additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step). The image below the Title fieldis thequiz thumbnail. By default,Quizmaker uses an image of the first slide in your quiz, but you can choose a different image. Just click the hyperlinked text below the image, then select a different slide or clickPicture from Fileto choose an image on your hard drive. Enter values for Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords if you'd like. The first Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Quizmaker that your LMS uses to identify your quiz. If you're republishing a quiz that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. When you're finished customizing the project information, click OK to return to the Publish window. Step 3: Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Use the Properties section of the Publish window to make last-minute changes to your quiz player and quality settings. The Player property shows the name of the player currently assigned to your project. (The player is the interface learners see around the perimeter of your quiz.) To make adjustments to your player, click the player name to open the player editor. The Quality property lets you control the compression settings for audio clips, videos, and pictures. The quality settings default to whatever you used the last time you published a quiz. To change them, click Quality, make your adjustments, and click OK. Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings: optimal video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 56 kbps, and image quality of 80%. Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings. Drag the slider for any of the three values to change the compression. Higher values give you higher-quality output but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times). Lower values give you smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower as well. Tip: Image compression only applies to JPG files. Mark the Optimize Audio Volume box to normalize audio throughout your quiz for consistent volume. Tip: If your quiz audio already has consistent volume, you can speed up the publishing process by unchecking this option. Step 4: Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Click the Reporting and Tracking button to open the following window, where you can choose how your LMS reports and tracks learners' progress. Choose a specification from the LMS drop-down. Ask your LMS administrator if you're not sure which spec to use. Quizmaker supports Tin Can API (xAPI), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. Complete the fields in the section called LMS Course Information and, if you're publishing for SCORM, the section called LMS Lesson SCORM Information. If you choose Tin Can API as your reporting specification, you'll see a field called Launch URL. Enter the full URL for the quiz.html file if you plan to host the content on a server that's separate from your LMS. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Quizmaker that your LMS uses to identify your quiz. If you're republishing a quiz that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. If you choose Tin Can API and need to change this value, avoid special characters and spaces. In the LMS Reporting section, choose the wording you want your LMS to display for learners' statuses in reports. (This section isn’t available for Tin Can API content.) Click OK to save your changes. Step 5: Publish When you're finished making selections, click the Publish button. When the publishing process is complete, you’ll see the Publish Successful window with several follow-up options. View Quiz This launches the published quiz in your default web browser. However, it’s best to upload the published quiz to your LMS for proper testing. Email This opens a new email message with a zip file of your published quiz attached. This option is helpful if you need to send your quiz to an LMS administrator for deployment. FTP This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a server. Zip This creates a zipped version of your quiz files in the same location where your quiz was published. This is the most common choice when you publish for LMS. Upload the zipped quiz to your LMS. Open This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Quizmaker just created. There will be multiple files and folders for a published quiz. Tip: If your LMS requires you to identify the file that launches your quiz, point to index_lms.html for SCORM/AICC content or quiz.html for Tin Can API content. Step 6: Distribute Your Published Quiz Now that you've published your quiz, it's time to upload it to your LMS. The steps for this are different for each LMS. Contact your LMS administrator if you need help uploading, launching, or tracking content.116Views0likes0CommentsEngage 360: Publishing a Standalone Interaction for LMS Distribution
If you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track e-learning content, you'll want to use the LMS publishingoption in Engage 360. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Enter Additional Project Info (Optional) Adjust the Player Settings and Interaction Properties Choose Your Reporting and Tracking Options Publish Distribute Your Published Interaction Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Click Publish on the Engage ribbon. When the Publish window appears, select the LMS tab on the left. Enter the Title the way you want it to appear in your published output. It defaults to the name of your project file. (Changing the title won't affect the name of your project file.)The maximum length for a project title is 80 characters. Use the Description field to give learners a synopsis of your interaction. Use the Folder field to indicate where you want to publish your interaction—for example, your computer desktop. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a location. Engage will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to operate your interaction. Important: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can cause problems with your published output. