Simon Blair
Simon Blair
e-Learning Specialist
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"Sounds good, Jacob. Let me know if you run into any trouble.  "
  • over 9 years ago03/02/15 at 1:59 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Carlo, Maybe something like this would work: Set up 2 variables associated with each course (e.g. "Univ101Fall" and  "Univ101Winte..."
  • over 9 years ago02/28/15 at 8:26 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Stina, This should work: Create a "CurrentChapter" variable Add triggers to the slide master to change the state of the objects b..."
  • over 9 years ago02/28/15 at 3:14 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Prompt for Text Entry in free form
"Hi George, Are the boxes the same size? Is the font size the same? Are you able to share a file? It might help people find you a solutio..."
  • over 9 years ago02/28/15 at 2:14 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Joyce, Several people have noticed that when you include a variable in a text box the output looks cleaner. What some people do is i..."
  • over 9 years ago02/28/15 at 2:06 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Hello everyone
"Hi, My team at work has been converting a lot of Toolbook courses to Storyline. I don't think there's a way to do this via import, thoug..."
  • over 9 years ago02/28/15 at 1:51 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Jacob, It sounds like you've 2 issues here showing results of multiple question banks on a single page calculating the score base..."
  • over 9 years ago02/28/15 at 1:37 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Hosting Project on Google Drive
"So, 3 weeks and 4 support technicians later, all I got was "this is most likely an outage and they were able to fixed it"."
  • over 9 years ago02/27/15 at 6:34 pm (UTC)
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"So, 3 weeks and 4 support technicians later, all I got was "this is most likely an outage and they were able to fixed it"."
  • over 9 years ago02/27/15 at 6:30 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Templates in Storyline 1
"Hi Beata, You're mostly right. From what I've seen, they get created when you import or paste slides from other projects into the curren..."
  • over 9 years ago02/18/15 at 1:42 pm (UTC)
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"Thank you Michael. I'll check that out."
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 8:49 pm (UTC)
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"I haven't tried using the built-in ones, but Ashley's idea sounds good. If you were using custom buttons, you could set it up so they we..."
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 8:48 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Deb, Are you using custom next buttons or the built-in ones?"
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 8:34 pm (UTC)
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"I love Michael's recommendations, but I have a cautionary tale,  well... two actually, but the moral is the same. I had two recent proje..."
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 8:18 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Templates in Storyline 1
"Hi Beata, Can you clarify what you mean when you say you're seeing 7 templates? If I look at the slide master for one of my projects, I ..."
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 8:04 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Need a horizontal scroll in storyline 2
"Nice trick, Steve! That'll be handy in the tool belt."
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 7:44 pm (UTC)
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"I strongly agree with removing the reminder text on anything beyond the first page... as a general rule. If your users managed to find an..."
  • over 9 years ago02/17/15 at 7:41 pm (UTC)
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"Hi, I think there's a little more to this. I've been noticing this issue intermittently for quite some time, but I think I've got some u..."
  • over 9 years ago02/12/15 at 6:38 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Elizabet, What I did was create two separate results slides, one for each question bank. That created the variables I needed (results..."
  • over 9 years ago02/10/15 at 1:38 pm (UTC)
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"If and when I get a response, I'll be sure to share it."
  • over 9 years ago02/09/15 at 9:32 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Hosting Project on Google Drive
"I haven't heard back from Google yet, but Linda Robertson just posted in another thread that her Google Drive files are working again. I..."
  • over 9 years ago02/09/15 at 9:20 pm (UTC)
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"Right on, Linda! I just checked mine and they're all back online too. I also checked several other people's links (from the ELH Challeng..."
  • over 9 years ago02/09/15 at 9:17 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion %txt% - What does this mean?
"It could be a workaround for a text formatting issue. At our org, we've been appending a blank variable %x% to the end of text boxes. Oth..."
  • over 9 years ago02/07/15 at 11:19 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Elizabet, I think I understand. From the sounds of it, you should be able to do this by creating multiple question banks (1 per categ..."
  • over 9 years ago02/07/15 at 11:10 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Hosting Project on Google Drive
"A bunch of us noticed an issue yesterday (just in time for the weekly ELH challenge). The workaround of adding story.swf (or whatever it..."
  • over 9 years ago02/07/15 at 10:17 pm (UTC)