James Brown
James Brown
College Prof. at Windy City U
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James Brown replied to the discussion Hyperlinked slides in Presenter
"Let's talk about action buttons. In Power Point there is a thing called Action Buttons found under "shapes". You will simply use them n h..."
  • over 12 years ago01/31/12 at 8:16 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Loading image for Articulate
"Odd -- I normally see a small preloader bar when I view Articulate presentations. Idea..Instead of a preloader, why don't you create a sl..."
  • over 12 years ago01/31/12 at 7:27 am (UTC)
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"Isa here is the issue with Quiz Maker. It's looking for a specific value for the answer. To achieve what you want you must rephrase the q..."
  • over 12 years ago01/31/12 at 7:22 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Pop-up label on mouse hover
"Janette hit it on the head.  Articulate uses Flash which has an thing called buttons. Based on Jeanette's post there appears to be an Art..."
  • over 12 years ago01/30/12 at 7:03 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Black as a background
"Black is a good solution on a computer screen but when you design always try and think where and how the slides will be displayed. If you..."
  • over 12 years ago01/30/12 at 6:51 am (UTC)
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"If this were flash you would be able to store the numbers into an Array and then use a graph function in Action Script 3 to make your gra..."
  • over 12 years ago01/27/12 at 9:20 am (UTC)
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"Make sure all of your documents and files are closed that you are using in your project. Typically you would see an i/0 32 error but it's..."
  • over 12 years ago01/27/12 at 9:15 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Training Room Design
"It really depends on the type of training materials you are trying to present. My question is do you actually need a traditional classroo..."
  • over 12 years ago01/27/12 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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"A friend of mine actually recommended another one called Box He mentioned that it had more storage space than Dropbox and it also has a f..."
  • over 12 years ago12/06/11 at 6:44 am (UTC)
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"Just noticed a post by  Phil. He mentions Quiz Maker does not output a FLA file so my solution will not work."
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 9:16 pm (UTC)
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"Basically you need flash because you need to change the FLA file created by Articulate so that you can store a value. Then you need to cr..."
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 9:14 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Options for workbooks
"I think there may be some misunderstanding of the term workbook. There is an Excel (XLSX) workbook but then there is a "Lesson Plan" work..."
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 6:48 am (UTC)
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"Yep... I was correct. Here is the link http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/4758/25944.aspx#25944"
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 6:38 am (UTC)
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"If I'm not mistaken, history is repeating itself. This effect is done with Java Script. http://www.catchmyfame.com/2009/06/25/jquery-befo..."
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 6:36 am (UTC)
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"Word Press would be a good place to build your portfolio."
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 6:21 am (UTC)
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"Flash cannot write to a text file so the only way to obtain a grand total would be to keep tack of each score result and push that onto a..."
  • over 12 years ago11/23/11 at 6:20 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Options for workbooks
"Just to clarify what Joe said, Google Forms are tied directly to a Google Spreadsheet which would store your quiz scores and these sheets..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Sharp/Crisp Screen Captures
"If you are going to use MS Paint, I would suggest you switch to GIMP. It's a lot better than MS Paint, and it actually is a step up from ..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 1:02 pm (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Options for workbooks
"Use a course management software such as Moodle or Blackboard. Your workbook is done with Articulate and the quizes are handled by the LM..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 12:25 pm (UTC)
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"I believe the above script will also work in AS2. There were some changes from AS2 to AS3 but I believe the If then else is the same."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 10:07 am (UTC)
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"Great points David.. With e-learning bandwidth could pose an issue."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 10:06 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Sharp/Crisp Screen Captures
"Use Snag-it to capture the images but then edit them with a real graphics editor such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Fireworks. The other ..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 8:32 am (UTC)
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"Q. Doesn't Articulate create a FLA file?  If they are open them in Flash CS3, create an array in the Action Script  to store the values. ..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 8:26 am (UTC)
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"Q. Do you have Flash CS3 or higher?  If you do you could simply change the flash file created by Articulate so that the action script wou..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 8:21 am (UTC)
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James Brown replied to the discussion Options for workbooks
"You know why don't you use an online office suite such as Google Docs where you could create a document, share with students and then the..."
  • over 12 years ago11/22/11 at 7:56 am (UTC)