Simon Perkins
Simon Perkins
Instructional Designer/Developer at Freelance
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    Simon Perkins

    10 years of experience delivering commercial and behavioural change working alongside L&D Teams, Stakeholders, SMEs and Coaches across public and private sectors. Specialist in designing digital learning, workshops, coaching sessions, videos and training aids.
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Any official guidance on running SL via Parallels (with file sharing)?
"So I've finally made the switch to run all of my projects from a MBP using Parallels (solely for Storyline). Previously, I've always stor..."
  • over 4 years ago12/16/19 at 10:21 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Is SL now working reliably again via Parallels?
"Cool. I'll crack on with the remainder of my research. Thanks Ashley, much appreciated."
  • over 5 years ago01/15/19 at 10:22 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Is SL now working reliably again via Parallels?
"Thanks Ashley I did wonder if those particular issues were localised - given that most Parallels users were keen to voice how their inst..."
  • over 5 years ago01/15/19 at 8:23 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Is SL now working reliably again via Parallels?
"Hi guys I may soon be getting my hands on a MBP hence wondering if the previously mentioned issues have since been fixed.  Have been una..."
  • over 5 years ago01/14/19 at 9:36 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Video Courses
"Set up a free account and give it a go :)"
  • over 5 years ago10/23/18 at 8:10 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Video Courses
"Videos can be uploaded to Vimeo and made private by setting Privacy "Who can watch to?" to "People with the private link".  Embed in SL ..."
  • over 5 years ago10/23/18 at 8:09 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Video Courses
"For the last 2 years or so I've been hosting videos on Vimeo and embedding them into various places they need to be accessed from, eg ele..."
  • over 5 years ago10/23/18 at 4:38 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Do you design in your spare time?
"Hi Narissa Once upon a time - going back 8-10 years - I had this thing called 'time on my hands' and a desire to get into ID.  That was ..."
  • over 5 years ago10/23/18 at 8:14 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Managing tasks and time
"I believe you can integrate Harvest into Teamwork ..."
  • over 5 years ago10/22/18 at 8:38 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Add Custom Interactions to Rise 360 Projects with the Storyline Block
"This is indeed awesome. Haven't to date bought into Rise but the addition of SL-integration may now make this a game changer for us. Go..."
  • over 6 years ago10/11/17 at 10:33 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Quizmaker player colours incorrectly showing in Presenter
"Ok, so it appears they share a unified player which is a good move for building stuff from scratch.  Can't see how this helps when having..."
  • 8 years ago04/20/16 at 12:52 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Quizmaker player colours incorrectly showing in Presenter
"Hi guys I'm updating a Presenter 09 course in Presenter 13, part of which requires me to include the original QM 09 quiz via QM 13.  Whe..."
  • 8 years ago04/20/16 at 12:03 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Seek bar doesn't work well with video and animation
"Ok, thanks Ashley."
  • over 8 years ago11/05/15 at 3:43 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Seek bar doesn't work well with video and animation
"Hi guys I've been trying to do something similar recently and have encountered the same problem in SL2.  Has there been a fix made avail..."
  • over 8 years ago11/05/15 at 9:54 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Virtual Tours in Online Training #44
"Some more excellent examples on show:) At last, I finally have the time to create one of these myself! Will hopefully have it submitt..."
  • over 9 years ago07/31/14 at 4:35 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Virtual Tours in Online Training #44
"Ok, maybe not quite in before the lock, but here's my first entry http://goo.gl/Zm4KTi At first I wasn't sure what to build then it da..."
  • over 9 years ago08/01/14 at 4:09 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Virtual Tours in E-Learning #44
"Great to see so many imaginative examples. Plenty of ideas and new skills no doubt being picked up by the people here. #recapthursday..."
  • over 9 years ago08/01/14 at 4:14 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Virtual Tours in E-Learning #44
"Thanks David."
  • over 9 years ago08/05/14 at 8:53 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Show Us Your E-Learning Portfolio #46
"I've not quite read through the entire task either, but here's my portfolio for Part 1: www.e-volv.co.uk"
  • over 9 years ago08/11/14 at 11:27 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Show Us Your E-Learning Portfolio #46
"@Nancy - Thanks for the feedback. Designing and maintaining a website as a freelancer can be quite a challenge these days. Thankfully t..."
  • over 9 years ago08/12/14 at 9:15 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion PowerPoint to SCORM
"What exactly do you need your "course" to do in its SCORM environment? Does it only need to launch/play or do you need any tracking? If..."
  • over 9 years ago08/19/14 at 11:57 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Linking from webpage to specific slide in Storyline
"You might find something here."
  • over 9 years ago08/19/14 at 11:52 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion variable query
"In the variable table, set the starting value of NumericEntry to 1."
  • over 9 years ago08/19/14 at 11:50 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Best Image Sites
"Here are 10 sites, some of which are a little off the beaten track. Have used Kozzi a few times as the quality and relevance IMO is bett..."
  • over 9 years ago08/18/14 at 8:20 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Anyone with Publishing expertise?
"I've had a fair few problems running demos in local Flash mode as simple things, e.g button clicks, sometimes fail to work regardless of ..."
  • over 9 years ago08/18/14 at 2:37 am (UTC)