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to your LMS for testing. Step 2 (Optional): Enter Additional Project Info Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field todefine additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step). The image below the Title fieldis theinteraction thumbnail. By default, Engage uses an image representing the type of interaction you’re building, but you can choose a different image. Just click the hyperlinked text below the image, click Picture from File, and choose an image on your hard drive. Enter values for Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords if you'd like. The first Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Engage that your LMS uses to identify your interaction. If you're republishing an interaction that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. When you're finished customizing the project information, click OK to return to the Publish window. Step 3: Adjust the Player Settings and Interaction Properties Use the Properties section of the Publish window to make last-minute changes to your player, quality settings, theme colors, and playback mode. Player This property shows the name of the player currently assigned to your project. (The player is the interface learners see around the perimeter of your interaction.) To make adjustments to your player, click the player name to open the player editor. Quality This property controls the compression settings for audio clips, videos, and JPG imagesin your interaction. The quality settings default to whatever you used the last time you published an interaction. To change them, click the quality property and make your adjustments. Theme Colors This property shows the name of the theme currently applied to your project. To switch to a different theme, click the current theme and choose another one. Playback Mode This property controls how learners navigate through your interaction. To change the playback mode, click the current mode and choose a different option. Step 4: Choose Your Reporting and Tracking Options Click the Reporting and Tracking button to open the following window, where you can choose how your LMS reports and tracks learners' progress. Choose a specification from the LMS drop-down. Ask your LMS administrator if you're not sure which spec to use. Engage supports Tin Can API (xAPI), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. Complete the fields in the section called LMS Course Information and, if you're publishing for SCORM, the section called LMS Lesson SCORM Information. If you choose Tin Can API as your reporting specification, you'll see a field called Launch URL. Enter the full URL for the interaction.html file if you plan to host the content on a server that's separate from your LMS. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Engage that your LMS uses to identify your interaction. If you're republishing an interaction that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. If you choose Tin Can API and need to change this value, avoid special characters and spaces. In the LMS Reporting section, choose the wording you want your LMS to display for learners' statuses in reports. (This section isn’t available for Tin Can API content.) In the Tracking section, choose the number of steps learners must view to register completion in your LMS. Click OK to save your changes. Step 5: Publish When you're finished making selections, click the Publish button. When the publishing process is complete, you’ll see the Publish Successful window with several follow-up options. View Interaction This launches the published interaction in your default web browser. However, it’s best to upload the published interaction to your LMS for proper testing. Email This opens a new email message with a zipped file of your published interaction attached. This option is helpful if you need to send your interaction to an LMS administrator for deployment. FTP This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a server. Zip This creates a zip version of your interaction files in the same location where your interaction was published. This is the most common choice when you publish for LMS. Upload the zipped interaction to your LMS. Open This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Engage just created. There will be multiple files and folders for a published interaction. Tip: If your LMS requires you to identify the file that launches your interaction, point to index_lms.html for SCORM/AICC content or interaction.html for Tin Can API content. Step 6: Distribute Your Published Interaction Now that you've published your interaction, it's time to upload it to your LMS. Each LMS uses a different process. Contact your LMS administrator if you need help uploading, launching, or tracking content.33Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Publishing a Course for LMS Distribution
If you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track e-learning content, you'll want to use the LMS publishingoption in Presenter 360. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Enter Additional Project Info (Optional) Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Publish Distribute Your Published Course Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Publish. When the Publish window appears, select the LMS tab on the left. Enter the Title the way you want it to appear in your published output. It defaults to the name of your project file. (Changing the title won't affect the name of your project file.)The maximum length for a project title is 80 characters. Use the Description field to give learners a synopsis of your course. Use the Folder field to indicate where you want to publish your course—for example, your computer desktop. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a location. The presenter will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to operate your course. Important: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can cause problems with your published output. