I am working on a Articulate-based course at the end of which users will be asked to jot down two learnings/takeaways instead of usual summary screen in a course. For that, I plan to add a notepage on the screen and an instruction asking users to jot down their learning. However, I am not sure if something like this can be achieved using Articulate.
Has anyone tried something like this in Articulate? Please share your thoughts.
One way to accomplish this would be to use Quizmaker. Which sounds kind of weird because you aren't building a quiz however... Quizmaker includes an unscored (survey) question called Essay, which would be a great fit for what you want to do. If you insert the quiz at the end of your course, and you include a Print button on the result slide, then users would be able to print the "takeaways" text that they wrote, and then click the close button to finish the course and close their browser window. You could also modify the quiz player so that it doesn't look quizzy - and maybe even make the PowerPoint slide master show through behind it for a really seamless look.
I should mention that the Print button by default gives them sort of a sterile-looking output, because it's meant to report the results of a quiz or survey, but you could certainly modify the report.html to make it look different if you want.
Hello Shweta - yes, if you create the Essay question in Quizmaker, you can then follow it with a result slide which contains a Print button. You can also customize the look of the result slide so that it doesn't appear to be giving quiz/survey results, but is rather just a general "thanks for completing the course" type of message.
Hey Shweta, I really liked your idea and thought maybe others would like to do something similar, so I provided the published example and some more detailed instructions in this blog post. Thanks for posting your question!
Would like to know if we can call the entered text (let say for module summary) on some other screen of the course (let say course summary) instead of reviewing it or printing it.
I know I am trying to be too optimistic but wanted to check if that is possible.
Hello Shweta - unfortunately, it's not currently possible in Quizmaker '09 to pull in the information from user-entered text and display it elsewhere in the course. That would make a great feature request.
11 Replies
Why not just add it as an attachment and link to it
Hi Schweta - that's a cool idea for a course!
One way to accomplish this would be to use Quizmaker. Which sounds kind of weird because you aren't building a quiz
however... Quizmaker includes an unscored (survey) question called Essay, which would be a great fit for what you want to do. If you insert the quiz at the end of your course, and you include a Print button on the result slide, then users would be able to print the "takeaways" text that they wrote, and then click the close button to finish the course and close their browser window. You could also modify the quiz player so that it doesn't look quizzy - and maybe even make the PowerPoint slide master show through behind it for a really seamless look.
I should mention that the Print button by default gives them sort of a sterile-looking output, because it's meant to report the results of a quiz or survey, but you could certainly modify the report.html to make it look different if you want.
Thanks Phil and Jeanette for the response.
Jeanette...in this Essay format, if my understaning is not wrong, users can type in some text and later print it, if needed. Please confirm.
Also, is there a way we can skip the printing step?
Hello Shweta - yes, if you create the Essay question in Quizmaker, you can then follow it with a result slide which contains a Print button. You can also customize the look of the result slide so that it doesn't appear to be giving quiz/survey results, but is rather just a general "thanks for completing the course" type of message.
Check out this sample.
Thanks a lot Jeanette. The example really helps.
Hey Shweta, I really liked your idea and thought maybe others would like to do something similar, so I provided the published example and some more detailed instructions in this blog post. Thanks for posting your question!
Thanks Jeanette. I am happy to know that it is going to help others too.
Would like to know if we can call the entered text (let say for module summary) on some other screen of the course (let say course summary) instead of reviewing it or printing it.
I know I am trying to be too optimistic but wanted to check if that is possible.
Hello Shweta - unfortunately, it's not currently possible in Quizmaker '09 to pull in the information from user-entered text and display it elsewhere in the course. That would make a great feature request.
Hi Jeanette...I have placed a feature request for it.
Thanks for your input, Shweta!
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.