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 Making a layer appear behind other layers
"Is this possible? I've had a long day of variable-mashing and seem to be too tired to get my head around this, hence putting it out to th..."
  • over 11 years ago08/21/12 at 1:22 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Quizmaker error when publishing to Word
"We're looking at publishing all quiz data into Word so a client can review a whole bunch of stuff without have to go through all the slid..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/11/12 at 8:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Experiential differences in publishing to Web vs SCORM 1.2
"I've had a search for a table that illustrates where there might be flaws in these but can't find anything.  I know it's best to publish ..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/28/12 at 4:21 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion How do you allow free navigation across all quiz slides?
"I've been working in SL for so long that I've forgotten (or can't find) how to do certain things in Studio/QM anymore - and this seems to..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/25/12 at 4:39 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Legacy bugs from previous (beta) versions - do they carry across?
"I guess this is one for the good people of Articulate as well as fellow beta testers: are you aware of issues/bugs/weirdness that's happe..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/24/12 at 9:09 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion HTML5 output not working (in Chrome 19)
"At short notice I have to demo some HTML5 output tomorrow and Monday but nothing I've republished in HTML5 today is working.  All I get i..."
  • 12 years ago05/17/12 at 2:28 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion How do you alter the "Invalid Answer" layer?
"I've made all feedback masters/layouts blank so I can create custom feedback throughout - which we all know is great.  But, "Invalid Answ..."
  • 12 years ago05/15/12 at 4:35 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion FR: Adding enabled/disabled buttons beside triggers in the pane
"I can't remember seeing this mentioned anywhere so thought I'd throw it in as a feature request.  IMO it would be darn useful to have the..."
  • 12 years ago05/15/12 at 2:25 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Moving triggers up and down not happening as expected
"I've been meaning to ask this for months but probably haven't because I assumed I'd make sense of it myself.  But I haven't.  So here goe..."
  • 12 years ago05/14/12 at 1:04 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion When do you plan on adding search functionality to the new forum?
"Just tried doing a few test searches and they all called up posts from the other forums.  Will you be adding this soon?  There's going to..."
  • 12 years ago05/04/12 at 9:22 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Another challenge with transparent QM slides
"Is there anything you can do to either switch off or change the appearance of the "Invalid Answer" popup that appears if a learner incorr..."
  • over 12 years ago12/13/11 at 12:48 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion More control over 'blank slide' feedback'?
"Have been playing with transparent QM slides (courtesy of Tom and Jeanette's typically excellent Screenrs) to create more 'look and feel'..."
  • over 12 years ago12/05/11 at 5:23 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Embedding Javascript inside a course
"I'm asking this on behalf of one of our more technical people so try and bear with me Sounds like we've been asked to build a course tha..."
  • over 12 years ago11/17/11 at 1:27 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Reduce the chances of a crash when publishing by ...
"... closing down all instances of PPT, opening the file you want to publish (and no other PPT file) and then publish as normal.  I used t..."
  • over 12 years ago10/26/11 at 2:51 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Compressing WMV into smaller FLVs
"Looks like we might need to build a course comprising 20-30 videos, all of which are 5-15Mb WMVs.  Have converted some using Video Encode..."
  • over 12 years ago10/12/11 at 4:03 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Working with 'reticent' SMEs
"I'll try and don my diplomatic hat for this one because I don't want to appear insensitive to certain SMEs that might be out there ... ..."
  • over 12 years ago10/11/11 at 2:34 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion How many quiz questions is too many?
"Ok, let's put aside any arguments against end-of-module quizzes and look solely at how these might just test the patience of the learner...."
  • over 12 years ago09/26/11 at 2:30 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Some animations flicker/flash when published
"I've just noticed a bunch of slides in the same course that have animations that flicker/flash as soon as the animation is finished. &nbs..."
  • almost 13 years ago08/11/11 at 7:49 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion 'Pass' and 'fail' slide nav keeps changing
"Bit of a weird one this. Published a course for a pilot group and thought all was well. But then the feedback comes in that q..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/27/11 at 3:07 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Anyone else noticed copy/paste not working when publishing?
"This is a really weird one and has happened from day one. When publishing a course (90% of the time to SCORM 1.2) my copy/paste fun..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/29/11 at 4:38 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Is there a way to stop QM quizzes being added to the wrong PPT?
"I've noticed that sometimes when editing a QM quiz when having more than one PPT file open, the QM will somehow drop into one of the othe..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/29/11 at 4:35 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Side menu messing up when resuming a presentation
"This week we published 15+ courses for a pilot and have noticed that some of them adopt a weird side menu when resuming where you left of..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/24/11 at 7:45 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Do annotations 'stick' to slide number as opposed to slide?
"A recent draft had annotations on let say slides 10, 15 and 20 - all correct and working where they should be. Client asks us to ad..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/15/11 at 1:33 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Hyperlinks going to the wrong slides
"There are already a couple of posts on this but none with a solution that's going to work for me right now. Basically, a course tha..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/15/11 at 5:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Word Bank - can the boxes be shrunk/manipulated?
"Basically, can any of the boxes (those that contain the answers AND the box where the answer is dragged to) be changed in any way?  Some ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/08/11 at 5:25 am (UTC)