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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
by default.
frameset.htm
To prepare an AICC-compliant file for web hosting:
Open the document in Flash.
1.
Select File > Publish Settings.
2.
In the Publish Settings dialog box that appears, make sure that (at least) both Flash (SWF) and
3.
HTML files are selected in the Formats panel.
Click the HTML tab at the top of the Publish Settings dialog box, and select the Flash with
4.
AICC Tracking template from the Template pop-up menu.
Click the Publish button, and close the dialog box.
5.
Place the files produced by publishing the Flash file and any files linked (such as, MP3 or FLV)
6.
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.
Open the Learning Extensions Srvr Files folder, which is located in the Flash MX 2004 program
7.
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.
Open the new copy of the frameset.htm file in a text editor.
8.
The following lines are found in the frameset.htm file:
<frameset frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0" rows="*,1">
<frame src="Untitled-1.htm" name="content" frameborder="0">
<frame src="results.htm" name="cmiresults" scrolling="0" frameborder="0">
In the second line, change
9.
Flash (typically the HTML filename specified in the formats Tab of Publish Settings).
The main file references any HTML files that were created in the publishing process. For
example, if myQuiz.htm, myQuiz_content.htm, and myQuiz_alternate.htm were created by
publishing the document, myQuiz.htm replaces Untitled-1.htm in the frameset.htm file.
Then, myQuiz.htm calls myQuiz_content.htm and myQuiz_alternate.htm when necessary.
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to the name of the HTML file you published in
Untitled-1.htm