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 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 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 started a new discussion Any issues with uninstalling '13 and reinstalling '09?
"I need to update 4 courses that are 2 years old and part of a suite of 20.  The problem is they were built in '09, therefore updating and..."
  • 10 years ago03/13/14 at 8:17 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Updating Results.ScorePercent help required
"HI all Have built a quiz that works as follows: - has a bank of 50 questions - first attempt shows 20 random questions (from above bank) ..."
  • over 10 years ago11/20/13 at 6:51 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Forcing quiz retry to show the same random questions
"Hi again Is there a way to force each quiz retry to show the same bunch of randomly selected questions?  I have a bank of 50 questions, o..."
  • over 10 years ago11/15/13 at 7:16 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion PREV and NEXT buttons appearing when deactivated
"Morning all I've built a quiz-based module that includes a randomly drawn bank of questions.  All navigation is handled by in-slide butto..."
  • over 10 years ago11/15/13 at 1:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Installed font no longer working (in SL update 3)
"Have just had to revisit some modules previously built in update 2 and noticed now, in update 3, that one of the 3rd party fonts no longe..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/20/13 at 8:20 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Slide lag in Chrome (HTML5 mode)
"Is anyone else experiencing lag when switching between slides?  Load times in HTML5 mode are often 1-3 seconds instead of instant (normal..."
  • 11 years ago03/27/13 at 2:18 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Publish to Word
"In your next update, is there any chance you can tidy up the Publish to Word output by ensuring each slide/layer begins on a new page?  A..."
  • 11 years ago03/04/13 at 9:07 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Display quiz slide number
"QM had/has an option to show which number question you are on as you progress through a quiz, e.g. "Question 3 of 10".  Is there a way to..."
  • 11 years ago02/22/13 at 1:09 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion MCQ only shows Incorrect layer if attempts = 1
"Can't figure out the logic behind this, but it's affecting all the quiz slides in a particular course right now.  The only time the Incor..."
  • 11 years ago02/21/13 at 9:36 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Can't delete quiz slides in a bank
"I have a bank of 60+ quiz slides but SL won't let me delete any of them.  The delete option is there in the contextual menu but nothing h..."
  • 11 years ago02/18/13 at 2:12 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion "Resume Saved State" not really working with quiz slides
"I've tried all sort of ways to do this, but can't get it to work natively without some kind of workaround.  Am building a course with abo..."
  • 11 years ago02/14/13 at 6:57 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Ideas for a message re "You are committing fraud if you ...
"... are not the person taking and completing this course ... ". A client has concerns that some learners may be taking/completing courses..."
  • over 11 years ago02/01/13 at 12:29 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Issues when collating sim-based captures on different PCs
"2 x PCs running different monitors; PC A is widescreen 1280 x 1024 and PC B is normal 1280 x 1024.  When both are using SL to record sim-..."
  • over 11 years ago01/31/13 at 3:07 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Feedback masters not retaining custom colours (themes)
"Created a new project this morning and added a custom theme. Works fine in normal slide view and slide master but not in feedback m..."
  • over 11 years ago01/29/13 at 3:26 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Automation Error when inserting quiz
"I can no longer insert (and therefore update) any quizzes in Presenter as I get the following errors every time.  This happens no matter ..."
  • over 11 years ago01/28/13 at 2:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Course window settings over-ruled by SCORM law?
"Have just been having a chat with someone re LMS' having to define course window properties, e.g. size, scalability etc, because SCORM do..."
  • over 11 years ago01/24/13 at 9:46 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Is there still no way to make markers show automatically?
"In light of this conversation, I still don't see a way to do this.  Can it be done or is another FR in order? Cheers PS I'm not getting i..."
  • over 11 years ago01/02/13 at 8:55 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Can I prevent "NaN" from appearing in numerical entry?
"Is there a way to do this? Am using conditions to handle which numbers ARE allowed and to display an error if invalid numbers are e..."
  • over 11 years ago11/16/12 at 8:33 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Fonts and font sizes change during production ...
"... when sharing SL file across 2 machines.  Both running W7 and the same SL v1_1. This is really bugging me now because every time I ope..."
  • over 11 years ago11/12/12 at 12:31 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Using Homegroup to work on SL files - a good idea?
"I do all my production work on a PC but would now like to access the same files on my laptop - including course resources and SL files.  ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 3:48 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Completion anomaly based on viewing slide durations in full?
"I've never heard of this before but here goes: A learner says that if they complete a course by hitting the pass score and without viewin..."
  • over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 9:22 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Remind me how to use seekbar to control audio
"I'm having to bring some old Presenter courses up to date with some narration, but can't remember how to enable the seekbar to control th..."
  • over 11 years ago09/17/12 at 2:24 pm (UTC)