MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 588

Preparing Flash learning interactions for web hosting
In order for web users to see your Flash application, you need to embed it into a web page.
The steps to prepare AICC- and SCORM-compliant files for web hosting are slightly
different and are covered in the following two sections.
Preparing an AICC-compliant learning interaction for
web hosting
To send tracking data to an AICC-compliant LMS, you need to enable tracking for the quiz
and then publish the Flash application using the Flash with AICC Tracking template. You
must place the file generated by Flash on your web server in the same directory and modify
the frameset file with the name of your quiz, and then place it on the web server with the
HTML and SWF files. In addition, your LMS must be AICC-compliant and reference the
frameset. This file is called
To prepare an AICC-compliant file for web hosting:
1. Open the document in Flash.
2. Select File > Publish Settings.
3. In the Publish Settings dialog box that appears, make sure that (at least) both Flash (SWF)
and HTML files are selected in the Formats panel.
4. Click the HTML tab at the top of the Publish Settings dialog box, and select the Flash with
AICC Tracking template from the Template pop-up menu.
5. Click the Publish button, and close the dialog box.
6. Place the files produced by publishing the Flash file and any files linked (such as, MP3 or
FLV) on the web server in the same directory.
Additional files are created if Detect Flash Version is selected in the HTML tab of the
Publish Settings dialog box. Make sure to copy all the HTML files to your web server but
not the FLA file.
7. Open the Learning Extensions Srvr Files folder, which is located in the Flash 8 program
folder in the en/First Run/HTML/Learning Extensions folder. Copy the contents of this
folder (frameset.htm, results.htm, and the scripts folder) to the same web server directory
as the SWF file and the HTML file published in Flash.
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