mike mcdonald
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About
mike mcdonald
I've been freelance for about 15 years, in the areas of blended learning, training and consultancy for the higher-risk sectors such as Oil&Gas, PowerGen, Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Space Science etc. In consultancy, I do a lot of work in business continuity, quality, supply-chain and ris... -
Soihull, UK
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Storyline 360 vs Rise
"Hi Jennifer. How about considering keeping your quiz where it is, in a published SL2; and use Rise to do the knowledge element, which inc..."
- over 7 years ago01/14/17 at 9:50 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Course file storage good practice
"Great Alyssa. Yes, read through the thread.....that's it!
Yes, aside from naming conventions, back-ups etc. the key point was to keep .s..."
- over 7 years ago11/21/16 at 5:27 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Storyline 360 vs Rise
"Ha Efrat! Yes, I'm only on the demo package still, but sure will sign up. Yes, I work with MNC's and understand, used to be in one myself..."
- over 7 years ago11/21/16 at 10:30 am (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Storyline 360 vs Rise
"I'm really enjoying using Rise. I've been bashing out 1 course per day on it so far.
Awesome job, Dev. team!"
- over 7 years ago11/20/16 at 9:54 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"Too right Phil.
I'm still playing...but now with Articulate Review. This looks totally awesome already and I've only just started on it...."
- over 7 years ago11/11/16 at 11:04 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"Dario....I've started playing yesterday. Not a good start! Internet connection was so bad I couldn't even play Adam Swartz's 18min. intro..."
- over 7 years ago11/11/16 at 10:05 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"Fantastic news there Phil.; one has to respect the opinion of such a power-user as your goodself!
Looking forward to playing and seeing..."
- over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 8:21 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"Hi Dario, from the Welsh mountain of Snowdonia....where I am this week.
Got my A360launch email along with others no doubt...and went st..."
- over 7 years ago11/10/16 at 6:54 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"Hey Dario! Too right!
Guess what....? I've been laying out a large project over the weekend, and the topic is going to be so big I reall..."
- over 7 years ago11/07/16 at 2:24 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"Great Ashley, will have a read!"
- over 7 years ago11/07/16 at 2:13 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion SL3 - Roadmap or Release Dates?
"I'm with Dario on that one. For some intensive projects I disappear off to a remote location for focus and no interruptions.
Some web-ba..."
- over 7 years ago11/04/16 at 9:57 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Compliance KPIs
"Yes, that approach works a treat, in my experience; e.g. I once did a branched scenario game with sequences of video clips of stakeholder..."
- over 7 years ago10/17/16 at 12:41 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Compliance KPIs
"No, not found the need to data-mine that far as it's been sufficient for one round of reminders, in the stuff I've done.
Yes, sort of......"
- over 7 years ago10/17/16 at 12:36 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Freebie - Allie the Cat Illustrated Character
"cute!"
- over 7 years ago10/12/16 at 11:30 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Compliance KPIs
"Hi Helen. I use two ways for that depending on the situation:
1. A follow-up mini-module about 6 weeks after. It's mainly a memory-jogge..."
- over 7 years ago10/12/16 at 11:22 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Recording Narration
"I've used a few people from my local amateur dramatic society (for a suitable donation!), but professional v/o artists for multi-lingual ..."
- 8 years ago02/19/16 at 11:52 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Getting Started as a Consultant
"Hi Susan. You mentioned those folks may be relatively new to e-Learning. When I come across that scenario, I've actually found the most u..."
- 8 years ago02/19/16 at 11:46 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Export to Powerpoint from Storyline
"My workflow 2cents for the classroom scenario when I think I do not want them to "ask for a copy of the slides"...i.e. get my best IP for..."
- over 9 years ago01/20/15 at 3:34 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Resize bug in bullets and numbers
"Yes, this really drives me mad also! I spend a lot of time clicking in and out to see what it will look like, which adds up to a lot of w..."
- 10 years ago02/07/14 at 4:45 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Course 'ownership' - do you retain rights or hand everything over?
"Great points people!
For 2014 I tweaked my basic contract template, as last year a client asked for the 'source files', but when I asked ..."
- over 10 years ago01/20/14 at 2:48 pm (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Which LMS & Why?
"It would be great to have a forum poll, and keep the top 5 or so as a sticky.
I check this question every year, and still haven't decided..."
- over 10 years ago11/07/13 at 10:36 am (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Preview this slide and the following slides
"OK, will do...."
- over 10 years ago11/05/13 at 10:58 am (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Preview this slide and the following slides
"Yes, the inability to preview just a few slides within a scene causes problems as the choice to preview 'this slide' excludes any slide a..."
- over 10 years ago11/05/13 at 7:09 am (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion numeric interaction submit not working in storyline
"Ashley, I've just experienced exactly the same logic issue as Rohit explained..."
- over 10 years ago11/05/13 at 6:04 am (UTC)
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mike mcdonald replied to the discussion Not able to play published quiz under powerpoint
"Phil, I'm also trialing this out, and just making 5 simple multiple choice questions in Quizmaker13, and trying to import into Storyline ..."
- over 10 years ago11/03/13 at 12:55 pm (UTC)