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 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)
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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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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 ..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 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..."
  • over 9 years ago08/05/14 at 8:41 am (UTC)