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Preparing movies for web hosting

In order for web users to be able to see your Flash movie, you need to embed it into a web page.

The steps to prepare AICC- and SCORM-compliant files for web hosting are slightly different.

Preparing AICC-compliant files

To send tracking data to an AICC-compliant LMS, you need to enable tracking for the quiz and then publish the movie using the Flash w/AICC Tracking template. You must place the HTML and SWF files generated by Flash on your web server in the same directory and modify the frameset file with the name of your quiz, 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. By default, this is the file called frameset.html.

To prepare an AICC-compliant file for web hosting:

1 | Open the document in Flash MX.
2 | Choose File > Publish Settings.
3 | In the Publish Settings dialog box that appears, make sure that both Flash (.swf) and HTML are selected in the Formats panel.
4 | Click the HTML tab at the top of the Publish Settings dialog box and select the Flash w/AICC Tracking template.
5 | Click the Publish button and close the dialog box.
6 | Place the Flash SWF file and the HTML file produced by publishing the Flash file on the web server, both in the same directory.
7 | Open the Learning Extensions Srvr Files subfolder, located in the Flash MX program folder First Run/HTML/Learning Extensions subfolder. Copy the contents of this folder (frameset.htm, results.htm, and the scripts subfolder) to the same web server directory as the SWF file and the HTML file published in Flash.
8 | Open the new copy of the frameset.htm file in a text editor.
| 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">
9 | In the second line, change `Untitled-1.htm` to the name of the HTML file you published in Flash.
10 | Launch the LMS system (or create the AICC Course Descriptor Files) that references the frameset.htm file.

Preparing a SCORM-compliant movie

To send tracking data to an SCORM-compliant LMS, you must enable tracking for the quiz and publish the movie using the Flash w/SCORM Tracking template. In addition, you need to place the HTML and SWF files generated by Flash on your web server in the same directory.

To prepare a SCORM-compliant movie for web hosting:

1 | Open the document in Flash MX.
2 | Choose File > Publish Settings.
3 | In the Publish Settings dialog box that appears, make sure that both Flash (.swf) and HTML are selected in the Formats panel.
4 | Click the HTML tab at the top of the Publish Settings dialog box and select the Flash w/SCORM Tracking template.
5 | Click the Publish button and close the dialog box.
6 | Place the Flash SWF file and the HTML file produced by publishing the Flash file on the web server, both in the same directory.
7 | Launch the LMS system and reference the name of the HTML file. Make sure the LMS is set to launch the SCORM tracking frameset.