John Nixdorf
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion How to Convince Management to Upgrade Software?
"Studio to Storyline is pretty straightforward. True branching scenarios are only possible if you have the ability to manipulate variables..."
- almost 9 years ago06/22/15 at 6:20 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Best Practice Question: When to Auto Advance v.s. Click Next?
"Purely an opinion that I have no research to back up.
My view is that on a slide-by-slide basis, it's better to have the user do somethi..."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 9:24 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Does Instructional Design really need a new name?
"It means "supreme leader especially of the ancient Romans : commander, emperor"
Just a little levity. LX Design sounded a little pretent..."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 2:11 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Stock Image Sites
"clipart.com
Already mentioned, but for what you pay for the annual subscription, it offers a lot. Management and art director types hav..."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion End of eLearning material - confirmation to line manager
"Set up the course so they don't "pass" unless they answer "yes" to the "I read the material" question. Your LMS retains information about..."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 1:52 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Help with designing course
"Don't tell them any more than they actually need to know. Package the "nice to know" content into FAQs, "Click here for more" buttons tha..."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 1:48 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Does Instructional Design really need a new name?
"Imperator works."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 1:45 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Can someone point me to a tutorial?
"I put the quiz in front of the content. If the student passes the quiz, they don't have to go through the content. I put a button on the ..."
- almost 9 years ago06/17/15 at 1:41 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion How to check if all slides have been viewed?
"In the example above created one slide as follows:
Created a button called Marker
Created a variable called SlidesVisited with initi..."
- almost 9 years ago06/12/15 at 6:48 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion How to check if all slides have been viewed?
"Here's an example. I'll post some comments after I upload the file.
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- almost 9 years ago06/12/15 at 6:39 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion I need some ideas for tracking user presence during live courses...
"Have the course stop every so often and a "Continue" button appear that the user has to click to restart the course. You can have that bu..."
- almost 9 years ago06/10/15 at 3:07 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Lock Down Menu Bar
"This article discusses the Menu, including (about 2/3 of the way in) restricting or locking the menu:
https://community.articulate.com/s..."
- almost 9 years ago06/09/15 at 5:51 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Creating Hoverless Courses for Mobile Learning
"Is that really the hill you want to die on? If the company wants you to design without hover states, design without hover states."
- almost 9 years ago06/03/15 at 6:06 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Ideas for VERY dry content
"Just finished visiting Virpi's site, and tracking it through to a presentation she made about Yammer (http://businessgoessocial.net/spc14..."
- almost 9 years ago06/03/15 at 1:44 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Indicator to count how many times a quiz was taken?
"Set up a variable that increments when the results page appears, then embed the variable in a reference on the results page and/or wherev..."
- almost 9 years ago05/29/15 at 6:18 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Does storyboarding save or add time to the process?
"Depends on the complexity of the course.
Very old school here, but the real must have are objectives (what the participant is supposed t..."
- almost 9 years ago05/22/15 at 4:40 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Ideas for VERY dry content
"Do an informal needs assessment with whomever you're developing the course for:
Ask:
What can go wrong/where do people get this wrong..."
- almost 9 years ago05/20/15 at 4:41 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion So many tools, so little time
"You don't need to be a certified auto mechanic to drive a car, but it helps to be able to change a tire and check the fluids.
Similarly ..."
- 9 years ago05/18/15 at 6:52 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Advice on "Skipping Navigation or Help" instruction...
"I put a button on the opening slide that allows users to view a navigation page with all the explanation if they want it.
Otherwise they..."
- 9 years ago05/18/15 at 6:40 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion Creating a variable to track completion of a module
"The attached file doesn't seem to be available. But one thing you could do is put the "X" on the Visited state of the blue box. See the a..."
- 9 years ago05/18/15 at 6:35 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion What is your testing or QA process for e-learning?
"Since in some organizations there is an inviolable wall between course developers and LMS administrators (who very jealously guard secret..."
- 9 years ago05/15/15 at 4:40 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion restrict navigation with markers
"Combined Steve's post into the attached sampler."
- 9 years ago05/12/15 at 2:46 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion How to screen capture a 2 page word document?
"Capture the two pages as jpgs. Combine the jpgs in Photoshop or similar bitmap editing program.
Or make the document a file the particip..."
- 9 years ago05/12/15 at 1:34 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion restrict navigation with markers
"Awesome Steve, thanks. We'll use this a lot."
- 9 years ago05/11/15 at 9:45 pm (UTC)
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John Nixdorf replied to the discussion What is your testing or QA process for e-learning?
"Some 30 years ago I saw this taped to a phototypesetter (anyone remember those?). It probably goes back to scriptorium days:
Ever Have A..."
- 9 years ago05/11/15 at 9:14 pm (UTC)