Simon Blair
Simon Blair
e-Learning Specialist
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion mulitlingual pages
"I haven't done that, but I have done something else which might work for you. On our Moodle-based LMS we just add two activities; one fo..."
  • over 5 years ago09/19/18 at 10:37 pm (UTC)
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"I've got a project which will involve rolling out the same quiz to an audience periodically. Our tracking systems (LMS and some homebrew..."
  • over 5 years ago09/19/18 at 3:05 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Freebie: Adaptive Course Templates
"It looks like notifications are still flaky. I didn't get anything for Sasha's question, but I did for Ashley's response. Thanks for jum..."
  • over 5 years ago09/14/18 at 12:37 pm (UTC)
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"Do you get the same error if you publish to Word format?"
  • over 5 years ago08/28/18 at 10:20 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion reset state of items on page
"You could reset the state of all the objects using the solution from my initial response and adding a trigger on the button to jump to th..."
  • over 5 years ago08/27/18 at 2:14 pm (UTC)
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Simon Blair replied to the discussion Post web link on Sharepoint (SL360)
"Hi Lisette, What format did you publish to? I think your best bet is to publish for web. As for getting it up on SharePoint, are you tr..."
  • over 5 years ago08/25/18 at 1:58 pm (UTC)
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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)