Flash For Learning

Well, this beats the hell out of my reverse-engineering solution.

Last year when I picked up Articulate Presenter, we were awfully annoyed that even though we bought the mongo-license that included the SDK for Articulate AND paid the extra $500 to remove the “Powered by Articulate” logo on the bottom left of the screen, I still had that logo in there and there was no easy way to get rid of it.

A couple hours with SoThink did the trick and I was able to identify the exact movieclip to unload by importing a flash object into the first slide (and creating a custom background for Articulate slides in a vector format, but that’s another story).

But I was very happy to find after surfing around their support area that Articulate actually supports an official patch now to remove that “Powered by Articulate” logo, allowing you to create content that’s free and clear of their branding.

http://www.articulate.com/support/kb/000837.php

Hope this helps someone.

Ever need to launch several files out of one slide as a pop-up window in Articulate Presenter? I have that need and so do a few of the Instructional Designers I work with. So after some research and review, I’ve modified the player.html file in C:\Program Files\Articulate\Presenter\players 5.0\core and I can now publish content with abandon with custom flash pieces that can launch nice, clean pop-up windows.

When creating your Flash content, you’ll call a popup like this:

getURL( "javascript:popUpWindow('your_file.html',left,top,width,height);" );

where…

• left = a number indicating how many pixels off the left edge of the screen you want the popup to be placed (use 0 for the edge)
• top = a number indicating how many pixels off the top edge of the screen you want the popup to be placed (use 0 for the edge)
• width = a number indicating how wide you want the popup
• height = a number indicating how tall you want the popup.

You can download the modified player.html file here.

I’ve tried this before, but there’s been a pretty significant uptick in the amount of email and activity on the blog related to Flash and SCORM. I thought maybe it’d be useful to have a more collaborative knowledge share. So I’m inviting friends, readers, developers and designers who are involved in E-learning projects and are using Flash to join up with the Flash For Learning group.