"I create high-context learning challenges to jump-start learner practice, helping them build skills and transfer what they learn to their..."

"Matthew beat me to it. His approach is right. I will add that the length of the timeline for the objects on that layer matters too. Assum..."

"This sounds like a job for the Storyline Scrolling Panel. Drop a scrolling panel onto your slide, and put the 1000 word essay inside. Lea..."

"Rerecording audio is not, by itself, that hard. What can make it frustrating to have to re-record audio for the entire course is that whe..."

"Hi Kandice, The situation you describe--"Instructional Designers" who don't recognize that there is a more effective way to train people..."

"Hi Kandice, IDs don't necessarily have to be experts in the subject as long as they have good partnerships with SMEs. What's needed is a..."

"I agree with Allison on the first point: redundantly reading the text to the learner is more likely to harm than help. Which raises a mor..."

"Add a "Stop Media" trigger to each hotspot that stops the media associated with the other hotspot."

"I think this is because HTML 5 scrollbars are those thin things that don't look like traditional scrollbars, so if you are publishing to ..."

"Sorry Michael, I can't help with the xAPI stuff--we're not using an xAPI-compatible LMS at my current location.  Cheers!     -Ray"

"Adobe Audition can do a creditable job of slowing down a narration track. That's how I usually do it if I narrate something and there is ..."

"What purpose would such data collection serve? Can it help you improve the course? I ask because on the surface, it feels like such data..."

"You can set up a trigger to replicate what your Continue button does. For example: Jump to slide Next Slide when User presses a key  Th..."

"Hi Vara, My feeling is that for any operation in the software that requires more than a small number of steps, a video is not really the..."

"With respect to "level 1" evaluations ("smile sheets"), a good source of thoughtful advice is Will Thalheimer's book, Performance-Focused..."

"It's a bit awkward to watch a video and use a software application at the same time: you have to keep flipping back and forth between the..."

"Yeah, I basically agree with David. From the perspective purely of how things are arranged to flow/reflow on the screen, Rise is a bit mo..."

"This is not the sort of thing we should have to resort to Javascript for. Combining AND and OR conditions should be a built-in capability..."

"Yeah, I've had that happen to me on several occasions."

"I know I've requested emphasis animations before. Let me go on record that I still want them. Cheers!     -Ray"

"The problem is that string variables in Storyline have only one operator: assignment. So within Storyline proper, you can only ever overw..."

"Are you using Storyline? It might depend on which version, but in Storyline 360, I can go to the Home tab and click Player. That pops up ..."

"I once tried to get my (former) organization to call information-oriented awareness courses "tutorials" so I could reserve "course" for s..."

"I haven't taken the ATD course that Carolyn mentioned, but from what I know of Michael Allen's work, and what I can see in the descriptio..."

"Hard to advise without knowing more about your intentions for the course, but one way to avoid "too depressing" territory is to not limit..."