John Nixdorf
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Naperville, IL
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Recording Narration
"We try to avoid narration entirely. Adds too much overhead (time) to the project development.
IF we have narration, we do it ourselves.
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- over 8 years ago01/22/16 at 8:24 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion How Do You Encourage Course Feedback?
"Don't award credit for completing the course until the student completes a feedback survey.
There are a lot of reasons why this might no..."
- over 8 years ago01/22/16 at 8:20 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Are You Interested in Local Articulate User Groups?
"Chicago -- Definitely
Also, any interest in a virtual users group using Lync or some other online meeting service
John Nixdorf
Instruc..."
- over 8 years ago12/08/15 at 4:18 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Why are the frame margins not publishing correctly?
"Doh,
That'll be something to look out for in the future. Thanks for taking the time to figure this out."
- over 8 years ago10/05/15 at 8:32 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion System Variables
"It's been a long time (2008, which admittedly is an eternity in e-learning development tool years) since I worked daily with Captivate. M..."
- over 8 years ago10/02/15 at 2:27 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion System Variables
"If there were some way to access the variable that keeps track of the slide number it would be invaluable."
- over 8 years ago10/01/15 at 2:59 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion SWF not working correctly when imported into Storyline
"Thanks for the reply. Upping the frame rate to 30 fps didn't help.
It also doesn't explain why:
*The dozen or so other legacy swfs with..."
- over 8 years ago09/22/15 at 6:55 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Intermittantly non-functioning hot zones
"Thanks, I was very careful to make sure that nothing was on top of any hot spot at a time it was supposed to be active.
It worked correc..."
- over 8 years ago09/21/15 at 12:34 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Intermittent/Incorrectly functioning hot zones
"Thanks,
I tried it in Chrome before posting the request, and it didn't work correctly there either which doesn't make any difference bec..."
- over 8 years ago09/17/15 at 7:56 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Intermittent/Incorrectly functioning hot zones
"Hi Ashley. Our corporate requirement is IE11, so I've tested it on IE11. I also use SCORM Cloud, and have tested it there.
What you've r..."
- over 8 years ago09/17/15 at 3:27 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion E-learning: If I’d known then what I know now…
"If I knew then what I know now, I think I would have been an electrician."
- over 8 years ago08/20/15 at 7:47 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion System Variables
"Agree with Eric. How are we supposed to use variables we don't know what they are?"
- over 8 years ago08/20/15 at 1:20 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion System Variables
"Thanks Eric. Could you expand on your reply with an example?"
- over 8 years ago08/19/15 at 1:10 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Master Page Changes Not Replicating to Slides Based On Master Page
"Judging by the reaction from Storyline staff (no response) I'm theorizing this is a known bug with no known fix. We'll have to wait for S..."
- over 8 years ago08/17/15 at 2:45 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Life changing Question of the Year 2015
"Carnival barker? Time share condo sales rep? Chicken sex inspector?
Bob S's thoughts are pretty much on target. Learn to verify what the..."
- almost 9 years ago07/21/15 at 6:17 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Drawing a random number
"Like Alexandros mentioned above, you can use javascript to generate a random number. An application of this is shown in the attached Stor..."
- almost 9 years ago07/21/15 at 3:09 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion SMEs vs Training Designers Developing E-Learning: Pros & Cons
"You can be a subject matter expert, or an instructional designer, but not both. If you try to be both you will be neither. There's no way..."
- almost 9 years ago07/16/15 at 10:00 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Tweet much? Share how and why you're using Twitter.
"Use it to keep track of columnists I follow, and ideas.
Don't use it for training because spending all day on it is enough."
- almost 9 years ago07/16/15 at 9:55 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion E-Learning Glossary: What Terms Are Missing?
"Define the tools: Lectora, Storyline, Presenter, Quizmaker, Authorware, Engage, Captivate, Snag-it, Camtasia"
- almost 9 years ago06/29/15 at 4:50 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion E-Learning Glossary: What Terms Are Missing?
"States: The appearance of an object under defined conditions. Normal, visited, hidden, down, visited."
- almost 9 years ago06/29/15 at 4:48 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Javascript: Have you used it with Storyline & what for?
"Something seems to be wrong with the link"
- almost 9 years ago06/29/15 at 4:44 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion My first interview for an Instructional Designer role
"I'm a terrible interview so probably have no business opining. However:
1. Know something about someone's theory of "instructional desig..."
- almost 9 years ago06/24/15 at 3:27 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Javascript: Have you used it with Storyline & what for?
"A little late to the party. For a variety of reasons I had the time in the last week to do some experimentation and came up with the atta..."
- almost 9 years ago06/23/15 at 2:46 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Javascript control of States and/or layers?
"Matt: That's essentially what I did with the attached example. What I see as the problem is that a trigger can perform one operation at ..."
- almost 9 years ago06/23/15 at 2:37 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Are You Interested in Local Articulate User Groups?
"How about a virtual user group that meets by online meeting? I'm located in what can be called "Chicagoland" area, and nowhere is really ..."
- almost 9 years ago06/22/15 at 6:22 pm (UTC)