Diane Elkins
Diane Elkins
President at Artisan E-Learning
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    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 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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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion resources
"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)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Tiggers and Poses
"You can do that with the Change State trigger.  You can either use one of the pre-set emotions in the triggers wizard, or create your own..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/10/12 at 10:59 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Quick Access Toolbar
"The answer is: Sort of.  You can add some tools, but not others.  Right-click a tool on one of the ribbons, and you might see an option t..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/05/12 at 8:45 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Limited Scene Number?
"I'm not aware of any specific limit.  As a test, I just added a bunch of scenes to a project I'm working on, and went up to 20.  So I'm g..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/04/12 at 2:36 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion "White Template" Box has moved in Slide View
"Are you working over a network?  I just experienced this in a Storyline class I was teaching.  One of the students couldn't bring a lapto..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/03/12 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Font question
"I did a little testing.   As Phil said, the student does not need to have the font installed.  This is true both in the .swf published ve..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/03/12 at 6:49 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Question about an ungraded drag-and-drop activity
"Thanks, Nancy, that works!  I hadn't thought about setting it up as a question with "faked" correct pairings and then just not letting th..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/02/12 at 6:21 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins started a new discussion Question about an ungraded drag-and-drop activity
"Question:  Is there a way to make an item draggable without having an action associated with the drag/drop? Context: I'm creating a drag ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/02/12 at 2:18 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion White Scrren with a grey exclamation mark
"I have been having this same issue intermittently while previewing a non-screen capture course.  So while I can't tell you what's causing..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/28/12 at 5:21 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Do you need Quizmaker to import Quizmaker?
"Thanks, Dave!"
  • almost 12 years ago06/26/12 at 5:38 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins started a new discussion Do you need Quizmaker to import Quizmaker?
"If someone has a .quiz file that they want to import into Storyline, but they don't have Quizmaker installed on their computer, can they ..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/26/12 at 4:22 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Drag and Drop Interaction with Scoring and Branching
"If you want immediate feedback, meaning that the branching happens as soon as the item is dropped (as opposed to waiting unil a submit bu..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/25/12 at 10:59 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Drag and Drop
"Right-click the drop target, select Drag and Drop, and select Free, Stack, etc."
  • almost 12 years ago06/25/12 at 10:50 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Collecting results
"Here's a screenr from Tom Kuhlmann about how to use Google docs to track completion. https://player.vimeo.com/video/204869861"
  • almost 12 years ago06/11/12 at 5:37 am (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Displaying a Variable
"Go to the Insert tab, click Reference, and then select the one you want.  Or if you prefer to type it, type %variablename%"
  • almost 12 years ago06/08/12 at 1:53 pm (UTC)
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Diane Elkins replied to the discussion Review Quiz showing "incorrect" even when answered correctly
"Update:  Turned out it was a simple problem. Question slides were set to "Reset to Initial State."  That means they reset during the revi..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/05/12 at 7:39 am (UTC)