Simon Blair
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Creating Resources Tab in Custom-Built Player
"Hi David,
Where will those PDF documents sit?
If they're outside the course, you can use links to display them.
If they're in the co..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 1:53 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Pagination in 360
"Hi Rick,
We do something similar with the %pageNumber% / %pageCount%.
In addition to that, we have triggers on the master slides to inc..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 1:24 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Final Assessments - Read Full Course First
"Hi Joshua,
You can definitely do that. Here's how I'd do it:
Create variables to track the status of each section (default them to fa..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 1:13 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Moving a slide
"Hi Jen,
You should be able to drag and drop the slides in the story view or in the left navigation panel when you're within a chapter. I..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 1:09 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Exit Course Triggers not working on Cornerstone
"It could also be something in your publish settings. We've had tracking issues when we had courses sending a status of "completed" when o..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 1:05 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion reset state of items on page
"Hi Leisa,
There's a slide option which lets you determine how each slide behaves when someone revisits it. I believe the default is for ..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 12:59 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Hiding Objects After Clicking
"Hi Jenny,
Your base layer is exactly what I'd have done (although I tend to hotspots, but that shouldn't make a difference).
On each of..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 12:42 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Is feedback necessary in a pre-test?
"You can also use feedback to go into more detail, along the lines of the "Yes and" teaching technique."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 12:16 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Articulate 360 Branching Scenario Template
"Hi Venice,
I found a couple or articles with examples of branching courses. Each one has at least one source file available for download..."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 12:05 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion How do you build a trigger based on viewing a resource?
"You could also put the PDF on a layer, then change the state of the button to visible at the start of that layer."
- over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 11:56 am (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion When my users click somewhere on a slide, any video that's currently playing will restart!
"Interesting. I hadn't come across that bug. Let's hope that's what was happening in Patrick's case because it's much less work to update ..."
- over 5 years ago08/24/18 at 3:29 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion When my users click somewhere on a slide, any video that's currently playing will restart!
"I can't speak to 3.19 (I have to get to the coffee shop to update), but in 3.18 it's behaving exactly as I described above when it comes ..."
- over 5 years ago08/24/18 at 3:18 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion When my users click somewhere on a slide, any video that's currently playing will restart!
"Hey Leslie,
Isn't it the same issue? I thought it worked like this:
If the video is playing, it pauses on click
if the video is paus..."
- over 5 years ago08/24/18 at 2:57 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Advancing "layers" automatically?
"I don't recall (I haven't used zoom regions in a long time), but I would expect so."
- over 5 years ago08/23/18 at 2:08 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion When my users click somewhere on a slide, any video that's currently playing will restart!
"That does complicate things. You could speed things up by copying and pasting the transparent shape and the hotspot, but it's still hund..."
- over 5 years ago08/23/18 at 10:22 am (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Advancing "layers" automatically?
"Hi Crystal,
I'd do it like this:
Trigger on base layer: Show layer X (shows layer)
Trigger on layer X: Hide layer - this layer (retu..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 10:38 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Storyline 2: create an adaptative E-Learning course?
"Hi Fabienne,
It's possible, but depending on how many questions and screens you want it may add up to a lot of work.
Here's a link to a..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 10:32 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion issues with slide master
"Hi Ari,
You could do that by adding a white (filled) circle to your feedback masters. It would need to go behind the check/incorrect ico..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 10:14 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Number Questions on Random Draws from Multiple Banks
"I thought maybe you had duplicated triggers (e.g. incrementing the question number on the slide master and also on the actual slide), but..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 10:08 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Menu Button Navigation
"Hi Jeremy,
I've done similar things with menus where we locked the test until all chapters were visited. (I'm not a fan of locking navig..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 9:50 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Different passing score for different users
"Maybe it does. I'm afraid JavaScript isn't my forte. There might be a way to override the behaviour, but you might need to mess with the ..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 9:26 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion When my users click somewhere on a slide, any video that's currently playing will restart!
"My team has had similar issues with videos pausing on clicking.
Our solution was to put a transparent shape over the video object. As lo..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 9:23 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Different passing score for different users
"If you're comfortable with JavaScript, I believe you could use it to retrieve the value you want from the LMS, then store it in a custom ..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Different passing score for different users
"It's a bit of a kludge, but what if you duplicated the quiz draw (or the course)? Then you could have two versions with the same question..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 1:38 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Creating a menu which shows when a scene has been completed
"Hi Amy,
The simplest way I can think of is a combination of variables, states and triggers.
create a variable to track the status of ..."
- over 5 years ago08/22/18 at 11:27 am (UTC)