Although many of us will use learning management systems, like Articulate Online or Docebo, to share our eLearning courses, sometimes the requirement comes to share courses on Microsoft SharePoint. However, it’s important to remember that SharePoint will not give you the tracking or reporting statistics that an LMS will.
If you want to use SharePoint to share your eLearning content, follow the steps below:
- Publish your course for the web
Navigate to your publish settings, and publish your course for web. Remember, Adobe are stopping support for Flash at the end of 2020, so it’s best to publish your courses as HTML5 with Flash fallback.
Check your course opens, and runs, in your default web browser. If not, go back to your Storyline 360 file and resolve the issues before continuing to the next step. - Create your course folder on SharePoint
Create a folder on SharePoint to contain your published Storyline course.For Storyline courses to run correctly, you need to make sure your folder isn’t nested too far down within subdirectories. Storyline course’s are made up of a number of small files, many with long file names. Using several subdirectories, e.g. / directory/directory/directory/directory/directory/etc. , coupled with a long Storyline created filename can cause problems when uploading files due to the filename character limits. - Upload your course files
We now need to replicate the folder hierarchy from our Storyline web publish. Once this is completed, upload all files into this structure, making sure you do not miss any files.For example, create a new folder in your previously created course folder in SharePoint. Name this folder ‘story_content’. Open the course files from step one, and copy the contents of your ‘story_content’ folder, pasting these into the folder of the same name on SharePoint.Within your ‘story_content’ folder, you’ll need to repeat the above step, by creating a ‘slides’ folder, and uploading the content from your downloaded ‘slides’ folder in here.Once you’ve done this for all files in your web publish folder, go to your main folder and click on the [course name].html file.If you course launches successfully, you’re ready to go.However, if SharePoint downloads your [course name].html file, please complete step 4.
- Rename your story.html file
If SharePoint automatically downloads .html files to your computer, rather than launching them as a web page, you’ll need to change the file name to [course title].aspx in order to play your content in SharePoint.To do this, open your [course name].story file in a simple content editor, such as ‘Notepad’, and resave the files with the .aspx extension. Upload this new file to your SharePoint folder, and it should now launch seamlessly.
