Thankfully, when you use Articulate software to author an e-learning course, publishing it to a learning management system (LMS) is really easy. But sometimes, your course doesn’t behave as expected in your LMS.
The good news is that Articulate 360 and Storyline 3 were architected without Flash dependencies, so these apps continue to work since Adobe discontinued Flash. Your published courses will also continue to work if they include HTML5 output.
Microsoft won't allow the Flash Player to operate on supported versions of Windows, and web browsers won't run Flash content. Here's how the end of Flash affects your Articulate apps and courses.
You exit the course. You resume the course and pick up where you left off. You exit the course again on a different slide. You launch the course again, but it takes you to the slide you were on when you met the tracking requirement and exited the course. Or, it takes you back to the beginning of the course.
Security restrictions in some modern web browsers prevent windows from closing themselves, so the exit trigger won't always close the browser window. However, it will work if the course is launched in a separate browser tab or window. Configure your Storyline player to launch in a new window. Here's how:
If you don't use Storyline's "launch player in new window" feature (above), you can still set your web links to open in a new browser tab or window. To do so, add the target attribute to your HTML hyperlinks. Here's an example:
Exit triggers might not work in all HTML5 browsers. See these articles for details:
When publishing for Web or LMS, be sure to upload the published output to a server for proper testing. Viewing courses on your local hard drive can cause some features to fail.
When publishing for LMS, be sure to test your content in your LMS. If you view a course that was published for LMS on your local hard drive, the exit trigger won't work. If it still doesn't work after uploading the course to your LMS, try this:
In case some of you might be wondering, the main difference between articulation and phonological disorders is that phonological disorders involve patterns of errors. They might leave out ending sounds in words or shorten words or say sounds in the wrong place in their mouths (i.e. t/k, d/g). These patterns usually make these kiddos a lot more difficult to understand.
According to this article by Everything Speech, there is no scientific evidence that articulation deficits in general cause academic problems in students. Articulation errors can occur in conjunction with giftedness, learning disorders, or even mental disabilities.
Any Articulate Online content that was published to Flash will need to be republished to HTML5 before December 31, 2020 to continue working.
Any courses you previously published to Flash will need to be republished to HTML5 before December 31, 2020 to continue working. Need help getting started? Check out our article on 4 Simple Steps for Updating Your Flash-Based Courses.
HTML5 courses that you published with Storyline 360, Storyline 3, and Studio 360 will continue to work in Internet Explorer 11. Older versions of Internet Explorer won’t be supported when Flash retires. Find all of our supported browsers here:
However, it won’t work reliably in other browsers. (Studio ‘09 doesn’t publish HTML5 output.) We recommend that you upgrade to Storyline 3 or Articulate 360 (which includes both Storyline 360 and Studio 360) as these apps don’t have any Flash dependencies and their HTML5 output works in all major browsers.
Your published courses will continue to work if they include HTML5 output. Web browsers will simply ignore the Flash content and display the HTML5 version instead.
However, if you have Flash-only courses, you’ll need to republish them to HTML5 before December 31, 2020 for them to continue working.
Yes. Projects you created with Storyline 1, Storyline 2, Studio ‘09, and Studio ‘13 are fully compatible with newer versions of Storyline and Studio. Open your projects and publish to HTML5. It’s that easy! Your published output will be Flash-free and look beautiful on any device with the responsive player in Storyline 360, Storyline 3, and Studio 360. Learn more about all the improvements you’ll see:
You exit the course again on a different slide.
We don't recommend changing the default behavior of a course. However, you can edit your published output to allow learners to change their completion status, which means the resume feature should work even after they complete the course. Here's how: