Ray Cole
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Why it's not possible to assign whole groups to triggers?
"Hi Allison,
Yeah, sometimes I put these things on a layer, but often I've already got layers used for another purpose, so adding additio..."
- over 6 years ago10/26/17 at 10:16 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Simulations or case studies for military and/or police academy recruits
"There used to be a terrific demo of an e-learning course for police first-responders that was developed by Michael Allen's Allen Interact..."
- over 6 years ago10/26/17 at 12:28 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Why it's not possible to assign whole groups to triggers?
"Hi Allison, using states instead of groups does work, but it's not as easy or natural a part of my workflow as using groups. I too have w..."
- over 6 years ago10/25/17 at 11:59 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Data Entry fields Inconsistently Display Default Values
"Hi Matt and Wendy. Thank you both very much. Thanks to your suggestions, both issues were solved: both the numeric and text entry fields ..."
- over 6 years ago10/10/17 at 10:52 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Data Entry fields Inconsistently Display Default Values
"Hi Wendy,
That is fantastic and I don't know why I didn't think to try just deleting the default text from the main slide! That totally ..."
- over 6 years ago10/09/17 at 11:28 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Data Entry fields Inconsistently Display Default Values
"Hi Wendy,
Here is the Storyline 360 source file in greatly reduced size.
Cheers!
-Ray"
- over 6 years ago10/09/17 at 10:42 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Data Entry fields Inconsistently Display Default Values
"Ooh. Sorry. I didn't even think it uploaded at all because I got an error during the upload.
I extracted the slide from a (much) larger ..."
- over 6 years ago10/09/17 at 10:28 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion How would you design a listening skills course?
"If you are trying to teach specific listening skills, then another approach that might work is to have the learner pick up the phone and ..."
- over 6 years ago09/15/17 at 11:30 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Building a Stimulus Response Learning Module
"Hi Lewis,
It looks like others have already addressed the implementation details, so let me take a moment to point out that some importa..."
- over 6 years ago09/06/17 at 1:32 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion HELP! Best way to present large amount of data?
"One of my favorite data-heavy e-learning demos is now quite old--so old that it may not run in some browsers any more, though I did get i..."
- over 6 years ago08/19/17 at 1:48 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Powerpoint how to align line animated objects at the end of the line animation?
"Hi Debbie, yes, that's right: the motion path doesn't allow you to align the destinations. That's why I'm suggesting that you don't use t..."
- over 6 years ago08/18/17 at 4:56 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Locked vs open navigation? What are the guidelines for deciding?
"I recommend unlocked navigation. Find some other way to ensure learning objectives have been met. Locked navigation is wrong on many leve..."
- over 6 years ago08/14/17 at 9:41 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Powerpoint how to align line animated objects at the end of the line animation?
"Hi Debbie,
If I understand your situation correctly, all of these objects start off-screen and you want them to end up aligned. In that ..."
- over 6 years ago08/09/17 at 1:02 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Mastery Learning Best Practices With Articulate
"Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the reference to James Bruno. A year or two ago I did some work for a large company that actually had psychometric..."
- over 6 years ago08/09/17 at 12:56 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Mastery Learning Best Practices With Articulate
"Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the heads-up. I watched the video on the Knowledge Factor home page and I like that they are trying to leverage pu..."
- over 6 years ago08/09/17 at 12:15 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Displaying a self adjusting list from variables e.g. for an inventory
"Hi Norman,
What I've generally done is list all items in the list but put checkboxes in front of each item. The items that the learner s..."
- over 6 years ago08/02/17 at 12:05 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Thanks Wendy!
Cheers!
-Ray"
- over 6 years ago07/28/17 at 9:26 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Hi Crystal,
Because of Storyline's surprise, hidden button-state combination rules that override the look of some states with state comb..."
- over 6 years ago07/28/17 at 6:19 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Hi Crystal,
Thanks for investigating.
I am going to have to go on record here as saying that Storyline's "by design" behavior here is n..."
- over 6 years ago07/28/17 at 4:50 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Hi Wendy,
First, I want to thank you for helping me investigate this issue. It is a genuine act of kindness that I truly appreciate. Tha..."
- over 6 years ago07/28/17 at 12:41 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Hi Wendy,
That's right: I just added the Down state to help me see what is going on. I don't need any special look for it, though, in t..."
- over 6 years ago07/27/17 at 10:29 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Hi Wendy,
Thank you for that test file! It's much smaller than my actual Storyline file, so I will work with yours. My modifications of ..."
- over 6 years ago07/27/17 at 6:26 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Bug: Down state not clearing Hover state on buttons
"Hi Wendy,
Thanks for your super-speedy reply!
I should've pointed out in my earlier post that I'm not using the "Convert to Freeform" f..."
- over 6 years ago07/27/17 at 1:52 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Is it possible to reset numeric entry fields to their initial blank states?
"Hi Alyssa, thanks for that link! I may try it, but I'm not sure if I want to go down the custom Javascript road since doing so means losi..."
- over 6 years ago07/26/17 at 9:49 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Mastery Learning Best Practices With Articulate
"Like Walter said, this topic is so broad I am not quite sure what kind of advice you are looking for. I think the biggest lever we have i..."
- over 6 years ago07/25/17 at 8:23 pm (UTC)