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 Quizmaker - pop up prompt when trying to exit a quiz
"Sean Speake said: I had the same issue a couple of months ago. Make sure your anti-virus (mine was Kapersky) is turned off. That may reso..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 12:40 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Restricted navigation with branching scenario
"Sheila Cole said: I have my course set to User Navigation is Restricted (in the player template) and that worked great in my little prot..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 12:36 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Altered images in published articulate
"Hi Ashleigh - and welcome again. I've also seen images appear in the wrong place when using Fade.  No idea how or why it happens.  Some i..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 12:30 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Ensuring quizzes are attempted only once
"Hi Justin We're not worried right now about the learner retaking the whole course, i.e. via "no" to resume - we're more confused by the f..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 12:26 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 replied to the discussion iAny awesome eLearning examples for traditional academc courses?
"One of the questions I ask early on is "What kind of environment/materials/job aids/resources/etc is your audience used to?"  The aim is ..."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 1:18 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Introduction to the Articulate Player
"Hi Zara +1 for using a Labelled Graphic Interaction as a User Guide.  Like Bruce says, pick a typical slide (preferably one that has as m..."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 1:07 pm (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 replied to the discussion Image rollover?
"Hmm, I'm sure there was some kind of limitation - hopefully I'm wrong.  Will have another go."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 12:43 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Image rollover?
"Well remembered Brian - that's an excellent tutorial of Tom's. The only real limitation I think I saw was that you could only have one su..."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 10:14 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Image rollover?
"Hi Colin I too had issues with that particular method.  Managed to get another to work a little bit, but it just wasn't scalable or versa..."
  • 13 years ago02/22/11 at 9:16 am (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 replied to the discussion Slides flicker when published
"Hi Justin.  Thanks for your help with this.   Justin Wilcox said: If you needed to create an effect where the pages were in the sl..."
  • 13 years ago02/18/11 at 7:14 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Slides flicker when published
"Is that because the Slide Master caches for the learner?  If so, would having multiple master slides achieve the same caching benefit ins..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 4:46 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Multiple SCOs Sequencing
"Hi Naveed and welcome to the Heroes Hangout! I might be using the wrong language here, but is it worth finding someone who can create som..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 2:20 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Making best use of master slides to speed up publishing/viewing
"Sean Speake said: As a further point... I make it a habit to delete any master slides that PPT creates and I'm not using. I find it speed..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 2:17 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Making best use of master slides to speed up publishing/viewing
"Have already submitted a case regarding the flickering - Support are onto it."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 2:12 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Making best use of master slides to speed up publishing/viewing
"Hmm, interesting - I was hoping that was the case.   Does that mean only master slides cache for the end-user, or does each slide layout ..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 2:11 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Making best use of master slides to speed up publishing/viewing
"Hi Brian I agree entirely with what you're saying there, but my question is more about how AP publishes (and indeed displays) each slide..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 1:08 pm (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 replied to the discussion Slides flicker when published
"Good idea Justin - just completed the upload but forgot to include spec: Win 7 Pro 64bit PPT 2007 AP Studio 09 Thanks"
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 11:23 am (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion New Version of Articulate
"I'm also looking forward to the new version - and hope (and kind of expect) it to be this calendar year.   Sure, the current version does..."
  • 13 years ago02/17/11 at 9:32 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 replied to the discussion Engaging Courses without Audio/Video
"+1 for Nemo's links. Some great ideas that should inspire all kinds of visual creativity.   Sometimes it's actually pretty simply to do t..."
  • over 13 years ago02/15/11 at 2:22 pm (UTC)
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Simon Perkins replied to the discussion Engaging Courses without Audio/Video
"Hi Christy While I agree that audio in particular (when used properly) can add a whole new dimension to a course, it's not always key.  S..."
  • over 13 years ago02/15/11 at 2:16 pm (UTC)