Tim Neill
Tim Neill
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    Tim Neill

    I provide unbiased advice and guidance in a totally independent service to ensure the successful planning, selection and implementation of eLearning to effectively train and assess staff. This service can include the development of prototypes and program models. For 24 years I was Managing Dir...
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Totara Content creation versus Storyline 2
"Interesting, thanks Dan. I have looked at a Totara spec document now for quiz building and can see it does offer a wide range of options ..."
  • almost 7 years ago08/03/17 at 8:21 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Why hasn't Storyline responded to basic but important feature requests?
"Michael - what SL needs is a simple set of Functions, ready-made commands with which we can control program operation without having to p..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/19/17 at 8:33 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Rounding the score variable
"Thank you Owen. I have had to do this quite a lot in the past as a workaround but it is less than ideal. I have used both an 'auto run-th..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/19/17 at 8:16 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Rounding the score variable
"Thanks Leslie. This is what I have had to do, although it was an unnecessary extra fiddle if there had been a 'rounding ON/OFF check box'..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/19/17 at 8:11 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Rounding the score variable
"Why is it that - over 3 years on - Storyline is still incapable of rounding a Quiz  score to a whole number? Javascript is not the answe..."
  • almost 7 years ago05/18/17 at 2:57 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Tish - well, another way (without adding layers) would be to add a trigger on the base layer to each icon which plays the specified audio..."
  • 7 years ago02/24/17 at 5:33 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Jumping positions to Cue point
"Tish - one way would be to put each audio on its own layer and then add a trigger on each icon which shows the respective layer (i.e.: pl..."
  • 7 years ago02/24/17 at 5:20 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Image Zoom Interaction Story File
"I have also used two sliders (connected by their slider variables) to pan a wide image and then click a region to zoom in to that region ..."
  • over 7 years ago01/05/17 at 9:58 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion WHEN will Storyline be able to save a CUSTOM quiz score to an LMS?
"Thank you Dave, I appreciate this.  "
  • over 7 years ago12/30/16 at 2:06 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion WHEN will Storyline be able to save a CUSTOM quiz score to an LMS?
"Thanks Phil. Are there JS code examples to view?"
  • over 7 years ago12/30/16 at 1:54 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Tried Storyline360?
"I completely agree with Mary. This new 360 offering carries little appeal for teams already using Storyline 2 for serious eLearning produ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/11/16 at 9:20 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Thanks Kirsti - in SL2 there's always at least three different ways to skin a cat! Off-screen buttons is approach I haven't used and I'm ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/11/16 at 8:29 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Is there going to be an SL3 Leslie?"
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 5:10 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"You are very welcome Adam. The lack of this feature has been bugging me for ages!"
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 4:34 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Adam - I downloaded it in Safari and it arrives as a single .story file.  Using IE it asked me how I wanted to save it (it thinks it's a..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 4:17 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"That's odd. I just downloaded it and it opens fine in SL2. There is only one file.   Adam - did you attend the Storyline workshop last ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 3:20 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Hi Adam, There is a way of getting around Storyline's restrictive quiz scoring but it's rather complex to implement. But it does work! I..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 2:58 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Maybe they don't trust us to meddle with their precious variables!"
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 10:57 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Tried Storyline360?
"I share your concern Marilyn. I have had Storyline for 4 years and had been waiting for an SL2 upgrade to correct the numerous feature de..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 10:31 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Help! Pick Many Scoring
"Hi Adam, I'm afraid you've come up against one of Storyline's many Quizzing deficiencies. It won't allow you to set different levels of ..."
  • over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 10:10 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Audio does not replay when revisiting layers
"Walt, Sorry - that was ambiguous wasn't it? I meant that if I add a small delay before the first audio starts then the problem appears t..."
  • over 7 years ago10/16/16 at 7:12 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion Audio does not replay when revisiting layers
"I have also had the bug of the first audio on the timeline not playing when re-visiting a slide. I moved the first audio so that it start..."
  • over 7 years ago10/15/16 at 10:30 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion 'On Condition' logic not working?
"Hi Ashley, Thanks for your response. I missed that ability to increase the entire Player point size so I was wrong on that and I have de..."
  • over 7 years ago10/14/16 at 3:30 pm (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion 'On Condition' logic not working?
"Frustrating deficiencies such as this just illustrate the market Storyline is aimed at ... the 'quick and easy slide creation, Powerpoint..."
  • over 7 years ago10/14/16 at 9:04 am (UTC)
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Tim Neill replied to the discussion 'On Condition' logic not working?
"Thank you both - much appreciated. What I needed Storyline to do was If (A or B) AND (C or D) ..."
  • over 7 years ago10/13/16 at 2:09 pm (UTC)