Ray Cole
Ray Cole
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Best Practice-Narration ?
"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..."
  • over 5 years ago10/22/18 at 11:14 pm (UTC)
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"Add a "Stop Media" trigger to each hotspot that stops the media associated with the other hotspot."
  • over 5 years ago10/22/18 at 10:58 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Scrollbar styles
"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 ..."
  • over 5 years ago10/22/18 at 10:48 pm (UTC)
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"Sorry Michael, I can't help with the xAPI stuff--we're not using an xAPI-compatible LMS at my current location.  Cheers!     -Ray"
  • over 5 years ago09/22/18 at 1:21 am (UTC)
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"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 ..."
  • over 5 years ago09/22/18 at 1:13 am (UTC)
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"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..."
  • over 5 years ago09/20/18 at 10:46 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Keyboard shortcut for buttons
"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..."
  • over 5 years ago09/15/18 at 12:25 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Any substitutes for eLearning?
"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..."
  • over 5 years ago09/13/18 at 1:08 am (UTC)
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"With respect to "level 1" evaluations ("smile sheets"), a good source of thoughtful advice is Will Thalheimer's book, Performance-Focused..."
  • over 5 years ago09/13/18 at 12:03 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Any substitutes for eLearning?
"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..."
  • over 5 years ago09/13/18 at 12:01 am (UTC)
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"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..."
  • over 5 years ago09/11/18 at 11:28 pm (UTC)
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"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..."
  • over 5 years ago08/31/18 at 11:43 pm (UTC)
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"Yeah, I've had that happen to me on several occasions."
  • over 5 years ago08/31/18 at 1:13 am (UTC)
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"I know I've requested emphasis animations before. Let me go on record that I still want them. Cheers!     -Ray"
  • over 5 years ago08/31/18 at 12:42 am (UTC)
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"The problem is that string variables in Storyline have only one operator: assignment. So within Storyline proper, you can only ever overw..."
  • over 5 years ago08/31/18 at 12:33 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion audio volume button
"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 ..."
  • over 5 years ago08/29/18 at 11:05 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Tutorial or a Course?
"I once tried to get my (former) organization to call information-oriented awareness courses "tutorials" so I could reserve "course" for s..."
  • over 5 years ago08/29/18 at 10:58 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Instructional Design Training
"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..."
  • over 5 years ago08/23/18 at 11:14 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Mental Health Awareness
"Hard to advise without knowing more about your intentions for the course, but one way to avoid "too depressing" territory is to not limit..."
  • over 5 years ago08/20/18 at 10:55 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Creating Simulations / Interactives
"I have done this--I actually prefer it if the software is changing a lot because it can be easier to swap out 1 screen-shot rather than r..."
  • almost 6 years ago07/30/18 at 11:09 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Disabled state
"Thanks Leslie! Yes, the Articulate support team is on the  case. :-) Cheers!     -Ray"
  • almost 6 years ago07/24/18 at 8:24 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Stephanie, To get the behavior you want, you may have to set a true/false variable (initially set to False) to True when the learner ..."
  • almost 6 years ago07/23/18 at 11:16 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Disabled state
"Hi Wendy, Yeah, that's Storyline's unfortunate habit of extending the effective size of a button's hotspot to encompass the surface area..."
  • almost 6 years ago07/23/18 at 10:59 pm (UTC)
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"You also might try setting the slide with the 6 layers to "Reset to Initial State" when revisiting if you haven't already. Cheers!     ..."
  • almost 6 years ago07/23/18 at 10:43 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Disabled state
"Forgot to say I'm using Storyline 360."
  • almost 6 years ago07/23/18 at 10:29 pm (UTC)