Joseph Francis
Joseph Francis
Senior Technology Consultant - Learning & Development at Church Mutual Insurance
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    Joseph Francis

    Innovative, award-winning eLearning developer...beta tester for eLearning software vendors for 2 decades...listed in the last 3 versions of Macromedia Authorware’s “Special Thanks To” sections...ADDIE/SAVVY/iterative design; rapid prototyping; eLearning design, development, and integration.
  • Milwaukee, WI
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Trigger-Bug in Storyline
"Absolutely zilch. Are you certain you sent it to the correct email address?"
  • over 3 years ago12/04/20 at 3:14 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Trigger-Bug in Storyline
"Leslie, To date, I have not received anything from you or Jose. I created and submitted an example file on October 29, but I do not see a..."
  • over 3 years ago12/04/20 at 2:48 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Trigger-Bug in Storyline
"Has there been any progress on this issue?"
  • over 3 years ago12/02/20 at 7:35 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Course Completion not getting sent to LMS for "random" students
"Ah, an intermittent, untrappable, undocumented feature...otherwise known as "a bug." My fav 🙄 In my own experience, I almost never u..."
  • over 3 years ago12/01/20 at 9:29 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion SCORM Time Recording
"This article on eLearning Heroes is a good place to start: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/help-with-ja..."
  • over 3 years ago12/01/20 at 8:43 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion SCORM Time Recording
"In Storyline, you can use the LMS API Javascript function GetPreviouslyAccumulatedTime(). It calls to the SCORM data model element c..."
  • over 3 years ago12/01/20 at 8:34 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Course Completion not getting sent to LMS for "random" students
"When you say "nine modules," do you mean: 9 individual modules, contained within a curriculum on the LMS, which are launched one-at-a-ti..."
  • over 3 years ago12/01/20 at 8:17 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Course Completion not getting sent to LMS for "random" students
"What is the length of the course? Some LMS' had the somewhat-annoying habit of timing out after a certain length of time (I recall P..."
  • over 3 years ago12/01/20 at 7:41 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Why Default Story Size of 4:3?
"What would be useful would be to allow me to set global settings which are retained for each new project. The Storyline 360 "launch page"..."
  • over 3 years ago11/25/20 at 2:25 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Try Again, won't restart attempts?
"Which built-in Graded or Freeform Question type are you using?"
  • over 3 years ago11/25/20 at 2:06 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Array Variable Type?
"You solution still requires "stepping out" of the Storyline variable environment into the Javascript environment (and doing some serious ..."
  • over 3 years ago11/20/20 at 1:44 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Looking for interaction ideas
"A few ideas come to mind. Light and blow out the candles on the Advent wreath (layer toggle based on click) Select from several wrapping..."
  • over 3 years ago11/19/20 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Software simulation with help hidden or showing
"If you set a Boolean variable (for this example, I'm calling it bolDisplayHelp) at the beginning of the course ("Would you like help to b..."
  • over 3 years ago11/18/20 at 10:28 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Oracle Learning Cloud Overview "Content restricted to members."
"That looks like something the new LMS is generating, since, as you indicate, it's happening when you attempt to enroll in the course..."
  • over 3 years ago11/17/20 at 5:13 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Getting the browser to automatically close when the lesson ends
"On the last slide, add an "Execute Javascript" trigger. Change the "When" to "When the timeline ends on this slide." In the Javascr..."
  • over 3 years ago11/17/20 at 2:37 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion I need to extract the .story file from our published courses for editing.
"Sure do! https://rusticisoftware.com/products/scorm-cloud/ It's a great resource to test your courses against, especially in situations l..."
  • over 3 years ago11/12/20 at 8:34 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion I need to extract the .story file from our published courses for editing.
"Have you tried uploading the ZIPped file to SCORM Cloud and testing it there? What do you see/not see?"
  • over 3 years ago11/12/20 at 7:51 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Storyline 360 - Change font color as slide plays
"One way that comes to mind would be to set 2 States for each block of text, a grey (Normal) state and a black (Black) state. On the timel..."
  • over 3 years ago11/12/20 at 7:21 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion I need to extract the .story file from our published courses for editing.
"A LONG time ago, I had a tool which could "unbake" a SWF back to an .FLA, but after Macromedia made fundamental changes to the codebase a..."
  • over 3 years ago11/12/20 at 4:00 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis started a new discussion Array Variable Type?
"Has there been any serious consideration given to adding "Array" as a variable-type to the existing Boolean, Text, and Num..."
  • over 3 years ago11/11/20 at 5:16 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Course not completing
"Depending on the LMS, you could be running into a timeout issue. What LMs are you using? Would it be possible to break the course up into..."
  • over 3 years ago11/10/20 at 3:16 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Broken SCORM....?
"Anything less than a 100%, public certification of support for SCORM 2004 is enough reason for me to stick to a legacy protocol, be it SC..."
  • over 3 years ago11/06/20 at 4:56 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Broken SCORM....?
"Hey Sarah, My experience with LMS' (Docent, Saba, D2L, Pathlore, Learn.com, VenU, and SumTotal) has been once a communications protocol i..."
  • over 3 years ago11/05/20 at 10:29 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion Broken SCORM....?
"My experiences with LMS' is, once you have selected a communications protocol for your course (be it AICC, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or xAPI..."
  • over 3 years ago11/04/20 at 2:06 pm (UTC)
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Joseph Francis replied to the discussion The content has ended. You may close the window - HTML code to add a close button
"I bypassed this by including code to close the browser window directly In Storyline. On the last slide, add an "Execute Javascript" trigg..."
  • over 3 years ago10/29/20 at 1:48 pm (UTC)