| Q |
Is there an undo button in Fuse Creator? |
| A |
Yes and no! There is no button within the software but you can use CTRL and Z on the keyboard to undo the last action.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I select multiple items? |
| A |
Yes, hold down CTRL and then click on the page objects you want to select. Multiple selected objects can be resized together and some common attributes can be set.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I embed AVI files within a Fuse Creator page? |
| A |
Yes, but you will need to convert the AVI files into flash files (.swf) first. Camtasia is one tool that we know can do this. To convert files successfully you will need to ensure that you embed playback controls into the movie, and set the movie to be 25fps when you make it into a flash file (.swf).[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I get hold of extra sets of manuals for Fuse Creator? |
| A |
Yes, you can either print them yourself from the User Guide link in Fuse Creator help menu, or order them from rm.com/fuse.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Which file format should I use to share my Fuse Creator files? |
| A |
If you wish to share editable content via a Virtual Learning Environment, we suggest you use the SCORM export format. If you wish to share editable content on school networks or via email, we suggest that you share the files in Fuse Creator format (i.e. simply saved from Fuse Creator with the .fc extension). These files can be played and edited with Fuse Creator and played with the freely downloadable Fuse Player.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
What is Fuse Player? |
| A |
Fuse Player is a free utility that can be used to playback Fuse Creator files (.fc) on computers on which Fuse Creator is not installed. It will be made available on the Fuse Creator Community Web site from the end of August 08.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I embed a Fuse Creator activity within a web page? |
| A |
Yes, use the Publish Standalone option within Fuse Creator. Then embed the index.swf file within your html web page, or create a link from your web page to the index.html file.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I embed a Fuse Creator activity within a PowerPoint presentation? |
| A |
Yes, and the method described here will vary slightly depending on the version of MS Office you have. Use the Publish Standalone option within Fuse. Then follow this process within PowerPoint. Step 1 - View the Control toolbar (within View, Toolbars). Step 2 - Click on the More Controls button on the Control toolbar and select Shockwave Flash Object from the list (your mouse will now change to a crosshair). Step 3 - Drag out a rectangle on your page, this will be the window within which the Fuse Creator activity runs. Step 4 - Right click on the rectangle you have just 'drawn' and select Properties. Step 5 - Enter index.swf into the Movie field and close the properties dialogue. Step 6 - Save the PowerPoint file into the same folder as your published activity.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I embed a Fuse Creator activity within an Easiteach file? |
| A |
Yes. Choose the Publish Standalone option from Fuse Creator. Within Easiteach, use the multimedia bank to browse to this folder. The multimedia bank will show 2 files that can be placed on the page. Choose the first of the two (this is important) and not the second (because it won’t work properly!). Save the Easiteach file into the same folder as the Fuse activity and use the Easiteach Use mode pointer to operate the Fuse Creator activity. If you accidentally chose the 'wrong' file from the multimedia bank, or if you saved the Easiteach file to a different folder than the Fuse activity, you will find that the Fuse file does not load into the Easiteach page when you attempt to re-open it.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I 'turn off' the Request User Name facility in content that I publish from Fuse Creator? |
| A |
Yes, go to Activity Set-Up within Fuse Creator and select the Advanced tab. Untick the Request user name box.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I insert accented characters into Fuse Creator activities? |
| A |
Yes, there is a good section within Help FAQ in the Help Menu section that explains exactly how to do this.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
I've noticed that I am using 'Standard' Fuse Creator (on the initial start-up screen). What other versions are there? |
| A |
Standard mode is the edition of Fuse Creator for schools and colleges. If no Product Key was entered during installation then you will see 'Demo' on the splash screen and the save and export options will be greyed out. There is also a (much more expensive) Professional edition for commercial publishers.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I change the 'ordering' of objects on a Fuse Creator page. |
| A |
No, the software layers objects according to the order in which they are placed on a page, with active objects always placed on the top layer. This order cannot be changed in version 1.[back to top] |
|
| |
| Q |
Can I get an electronic form of the Report? |
| A |
In version 1 the only way to get an electronic score is to print the report with a pdf writer such as Win2PDF or CutePDF. In future versions we will support the passing of score data into the Virtual Learning Environment's interactions database.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
When I place a flash object (.swf) file on a page, it doesn’t display as I would expect it to? |
| A |
Flash objects (.swf) are really designed to be placed within html pages and when placed into another Flash file (such as a Fuse Creator page) many Flash files do not appear as expected. Common issues that arise are i) that the image appears to be ‘offset’ from the frame into which it is placed, ii) that timing issues arise and animations run too fast (or too slow), iii) that superfluous objects appear, and iv) that the size of animations on playback is different to that in design. The Pre-testing of Flash animations In Fuse Creator is strongly recommended, as is the testing of utilities and tools that generate Flash files (.swf).[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
How big are Fuse Creator files? |
| A |
The smallest files are about 2MB. This increases with each new page type that is added to a file. This also increases as images, sounds and animations are added to files. We strongly recommend that you reduce the size of images and other resources before adding them to Fuse Creator pages.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Is there a maximum page count in Fuse Creator? |
| A |
Not that we have yet discovered. We have made 150 page files and not seen any problems. Do let us know if you build any really large activities![back to top] |
| |
| Q |
What might cause pages to load slowly? |
| A |
Large images, large animations or large sound files on pages will slow down page loading, both in Fuse Creator and in published activities. We advise that these media files are kept as small as possible![back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Can I paste an image onto a Fuse Creator page. |
| A |
No, you must first save it as a .jpg and then load it onto a page.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
Why doesn't Fuse Creator support .png image files. |
| A |
Because we have kept the minimum Flash requirement to Flash 8 in order that Fuse Creator activities can run on a wider range of platforms (PDA’s etc), and Flash 8 doesn't support .png.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
I've noticed that when I resize an html Fuse Creator activity, it automatically rotates? |
| A |
This is a design feature that ensures that activities will run in landscape mode on pda and other devices.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
How do I show my activities to others? |
| A |
The activities can be viewed by anyone; use the url that is shown when you run the activity online.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
I've deleted (or changed) the sample files that came with Fuse Creator, where can I get new versions? |
| A |
The sample files provided with Fuse Creator are all available in the File Sharing area of this site.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
When I import a SCORM pack created by Fuse Creator into a VLE, it is rejected. |
| A |
Some SCORM packs created by Fuse Creator can be rejected as non-valid. If Fuse Creator exports a SCORM pack which includes a resource file (sound, image or animation) that includes an '&' in its name, the SCORM pack will be rejected as non-valid by Kaleidos VLE. We would also expect the SCORM pack to be rejected by other VLEs.
The workaround is to ensure that resource files do not include '&' in their name. We will fix this issue in the next release of Fuse Creator.[back to top] |
| |
| Q |
I can't add more than one fill the gap text box to a single page. |
| A |
To get multiple gaps on the same page, they need to be part of a single text object. The text object can contain multiple paragraphs, but you can then have as many gaps as you wish.[back to top] |