Sean Speake
Learner Advocate
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Sean Speake
I'm a writer, ID and learner advocate. Like to think big thoughts about learning, performance and building great experiences. -
Toronto, ON
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Text to Speech
"Great points Steve. Using narration as an emphasis rather than for all content might be a great way to keep costs down (bundling recordin..."
- almost 9 years ago05/20/15 at 8:58 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Text to Speech
"Thanks Steve!
I've used the TTS built into Captivate in the past - I have my own issues with Captivate itself, but I didn't find the TTS..."
- almost 9 years ago05/20/15 at 7:05 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Using photos of real company people in your courses
"Cary, in that case I'd look around for a local photographer looking to expand their portfolio. Custom photography is often cheaper than y..."
- over 9 years ago09/16/14 at 7:39 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Cost of developing 1 hour of elearning
"In the 3 years since I posted the original question, I still haven't read a satisfactory answer.
You see, the answer is still - "it depen..."
- 10 years ago03/15/14 at 7:56 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Course running slowly
"I've published a version for LMS (and Web) but am running it locally on my machine.
sean"
- over 10 years ago01/30/14 at 11:15 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Custom Background not working when player set to scale
"Hi Ashley,
Sorry, I wasn't clear in my original post. I'm modifying the background that appears around the player. Rather than have the c..."
- over 10 years ago01/14/14 at 9:54 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Likert Issues
"Sorry to thread necro, but has this issue been addressed?
I'd like to bring the # of options down from 5 to 4 but all deleting from the s..."
- over 10 years ago11/22/13 at 12:11 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion [BUG] Markers and grouping
"Is there a resolution for when markers are in a scroll panel? This is giving me fits."
- over 10 years ago10/30/13 at 3:33 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Cost of developing 1 hour of elearning
"I found that the prices weren't terribly off in some places, but were wildly off in others. As long as it works for you though. =)
I gues..."
- over 10 years ago10/27/13 at 2:46 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Example files: Generating a certificate from Storyline
"Further question...
I'm 99% sure I can get the certificate to work as advertised.
My HTML days are far, far behind me. Is there a way to ..."
- over 10 years ago10/17/13 at 12:42 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Storyline - Better preparation
"One of my frustrations with Storyline is that it doesn't have quite all the text editing/manipulation features that I'm used to with Word..."
- over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 11:47 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Too Many Quiz Result Variables in Storyline
"Is Results.PercentScore the built in Variable in Storyline for a quiz that is passing results to an LMS?
Can you alter that score?"
- over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 11:42 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Altering Question Scores
"Hi Jeff,
I'm pretty confident I can figure it out so long as it doesn't need to pass the final score to the LMS.
If it does need to pass ..."
- over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 10:55 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Trigger for Next button
"I love TRUE/FALSE variables for exactly this purpose"
- over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 10:41 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Trigger for Next button
"By assigning True/False variables to each of the selections, you can put conditions on the next button to only advance if all of the vari..."
- over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 10:28 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Altering Question Scores
"No thoughts at all?"
- over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 10:24 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Experiences with Storyline on Mac via Parallels
"I've always found that publishing or working on external drives is great until it isn't.
I don't do it, just to eliminate on other possib..."
- almost 11 years ago05/27/13 at 7:23 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion for those that only use USB headsets for recording- recommend one?
"I use one of these...
http://bluemic.com/snowball/
Not a headset, but I run the mic through USB then my headset through my audio jacks.
E..."
- 11 years ago05/08/13 at 4:09 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion How can a lock a student into a quiz.
"You could disable the menu on any quiz slides.
From Story View, select custom for the selected slide under the Player Features and remove..."
- 11 years ago05/08/13 at 1:13 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Quiz Feedback
"Or alternatively, have different results slides based on the user's choice?
If they pick A, they get results slide A
If they pick B, they..."
- 11 years ago05/08/13 at 1:09 pm (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Prev and Next buttons available based on variable plus saved state
"Tried inserting as a movie. It works intermittently. Sometimes on the first revisit to the page and sometimes not. Never on the second vi..."
- 11 years ago04/03/13 at 9:17 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Prev and Next buttons available based on variable plus saved state
"I'm using variables to track completion, so I'll probably just disable the next button and put one on screen. Thanks!
Any thoughts as to ..."
- 11 years ago04/03/13 at 8:32 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Translation Features
"Hi Judy,
If I recall correctly, the issue was I was accessing the word file from the email that had been sent to me. Once I saved it dire..."
- over 11 years ago02/08/13 at 8:58 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion Bullets, Numbering and Indents
"I have the same issue with the hanging indents.
I'm also wondering about continuing a numbered list across slides... there doesn't seem t..."
- over 11 years ago01/16/13 at 8:49 am (UTC)
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Sean Speake replied to the discussion PPS to DVD
"We've done that. Unfortunately, the audio comes out sounding a little tinny. I'm not opposed to it, just wondering if there are other sol..."
- over 11 years ago12/20/12 at 7:30 am (UTC)