Bill Osborn
Bill Osborn
CEO at Training by Ignition
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    Bill Osborn

    I have been working as an instructional designer for more than 15 years. I've developed instructor-led training courses, web-based training courses and tech talks for clients such as Sun Microsystems (Oracle), Dot Hill Systems, US Air Force, and others. I have worked as a Systems Test Engineer, Field Engineer and Systems Engineer. In addition, I spent six years working on satellite and microwave communications systems while serving in the US Air Force.
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Animation path with a fade or other animation?
"Good solution Douglas, thanks for sharing."
  • over 8 years ago10/29/15 at 6:09 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Animation path with a fade or other animation?
"Here is what I did to get the general effect I wanted."
  • over 8 years ago10/29/15 at 6:06 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Show number of slides viewed
"I submitted a second request for this feature. Knowing the number of slides, and which slides, have been visited is very powerful in crea..."
  • over 8 years ago10/28/15 at 4:37 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Replay button and replay on scrub bar not working
"My belief is that the issue is with the "Automatically Decide" selection. It seems that this is now defaulting to resume saved state 100%..."
  • over 8 years ago10/28/15 at 4:35 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Replay button and replay on scrub bar not working
"The issue is seen with both a custom button set to replay the slide based on a trigger and the replay button in the scrub bar. I submitte..."
  • over 8 years ago10/28/15 at 4:33 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Show number of slides viewed
"I did over a year ago... I suppose I should submit another request."
  • over 8 years ago10/16/15 at 9:35 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Announcing Storyline 2 Update 5
"Since updating I have had a lot of stability issues - storyline keeps hanging and I have to kill the application as well as its processes..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/13/15 at 9:37 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Not able to record audio while recording screen
"I am having the same issue on a PC. I can record audio on all my other programs, just not storyline or Screenr. I have uninstalled and re..."
  • 10 years ago03/24/14 at 2:31 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion One slide or multiple slides?
"Thanks Nancy. Good to know about using copy and paste of repeated graphics - I had wondered about that. "
  • over 10 years ago09/12/13 at 8:49 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion One slide or multiple slides?
"I appreciate everyone's responses, but, I don't think I worded my question very well. I never have a static item on screen for longer tha..."
  • over 10 years ago09/06/13 at 4:37 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Storyline's Buggy Undo Button
"I have the most recent version and the problem still persists. I keep forgetting that it is unstable, use it and then have to go searchin..."
  • over 10 years ago09/03/13 at 3:19 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Issue with update 3?
"I have not adjusted anything on my system and try to follow the best practices. I did open another module and found it to be working fine..."
  • almost 11 years ago05/23/13 at 1:48 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion ***Articulate Storyline Update 3 - Now Live***
"Yahoo - HTML 5 fixes and hopefully a final goodbye to the undo bug which frustrated me to no end."
  • almost 11 years ago05/23/13 at 10:42 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Numbering Quiz Questions in Storyline
"By writing my last post I realized part of the issue. The Slide master for question slides does not have a trigger for the submit button,..."
  • almost 11 years ago05/21/13 at 4:25 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Numbering Quiz Questions in Storyline
"Yaki Gordon said: Here is how i set it finally. 1. In Slide Master> Question layout -Add "Question %varQuestionNo% of X -Add trigger ..."
  • almost 11 years ago05/21/13 at 4:16 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Send Pass/Fail from Storyline Quiz to LMS?
"Anyone? Please help..."
  • almost 12 years ago08/03/12 at 5:04 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Quiz question numbering
"Hi Jill, Thank you for the response. I was thinking of giving that a try, just was not sure how it would effect the overall score when th..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/27/12 at 8:22 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Animating a Collage
"Hi Marie, While I have not had a set of images spell out a word, I have moved graphics around for emphasis. To do what you want I would u..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/27/11 at 10:37 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Animated hands with marker?
"Kayla's answer pretty much covers it. I would add that the highlight wipe can be difficult to time with the pen/hand, but with patience i..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/27/11 at 10:32 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Hiring: Instructional Designer / Articulate Expert - Green Job!
"Chris, I sent you a Private Message with my qualifications. I neglected to mention that I have experience working with Moodle as well. R..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/27/11 at 9:24 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Looking for a Spanish bilingual Articulate user!
"Hi Lisa, I would recommend Ivan Hernandez. Regards, Bill Osborn"
  • 13 years ago04/18/11 at 6:06 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion How much to charge for a course?
"Tom Ashcraft said: I'm not ready to begin consulting, but I am interested in this topic!  Rob, is there anything more you can share publi..."
  • 13 years ago04/04/11 at 5:22 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion How much to charge for a course?
"Wow look at that - it did not post any of my text how odd. I agree with Rob and utilize the same resources that he posted. There are a lo..."
  • 13 years ago04/04/11 at 5:07 pm (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Articulate and Moodle 2.0
"Thanks Brian! Turns out my hosting provider was blocking FLV files and would not allow them period. So now to find a new hosting provider..."
  • 13 years ago03/28/11 at 11:05 am (UTC)
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Bill Osborn replied to the discussion Articulate and Moodle 2.0
"So I uninstalled Moodle 2 and then installed Moodle 1.9.11 and I still have the same issue. None of the FLV files in the Articualte Engag..."
  • 13 years ago03/28/11 at 9:37 am (UTC)