blair parkin
blair parkin
National Training & Development Manager at PlaceMakers
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Alternative to table format
"Hi Ian Two thoughts spring to mind. Using Engage you could create a process interaction that could easily step through the SOP. Alternati..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/30/11 at 8:26 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Shape & Text animation
"Hi Wallis Does the animation work properly when viewed as a slide show? It is possible to apply an animation to just the text by mistake ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/30/11 at 4:25 pm (UTC)
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"We use some questions for our classroom courses that may be of use: The goals of the training were clearly defined The topics covered we..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/23/11 at 1:37 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Navigation tabs problem
"Hi Bud Sorry this is going to sound like a silly question, but are you selecting the player template you modified when you are publishing..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/22/11 at 8:42 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Clipboard Background Format in Quizmaker
"Hi Helene I'm not sure how you could create your own custom background to choose each time. You could however save it as a design theme (..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/22/11 at 4:55 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Make a quiz that is not scored
"One option would be when you publish to switch the tracking/reporting option to Number of Slides, then you could still have a fully funct..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/21/11 at 4:46 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Which folder should I put other files?
"I'm pretty sure you put them in the Data > SWF folder. If you were inserting an Engage interaction as a flash movie that is where you ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/20/11 at 7:58 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Create a 2 second delay?
"Hi Leslie I think what you are trying to do is in this tutorial I don't use the controls in my courses so what you could also do is creat..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/16/11 at 4:25 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Dialogue without having a million slides
"Further to Jeanette's idea of creating a video, if you have an earlier version of PowerPoint you could have the speech bubbles appearing ..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/13/11 at 8:52 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Tile Letter - Buttons for Download
"Very cool, thanks very much for sharing"
  • almost 13 years ago06/02/11 at 2:46 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Are you using dual monitors? If so, how?
"I'm with the majority here using dual monitors. Usually they are set up as follows: Powerpoint / Presenter IE, Engage or Quizmaker, proj..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/01/11 at 12:44 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Build Simulated Exam
"Hi Connie, welcome to E-learning Heroes. Have you checked out the tutorials section? This tutorial on customising quiz feedback might be ..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/29/11 at 8:46 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Leah I'm not too good with web objects and html so I insert my engage interactions as flash movies, then you can resize or move them h..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/29/11 at 2:02 pm (UTC)
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"It sounds like you need to select in the Show "Next Slide" button option SHOW ALWAYS Blair"
  • almost 13 years ago05/25/11 at 6:14 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion URL Links Need to Open New Browser
"Mary,are the documents available in soft copy? Could you have an attachments tab?"
  • almost 13 years ago05/23/11 at 1:01 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion URL Links Need to Open New Browser
"Hi Mary Following on from Justin's suggestion I have just done a very similar thing. I inserted a link using Web Object with it set to op..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/23/11 at 12:39 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Kimberly Dealing with your first problem, what version of PowerPoint are you using? This may or may not help. Click on Office Button &..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/22/11 at 7:22 pm (UTC)
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"Ben Here are the instructions for disabling keyboard shortcuts Blair"
  • almost 13 years ago05/22/11 at 3:16 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Calculator in Engage
"Also found this that converts an excel spreasheet to flash"
  • almost 13 years ago05/17/11 at 4:02 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Calculator in Engage
"Hi Joe Could you insert a flash calculator with instructions on how to perform the claculation. One tab could be the calculator with an e..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/17/11 at 4:00 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Zooming out effects
"@David - I was trying to find that screenr of Joe's as well, but couldn't remember who had created it. There is so much useful informatio..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/15/11 at 7:13 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Zooming out effects
"Hi Osman You can control where an image zooms into by using motion paths to shift the image left or right, up or down depending on where ..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/15/11 at 6:45 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Nicole As you have discovered the Insert>Action doesn't always work as expected. Bestt practice is to use hyperlinks for your users..."
  • 13 years ago05/10/11 at 5:00 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Overlay object on top of Flash movie
"Hi Jennifer Presenter will always play the flash movie on top of everything else, however you can use the blank slide in Quizmaker to pla..."
  • 13 years ago05/03/11 at 5:03 pm (UTC)
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blair parkin replied to the discussion Oracle LMS Issues
"Happy to help where I can. I'm not a technical expert but I can share what we do and that may be of use. You can email me at bparkin@plac..."
  • 13 years ago05/02/11 at 7:11 pm (UTC)