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 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 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 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 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 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)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Have You a Great Way to House Your Blog and E-Learning Samples?
"Jackie, I had a play with W3 Total Cache but it messed up a couple of things so I deactivated it. I'll take another look when I have mor..."
  • over 9 years ago08/17/14 at 2:02 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Strategy for a very long course
"Are you running this course in an LMS? Is it capable of handling multi-SCORM courses? If so, you could publish say 10 modules (SCORMs),..."
  • over 9 years ago08/15/14 at 6:40 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Using Organic Shapes?
"I'm one of those people that tends to like one thing, eg style, until I spend too much time investigating a new thing (style), at which p..."
  • over 9 years ago08/15/14 at 6:37 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Have You a Great Way to House Your Blog and E-Learning Samples?
"Jeff, take a look at the Gravatar site for starters. Set yourself up with a profile and your avatar will follow you from site to site."
  • over 9 years ago08/15/14 at 6:24 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Move an object from one location to another on the screen
"Yep, at present the only way to do this natively is as per James' idea. It's a pain and you'll need a lot of frames if you want to get t..."
  • over 9 years ago08/14/14 at 12:43 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion storyboard flowchart template?
"I sometimes storyboard straight into Storyline as it allows the content to be more visual and hands-on. Some SMEs/L&D members like i..."
  • over 9 years ago08/14/14 at 12:39 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Testing of e-learning lessons
"Do you mean a flowchart that can be made to appear during a preview (or indeed a full publish), whereupon all variables are displayed and..."
  • over 9 years ago08/13/14 at 4:52 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Filling Graphic Design Gaps
"+1 Slide:ology - an excellent book, as is Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen. Also, take a look at resources from places like GraphicRiver ..."
  • over 9 years ago08/13/14 at 4:46 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Best practice for navigation
"Oof, thread resurrection!"
  • over 9 years ago08/12/14 at 7:54 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Testing of e-learning lessons
"Definitely a good question to raise David. I also alter variables on occasion depending on what needs to be tested. I do the same not j..."
  • over 9 years ago08/12/14 at 2:18 am (UTC)