Melanie Sobie
Melanie Sobie
eLearning Specialist at Wisconsin Department of Administration
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Aspect Ratio
"Hi Peter. I’ve always used 4:3 because my users standard monitor size was a similar aspect ratio. I plan to begin using 16:9 if/when most..."
  • 5 years ago03/27/19 at 2:32 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Conditional built-in Next button (in 2019)
"You can also make the Next button only work after the user has interacted with something on your slide like a shape, image, or button, th..."
  • 5 years ago03/27/19 at 1:52 am (UTC)
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"Hi Nicole, There is a back end setting in Cornerstone that causes that information to appear on the left side of the screen. You can sub..."
  • 5 years ago03/15/19 at 2:09 am (UTC)
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"Yes, you can use layers. An example trigger might be “play media (audio) when timeline begins on this layer”. "
  • 5 years ago03/15/19 at 1:57 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Keeping Track of Courses
"Good question! I’m looking into tracking similar information so we can have a record of the publish settings and content dates all in one..."
  • 5 years ago03/13/19 at 6:31 pm (UTC)
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"Great tip! "
  • 5 years ago03/08/19 at 6:23 pm (UTC)
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"Would it help to use a picture placeholder?  https://articulate.com/support/article/use-object-placeholders-for-consistent-size-position..."
  • 5 years ago03/03/19 at 1:52 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Default Folder to Publish To
"I have for years saved my story file to C:\Projects and publish to C:\Publish. Just create each of these folders on your C:drive. And of ..."
  • 5 years ago03/01/19 at 2:06 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion States on icon imports in SL360
"Another method is to insert a shape on your slide. Edit to make the fill color 100% transparent, and no outline. Then edit the state of t..."
  • 5 years ago03/01/19 at 12:31 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Triggers on Slide Master
"Thanks! I needed to be sure before I continued working on a course that will have numerous triggers on the master. "
  • 5 years ago02/27/19 at 6:07 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Export to Powerpoint from Storyline
"Just thought I’d share this tip I learned yesterday. When developing an elearning course that will be paired with a classroom training, f..."
  • 5 years ago02/27/19 at 5:37 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Review 360 & Chrome issue?
"My co-worker and I are both seeing an "offline" message in Review right now. "
  • 5 years ago02/19/19 at 3:11 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion NEW IN STORYLINE 360: Media Library
"I sure wish icons were included! "
  • 5 years ago02/16/19 at 1:40 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Changing states of groups
"Hi Eitan, This article includes is a way to deal with groups and add a state.  https://elearninguncovered.com/2016/05/articulate-storyl..."
  • 5 years ago02/12/19 at 9:06 pm (UTC)
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"Another way to get around this issue is to not use the trigger to set the next button to disabled when the timeline begins. If you have s..."
  • 5 years ago02/12/19 at 8:58 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion SL360 Local Web Object - Chrome Issue
"Thanks. The button "mailto" does work in Storyline when we use Internet Explorer. "
  • 5 years ago02/05/19 at 9:42 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion SL360 Local Web Object - Chrome Issue
"Hi Crystal. I have a feeling this is just a situation where Adobe Acrobat pdfs don't play nice with Chrome. I'm not using the Storyline ..."
  • 5 years ago02/05/19 at 7:47 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion SL360 Local Web Object - Chrome Issue
"Thanks Ashley for the tips!  I normally have my player set to fill the browser. I changed it to lock at optimal size and the navigation w..."
  • 5 years ago02/05/19 at 4:32 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion A couple of ways to use progress meters
"Thanks for sharing this. I like the creative ways you used progress meters. And I chuckled about the wombat poop factoid. I'm in the US a..."
  • over 5 years ago11/28/18 at 9:40 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion High-Context Storyline Course Example
"Ray, thank you so much for sharing this course. I can tell you put a lot of work into it. This is a good example of eLearning that was "d..."
  • over 5 years ago11/28/18 at 6:23 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Where to store projects?
"https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/share-e-learning-courses-amazon-s3/"
  • over 5 years ago10/24/18 at 1:20 am (UTC)
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"Great tip!"
  • over 5 years ago10/04/18 at 12:19 am (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Copying Layers to another slide
"You can't copy a slide and paste it as a layer on another slide. However, you can select all objects on the slide timeline ad copy those ..."
  • over 5 years ago10/03/18 at 11:38 pm (UTC)
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Melanie Sobie replied to the discussion Spelling and Grammar eLearning help?
"https://www.englishgrammar.org  "
  • over 5 years ago07/28/18 at 5:58 pm (UTC)
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"I prefer the drag and drop items to go back to the initial state each time. Here’s an example you can download.  https://community.artic..."
  • almost 6 years ago07/27/18 at 2:43 am (UTC)