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to your LMS for testing. Step 2 (Optional): Enter Additional Project Info Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field todefine additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step). The image below the Title fieldis the course thumbnail. By default, Presenter uses an image of the first slide in your course, but you can choose a different image. Just click the hyperlinked text below the image, then select a different slide or clickPicture from Fileto choose an image on your hard drive. Enter values for Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords if you'd like. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Presenter that your LMS uses to identify your course. If you're republishing a course that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. When you're finished customizing the project information, click OK to return to the Publish window. Step 3: Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Use the Properties section of the Publish window to make last-minute changes to your player, adjust the quality settings, and assign a presenter bio to your course. The Player property shows the name of the player currently assigned to your project. (The player is the interface learners see around the perimeter of your slide content.) To make adjustments to your player, click the player name to open the player editor. The Quality property lets you control the compression settings for audio clips, videos, and pictures in your course. The quality settings default to whatever you used the last time you published a course. To change them, click Quality, make your adjustments, and click OK. Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings: optimal video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 56 kbps, and image quality of 80%. Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings, then drag the slider on any of the three values to change the compression. Higher values give you higher-quality output but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times). Lower values give you smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower as well. Tip: Image compression only applies to JPG files. Mark the Optimize Audio Volume box to normalize audio throughout your course for consistent volume across content slides, interactions, and quizzes. Tip: If your course audio already has consistent volume, you can speed up the publishing process by unchecking this option. The Presenter drop-down lets you choose a presenter bio for the course. The presenter bio will appear in the sidebar of your published course. Click the ellipsis (...) button if you need to manage your library of presenter bios. (In order for the presenter bio to display in your published course, you'll need to enable the presenter panel in your player. Click here to learn how.) Step 4: Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Click the Reporting and Tracking button to open the following window, where you can choose how your LMS reports and tracks learners' progress. Select the Reporting tab on the left side of the window and choose a specification from the LMS drop-down. Ask your LMS administrator if you're not sure which spec to use. Presenter supports Tin Can API (xAPI), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. Complete the fields in the section called LMS Course Information and, if you're publishing for SCORM, the section called LMS Lesson SCORM Information. If you choose Tin Can API as your reporting specification, you'll see a field called Launch URL. Enter the full URL for the presentation.html file if you plan to host the content on a server that's separate from your LMS. The first Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Presenter that your LMS uses to identify your course. If you're republishing a course that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. If you choose Tin Can API and need to change this value, avoid special characters and spaces. In the LMS Reporting section, choose the wording you want your LMS to display for learners' statuses in reports. (This section isn’t available for Tin Can API content.) Click the Tracking tab on the left side of the window and choose one of the following options: Track using number of slides viewed: Mark this option to trigger course completion when learners view a specific number of slides. Track using quiz result: Mark this option to track learners based on their quiz results. If your course has multiple quizzes, choose the one you want to track. (This option will be grayed-out if your course doesn’t have any result slides.) Click OK to save your changes. Step 5: Publish When you're finished making selections, click the Publish button. When the publishing process is complete, you’ll see the Publish Successful window with several follow-up options. View Presentation This launches the published course in your default web browser. However, it’s best to upload the published course to your LMS for proper testing. Email This opens a new email message with a zip file of your published course attached. This option is helpful if you need to send your course to an LMS administrator for deployment. FTP This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a server. Zip This creates a zip version of your course files in the same location where your course was published. This is the most common choice when you publish for LMS. Upload the zipped course to your LMS. Open This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Presenter just created. There will be multiple files and folders for a published course. Tip: If your LMS requires you to identify the file that launches your course, point to index_lms.html for SCORM/AICC content or presentation.html for Tin Can API content. Step 6: Distribute Your Published Course Now that you've published your course, it's time to upload it to your LMS. The steps for this are different for each LMS. Contact your LMS administrator if you need help uploading, launching, or tracking content.222Views0likes0CommentsStoryline 360: Assigning Questions to Result Slides
