Viewing Articulate 360 Content in SharePoint Online
Enabling Custom Scripts in SharePoint Online Custom scripts are now disabled in SharePoint Online for security reasons by default. As a result, Articulate content with the story.html file renamed to story.aspx in the published output that previously worked with SharePoint Online might not work anymore. If you don't need to track learners' progress or results, check out these free or low-cost options for web hosting. If you need to use SharePoint Online, your SharePoint admin may be able to resolve this issue by following the steps below. (Note that we don't provide support for either workaround.) As of July 10, 2024, SharePoint users will find that they are required to reenable the Custom Scripts feature every 24 hours, reverting the Custom Scripts setting to its default and disabled state. Please see Microsoft’s article on Custom Script settings for more information. Enabling Custom Script via the SharePoint Admin Center If you don't need instant access, follow these steps. Go to the SharePoint admin center and sign in with your credentials. In the sidebar to the left of the page, click Settings. (If you're using the Modern admin center, click the classic settings page hyperlink at the bottom of the Settings page.) Scroll to the Custom Script section, then select the options to Allow users to run custom script on personal sites and Allow users to run custom script on self-service created sites. Click OK to save your changes. Note that this change may take up to 24 hours to appear. Enabling Custom Script in SharePoint Online via PowerShell For instant access, follow these steps. Open Windows PowerShell with admin privileges, then run Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShell Connect-PnPOnline -Url <url> -PnPManagementShell (replace <url> with your SharePoint URL, which will then generate a code for you to insert in your SharePoint admin center.) Run these commands in PowerShell: (replace the URL after -Url in the first command with the link to your static site collection, such as https://companyabc.sharepoint.com/sites/StaticSite). (If you need help creating a SharePoint site, refer to this article from Microsoft.) Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://yourorg.sharepoint.com/sites/StaticSite $site = Get-PnPSite Set-PnPSite -Identity $site.URL -NoScriptSite $false Your SharePoint site is almost ready to host HTML files! We just need to prepare the Articulate published output for upload. Here's how. In SharePoint, choose where you will locate this project. You can create a new folder or use the Documents location created by default with all SharePoint sites. Rename all the files with a .html extension in your unzipped published output folder to .aspx (keep the same file name). To do this, right-click the file, choose Rename, and then replace .html with .aspx. (Most projects only need to rename the analytics-frame.html and story.html files. Finally, upload the published output to your SharePoint site, then click story.aspx to launch your Articulate course. This change should take effect immediately.TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101
It's great to let users explore content on their own. But sometimes you need to ensure they view the full timelines on the slides and complete the interactions. For example, this might be required for compliance/regulatory reasons. In other words, sometimes you need to control when the Next button is disabled and enabled. The attached file demonstrates how to control the Next button in these situations: Force users to view the full timeline on all slides by using Restricted navigation Force users to complete an interaction by verifying that all of the buttons have been clicked Force users to view the full timelines on the slide layers by verifying that all of the timelines have been completed (2 methods) The demo also explains the programming. See it in action here: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/1139e0c0-7c9f-4a16-b943-cce2c5081bad/review Nothing new here for advanced users. But I hope newbies find this helpful. By the way, this is about controlling the Next button while the user remains on one slide. If the slide branches to other slides, well, that's a custom menu. You'll find details about those here: TIP: Create a Custom Menu Slide | Articulate - CommunityTIP: Build a Rise Course with a Pretest
There is a way to include a pretest in a Rise course! Rise doesn't have pretest functionality built in—at least, not yet. But it can be done using a few Storyline blocks, some button blocks, and navigation restrictions. This demo shows how to let a user skip the content if they pass. If they fail, they have to go through the content. Rise course with pretest Caveats: The program can't tell the LMS if the user passed the pretest or if they went through the content. And it can't tell the LMS the user's score. But it can tell the LMS that the user "completed" the course. *** UPDATE 2024-01-17 *** As per Ingrid Marcum's comments below, there's another caveat. If a user fails the pretest, exits the course before proceeding to the content, and then relaunches the course, the Storyline block will reset. In other words, the user would be able to retake the pretest. As Ingrid said, the Articulate staff "confirmed that the storyline blocks will always reset when revisiting the page in Rise." So, alas, this method isn't a solution if you're concerned about users doing that.TIP: Create a Custom Menu Slide
