Bob Lander
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Bells & whistles vs. visual communication
"LOL @ Christine's lame animations. This is good feedback, everyone - thank you! I'll do some experimenting based on the ideas you've shared."
- over 13 years ago01/06/11 at 5:35 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion New e-learning developers: what do they need to know?
"You could also give them a few helpful links to stuff on this site, and the blogs and such. This document is really good for beginners to..."
- over 13 years ago01/06/11 at 5:26 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Menu navigation (sidebar) vs. Slide Only - your thoughts?
"I'm with Arthur - I like slide view a lot too. Often I tend to use slide view and make my own navigation buttons instead of relying on th..."
- over 13 years ago01/06/11 at 5:24 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Rule of thumb about how many quizzes to have?
"You might try asking a handful of your learners what they think. Maybe having lots of quizzes mid-way through is helpful, or maybe it's a..."
- over 13 years ago01/06/11 at 5:18 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Interviewing SMEs
"In our organization, we involve the SMEs on the front end. There is always a business reason that drives every e-learning project, so it'..."
- over 13 years ago01/05/11 at 6:37 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Need to begin adding interactivity - best way to start?
"When we first introduced e-learning in my organization, I started by taking a really cumbersome online PDF document (a reference doc that..."
- over 13 years ago01/05/11 at 2:38 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion My Slide Levels don't seem to be working right (?)
"Cool, that totally took care of it. Next time I'll assign all the levels before hiding anything."
- over 13 years ago12/28/10 at 6:49 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Attachments. Can I re-order them?
"Thanks for replying! I like the idea of using the FAQ interaction - in fact for this particular series of courses I'm building, I might j..."
- over 13 years ago12/28/10 at 2:53 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Can I disable the Next button
"Hi Babette,
If your slide properties are set to Auto Advance when the slide finishes playing, then one possibility is to use the "lock" ..."
- over 13 years ago12/28/10 at 2:37 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Web object question: can I use it to play a WMV?
"Yeah, you'll need to embed the WMV into an html page first. Then you can do either of two things;
Put it online and then paste the URL in..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 2:52 pm (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Can I use a picture or texture for my html background?
"Oh cool. I was able to edit the player.html and it worked!"
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 2:05 pm (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion How can I make my FLV stream better?
"Hi Cindy. Yeah, you could use a web object for the video but you'd still need special server software to stream it. I believe a plain we..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 11:22 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion How can I make my FLV stream better?
"You could stream the FLV content but that would require Flash streaming server software, which can cost a lot. Here are some alternative ..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 11:17 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion How do I avoid transparent pop-up feedback?
"Hey Babette- Quizmaker09 uses the same colors for the pop-ups as it does for the quiz frame. So if you change one, it automatically chang..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 7:54 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Web objects are blocking presenter panel flyout & toolbar tabs
"Alrighty, thanks for clarifying."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 6:58 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Question about Video Encoder's cropping feature
"Hi there Cindy,
It actually does both. Using the crop feature will reduce the size of the video frame, which in turn reduces the size of ..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 6:56 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Does anyone know how to change the movie thumbnail
"Yeah, if you republish your presentation, your files will be overwritten with new ones. What I'd do is just keep a copy of the new thumbn..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 5:46 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion How to use an aqp file
"Cool, thanks!!!"
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 5:26 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Hyperlink from an interaction to a file on server
"I found out Engage has a maximum character limit of 128 characters for hyperlinks. I talked to someone in support who showed me this arti..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 5:15 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion How to share player templates with other peeps on my team
"Yeah, you can do that. You need to find out where the template is stored on your computer. It depends on what operating system you're usi..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 5:05 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Does anyone know how to change the movie thumbnail
"Yeah, the thumbnail will show that placeholder image unless you use a workaround to replace it. Here's what you can do:
Open a new pres..."
- over 13 years ago12/27/10 at 5:04 am (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Sync video & animation timings?
"Probably the movie was set to play independently of your slide, which is why it's not playing for you when you go to sync animations. Try..."
- over 13 years ago12/22/10 at 2:08 pm (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion Sync video & animation timings?
"Hi! When you added your video to your slide, what synchronization option did you pick? There are two choices: you can sync your movie wit..."
- over 13 years ago12/22/10 at 2:03 pm (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion I want my movie to fade out. Possible?
"Oh and I forgot to mention one more thing. If you REALLY want it to feel like a single slide rather than two, then you will also want to ..."
- over 13 years ago12/22/10 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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Bob Lander replied to the discussion I want my movie to fade out. Possible?
"Here's what you can do to make it look like the video is no longer on the slide after it fades ... right after the slide that contains th..."
- over 13 years ago12/22/10 at 2:00 pm (UTC)