{"id":645,"date":"2014-10-08T20:24:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2014-10-08T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T23:24:58","slug":"publishing-articulate-storyline-output-to-dropbox-or-google-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/publishing-articulate-storyline-output-to-dropbox-or-google-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Articulate Storyline Output to Dropbox or Google Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Jonathan from the Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community<\/a>\u00a0tweeted at me asking\u00a0how I go about publishing my Articulate Storyline outputs to Dropbox, so I made a screencast! It took a couple of takes due to sneezing fits and barking beagles, but I think it does a good job at explaining how easy it is to upload your Storyline outputs to both Dropbox.com<\/a> and Google Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below, I’ll outline the steps and then I’ll include the screencast so you can see how I published my Storyline output to both technologies.<\/p>\n

Publishing to Dropbox<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Download and install the Dropbox app.<\/li>\n
  2. Drag your output folder to your dropbox.<\/li>\n
  3. Open dropbox and drag the output folder to the Public folder.<\/li>\n
  4. Open\u00a0the uploaded folder, within the Public folder, and right-click the story.html file.<\/li>\n
  5. Select Copy Public Link.<\/li>\n
  6. Open a new browser tab and paste the copied link.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Publishing to Google Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Download and install the Google Drive app.<\/li>\n
    2. Drag your output folder to your Google Drive.<\/li>\n
    3. Open the uploaded folder, and rename ‘story.html’ to ‘index.html’<\/li>\n
    4. Return to the your main page of Google Drive and right-click the uploaded folder.<\/li>\n
    5. Select Google Drive > View on the web.<\/li>\n
    6. Google Drive will open; Select Open in Drive (in the upper right-hand corner).<\/li>\n
    7. Click My Drive, and then select the check mark beside the uploaded folder.<\/li>\n
    8. Select the Share icon (icon of a person with a + symbol) and click Advanced.<\/li>\n
    9. Select Change next to ‘who has access’ and change the permissions to Public on the web. Click Save.<\/li>\n
    10. Enter the uploaded folder, and in the browser address bar, copy the identifier, which includes all letters and numbers appearing after “0#folders\/”.<\/li>\n
    11. Open a new browser tab and in the address bar type “http:\/\/googledrive.com\/host\/” after ‘\/host\/’, paste the identifier copied in the previous step.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As you can see, there are a few more steps when publishing to Google Drive versus doing so with Dropbox, so for ease, I recommend Dropbox; however, both are good options. My preferences is to publish to my website’s server, and if that option isn’t available, publishing to Articulate Tempshar<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

      Video Demonstration – Publishing Articulate Storyline Output to Dropbox and Google Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n