Steve Gannon
Steve Gannon
Principal Consultant at GanTek Multimedia
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    Steve Gannon

    I have been developing eLearning applications since 1994. For a long time I used Authorware and have since used Articulate products (Studio and Storyline) extensively. Training topics and clients are extremely varied -- corporate, academic, non-profit and government. I teach on-site Articulate...
  • Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Learner Profile creation and save functionality to gameify course
"Sean, If you can be certain the user will continue to take the course on a single computer and not move to another computer mid-way throu..."
  • 10 years ago02/07/14 at 10:27 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Removing the Title from the Notes Tab
"As an alternative, in Storyline's Player>Colors & Effects, you should be able to change Transcript>heading text to the same col..."
  • over 10 years ago01/30/14 at 11:13 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Transparency on Text
"Indirectly you can. 1. Type your text on the slide in Storyline. 2. Right-click on the text object and save it as png. 3. Import the png...."
  • over 10 years ago01/27/14 at 9:00 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion [DEMO] Menu Toolkit for Articulate Storyline
"+1 to David's comment, Alex... I'm looking forward to digging into this. Thanks for sharing!"
  • over 10 years ago01/26/14 at 8:57 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Player Glossary - can't remove it
"Ejauna, Check the settings of each slide where you elected to use the custom player settings option. Be sure "Glossary" is unchecked on a..."
  • over 10 years ago01/23/14 at 12:10 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Accessbility Standards
"Oops...I see those links I suggested are already in the forum thread you referenced, Michael."
  • over 10 years ago01/22/14 at 7:53 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Accessbility Standards
"And here are a couple of handy Articulate support documents regarding Section 508 support: http://www.articulate.com/products/storyline-s..."
  • over 10 years ago01/22/14 at 7:51 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Gap appears in text string when previewing, publishing.
"Ed, This support document might help."
  • over 10 years ago01/08/14 at 2:15 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Animation
"And here's another..."
  • over 10 years ago12/16/13 at 1:30 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Extra spaces in between text
"Melanie, This support article might help: http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter-09/spacing-between-text-is-incorrect-in-published-v..."
  • over 10 years ago12/16/13 at 10:37 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion How to create a sense of movement in Storyline?
"If you already have the large photos, you can do the Powerpoint animation-to-video-to-Storyline very quickly. I do this all the time...ta..."
  • over 10 years ago11/22/13 at 8:40 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion How to create a sense of movement in Storyline?
"Hi Helene, I recommend placing the road/sky scene in Powerpoint and apply a grow animation to it (maybe something like 115% over 10-15 se..."
  • over 10 years ago11/22/13 at 8:07 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion How to save the background image to a file?
"I think what Israel is asking is if there is a feature in Engage similar to that in PowerPoint or Storyline where you can right-click on ..."
  • over 10 years ago11/01/13 at 12:15 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Storyline authoring UI: How to increase thumbnail size?
"Hi Alfred, Click anywhere in the Scenes pane, hold down the CTRL key, and roll your mouse's scroll wheel up/down to zoom in/out. Hope tha..."
  • over 10 years ago10/30/13 at 4:38 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Video Encoder from Studio '09 disappeared
"Deborah, As an alternative, you can import your video in Presenter, publish, and then dig into the published file set to locate the .MP4 ..."
  • over 10 years ago10/17/13 at 9:01 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion about the Exit control . . .
"Pete, Be sure you're testing the Exit control using the output option you selected. For example, if you published for web, post your publ..."
  • over 10 years ago10/17/13 at 8:58 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion IE 6 and Flash Player 6 HELP!
"Hi Kate, Articulate Studio 09 meets those requirements."
  • over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 5:44 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Storyline as a multimedia presentation tool
"Hi Sarah, Are these presentations going to be interactive? If not, consider giving PowerPoint a second look. Some very glossy visuals can..."
  • over 10 years ago10/11/13 at 1:35 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion How to get Results.ScorePercent value from SL to SWF
"Create a text box anywhere on your Results slide and type in %ScorePercent%. When you run through the quiz and reach the Results slide, d..."
  • over 10 years ago10/11/13 at 10:41 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion How to get Results.ScorePercent value from SL to SWF
"Hi Carlos, Try this: 1. Create a custom variable called 'scorePercent' (or whatever you want to call it). Be sure it is a 'Number' variab..."
  • over 10 years ago10/11/13 at 10:10 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Sample: SWF-Storyline communication
"Hi Tom, The answer to both of your questions is "no", not as currently coded. But with some additional coding in Flash, this could be acc..."
  • over 10 years ago10/10/13 at 5:36 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Challenge - make this interactive
"Hi Tom, First, I wouldn't give up on Storyline just because it lacks a built in timer. There are many custom timer examples posted by mem..."
  • over 10 years ago10/08/13 at 2:57 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Line break in Text Variable
"David, Jergen offers a solution at the end of this thread: http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/25674.aspx However, I just tried and ..."
  • over 10 years ago10/03/13 at 6:56 am (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Sanity Check:Studio '09 owner buys SL w/ PMP, but then NO upgrade?
"Alison, The PMP is tied to the product you purchased it with. If you bought the PMP when you purchased Studio 09, then you would be entit..."
  • over 10 years ago10/01/13 at 1:18 pm (UTC)
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Steve Gannon replied to the discussion Removing navigation creates empty space below stage
"Jennifer, I'm betting you have the seekbar activated on at least one slide. If the seekbar is active for even a single slide, you'll get ..."
  • over 10 years ago09/27/13 at 9:06 am (UTC)