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

    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 Recover serial number
"I received mine in an email, but this may depend on where you purchased it. If not, then like Harri says, the folks at Articulate will h..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/12/14 at 1:10 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Question Banks
"Cool, glad it worked Andrew. The thing about SL is so many things, eg layers, can happen on just a single slide. So it can sometimes ta..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/11/14 at 11:22 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 Van Nice said: Hi Simon - Yup. Used to have descriptive permalinks rather than the default ones, but had to go to the default. I h..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/11/14 at 11:13 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Hyperlink to website not working :(
"Hi Victoria and welcome to the community. Are you testing only by running in Preview Mode? If so, URLs do not launch in this mode. You..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/11/14 at 6:20 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Question Banks
"Hi Andrew One way to achieve this is to create a variable for each question, setting each one to False. Then, on each question's Correc..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/11/14 at 6:14 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?
"BTW, Jackie, I've just noticed from your latest blog post http://www.jackievannice.com/?p=175065182 that you've not set up permalinks for..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/11/14 at 5:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Using cue points with a text box
"Joanna's idea is the simplest way. An alternative would be to mess around with states but that's unnecessarily complicating it. Have at..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/08/14 at 1:37 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Poor quality video should be fixed
"Franco, have you thought about hosted your videos via Vimeo (PRO package is excellent VFM) and then embedding into your courses? Often m..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/07/14 at 7:02 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Copyright on google images
"I can't comment on the exact legalities of using Google images inhouse. But on a similar note, I've seen a fair few NHS courses (publicl..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/07/14 at 2:27 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Using Videoscribe/Scribes in Storyline courses
"Just managed to get Puffin working and can confirm Scribes are playing better than in Chrome and Safari. Seekbar is still not behaving e..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/06/14 at 2:44 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion E-learning for dyslexia
"Hi Lisa and welcome to the community! That's an interesting question. I don't have experience of this myself, nor do I know anyone who ..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/06/14 at 2:42 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Using Videoscribe/Scribes in Storyline courses
"VideoScribe in itself is excellent. But IMO it's integration with Storyline isn't great on mobile devices. I've only seen reliable re..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/06/14 at 2:36 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Do you have an elearning portfolio? Share your work here!
"Steve, I just looked through your site and have a couple of pointers: The link to your CV opens up in the same tab. IMO this would wor..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/05/14 at 8:51 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Do you have an elearning portfolio? Share your work here!
"Cheers Steve. Yes, there are similarities between RiO and Cerner. Like you say, having access to appropriate training data is key, part..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/05/14 at 8:46 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?
"Thanks Jackie. It's helpful now that WP is so much more capable these days. I always recommend it for anyone looking to build a portfol..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/05/14 at 8:41 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Do you have an elearning portfolio? Share your work here!
"Here's my new site: www.e-volv.co.uk ... and some background to how I developed it using Wordpress. All feedback along with any question..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/05/14 at 1:28 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?
"Thanks Phil. I know exactly what you mean as mine took me several weeks longer than expected. I think the trickiest part was brainstorm..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/04/14 at 9:17 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?
"Thanks Bruce. Just noticed the homepage slider isn't animating properly in Chrome. Thankfully the devs are looking into it as this is a..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/04/14 at 8:53 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Hyperlink (URL) problem
"Hi Samir An absolute hyperlink references the whole URL, e.g www.bbc.co.uk/news/london/this-happened-in-the-west-end-today therefore it ..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/04/14 at 3:33 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?
"+1 Elizabeth. Plenty of valuable resource in here. Managed to finally complete the main shell of my WP site a couple of weeks ago http:..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/04/14 at 2:54 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Articulate Storyline and Wowza streaming server
"Can't comment on Wowza but I can certainly recommend Vimeo Pro @ $199pa (unless it's changed). Plenty of controls and permissions. Fast..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/30/14 at 7:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Scorm Host Sites
"Not heard of CourseSites, so thanks for the heads up on that one Mark. Just checking out if there are any limitations. Looks like a Cou..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/30/14 at 3:32 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Scorm Host Sites
"Hi Rebecca Do your courses have to be published/reviewed online? If so, SCORM Cloud is a good option even if you want to stick to the f..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/29/14 at 3:55 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Need to build a library!
"Here is a list of 10 sites offering free/cheap images. Personally I find Kozzi the best but that still requires something like $15/m sub..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/28/14 at 1:02 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Using handwritten fonts and hand-drawn arrows for callouts
"Be sure to close/relaunch any software that uses these fonts as you won't see them until you do so."
  • almost 10 years ago07/25/14 at 1:43 am (UTC)