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 data entry boxes need normal/hidden states
"Hi Laurel, I cannot understand, you can hide and show layers at will if they have data entry field on or not. can you post the slide and ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/18/12 at 12:28 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline vs. PowerPoint?
"Hi Caroline I have been using Storyline for a year now, I would say it is an intuitive and elegant design.  In some ways you are comparin..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 1:20 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline need help with illustrations
"They also produce a windows version http://comiclife.com/"
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 1:05 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline need help with illustrations
"If you work on a Mac comiclife is a great app for this"
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 1:04 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion What would you do?
"Today i produced two 12 minute courses without audio in 6 hours and sent for review.  really depends on the content, but I would expect t..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 1:03 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion can show but not hide data entry on own layer
"Hi Laurel, normal is a special state and most states are classed as normal.  A visited state will often also read a normal as will a sele..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 12:53 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion drag and drop
"Susan, sound s like your triggers are wrong   Looks like your state change is based on one object being dropped which then changes them a..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 12:48 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Completion by number of slides viewed
"You cannot exclude slides from the completion record unfortunately but that would be a great feature. The link Gerry posted works great f..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 11:39 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Allowing advancement after certain time
"If you are using the built in next/previous buttons, I would add a rectangle off with a and adjust the timeline so the rectangle starts w..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 10:04 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Pull student name into certificate of completion with survey quest
"Sorry wrong post ignore me!"
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 9:48 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Pull student name into certificate of completion with survey quest
"If it is a standard LMS the file I posted on the other thread should pull the username in"
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 9:46 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Asset Reuse
"Hi Audrey, there is some asset reuse within Storyline, if you insert it each time I believe it gets treated as a different object each ti..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 9:45 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Storyline need help with illustrations
"Kate suggestion is a good one, use states and a variable to track the initial selection.  Then use slide level triggers with condtions to..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 8:09 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Quiz and Moodle
"You could set attempts to two in moodle and average score, this would reqiure them to load the course twice. But you can get moodle to c..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 7:49 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Inserting a PPT -- Dimesions
"IF you change the ppt dimensions, I would also change the dimensions of the Story file to match, or else they may look a little strange a..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 2:25 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Importing Powerpoint shapes into Storyline Shapes Menu
"As Bruce says, shapes that are not supported are imported as images"
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 2:24 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Creating triggers based on data entered - Can this be done?
"Hi Ben, you can add more than one triggers with conditions based on the variable value.  So basically do this IF variable is equal to thi..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 2:23 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion storyline internal variables ?
"Justin is correct, there are no real system variables exposed"
  • almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 12:16 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion A little overwhelmed
"Hi Sid It is overwhelming, so many new toys, what do I use next When I first saw Storyline, I didn't look at building a course, I starte..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 11:35 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion CONGRATULATIONS, Mike Enders
"Congratulations Mike!"
  • almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 11:28 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can you view content created for iPad and PC offline?
"Adrian The link you posted was for publish to CD, this could be uploaded as a zip file to a server and the zip file downloaded.  The .ex..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 2:10 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can you view content created for iPad and PC offline?
"Hi Walter, there is no way to download the content automatically, the link Adrian provides allows you to publish to CD and the resulting ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/16/12 at 12:02 am (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can a shape location be variable-dependent?
"Hi Dorothy The example you describe using states will definitely work, there really isn't an efficient way to move shapes at the moment...."
  • almost 12 years ago07/15/12 at 11:57 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Adding numeric variables
"Hi Tara-Anne Here is a file to show you how to do it, the triggers are all on the button, post back if you need anything else Phil"
  • almost 12 years ago07/15/12 at 11:56 pm (UTC)
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Phil Mayor replied to the discussion Can Global Variable Choose Layer with Different Language?
"Hi Ken, yes this is possible, you could set a variable for language and then on each slide show a different layer based on this variable...."
  • almost 12 years ago07/15/12 at 11:41 pm (UTC)