Alan Landers
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FirstStep Training
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About
Alan Landers
My true loves, other than family, are instructional design and organizational development. I've been an instructional designer since 1978! I became an OD consultant in 1985 and worked with a wide variety of clients across the country and abroad.I started my own OD and Training company in 1989. I specialized in designing training programs that truly improved performance and changed organizations. That was possible because the up front needs assessments I did were a combination of OD assessments and Training needs analyses.Strong front end analyses allowed me to create meaningful KPIs, detailed implementation plans, and that led to determining Level 4 and even Level 5 results. Success allowed me to work closely with executive management making training an important strategic partner.I'm back to consulting now, but this time I'm focusing on training, more specifically instructional design for eLearning/mLearning, ILT. and experiential learning.I've always loved training technology and that led to Articulate and Storyline. I've known Dave Anderson for years and got to know Tom Khulmann this past year. I've been using a variety of authoring tools since 2003. I'm excited to learn from all of you and offer whatever help I can. -
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Resetting drag and drop selections to original positions before second or third try
"I'm helping someone who created a DnD question kinda on their own. Here's the problem, the selections were placed in the wrong boxes duri..."
- over 8 years ago01/22/16 at 4:30 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Is it possible to change the state of a "group"?
"I have seven images with text on them. I combined the images and text into a group. I want learners to click on each of the 7 groups and ..."
- over 8 years ago01/20/16 at 8:54 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Help with printing and other stuff
"Hi and HELP!
I created a test to go with a webinar recording. I published it as an HTML5 file. I want to make the story available to use..."
- over 9 years ago01/09/15 at 5:03 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion printing and other stuff
"Hi and HELP!
I created a test to go with a webinar recording. I published it as an HTML5 file. I want to make the story available to use..."
- over 9 years ago01/08/15 at 9:46 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion importing audio with ppt presentation
"I was able to import the PPT (MS Office 2010) without a problem. But, the audio did not import. What do I have to do to get the audio wit..."
- over 9 years ago12/08/14 at 7:10 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Can Storyline determine what type of device was used
"I'm writing a proposal for a client that wants to know what type of device was used to complete the training (tablet, smartphone, or web)..."
- over 10 years ago09/12/13 at 12:17 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Source for PPT Templates and Slides
"I haven't seen this site mentioned on this forum so I thought I'd mention it. The site is www.m62.net. There are about 150 free PPT tem..."
- over 10 years ago08/18/13 at 2:40 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion two text variables entered before can advance to new slide
"I have a slide that asks for first and last name, using text variables. I have a next button that's original state is hidden. I want th..."
- over 10 years ago08/01/13 at 4:44 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Ending a Zoom Region
"I created a zoom region and it works fine. The program zooms to a close up of a whiteboard. I have three layers on the slide. Two of t..."
- almost 11 years ago07/02/13 at 1:17 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Free woodfloor image
"Hi, I know there is a wood floor imagae available throught SL. I created another, that's lighter in color. It's free, if you'd like to ..."
- almost 11 years ago06/14/13 at 1:40 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion New feedback slide
"I created a new feedback slide
But now, when I try to preview the slide. The preparing preview window sticks at about 80% complete. I'..."
- almost 11 years ago06/11/13 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion D&D mulitple tries and stopping when the try limit is reached
"I have a Drag n Drop that's straightforward (3 objects to 3 specified targets). The tries are set to 3. If the objects are placed incor..."
- almost 11 years ago06/11/13 at 2:04 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion move on after 3 tries at drag and drop
"Hi, I have a drag and drop interaction and the learner gets three tries at it. After attemp 1 and 2 the learner goes back the the puzzl..."
- almost 11 years ago06/05/13 at 5:53 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Resource for learning more about variables and SL
"Hi,
I want to learn/know more about variables and SL. I've looked at all the tutorials on the topic and have a very basic understanding ..."
- almost 11 years ago06/03/13 at 9:19 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Not sure how to lable this - variables maybe??
"I have a slide with a pictture (Pix 1) that has a hotspot. When the learner clicks anywhere on the picture outside the HS an error messa..."
- almost 11 years ago06/01/13 at 8:39 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Corrupted files
"I think my Storyline files have been corrputed. Is there any way i can reinstall storyline on my desktop computer?"
- almost 11 years ago05/11/13 at 11:47 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Posting story.html files online for viewing
"When I publish a story I get a lot of files. I want to create a demo page on my website to show what I've done. Can I only post the sto..."
- almost 11 years ago05/01/13 at 12:50 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion New Program - Request for feedback
"Hi,
I just finished another .story and would like some feedback. Here's the link:
http://firststeptraining.net/pdfstoryline/Group_Develo..."
- almost 11 years ago04/27/13 at 4:31 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Can anyone tell me why a slide won't appear in the menu?
"I have a number of slides that are not appearing in the menu when I try to configure my menu. I've gone to each slide that is not appear..."
- 11 years ago04/25/13 at 5:05 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Inexpensive or Free eLearning resources for Storyline
"I was talking to Dave Anderson a few weeks ago at a SL workshop he and Tom K did in San Diego. We were exchanging resources and he asked..."
- 11 years ago04/25/13 at 1:46 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Motion Paths
"Hi,
Does SL have a feature like motion paths in PPT? I'd like to show an object moving from one part of a screen to another.
Tks,
Alan"
- 11 years ago04/20/13 at 8:12 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion add a trigger to show a layer at a cue point
"Hi Again,
I have a slide with an audio recording. The audio has one cue point. I'd like to show a layer at that cue point and have the ..."
- 11 years ago04/14/13 at 12:28 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion video stops playing sometimes and other times it doesn't
"Hi, I just posted my first SL project on the web. Two people let me know that the second video stopped and the screen went blank at..."
- 11 years ago02/21/13 at 8:30 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion It's DONE!!
"Yeah!! After a lot of trying to figure things out on my own, reading these blogs, and just plain thinking (what a concept!). I finally f..."
- 11 years ago02/19/13 at 5:09 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion I just want to pause and play a video
"It's late. I'm tired. I'm old. And I forgot!
I put this nice little play and pause bar across the bottom of two of my videos about 90 ..."
- 11 years ago02/14/13 at 1:41 am (UTC)