Phil Mayor
Phil Mayor Hero
Creative Director at Elearning Laboratory
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    Phil Mayor Hero

    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 Using hyperlinks to branch to different slides in Presenter
"hyperlinks don't work correctly in preview, you need to publish to check Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/30/11 at 11:45 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion PPT 2010 - Shape Effects Bug
"I would save as an image (png) and then reinsert the image,   Articulate struggles with shapes sometimes.  This would also speed up publi..."
  • 13 years ago03/30/11 at 2:27 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Adding Text Boxes to Questions
"that's brilliant, elegant solution Thanks Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Drop-down Periodic Table
"you could use a labelled graphic engage interaction and add it as a tab to the player. Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 12:21 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Hyperlinks work in PPT but not Articulate
"hyperlinks do not work correctly in preview as they become relative to how many slides you have published.  The best way to check is to p..."
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 11:04 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion "Streaming" MP4s
"you could try this air app http://renaun.com/blog/2010/06/qtindexswapper-2/ Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 10:53 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion "Streaming" MP4s
"sorry it depends on the way the MP4 is encoded, there is a group of bytes called "atom moov" that tell the player how to progressive down..."
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 9:21 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion "Streaming" MP4s
"Both MP4s and FLVs can be streamed only if you use a streaming media server.  Otherwise a FLV will play via progressive download and an M..."
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 8:59 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Drag and Drop Q&A
"another vote hear for dragster works very well with articulate Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 8:47 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Inserting as web objects or swf that have scroll bar
"Hi Zara You could fake a scroll in articulate with some hidden slides using an image cropped to fit in the slide with a scrollbar, when y..."
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 8:41 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Reusing Slides without Copying unwanted info
"you can use the clear button when in synch animations to delete previous synch data. instead of duplicating slides, copy everything off t..."
  • 13 years ago03/29/11 at 8:30 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Adding Captivate 3 Branching to Presenter 09
"sorry Adam, drastic computer failure this morning means I don't have a machine with flash to check it.  Will try to look at it asap Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 12:16 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion LMS Publish
"are you using articulate to zip the files? Often winzip and other zip software move the lmsmanifest file out of the route directory and a..."
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 12:08 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Flash generated swf in Engage
"I would go with as3 being the problem, or that the swf has some dependent files e.g. xml that it cannot now find Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 12:05 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Adding Captivate 3 Branching to Presenter 09
"I have done rollovers using davids screenr above, works fine.  Never tried to hyperlink from a captivate movie.  Not sure that it is poss..."
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 9:47 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Problems with feedback
"have you set the global feedback option to none, in quiz properties Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 9:30 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Articulate Presenter not playing in Moodle
"What do you mean by interactions?  Do you mean engage and quizmaker? because this wont prevent it opening in moodle, I have just uploaded..."
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 9:28 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Articulate Presenter not playing in Moodle
"shouldnt be a problem, are you uploading as scorm or web? If you upload as web are you linking to player.html?  Are you having the player..."
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 8:57 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Quizmaker font colour am I going crazy!
"Hi Catherine, the custom colour scheme does work, but you need to manually change each slide text not just the master. Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/21/11 at 12:56 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Design Suggestions
"Brandy, Glad you like it, if you run into any issues let me know Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/21/11 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Design Suggestions
"Hi Zara, if you download it and double click it, it should install into articulate, then when you publish a file select "folder" in the t..."
  • 13 years ago03/21/11 at 11:59 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter is unable to open to project file
"thats great, that was what I was most afraid of losing Thanks Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/21/11 at 5:48 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Randomized answers
"Hi Maggie You need to change each question individually, the option is a dropdown on the toolbar for each question Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/18/11 at 12:24 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter is unable to open to project file
"what about synch timings for animations and slide properties, are those not stored in the ppta?  Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/18/11 at 12:16 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Glitch using Matching Drop-down
"Hi Brian, I have this happening in a couple of quizes as well, happens on preview and publish Phil"
  • 13 years ago03/18/11 at 12:04 pm (UTC)