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 Storyline = Studio 13 ?
"I have not seen Studio 13, but as far as I know will not contain variables, Storyline will IMHO still be a better tool than the combined ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 10:40 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Restitute variables
"check the triggers are befoe the jump to trigger, nothing fires after a jump to trigger"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:39 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Building a Storyline App
"You cannot build an app in Storyline"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:38 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Engagements and Quizzes not Producing Output for Translation
"Engage are treated as web objects so will be ignored by the translate feature"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:38 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Animations in Storyline
"Studio 13"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:36 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Animations in Storyline
"Storyline is a completely different product it may look like Powerpoint but it definitely is not, Studio and Storyline again are differen..."
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:36 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Engage in Storyline - Editing in Storyline
"the engage interaction is edited in the file so changes should be present in the engage file"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:08 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline Animations
"We have a fade animation"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 9:07 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Animations in Storyline
"I have no desire for ppt animations to be integrated into Storyline.  I want animations, I just feel the developers have the opportunity ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 8:58 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Animations in Storyline
"Storyline offers so much more than animations.  Interactive engaging elearning is not just animations. There is so much more that can be ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 8:36 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Problems with the triggers in storyline.
"The drop correct, incorrect states go on the object you are dropping, otherwise you need a trigger to change the object that is dropped on"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 7:10 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion trigger not working to jump slides
"are you only previewing one slide?"
  • over 11 years ago11/14/12 at 1:56 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Reference
"You could add a condition to the next button to only work if YourVariable s not equal to, and leave blank. yoou could also a dd a layer t..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:55 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Save me from friendless silence
"Yes that would work well"
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:25 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Save me from friendless silence
"You could add the sounds to a layer and then add a trigger to show layer when user hovers over your object"
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:17 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Problems with the triggers in storyline.
"I added a drop correct state and drop incorrect state on your example, I added not triggers because these states work automatically if yo..."
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:15 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Modules lost. Just blank on network/hard drive AND DropBox!!!
"dropbox does version control so you should be able to get a previous version"
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:13 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Masking?
"there is no masking in Storyline, you can aproximate that but it is not a current feature"
  • over 11 years ago11/13/12 at 11:12 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Does the Storyline have any standard variable?
"I normally create a variable (SlideNumber) then on each slide use a adjust variable trigger and assign the value of that slide. It is man..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 12:02 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Different fonts in drag and drop quiz
"Michelle, sorry there is no way to change this, it is based on the quantity of text in each box, Quizmaker autofits your content"
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 11:44 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Does the Storyline have any standard variable?
"There are no exposed variables, but you could pull date and time from a javascript variable And there are lots of creative solutions for ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 11:43 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How do I create dynamic slide numbering (x out of 10 slides)?
"but it wont keep the number of the slide every slide would show 10 out of 10, that is why I said it needed to be rethought "
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 10:47 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How do I create dynamic slide numbering (x out of 10 slides)?
"Create a numeric variable, add a reference to your slide e.g. %YourVariableName% out of 10  Add a trigger to each question slide to add 1..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 10:40 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Seekbar and Cue Points
"You need to fake it because there is no option to do this out of the box. The best way to do this is to use a invisible shape and use a d..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 10:35 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion How to add course duration timer in the player?
"You could add it to the slide master, using layers and this will carry across the whole course"
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 4:28 am (UTC)