Ray Cole
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Disabled state
"I'm also experiencing trouble with the disabled state.
The Continue button begins in the disabled state and triggers change it to the ..."
- almost 6 years ago07/23/18 at 10:27 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Building a Library of E-Learning Terms
"OK, I'll stop after this!
Cognitive Load
Split Attention
Cheers!
-Ray"
- almost 6 years ago07/19/18 at 11:58 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Building a Library of E-Learning Terms
"I forgot to add:
Spaced practice
Massed practice
(Ebbinghaus's) Forgetting curve
Retrieval (as in retrieving from memory to help en..."
- almost 6 years ago07/19/18 at 11:56 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Building a Library of E-Learning Terms
"Some terms that cut right to the heart of our industry might include:
Infodump
Performance-oriented training
Awareness training
Blo..."
- almost 6 years ago07/19/18 at 11:48 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Pros and cons of working as a freelancer?
"I've gone back and forth in my career so far: a few years as an employee, a few years as a freelancer, rinse and repeat, back and forth s..."
- almost 6 years ago07/19/18 at 12:43 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole started a new discussion Strange Bugs in Storyline 360?
"Hi everyone,
I have been chasing a series of strange bugs today in Storyline 360. I updated to the latest update yesterday afternoon. To..."
- almost 6 years ago06/28/18 at 9:58 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Corruption Game
"I don't know of any templates, but wanted to thank you for bringing The Good, The Bad, and The Accountant to my attention. It looks reall..."
- almost 6 years ago06/11/18 at 11:39 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Left-right-left clicking sequence
"Another possibility: Maybe a rectangle shape over the whole slide, with solid fill and transparency set to 100%, near the bottom of the t..."
- almost 6 years ago05/30/18 at 11:20 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion I need to rotate a text entry field 90 degrees. Can I?
"OK, the pop-up layer approach works. Thanks!
Cheers!
-Ray"
- almost 6 years ago05/30/18 at 1:49 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion I need to rotate a text entry field 90 degrees. Can I?
"Thanks Tom. Storyline allowed me to change the text direction on the text entry field, but as you said, it doesn't actually rotate it whe..."
- almost 6 years ago05/29/18 at 9:05 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion I need to rotate a text entry field 90 degrees. Can I?
"Perfect! Thanks Wendy!!!
-Ray"
- almost 6 years ago05/29/18 at 8:49 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole started a new discussion I need to rotate a text entry field 90 degrees. Can I?
"Hi everyone,
I'm working on a hazardous waste course. For one activity, I am asking the learner to add liquid waste to an accumulation c..."
- almost 6 years ago05/29/18 at 8:37 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Best practices for captioning on-screen terms
"Hi Garth, wow! I've never encountered two buttons named the same thing on the same screen, but I have come across screens that have both ..."
- almost 6 years ago05/23/18 at 8:37 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole started a new discussion Avoiding Groupthink in Review Comments
"Hi everyone,
We've sent quite a few Storyline courses out for review using Articulate Review and overall we like it. This morning we sen..."
- almost 6 years ago05/18/18 at 9:41 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion How to search?
"I don't quite have the technical know-how to fully use this information, but I am passing it along in case you do.
The *.story file is a..."
- almost 6 years ago05/17/18 at 12:26 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion eLearning Development Policy
"I've found that to distinguish between problems that can be solved via training and those that cannot, it's helpful to have a model you c..."
- almost 6 years ago05/16/18 at 12:03 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Best practices for captioning on-screen terms
"I agree with a lot of Jackie's advice. For all instructional writing (not just closed captions) I favor the following conventions:
Ref..."
- almost 6 years ago05/14/18 at 11:08 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Converting Powerpoint for Mac or Keynote files to Scorm
"The problem as I understand it is that the Apple OS does not allow the plug-in architecture that products such as iSpring, Articulate Pre..."
- 6 years ago04/16/18 at 11:44 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion "Training" on documents?
"I always come back to: what is the "ask"? That is, what is your sales team asking people to do with these reports? Under what circumstanc..."
- 6 years ago04/06/18 at 11:52 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion What is your go-to course navigation style?
"Amanda, I think it's helpful to distinguish between interactivity that is fundamentally oriented to presenting information and interactiv..."
- 6 years ago04/04/18 at 12:36 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Checklist and workable training material...
"I think of a checklist as a job aid. I am going to use the checklist to help me remember what to do on the job, right? In that case, sinc..."
- 6 years ago04/04/18 at 12:19 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Emergency Management scenarios?
"You mentioned "Active Shooter" as a topic. One of the more compelling training videos I've seen is the FBI's "Run. Hide. Fight" video on ..."
- 6 years ago03/13/18 at 11:18 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Any Data on Use of Avatars as Guides in eLearning Titles?
"I have found that often when someone doesn't see the value of a particular design element, it is because he or she hasn't seen examples o..."
- 6 years ago02/17/18 at 1:18 am (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Creating Macros
"You can create the shape once, then right click it and choose Set as Default Shape. From then on, any rectangles you create will be red, ..."
- 6 years ago02/12/18 at 10:27 pm (UTC)
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Ray Cole replied to the discussion Keeping good documentation
"Renee, I feel your pain. It was actually Matthew who gave a number-of-triggers estimate, not me. But that number got me curious about my ..."
- over 6 years ago02/02/18 at 11:44 pm (UTC)