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 Jump to slide trigger within a marker?
"Storyline used to automatically add these states if you added a trigger, if it isn't then it needs reporting as a bug. "
  • 11 years ago02/11/13 at 11:31 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Setting the length of my slide...
"A really odd thing here, group some objects  and resize on the timeline, cut and paste, the group pastes at the original length. To fix u..."
  • 11 years ago02/11/13 at 11:29 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Multi replace feature
"If it is just colour change, it is possible if you have used the design colours, you can change all buttons by editing the colour scheme...."
  • 11 years ago02/11/13 at 11:22 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Combining individual sessions
"You can import into storyline from ppt. So import each ppt into its own scene Not sure why you want a 12 hour course.  It must be better ..."
  • 11 years ago02/10/13 at 1:55 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Screenshot resolution
"This may help, graphic your screenshot at a high resolution, insert onto your slide but keep it at its real size ( you may need to right ..."
  • 11 years ago02/10/13 at 1:51 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Essay quiz results in moodle or interactions in Scorm Cloud
"The essay question is an ungraded question, often this data is not processed by the LMS, the only LMS that reliably reports on this is Ar..."
  • 11 years ago02/10/13 at 1:47 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion More than one question on a slide
"Yes but you would need to use a bit of smoke and mirrors in reality you would need two hidden real question slides and use variable and t..."
  • 11 years ago02/10/13 at 1:42 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Moodle & Storyline
"You would need to use a scorm wrapper to use multiple scorms, you can then set moodle to sequence the course, I don't know of any reliabl..."
  • 11 years ago02/10/13 at 1:39 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Creating a trigger to start the timeline
"If you set a trigger that shows a layer on timeline start of that slide the layer will load immediately, then hit the cog on the layer to..."
  • 11 years ago02/08/13 at 9:59 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Please help! Question about text animation entrace.. THANK YOU!
"There is no strips animation, animations are limited in Storyline"
  • 11 years ago02/08/13 at 9:48 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Publishing my story...without all the drama??
"I would use tempshare or dropbox as Peter suggests, or send them the CD output (if you can get it past their virus checker)"
  • 11 years ago02/08/13 at 9:46 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Creating a trigger to start the timeline
"I would load a layer that pauses the timeline on timeline start of the slide and then add a play button that simply closes that layer"
  • 11 years ago02/08/13 at 9:45 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion slides limit when publishing
"I have comfortably published over 350 slides but this was a 200mb course, from a user point of view this was a crazy download and for the..."
  • 11 years ago02/08/13 at 9:38 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Using Articulate and Apple Machines
"I have no issues with parallels on an iMac and MBP I didnt like it on a retina machine"
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 10:48 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Issue with Quizmaker 2009 & Resume Data
"I dont think feedback is counted, just questions and answers"
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 8:36 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Issue with Quizmaker 2009 & Resume Data
"Sounds like you hit the limit of how much resume data your LMS will take.  If you have lots of text then all the answers + questions data..."
  • 11 years ago02/07/13 at 8:25 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Crash while publishing story
"Sometimes, in large projects I have had storyline crash, often just saving before publishing stops this. "
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:54 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion changing the state of objects on the base layer from another layer
"Time is always the limiting factor"
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:52 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion changing the state of objects on the base layer from another layer
"You can create complex conditions using more than one trigger and working with the trigger order, else can easily be achieved this way"
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:48 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Publishing presenter into a video you can upload in Engage
"Saving as a video in ppt could then be inserted into engage this would be a single file"
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:42 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline Player app push notifications?
"Nice idea, the app doesn't support this, a feature request may help"
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:40 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Publishing presenter into a video you can upload in Engage
"It will work for any single slide, presenter publishes each slide separately as a Swf, it is possible to insert that into engage.  But yo..."
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:35 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Publishing presenter into a video you can upload in Engage
"You can export PowerPoint as a video and import to engage or publish and import as a Swf (this will only work for be slide)"
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:28 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Is there a quick way of replacing/changing a soundfile
"The audio storyline des not span slides, you would need to change each slide individually.  I would lie to see an audio import feature, b..."
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:26 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion changing the state of objects on the base layer from another layer
"You can change a state across layer without using variables, just use a change state trigger, much better than using variables when only ..."
  • 11 years ago02/05/13 at 11:22 am (UTC)