Holly MacDonald
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Creator of Instructional Products - specializing in building products for customer, member or professional audience. at Spark + Co.
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    Holly MacDonald Hero

    20+ years in the learning biz, independent consultant. I work on projects for employee training and customer training, and often bring a team of experts to the table.
  • British Columbia, Canada
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Is there a way to compile printed slides into one document?
"I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how we might be able to style a slide with text entry boxes, and have the option to eithe..."
  • 12 months ago04/26/23 at 8:39 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Help with adding tracking code to courses hosted on website
"I have a project where we host the modules on a web server (uploaded to cpanel) and the learner accesses them from a different front end...."
  • over 1 year ago12/06/22 at 1:28 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Play old flash version?
"Hi - I have a new client who has an old course published on a dormant LMS that we are going to reboot. The client is trying to track down..."
  • over 2 years ago10/21/21 at 3:36 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Hide forward/back buttons in quiz review
"Is there anyone who has been able to get around this: https://articulate.com/support/article/prev-and-next-buttons-show-during-quiz-..."
  • 3 years ago03/25/21 at 10:32 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Litmos and Storyline - course player
"I'm working with Litmos as an LMS and they have a built-in Content Player. Our users are often confused about the competing navigation. I..."
  • 3 years ago01/27/21 at 4:11 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Story Size - multiple screen recording sizes
"I have a project where we are showing the connection of systems from one device to the next, and have screen recordings from a phone (usi..."
  • 4 years ago03/04/20 at 6:39 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Transparent shapes not transparent in dark mode
"Hi there - I have a course that is using transparent shapes instead of hotspots so that I can create a state change when they are clicked..."
  • over 4 years ago12/10/19 at 3:09 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Display interactive slides later in course
"Hi - I have a project with 4 interactions: drag/drop, text entry, likert scale survey and radio buttons. I'd like to be able to capture t..."
  • almost 5 years ago06/21/19 at 4:21 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Looking for an example
"Hi everyone - I recall seeing an example using video in a choose your own adventure type of course and I think it was for social workers ..."
  • almost 5 years ago06/05/19 at 9:55 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Vancouver User Group - November meet up
"Hi Vancouver/Lower Mainland Area users We have identified two possible upcoming dates to meet up at the UBC downtown location: Thursday ..."
  • over 5 years ago10/04/18 at 2:07 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Designing for RISE - what are your best tips?
"Hi all - I have someone working with me who is new to RISE and I'm wondering how others approach design when using the tool. What's been ..."
  • over 5 years ago08/09/18 at 2:48 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion numeric entry resets in quiz
"Hi - I'm building a quiz and when I tested the functionality, all the values I entered in the quiz as correct are mixed up. I created a f..."
  • almost 6 years ago07/06/18 at 10:44 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Vancouver User Group - March 29th 2017 - POSTPONED
"We decided to start a new thread for each meeting, as this one is getting a bit unwieldy. We will meet at the UBC Robson location again, ..."
  • 7 years ago01/27/17 at 12:39 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Previous button and screen recordings - bug?
"My client is reviewing a module that has 3 sections: demo, try and test mode of screen recordings. In order to facilitate content review,..."
  • over 7 years ago12/22/16 at 7:33 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Looking for options to variable tied to state change
"I have a project where we had a number of elements launching from one slide that we wanted to ensure the learner viewed. The whole course..."
  • over 7 years ago12/06/16 at 3:29 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Trouble with Variables and state changes when using prev button
"I have a set of modules where the next button is disabled when the timeline starts and clicking on all of the buttons changes the state o..."
  • over 7 years ago10/26/16 at 5:15 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion What do you call this effect?
"I saw this video and wondering what the effect is called. https://www.facebook.com/sungazing1/videos/vb.136336876521150/854416458046518/?..."
  • over 7 years ago08/05/16 at 6:27 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Using CTRL+X/CTRL+V to jump to a new slide - not working
"Any suggestions for why this won't work? I've got one slide with CTRL+X and one with CTRL+V to do the same thing, but neither works. No o..."
  • almost 8 years ago04/20/16 at 4:13 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Toronto meet up - Oct 22nd
"Hey Toronto - I'm going to be a-visiting on this Thursday (October 22nd). I've arranged to meet a couple of people at the location below,..."
  • over 8 years ago10/19/15 at 2:34 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Looking for recommendations for French translation services (Canada)
"Hi all - just like the title says - looking for reco's for French translation services for both voice over and on-screen modules for nati..."
  • over 8 years ago09/18/15 at 6:35 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion two scores being sent to LMS (TinCan)
"Hi, here's what I received from the LMS  about a course that is not recording a score correctly: "... is with the scores that are being ..."
  • over 8 years ago08/25/15 at 7:05 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Javascript error & LMS
"Hi everyone I have a client who's courses are experiencing problems with the course completing in their LMS only via iPad. It works on d..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/15/15 at 2:06 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Vancouver Island/Victoria User Group
"I had also coordinated our Vancouver Island group (I live half way in between). These were the topics that came up: Tech related: Aud..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/07/15 at 8:48 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Vancouver User Group
"We've had a couple of meetings and I'm the keeper of the emails and lists, but would rather use a collaborative space. If you want to be ..."
  • almost 9 years ago05/07/15 at 4:50 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Course doesn't work reliably on iPad
"Hi - I have a very straight-forward course that performs erratically on an iPad. We are not using the player, as the client is using an L..."
  • 9 years ago04/13/15 at 8:05 pm (UTC)