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 Fil in the Blank - input box doesn't work when on top of text
"FITB seems to be an appropriate model to use for approx 10-15 simple interactions in a new course we're building. All we need is a ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/08/11 at 5:22 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Removing 'one half' of a Matching Drag and Drop
"We'd like to build an interaction where the one side of the slide has 4 images and the right hand side has the 'answers' that you drag in..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/19/11 at 3:45 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Why do some images shrink when placed in slide layouts?
"Basically, some images that are used in slide layouts are appearing about 20% smaller when published. Yet other images on thos..."
  • 13 years ago05/18/11 at 1:07 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Does anyone else get errors/crashes when publishing?
"This is starting to really bug me now because the same issue appears probably once every three to four publishes (to LMS) and costs me 15..."
  • 13 years ago04/19/11 at 9:37 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Indenting level on nav bar slides doesn't work after hidden slides
"I'm building some modules that need to have the side menu representative of the chapter structure, i.e. 1 Chapter One    1.1 Sub-chapter ..."
  • 13 years ago03/22/11 at 1:40 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Imported (interactive) SWF automatically plays by itself
"Have been playing with Flash CS4 and built a SWF using one of the lessons in Adobe's CIB manual (lesson 6 for those that know it). ..."
  • 13 years ago03/21/11 at 5:15 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Slide data appears before slide master/layout
"This is now becoming a hangover from my previous flickering slide masters issue ... because in the revamped version we now have slide obj..."
  • 13 years ago03/17/11 at 1:45 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Building free text (essay) in Flash - can text be sent?
"We've been asked if we can provide some slides where the learner enters a chunk of text which is then sent either to an email address or ..."
  • 13 years ago03/17/11 at 1:31 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Flash/Actionscript - worth learning to use alongside Articulate?
"How beneficial do you think it is to use these as part of "customising" your end product within Articulate? Have taken a look at Flash ov..."
  • 13 years ago03/09/11 at 4:04 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Collecting a score from multiple quiz slides?
"I know there's a post from a while back that shows how to include multiple QMs in a presentation, but I can't find it at the minute and d..."
  • 13 years ago02/25/11 at 12:40 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion How do you handle completions with non-linear non-scoring courses?
"I need to figure out a reliable way to do this because if a course: - is devoid of any quiz elements or the need for capturing a score - ..."
  • 13 years ago02/25/11 at 10:23 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion RELOAD SCORM 1.2 Player
"Have just started using this again after having a few weird experiences when testing published courses. Understandably, Articulate advoca..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 4:46 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Ensuring quizzes are attempted only once
"I still find that this works on some modules and not on others, even though the following are set up: 1. QM template: Prompt to resume on..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 10:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion How do you collate together your materials?
"Or put another way, how do you politely request ("ensure") your clients provide you with the materials you need and in a format you under..."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 1:01 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion How do you work with master slides and layouts?
"I just thought I'd throw this out to the community because it's based on feedback regarding my recent "flickering slides" post. The upsho..."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 8:56 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Making best use of master slides to speed up publishing/viewing
"Just had a though which spins off from my previous post ref flickering slides ... How does AP handle objects in master slides? E.g&..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 11:45 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Slides flicker when published
"This is being a real bugbear on a couple of courses (both of which comprise many modules) so I need to find a fix real soon. The problem ..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 9:20 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion What do you say to having Feature Request posts in each sub-forum?
"I, like a fair few people here have made X number of feature requests, and while I think this is obviously great for overall development,..."
  • over 13 years ago02/12/11 at 3:17 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Is this where everyone is hanging out now?
"Can't tell for sure, but it seems like this place is dragging people across from the original forums? Or maybe it's attracting a di..."
  • over 13 years ago02/11/11 at 8:55 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins started a new discussion Possible security risks regarding attachments
"Our techies have raised concerns about how the URL for attachments is published in the new "download" window. I.e. they don't like ..."
  • over 13 years ago02/11/11 at 8:34 am (UTC)