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 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)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Adding a quiz to Storyline project
"In which case place each question on its own layer and show them one after the other. You'll need to customise the way you handle submit..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/24/14 at 1:53 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Storyline
"Getting data out of SL using JS has been problematic for some. How about embedding a Google Form as a web object? I've done this for ..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/24/14 at 9:07 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Adding a quiz to Storyline project
"A series of questions all viewable on a single slide? How big are your slides?! What are you trying to achieve? If you want all your q..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/24/14 at 7:21 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Storyline HTML5 vs the 'competition'
"Michael Hinze said: Bryce, I would definitely have a close look at Captivate 8. With its new responsive design option and Android support..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/24/14 at 7:10 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion UK based LMS Hosting consultancy -is moodle the answer
"Hi Mandy Have you already gone ahead with Moodle? Other LMS' are available, naturally depending on budget, spec, level or support requi..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/22/14 at 9:13 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Client brief
"Like Bruce says, every client/project is unique in some way. SMEs and so on still ask me "How many slides can you do for £x?" or "What i..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/16/14 at 8:42 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion E-Learning Design - How did you get started?
"Phil Mayor said: I started off life wanting to be a tennis player, Really? I was a tennis coach. Seems a long time..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/16/14 at 8:36 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion eLearning Development QC Checklist
"I've used a checklist similar to Rachel's but included columns so reviewers could report which slides needed tidying up along with any co..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/03/14 at 12:14 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Average size of published SCORM course
"I imagine somebody will be along shortly with something more specific, after all, some of the crowd here have seen a lot of courses pushe..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/02/14 at 8:27 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Average size of published SCORM course
"Hi Aubrey I've no idea what an official average may be, but I can say that the courses I've seen (across multiple LMS') vary from 1Mb to ..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/02/14 at 7:01 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Running Storyline and Studio 13 on same computer
"Hi Paula I also run both simultaneously with no performance issues.  PC is an i5 (overclocked to 3.4GHz), 8Gb, SSD, Win 7 Pro 64bit with ..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/02/14 at 6:48 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Bug in my project
"Yes, lmenu display "issues" are often easily resolved by remembering one can reset the layout (as well as tweak it)."
  • almost 10 years ago05/19/14 at 11:42 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Bug in my project
"Do you mean you're not seeing scene 10 appear in your menu bar or are you not able to launch slides in scene 10?"
  • almost 10 years ago05/19/14 at 6:47 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Who created crossword puzzle in Storyline?
"There are quite a few threads on crosswords, including this one and this one ..."
  • almost 10 years ago05/19/14 at 6:46 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins commented on the article Contiguity Principle: Keep Graphics & Related Text Together
"You're right Nick, I didn't do a particularly eloquent job of getting my point across :) What I meant to emphasise was the need to giv..."
  • 10 years ago05/13/14 at 9:13 am (UTC)