Diane Elkins
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Artisan E-Learning
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About
Diane Elkins
Custom e-learning development, specializing in rapid development tools: Articulate Storyline and Studio, Captivate, and Lectora. Author of the E-Learning Uncovered book series, including books on Storyline and Studio. -
Fairfax, VA
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Practice files available for download
"I've been asked how these files can be used, and the answer is: however you want. We created all the content and all the media ourselves..."
- almost 12 years ago07/21/12 at 7:59 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Seekbar in the Test Section
"You can select more than one slide at once in Story view and then turn the seekbar off in the Slide Properties panel. The trick is that ..."
- almost 12 years ago07/19/12 at 11:20 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Looking for Section 508 consultants, with Storyline experience.
"Ahhh! I had forgotten about that! That was fun!"
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 2:18 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Looking for Section 508 consultants, with Storyline experience.
"Artisan E-Learning would be happy to help as well.
To get you started, here's a comparison of the accessibility features of major autho..."
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Having trouble with drag and drop
"Not sure what's causing the problem, but one workaround is to use a hotspot as the drop target. A hotspot can be whatever shape you want..."
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 8:32 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Zoom Picture causing image to get fuzzier
"I thought of that, too. I tried removing the animations and the rotation, but that didn't work. Maybe you'll try something I didn't thi..."
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 7:55 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Zoom Picture causing image to get fuzzier
"Thanks for looking into it. At least I know it isn't me!! I'll see if I can put the image on a slide in a new story that isn't causing ..."
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 7:33 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Feedback on Beta and notes for design team
"You can put notes in text boxes and place them off the slide -- in the gray area around the slide. That way they won't show up in the pu..."
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 7:31 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Click Interaction
"If you go to the layer properties for each layer (the gear icon on the right side of the layer in the layers panel), uncheck the Hide Oth..."
- almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 7:30 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Storyline vs. PowerPoint?
"Storyline and PowerPoint are different products for different purposes. If you are looking for sit-back-and-watch presentations or instr..."
- almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 1:19 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Zoom Picture causing image to get fuzzier
"Thanks for taking a look at it!
You are correct: it looks fine when magnified, but the regular image is blurry. Both images shown above..."
- almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 1:10 pm (UTC)
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"Home tab > Arrange menu > Align sub-menu > Grid Settings > Snap objects to grid."
- almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 11:50 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Select character at start (by using vaiable)
"Yes!
Create a variable to store the student's choice (Ex: Avatar)
Create a selection screen with the student's options. When the stud..."
- almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 9:07 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Navigation Menu link not returning user to main navigation page
"It might help if you could tell us a little bit more about your course structure. For example, in your course, what is the main navigati..."
- almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 5:23 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Size matters: Have I reached the limit?
"I got that same error messge with my big file. I republished and it was fine."
- almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Size matters: Have I reached the limit?
"Mine was about 180 slides, all with audio and a handful with video. The .story size was about 350 MB."
- almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 10:54 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Size matters: Have I reached the limit?
"I had a similar problem with a course that had a lot of video and was therefore very large. I found that it was intermittent, so I just ..."
- almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 10:31 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion A little overwhelmed
"If it helps, I just posted some sample files you can use to build your own course. That might help focus your experimentation. There ar..."
- almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 10:23 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion using the tab key to navigate
"Tab navigation on a new slide starts with the top-left object on the slide, moving from top to bottom (and left to right when more than o..."
- almost 12 years ago07/14/12 at 10:59 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Inserting a PPT -- Dimesions
"In PPT 2007 or 2010, go to the Design tab and click Page Setup. That lets you set the size of the PPT slide. Just realize that if your ..."
- almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:49 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Inserting a PPT -- Dimesions
"The images definitely would look stretched as your Storyline dimensions are 200 pixels wider than your PowerPoint dimensions. Where is t..."
- almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 6:19 am (UTC)
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"I'm not sure, but this may be a security setting. I recently included hyperlinks to Word documents in a course. I was able to open them..."
- almost 12 years ago07/11/12 at 12:02 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Looking for a Storyline sample/demo
"The community showcase has a number of examples, and I believe all of the Storyline examples have been optimized to work on the iPad. Us..."
- almost 12 years ago07/11/12 at 11:52 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Dialogue box functionality and dimming background.
"For #1, add a button to the layer and then select an X icon from the list of icons on the left side of the button format tab. Assign tha..."
- almost 12 years ago07/11/12 at 10:33 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion What would you do?
"Very rough estimate: 50 to 70 hours assuming you were doing everything from writing content to finding graphics to recording audio. 100..."
- almost 12 years ago07/11/12 at 10:28 am (UTC)