Sarah Newman
Sarah Newman
eLearning Instructional Designer at Springs Window Fashions
  • About

    Sarah Newman

    I am a mid-level instructional designer originally from Lexington, Ky, now living in Madison, WI. Growing up, I always knew that I wanted to teach people, and I have been fortunate enough to stumble my way into the expanding field of instructional design - a field I have fallen in love with. For me, instructional design started as just a job, my first position straight out of graduate school. I was hired by a company in Northern Virginia - PerformTech Inc - that was searching for creative humanities majors on the job pages of Craigslist. At PT, I was able to work with some fantastic senior ISDs and really learn the field. After moving to Wisconsin for my fiance's PhD, I was hired by Springs Window Fashions as the company's only eLearning Instructional Designer. I hope to really grow in this role and take on more of my own graphics and authoring work. My fiance and I have 6 pets, are addicted to nerdy games of all kinds, and are getting married on 7-9-11. :)
  • Madison, WI
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Player Template Corrupt
"Wait, the new template corrupted after a few weeks, not immediately. Does that make a difference? I just want to know *why* it became cor..."
  • over 10 years ago09/10/13 at 1:20 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Getting creative...
"Thanks for all of the great suggestions, everyone! For the distribution channels portion, I ended up decided to do a drag n drop interact..."
  • over 10 years ago08/13/13 at 2:52 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Box that expands with a button press
"This is exactly what markers are for! You can find markers in the Insert tab in Storyline. They're really useful and they look almost exa..."
  • 11 years ago04/02/13 at 2:38 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Resources Tab Won't Go Away...
"Thanks, Peter. I did try clearing my cache, but it's a pretty reasonable suggestion so of course no offense taken. I just submitted a cas..."
  • 11 years ago04/02/13 at 2:33 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Embedding YouTube as a Web Object
"If they're available for public use, you can also download them using RealDownloader. I've done that and embedded the video files rather ..."
  • 11 years ago04/02/13 at 2:07 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Keeping layers visible?
"If I'm not mistaken, the effect you're going for might be better achieved with states rather than layers. There are easy-to-use settings ..."
  • 11 years ago04/02/13 at 1:52 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Importing Old Studio Courses
"Sure thing."
  • 11 years ago03/26/13 at 7:49 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Hyperlinks to a Corporate Intranet page
"David, success! Thanks so much for that tip! When I tried the tempshare using Google Chrome, it worked beautifully."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:34 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Hyperlinks to a Corporate Intranet page
"I did try publishing to CD and the links work, so I'm just going to tell my client that I *promise* they'll work once we load to the webs..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:32 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Hyperlinks to a Corporate Intranet page
"I can't get my courses to upload to that site at all. I select the zip file and click upload, but nothing happens. :-/ It's good to know,..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:20 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Hyperlinks to a Corporate Intranet page
"Nope, the link isn't animated. :-/"
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:08 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Hyperlinks to a Corporate Intranet page
"They definitely work outside of the course, and they work when I use the green check mark to test them. But when I publish the course to ..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:08 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Hyperlinks to a Corporate Intranet page
"I'm having the same issue, but I don't understand why the links won't work just because I published to web. I need to load the course I'm..."
  • 11 years ago03/19/13 at 7:00 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Sound not working on *some* systems
"Actually, I believe they are all on laptops. From what I've heard, they're all using the same version of internet explorer, so that *shou..."
  • 11 years ago03/14/13 at 3:52 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Looking for open-source free LMS, preferably online
"Andrea - in your experience with CourseSites, were you able to record the scores of your Articulate/Storyline courses in the grade center..."
  • over 11 years ago11/09/12 at 11:10 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Music Loops Skipping/Sticking
"No, unfortunately I didn't ever figure that out. I ended up just removing the music to avoid the issue. Good luck!"
  • over 11 years ago09/19/12 at 6:25 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Animating bulleted objectives
"Ohhhhh! I actually had tried both "all at once" and "by first level paragraph," but because the text box line in timeline didn't automati..."
  • over 11 years ago08/22/12 at 7:33 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion One big bullet...
"I've done that, actually. As I said in my original post, I've tried changing the font size (selecting the entire line of bulleted text or..."
  • over 11 years ago08/02/12 at 1:14 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Can't hyperlink to two of my slides
"Ah, that must be the problem. Although I have to say, what's the purpose of preview mode if you can't actually preview the functionality ..."
  • over 12 years ago08/05/11 at 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Can't hyperlink to two of my slides
"Correction. Now none of the hyperlinks I make are working. The existing ones work, but new ones don't."
  • over 12 years ago08/05/11 at 12:19 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"Thanks for checking it for me! Blargh... knew I'd need to learn how to program Flash one day. :-/ I'll definitely look into the Web Objec..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 12:01 pm (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion Are you using dual monitors? If so, how?
"I'm super super jealous of Craig for having three monitors! I have two and I could NEVER go back to one. In fact, I started my current jo..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:59 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion First "full-length" course - looking for feedback
"Hi Beth, This is the perfect course for Tom's template - great choice on your part! I like your choice of slide background color, but I ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:50 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"I'm not sure how to tell if that's the problem or not since I didn't create the videos. I've uploaded one if you have a moment to take a ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:22 am (UTC)
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Sarah Newman replied to the discussion SWF Movie File Won't Play
"I just checked those guidelines and from what I can tell, this movie fits them all. When I preview or publish the file, I see a Flash ico..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 11:05 am (UTC)