Motivating and Gaining Attention in E-Learning #279: Challenge | Recap
Motivating learners is a key goal for course designers. Even the most exciting subject matter can feel boring to learn...
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Something a bit different this week - what I have created is a plugin for WordPress (LearnDash LMS) which will transfer a learner’s name from their user profile into any Storyline-built activity.
I was inspired to work on this after reading Jonathan Hill’s comments above on the impact of addressing a learner by name, realising that nothing like this existed for WordPress at the moment. I also built in a fallback so that if the user is a guest then this can be planned for with a simple IF statement built into your project.
Lastly, I am giving this plugin away for free, so if you use WordPress to deliver your courses I hope you find it useful: https://discoverelearninguk.com/store/talk-to-the-learner-for-learndash-wordpress-plugin/
Here is a video showing how it all works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l52vI7Yz2IE
I was inspired to work on this after reading Jonathan Hill’s comments above on the impact of addressing a learner by name, realising that nothing like this existed for WordPress at the moment. I also built in a fallback so that if the user is a guest then this can be planned for with a simple IF statement built into your project.
Lastly, I am giving this plugin away for free, so if you use WordPress to deliver your courses I hope you find it useful: https://discoverelearninguk.com/store/talk-to-the-learner-for-learndash-wordpress-plugin/
Here is a video showing how it all works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l52vI7Yz2IE
- 👏🏻 Top work Chris and very generous of you to share this.
- Very cool Chris. I have done this using JS for other platforms but not LearnDash. I am setting up a LearnDash site so this will come in handy.
- I am really pleased to hear that, Nancy. I have built other WP plugins for Storyline developers which you can find on my website, they may be of help to your project.
- Wow, this is great, thanks Chris! Very generous!
