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 How does Storyline perform on the Mac?
"Hi Andrew, no real difference between 8gb (old Macbook pro) and 16 gb on new one.  Think SSD makes a difference.  I also nearly choked on..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 7:01 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Articulate and new browsers
"Hi Barbara, we have issues with Moodle and IE9 in that it does not track, its not really an articulate issue more moodle"
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 6:35 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter client wants a help and resources tabs at top- how?
"Bruce Graham said: LOL - head a bit sore today Bruce Just a little"
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 6:32 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter client wants a help and resources tabs at top- how?
"Bruce,  this is the reason why i dont go on many Stag nights! Sorry Gregory, ignore all my previous comments. You should however be able ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 6:29 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter client wants a help and resources tabs at top- how?
"If you import the slides into storyline then they should maintain the links and clicking on the link would open a new browser window.  Yo..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 6:03 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Using checkboxes and variables ....
"Instead of adding to the variable, I just set the value to 1 or 2 or 3 this way when they redo it, I also set the score via the next butt..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 5:56 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter client wants a help and resources tabs at top- how?
"A light box slide, is a trigger you can add to a button or the player to show a slide in a lightbox. You can add or remove items from the..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 5:53 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion presenter client wants a help and resources tabs at top- how?
"You cannot change the names, but you can add more tabs.  You could add a lightbox slide and build a menu or help section on that slide. W..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 12:15 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Importing and retaining variables
"Yes you can import from external data sources, the only one I have to hand is this one, this reads from the LMS and brings in the users name"
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 12:09 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Saving all data in tests
"John the variables data is saved and you can choose force resume, you could use javascript to save to a database or textfile which could ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 12:07 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Caption limit for Media Tour
"You can also increase it beyond that by editing the publsihed file"
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 3:04 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion More than 500 MB
"You likely need to reduce the size of your course, even when published this will be huge and will need to think about the user and what t..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 3:03 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Using checkboxes and variables ....
"Actually working out what I was going to do took longer, but once I had it in my head it was simple"
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 2:56 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Using checkboxes and variables ....
"I would build this in excel so you get the correct weighting, or work it out on paper, then it would be simple to create your question an..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 2:55 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Drop Correct and Drop Incorrect States Not Working?
"I have added that trigger here, drop correct and drop incorrect are for objects to change state when they are dropped not for when other ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 1:26 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Drop Correct and Drop Incorrect States Not Working?
"Hi Andrew Sorry been busy.  I have opened the interaction and on the first object added a drop correct, drop incorect state this works pe..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 1:24 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Any way to export question banks from moodle into Storyline?
"No that one is not possible Phil"
  • almost 12 years ago07/28/12 at 1:11 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Double trigger condition
"set a shape offslide with the timeline starting at 2 min with a trigger to change state of buttons to normal from hidden if x,y,z = visit..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/27/12 at 6:29 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Build a refresh button with triggers
"Hi Louise, thanks for showing that I like it nice idea. Couple of changes I would make are to format the buttons different (I would try a..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/27/12 at 4:49 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Build a refresh button with triggers
"Hi Louise use the cog on the base layer in the layers pane, set to initial state, then as you say jump to slide - this slide should act a..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/27/12 at 12:03 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Build a refresh button with triggers
"Hi Louise, are they all on one slide? You may be able to do it easy by setting the slide to reload to initial state and then add a jump t..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/26/12 at 11:40 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Publishing to a LMS`
"Hi Janelle, yes you should republish to LMS"
  • almost 12 years ago07/26/12 at 11:34 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Engage slides in Articulate ipad player
"Yes you can edit others interactions, you may also want to try building some yourself, and some of these are incuded in the templates (ta..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/26/12 at 11:30 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Menu Text size
"This is not an option at the moment, the text size is fixed.  You could add bold or italic by choosing a bold or italic font"
  • almost 12 years ago07/26/12 at 11:28 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Conditions/Variables for text entry fields and submit button
"Sorry Nicole, I cannot multitask, this might help, you can leave the equal to/not equal to field blank which is the same as Null"
  • almost 12 years ago07/26/12 at 6:56 am (UTC)