Each question in Storyline 360 can be tied to a result slide for tracking and feedback purposes. This article describes two ways to assign a question to a result slide. Assigning a Result Slide in Form View Assigning a Result Slide in Slide View Assigning a Result Slide in Form View In Form View, go to the Question tab on the Storyline ribbon and use the Result Slide drop-down list to select the result slide that should track the current question; or select None if the question doesn’t need to be tied to a result slide. Assigning a Result Slide in Slide View In Slide View, go to the Question Tools—Design tab on the Storyline ribbon and use the Result Slide drop-down list to select the result slide that should track the current question; or select None if the question doesn’t need to be tied to a result slide.230Views0likes0CommentsStoryline 360: Publishing a Course for LMS/LRS Distribution
If you’re using a learning management system (LMS), a learning record store (LRS), or both to distribute and track e-learning content, you’ll want to use the LMS/LRS publishing option in Storyline 360. Here’s how. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Enter Additional Project Info (Optional) Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Choose to Publish a Slide, a Scene, or the Entire Course Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Publish Distribute Your Published Course Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Publish. When the Publish window appears, select the LMS / LRStab on the left. Enter the Title the way you want it to appear in your published output. (If you have a title placeholder on the first slide, the title defaults to the text entered in that title placeholder. If you don’t have a title placeholder on the first slide, the title defaults to the name of your project file. You can change the title of your published course here without affecting the name of your project file or the title placeholder on the first slide.) The maximum length for a project title is 80 characters; the maximum length for each output folder name is eight words. Use the Description field to define the purpose of your course. It won’t appear in your published output. Use the Folder field to choose where you want to publish your course—for example, your computer desktop. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a location. Storyline 360 will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to operate your course. Tips: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can cause problems with your published output. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to your LMS, LRS, or both for testing and distribution. Install the November 2021 update or later for Storyline 360 to send results to an LRS. Learn more. Step 2: Enter Additional Project Info (Optional) Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field todefine additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step). The image below the Title fieldisthe course thumbnail. By default, Storyline 360 uses an image of the first slide in your course, but you can choose a different image. Just click the hyperlinked text below the image, then select a different slide or clickPicture from Fileto choose an image on your hard drive. You can enter values for the Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords (separated by commas) fields. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Storyline 360 that your LMS/LRS uses to identify your course. If you’re republishing a course that’s already in your LMS/LRS, don’t change the value in this field. When you’re finished customizing the project information, click OKto return to the Publish window. Step 3: Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Use the Properties section of the Publish window to make last-minute changes to your course player and quality settings. The Player property shows the name of the player currently assigned to your project. (The player is the frame around your slide content.) To make adjustments to your player, click the player name to open theplayer editor. The Quality property lets you choose adaptive or static video quality and control the compression settings for audio clips, static videos, and JPG images. The quality settings default to whatever you used the last time you published a course. To change them, click the Quality property, make your adjustments, and click OK. There are now two video quality options. Select Adaptive to automatically adjust the video quality (high, medium, or low) to the learner’s internet speed and prevent buffering. Learn more. Choose Static to deliver videos with the same quality to all learners, which could cause buffering. Drag the Static slider to change the video compression. Note that higher values give you higher-quality output but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times for learners with slow connections). Lower values give you smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the quality will be lower as well. Drag the Audio Quality slider to adjust the compression settings Storyline 360 uses for audio. Mark the Optimize audio volume box to normalize audio throughout your course for consistent volume across all slides. Tip: If your course audio already has consistent volume, you can speed up the publishing process by unchecking this option. Drag the JPG Quality slider to adjust the compression settings Storyline 360 uses for JPG images. Click Reset to standard optimization to use the default settings: adaptive video quality, audio bitrate of 56 kbps, and JPG image quality of 100%. Step 4: Choose to Publish a Slide, a Scene, or the Entire Course By default, Storyline 360 will publish your entire course. However, you can now choose to publish a specific scene from your