Jon DeMartino
Jon DeMartino
Writer, Consultant, e-training course development at State Hygienic (public health) Laboratory, Iowa
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    Jon DeMartino

    Lab technician for many years; Fiction writer; Now I combine writing with my laboratory background to create instructional training for laboratory personnel working in a variety of areas. I've also created a few e-learning presentations, that relate to science and public health, for school-age ch...
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Files submitted to client
"When you send files to a client to fulfill a contract for an e-course, do you send just the folder of published files (whether for web, L..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/22/12 at 2:47 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Too many reviewers!
"How do the rest of you handle the review and edit process? Providing e-learning for a large organization can lead to reviews and edits by..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/15/12 at 9:21 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion PowerPoint freezing up
"I hope my annoyance doesn;t come through because I really do appreciate all the help I get from the staff and others here. BUT..I have t..."
  • 12 years ago04/29/12 at 9:47 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion 508 compliance...surprise!
"I am just about finished with four course, one narrated, three not, for the same client. I asked at the onset if they needed to be 508 co..."
  • 12 years ago03/27/12 at 1:53 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Frozen assets- Articulate & PowrePoint
"Major problem! Powerpoint is now freezing evey time I try to use Articulate. I have four courses due and was doing the final tweak to a q..."
  • 12 years ago03/23/12 at 9:52 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Tabbed options
"I am creating a text-heavy course with no narration. I want to pull the background/history out of the body of the presentation and put it..."
  • 12 years ago03/22/12 at 9:34 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion width of side menu
"Is there any way to decrease the width of the left menu in relation to the main screen? My client wants it there but not so wide in relat..."
  • 12 years ago03/20/12 at 2:38 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion audio editor-deleting a sound
"I've got a noise at the beginning of a slide that I want to delete with the audio editor. I can't seem to grab the area I want to remove...."
  • 12 years ago03/10/12 at 7:56 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Audio level varies
"Some of my slides are louder than others, although I thought I was speaking at the same level for all. Is there a way to set the sound le..."
  • 12 years ago03/09/12 at 8:59 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Slide numbering
"In Presenter, can I add just the slide count, i.e., 6/45, 7/45, etc. without the seek bar and sliding time-tracker?"
  • 12 years ago03/01/12 at 6:24 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Go back mid-quiz
"In Quizmaker, is it possible to set it up so that a person can see a question and if they aren't sure of the answer, leave the quiz to re..."
  • 12 years ago02/29/12 at 9:51 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion The Case of the Disappearing Cursor
"This has been happening to me more and more often lately. I save my presentaion, select "Record Narration" and everything looks fine. The..."
  • 12 years ago02/23/12 at 11:31 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Change View Mode
"NEVER MIND! I found what I needed."
  • 12 years ago02/16/12 at 8:47 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Packaging problem
"When I try to create an Articulate Package from my presentation, the progress bar appears and it looks like the package is being created...."
  • 12 years ago02/07/12 at 8:30 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion games using flash
"A client is interested in "games" related to learning. I see that http://elearningtemplates.com/elearning-games/ has game templates for s..."
  • 12 years ago02/07/12 at 8:26 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion custom text tab
"I see a new tab in my presentation, "Custom text" is on the framework. How do I get rid of that? I checked my template and when I have th..."
  • over 12 years ago01/30/12 at 12:43 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Interaction ID
"(I thought I posted this question earlier today and if so, I apologize for the duplicate posting...I don't see it anywhere so maybe I jus..."
  • over 12 years ago01/23/12 at 3:40 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Powerpoint question
"I was given a PPT presentation for a course. When I open the outline view, all the text on the slide appears instead of just the title. I..."
  • over 12 years ago01/04/12 at 8:24 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion word game timing problem
"I made a word game but can't make the time allowed stay put. The default is 60 seconds. I changed it to 30 and, after several times of re..."
  • over 12 years ago11/10/11 at 6:08 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion speech balloons changing color in Presenter
"I'm working with a presentation someone created in PPT 2010, and which includes speech balloons selected from the PPT shapes menu. Text i..."
  • over 12 years ago11/05/11 at 7:39 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion published file zip folder is huge!
"I have two similar PPT presentations. One has 57 slides and is 69,000 kb in size. Published and zipped, the folder is 16,400 kb. The sec..."
  • over 12 years ago10/28/11 at 6:41 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Adding to a glossary-new glossary
"I have a series of courses in which I want to use the glossary feature in Engage to create a dictionary of the terms in the course and lo..."
  • over 12 years ago09/28/11 at 2:46 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Changing file name or not
"I noticed Brian asked on another post if someone had changed the file name somewherre along the line. It started me thinking about that. ..."
  • over 12 years ago09/27/11 at 1:31 pm (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion Presenter cannot initiate publish dialog
"I just tried to publish in Presenter and got this message: ERROR Could not initialize Articulate Presenter Publish Dialog. I tried openi..."
  • over 12 years ago09/15/11 at 8:36 am (UTC)
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Jon DeMartino started a new discussion shadow beneath figure
"In the screenshot below, you see the feet of my character hovering above the floor. How can I make a shadow or halo beneath her feet so i..."
  • over 12 years ago09/14/11 at 11:52 am (UTC)