Do you want to create your own menu slide? Do you want to ensure that the user can't advance to your summary and/or quiz until they have visited all of the other scenes in your course? Well, you're not alone. This topic comes up quite a bit in the community. Here are the basic instructions for creating a custom menu slide: Create a T/F variable for each scene (topic, module, branch, or whatever you want to call it). Set the initial value be False to represent that the user hasn't yet completed the scene. On the last slide of each scene, create a trigger that adjusts the corresponding variable to True when the timeline starts or ends (depending on your preferred restrictions). Alternately, add the trigger to the Next button. But if you do that, be sure the trigger appears before the trigger that jumps to the next slide. On the custom menu slide, add a trigger to change the state of the Next button to Normal when the timeline starts. Include conditions so this trigger only executes if all of the variables = True. (Tip: To ensure all conditions are met before the trigger will run, connect the conditions with "AND.") Include an "Else" statement that changes Next to Disabled. The attached a file demonstrates and explains how this works. You can see it in action here: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/67f78d89-5b24-4368-95b2-b15b92db55ae/review By the way, you can use the same basic instructions even if you don't include the built-in Next button on your custom menu slide. To do that, use the steps above that describe how to disable and enable the Next button to disable and enable whatever button you have for advancing (for example, a Go to Quiz button). Variables and trigger conditions provide the real power in Storyline. If you're not familiar with them, I recommend that you check out these resources: The Value of Variables | Articulate - Community Storyline 360: Working with Triggers | Articulate - Community UPDATE If you scroll down in the comments, Sarah Hodge's comment links to an example that shows how to make the user go through the scenes/sections in order.TIP: Track Responses to Custom Questions or Surveys
Do you want to customize a course based on the results of a survey? Do you want to create questions that assign different point values to different responses? In other words, do you want to track responses to custom questions or surveys? You can do that by adjusting the values of number variables based on which buttons are selected. Then add up those values, and use that "total score" to customize what happens next. The attached demo file shows you how. It includes two examples: how to track multiple single-response items (like a Likert scale) how to track multiple-response slides In addition to the demos, the file explains how the triggers work. I hope this is helpful for those who want to track custom surveys and/or create custom question slides that assign different values to each response (instead of just grading right or wrong). Note: The demonstrated programming only works to customize what the user sees in the course. It does not send any of the data to an LMS/LRS.Storyline 360 Pros — What’s Your Favorite “Hidden Gem”? 💎
As someone who’s spent a lot of time working with (and on!) Storyline 360, I’ve come to appreciate the power in the little things — those lesser-known features that quietly make our lives easier. Here's one of my personal favorites: 🎧📽️ Cue Points with the “C” Key: I recently spoke with a customer who struggled to time trigger actions to audio and video media on their slides. They would preview the slide, make note of when a trigger should be fired, then return to slide authoring view to add a cue point to the timeline to tie into the trigger event. This would require a lot of manual back-and-forth between authoring and previewing. I often have to do the same thing, and there is an easier way. If you use stage preview (accessible via the "Play" icon" in the lower-left corner of the Timeline panel), Storyline will stay in the slide authoring view and play the timeline of the slide, including any audio or video media that's present. As it plays, you can press the "C" key on your keyboard to have cue points added to the current playback position. It’s a simple way to place cue points in real time, right where they’re needed — perfect for syncing trigger actions to specific moments in your media. cting Storyline 360's UI and using the "C" key to drop cue points on the timeline. Now I’m curious: What’s your favorite under-the-radar Storyline feature? Something small, subtle, maybe even a little obscure — but that you personally couldn’t live without. Drop it in the comments — I’d love to learn what little gems you rely on. 👇Articulate Sign in "Couldn't Open Port"
Launched my Storyline 360 desktop app and was prompted to sign in. Typically clicking 'sign-in' launches a browser window where I sign in and then have access on the desktop as well. Today I received the attached message in the application when I clicked sign-in. "Couldn't Open Port" "Unable to open a port for authentication responses." Steps taken: Closed out and relaunched desktop application Restarted entire computer and relaunched Went directly to Articulate360 website to sign in Got into website, but did not connect me to the desktop app. Peers in my organization are not experiencing the same issue. Thoughts? Thanks!Best Certification for Breaking into Instructional Design field
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