course or even just a single slide. This is helpful when you want to publish multiple courses from the same project file. Just click the Publish property, then choose the entire project, a single scene, or a single slide. Step 5: Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Click the Reporting and Tracking button to open the following window, where you can choose how your LMS/LRS reports and tracks learners’ progress. Click the LMS tab in the upper left corner, then choose a standard from the Report to an LMS drop-down. Ask your LMS administrator if you’re not sure which standard to use. Storyline 360 supports cmi5, xAPI (Tin Can API), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. Complete the fields in the LMS Course Information section with these tips in mind: The course Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Storyline 360 that your LMS/LRS uses to identify your course. If you’re republishing a course that’s already in your LMS/LRS, don’t change the value in this field. If you choose xAPI and need to change this value, avoid special characters and spaces. For SCORM, the LMS Lesson SCORM Information section displays in addition to the LMS Course Information section. The values in the Title and Identifier fields default to the course title. If you have a title placeholder on the first slide, the Title and Identifier fields default to the text entered in that title placeholder instead. This Identifier appears in the imsmanifest.xml file for your course. The file uses a digestible name for the course Identifier, the unique string of characters assigned by Storyline 360. If you’re republishing a course that’s already in your LMS/LRS, don’t change the values in these fields. For xAPI, the following fields display: Activity ID: Your LMS and LRS use this value to identify activities in a course. The unique string of characters in the reference is the same as the value for the course’s Identifier (see above). If you need to change this value, use a valid URN (Uniform Resource Name), then upload the published course to your LMS/LRS for proper testing. Launch URL: If you plan to host the content on a server that’s separate from your LMS, you must enter the full URL for the story.html file. Language Code: This field isn’t mandatory, but you can enter a supported language code to change the language of the tincan.xml file. If you’re unsure, leave this field blank to set the language value in the tincan.xml file to und (undetermined). For SCORM and AICC content, choose your LMS Reporting option. This is the wording you want your LMS to display for learners’ statuses in reports. (This option isn’t available or necessary for cmi5 or xAPI content.) If you plan on reporting to an LRS as well, click the LRS tab on the left side of the window. Mark the box to Report to an external LRS, then choose one of the following options in the section called LRS Configuration. Learn more about LRS support. Supplied at launch: Select this option when you don’t want to store authentication credentials in your Storyline 360 project file or when you need the option to update the LRS endpoint or credentials without republishing the project. Learn more about supplying credentials at launch. Manual: Select this option to enter the LRS endpoint and credentials right in Storyline 360. The configuration details will be stored in your project file, and you’ll need to republish the project if you change them later. Learn more about the manual option. Click the Tracking tab on the left side of the window and chooseany combination of the following options.You can choose one, two, or even all three tracking options. Whichever option a learner completes first is the one that gets reported to your LMS/LRS.Learn more about tracking multiple completion criteria. When the learner has viewed# slides: Mark this option to trigger course completion when learners view acertain number of slides. You can choose a percentage or a fixed number. Then decide which slides get counted—all slides or just those with slide numbers.Learn more about tracking slides viewed. When the learner completes a quiz: Mark this option to track learners based on their quiz results. You can let Storyline 360 keep track of multiple quizzes and send results to your LMS/LRS for the first quiz each learner completes.Learn more about tracking quizzes. (This option will be grayed-out if your course doesn’t have any result slides.) Using triggers: Mark this option to track learners based oncourse completion triggers you added to your course. (This option is grayed-out if your course doesn’t have any completion triggers.) Click OK to save your changes. Step 6: Publish When you’re finished making selections, click the Publish button. When the publishing process is complete, you’ll see the Publish Successful window with several follow-up options. View Project This launches the published course in your default web browser. However, it’s best to upload the published course to your LMS/LRS for proper testing. Email This opens a new email message with a zipped file of your published course attached. This option is helpful if you need to send your course to an LMS/LRS administrator for deployment. FTP This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a server. Zip This creates a zipped version of your course files in the same location where your course was published. This is the most common choice when you publish for LMS/LRS. Upload the zipped course to your LMS/LRS. Open This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Storyline 360 just created. There will be multiple files and folders for a published course. Tip:If your LMS requires you to identify the file that launches your course, point to index_lms.html . Step 7: Distribute Your Published Course Now that you’ve published your course, it’s time to upload it to your LMS/LRS. The steps for this are different for each LMS/LRS. Contact your LMS/LRS administrator if you need help uploading, launching, or tracking content.5.4KViews1like0Comments