Tim Shelton
Tim Shelton
Senior Designer at Mind Click LTD
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    Tim Shelton

    As of 2012 full time Storyline developer/builder creating completely custom courses for FTSE 100 companies. I am also a fully qualified Graphic Designer and so all my courses are branded to the client and feature completely bespoke graphics, interactions, videos and games. My portfolio: htt...
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Text boxes in consistent spot, or close to action?
"It is much more engaging for learners to have a variety of interactive screens. For consistency  each individual template should have con..."
  • 9 years ago02/23/15 at 4:42 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Video controls & Html5 course shelf life
"How are you linking the video, if you are straight up embedding it in the course then its down to SL to display it. However you could hos..."
  • 9 years ago02/23/15 at 4:33 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Your Favorite eLearning Font?
"Helvetica Neue, Avenir, Akzidenz-Grotesk. Note though that Articulate Storyline does not handle fonts particularly well depending on the ..."
  • over 9 years ago09/04/14 at 2:20 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion How to capture physical learning in an online course?
"Look for a good illustrator or animator or even take footage and use that to convey the setting you wish to evoke and tie the learning to..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/15/14 at 2:52 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion how to use Drag drop activity with updated default buttons?
"Check that the button is still set up correctly in the dialogue i.e. the tick box for show correct/incorrect is still enabled. Are you re..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/15/14 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion How to share and view published SL files online (with Dropbox)?
"If you want to use Dropbox the only way is for you to share a folder with your intended recipient and for them to have a dropbox copy of ..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/01/14 at 11:21 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion To embed multiple storyline output into one storyline file
"Why not just create scenes in a main storyline and host all slide in one file and one output linking between outputs using urls seems lik..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/01/14 at 11:15 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Randomize a quiz
"So you can create question banks and draw X amount of questions randomly from within. This is simple to construct and you should be able ..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/01/14 at 11:08 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Character States Issues
"This seems very odd. I will assume you are using storyline version 5. There can be issues with states if you aren't replacing the image o..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/29/14 at 4:29 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion How to show time/duration on seekbar
"You can enable the play bar in the video settings through one of the menus. This allows for play pause functionality and skip through the..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/29/14 at 4:21 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Animation
"Hi, No all you can do is select direction of entry. User generated animation is practically non existent in SL without JS or video/flash...."
  • almost 10 years ago06/26/14 at 2:15 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Complete/Incomplete - Learner Feedback
"A better way of looking at this is splitting the course into modules 'scenes' in storyline and having a menu. On the last slide of each s..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/24/14 at 7:46 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion is there a way to show a layer when video starts?
"Hi, You could do something like this: Have an object on the timeline which is aligned to the start of the video. This 'object X' has 2 tr..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/24/14 at 7:39 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion EXIT for credit
"The EXIT trigger function only works with an LMS. I believe..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/24/14 at 7:25 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Editing auto-generated error layers
"You can set this up in the slide master section. Feedback slides correct incorrect. With some practice setting up this slide you should g..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/21/14 at 4:57 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Result slide
"If you want to track which questions were right or wrong inside SL you could create true/false Variables for each i.e. Question 1 ; Quest..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/21/14 at 4:46 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Best way to return to base layer?
"Its best to simply use buttons on each layer. On the base it has a 'next' button that has a trigger for #show layer#  L1. On Layer 1 it..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/21/14 at 3:43 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Photos w/ no background to be used in a Storyline course
"Shutterstock"
  • almost 10 years ago06/21/14 at 3:30 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Dissapearing text
"I am not exactly sure why this happens. I have encountered something similar in the past where when editing states if you copy and paste..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/17/14 at 5:50 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Voice on slides
"I take it you mean Voice over [voice off being a stage or cinematic usage].  You can control a sound clip in storyline but it depends on ..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/17/14 at 5:39 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion manipulating the look of .png
"I have done this recently if you use the tint functions in the picture tools menu it looks like it edits the alpha channel. However on pr..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/17/14 at 5:26 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion multiple language audio
"You could do this in storyline. On a main menu or audio start page prompt the user to choose a language button. These 3 buttons each acti..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/17/14 at 5:23 am (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Locking template with password?
"A better way of working on something like this is to pair you learning with an LMS to which you team have logins to access the course. Th..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/12/14 at 3:17 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Best LMS?
"Obviously this question pulls any provider to show their wares. With that in mind we build and customise Totara LMS as an official platin..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/12/14 at 3:10 pm (UTC)
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Tim Shelton replied to the discussion Need a method to capture, save, print user input
"After experimenting with Text input and the Survey - Essay slide type, it would seem you can add text and keep it there even when navigat..."
  • almost 10 years ago06/12/14 at 2:54 pm (UTC)