Phil Mayor
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Creative Director at Elearning Laboratory
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    I am the creative director of the Elearning Laboratory Currently fascinated by the use of micro interactions and micro learning in elearning. "We will not navigate through the complex environment of the future by peering relentlessly into a rear view mirror" When I am not working, ...
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Converting a slide to a layer??
"Glad to see that it helped you! Sent from my iPhone"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion hyper link hover effects
"This should be fixed in latest versions of 360, not sure if this has been passed back to SL3 yet."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can we make the Zooming effect in Storyline slower?
"On the slide not the timeline, should be there"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion drag and drop built in Articulate 360 for use in a Rise course.
"Ye, no reason why not."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Text shadow color - can it be changed?
"Yes, the format attributes were designed to be applied to objects rather than text (where they are visible wysiwyg). A nice 'feature' is ..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Fade Transition Previous Layer
"may need to set each layer to reset to initial state"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Moving object to fade out when clicked
"I think the problem JC is having is that the object will exit at the end of the timeline. There is a way to prevent this happening.  An ..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Help with de-selecting
"add 1 if equal to selected, subtract 1 if not equal to selected should work."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Changing the help-box
"To change the text you could do a find and replace and the colour is one of the colours on the design tab. Otherwise it needs to be done ..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion resume audio
"Simpler to pause and resume the layer, use a selected state and then validate each state as in equal to selected and not equal to selected"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Limiting animations so they only play once
"set the slide to resume saved state, that should work"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Text appearing in the wrong place.
"The text will only appear correctly in preview or when you play the timeline. The timeline does not give a live preview when you place th..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Restart layer timeline with a button
"That is odd then, I would check you are on the latest update, they audio should just restart"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Restart layer timeline with a button
"Better to control the audio on layers, and set the layers to reset to initial state"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Back-button trigger
"As the course is on the web I believe most users would expect the back button to be historic in nature.  "
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Review variable values in preview mode so that you can monitor trigger impacts
"I would put a slide master layer that is activated by CTRL+D with references to all my used variables. A debug screen would be great unt..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Formating from Power Point to Storyline
"The best thing I have found is to get the pixel size right before you import. Storyline default is 720 wide which is too small. Did you s..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Formating from Power Point to Storyline
"Set the slide size to match before import, 1280x720 is the 16:9 slide size you need for standard ppt"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Closed captions very small
"You can increase the font in the player settings, also switching to modern player gives bigger captions"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion 2 Category Multi-Choice Question
"Although it is a multi response answer, it should be radio buttons as they select from a set. You would have to delete the checkboxes and..."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion 2 Category Multi-Choice Question
"See if this does what you want, ideally though each category should be radio buttons as they are single select within each category."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion 2 Category Multi-Choice Question
"I think this should be achievable with 2 button sets"
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Slide advancing when timeline complete despite no trigger for it/other issues
"That sounds like a bug, try updating storyline does it happen in all browsers?  "
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Slide advancing when timeline complete despite no trigger for it/other issues
"removing the trigger is insufficient to remove it, open slide properties and choose advance by user."
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Question banks
"Sounds like you are trying to edit the 1 question bank, you will need to create 5 separate draw from question banks"