Rick Maranta
Rick Maranta
Owner and eLearning Professional at LabRat Learning
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    Rick Maranta

    Owner of LabRat Learning near Toronto, Ontario. We specialize in creating custom online courses for corporate clients both big and small. Big fan of Articulate. Interested in User Experience Design and Gamification.
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion 2 improvements I would like to see for Closed Captions in StoryLine 360
"Don't hold your breath. Articulate had been very slow to make any real improvements to their product over the last few years. They seem ..."
  • almost 3 years ago06/22/21 at 3:29 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Is there a way to edit font size & color of the notes throughout a project in Storyline 360?
"Come on. Please Articulate. This has been requested literally YEARS ago. It is a simple change that would make life better for ever..."
  • 3 years ago01/25/21 at 2:48 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Can you change the color of Markers in Rise?
"Alyssa Gomez Hi Jenni! Yes, we've added a feature that allows you to change the marker color! You can find this option by hovering over ..."
  • over 3 years ago01/21/21 at 3:53 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Workplace Burnout Calculator
"This is really great. You would not even know it was done in Storyline."
  • over 3 years ago12/22/20 at 3:19 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion 2 improvements I would like to see for Closed Captions in StoryLine 360
"Lauren Connelly Hi Sarah! We've logged this as a feature request to customize the placement and color of closed captioning. We don..."
  • over 3 years ago12/22/20 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Text entry game
"Nice Phil, now if only someone would help me spell pomegranate - lost lives because of that. :-("
  • over 3 years ago09/29/20 at 9:03 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion New Neural Text to Speech Voices from Amazon Polly
"Thor's application is a really useful tool. I've tried it out and if you want to get better quality Neural voices in your project, this i..."
  • 4 years ago04/23/20 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Merge Shapes Feature
"I second this."
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 10:31 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Easy Progress Bar (but it does use JavaScript)
"Here is a simple progress bar. One you can implement to be always on screen and the other as a popup one that you access from a tab ..."
  • 4 years ago02/03/20 at 9:30 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Is GetPlayer now defunct with HMTL5 only?
"Thanks Phil, I have used Zsolt's method and it seems to load but it looks like Articulate removed the ability to find an object usi..."
  • 4 years ago01/27/20 at 8:55 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion No more jQuery?
"Does GetPlayer still work because I am finding my titles that I publish with the latest build do not let me access this function to get v..."
  • 4 years ago01/27/20 at 5:29 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Is GetPlayer now defunct with HMTL5 only?
"Yes. I used it to get the accessibility name for an object. I have been able to do a lot of interesting things with GSAP ..."
  • 4 years ago01/27/20 at 5:05 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Is GetPlayer now defunct with HMTL5 only?
"Can someone please tell me if now that the modern player uses only HMTL5 does that mean we can no longer use GetPlayer to read and ..."
  • 4 years ago01/27/20 at 4:39 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Creating Parallax Effects with Interactive Sliders in E-Learning (2019) #253
"I know I am late to the party but here is a Parallax 2D side-scrolling scene. Use the arrows to move back and forth. When you hit the ar..."
  • over 4 years ago10/30/19 at 4:32 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article What You Need to Know About File Versioning Your Storyline 360 Projects
"Great article and reminder for people. I have been doing this obsessively for years. Some projects had 30 versions. I just delete old on..."
  • over 4 years ago10/10/19 at 8:07 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Using Checklist Interactions in E-Learning (2019) #252
"So this is a kind of checklist. It lets you think of positive and negative influences in your life and list them by typing them in and dr..."
  • over 4 years ago10/04/19 at 4:25 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion 2 improvements I would like to see for Closed Captions in StoryLine 360
"Ren Gomez Hi Richard, Thanks for sharing those features requests with us! Customizing captions is a feature we have recorded, so I'll be..."
  • over 4 years ago09/23/19 at 7:17 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion 2 improvements I would like to see for Closed Captions in StoryLine 360
"I am so glad that Storyline has a nice and easy way to incorporate Closed Captions for our projects to help those with hearing impairment..."
  • over 4 years ago09/20/19 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Timeline Interaction
" This timeline interaction has a simple drag and drop mechanism but is enhanced with a subtle animation of the pin going into the t..."
  • over 4 years ago09/17/19 at 7:31 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Finding Balance - An Interaction
"Here is a simple interaction I created for a course called "You Are Not Alone" that provides support for parents and caregivers of childr..."
  • over 4 years ago08/30/19 at 5:08 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Can you change the color of Markers in Rise?
"There are options. If you know CSS, you can go in the CSS file after output and find the appropriate selector and change the background c..."
  • over 4 years ago08/28/19 at 6:43 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Can you change the color of Markers in Rise?
"Not sure but it would not that be that hard of a thing to do you would think. It seems Articulate is taking a minimalist approach in term..."
  • over 4 years ago08/28/19 at 5:16 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Vectors (EMF, WMF) rasterized when imported
"This is a feature I would love as well. Articulate has been very slow to add new features to Storyline 360. For how expen..."
  • over 4 years ago08/19/19 at 8:34 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion More fun with Dials
"Sorry about that. I have updated my website and forgot about this post. You can find it here: https://labratlearning.com/blog/. I up..."
  • over 4 years ago08/14/19 at 7:23 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion does everyone else find that exporting content as a video takes too long?
"I am having the same issue as I export a video. On a side note, I find that there are many performance issues with Storyline 360 that nev..."
  • almost 5 years ago04/26/19 at 7:52 pm (UTC)