Assign points when a user views the whole video only
May 03, 2022
We are slowly being asked now to move away from Articulate Storyline and Rise in order to utilize external vendors who use proprietary authoring tools as they seem to be able to do things not possible with Articulate tools.
For example we have just completed working with Crossknowledges Blended X and its functionality is more favorable to our stakeholders now.
For example, users can watch a video, yet scrub back and forth but must watch the whole video to be assigned completion points to move on. I cannot replicate that in Storyline. I tried using variables that assign points to an overall score at a certain point in the video, which works, but if the users replays it they get more points again etc. While in other courses they might require the video to be locked and users must watch all of the video, which requires a hack with Storyline rather than a built in feature. Also, the ability for users, once completed, to see where they finish in a Table ranking their position is now something required as it got positive feedback and reviews. They also want the ability to lock a module section based on time and date, so users can only complete sections per day or per week and then the new sections get unlocked at a certain date. A team has now been established to review and research more "modern" authoring tools as they are now suffering from "Death by Rise" as the feedback is that it is now repetitive in look and feel and limiting to be able to be branded with our own icons etc for lessons and other limitations. I am currently trying to find ways to keep Articulate as a tool but running out of arguments. Users now want the Vertical scrolling html look and feel but with more functionality and capabilities, almost a hybrid of Storyline and Rise. They are currently testing GOMO, Lectora and Elucidat at the moment also, which I am not a fan of.
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Darren: Have you considered putting an interaction into the video (via a hotspot and a lightbox) at the end - or close enough to the end that the learner could rightfully claim to have watched the entire video? I'm thinking of a couple tweaks that I saw referenced here:
https://elearningdesigner.com/interactive-video-quiz-elearning/
If you did this, you could assign an initial number of points (say, 20) for that interaction. You could associate a couple of variables with the appearance of that interaction that would decrement each time the variables are triggered, so they would only assign fewer points (say, 10 for the second try, 5 for the third try) each time the interaction appears.
As for the scrub back and forth: in SL360, you can set the timeline to "allow drag after completion," which means that the learner can't do anything but sit through the video until it completes - at which point he or she can revisit whatever is desired. Again, assigning a variable related to point values could be used here, too.
Just some ideas to think about.
thanks for the reply. I tried the hotspot and variable route but it is requires too many steps in the workflow when dealing with may videos and scenarios etc. I am one of the very few who understands how to use variables and triggers etc to an advanced stage in our company. Almost all of our internal 500 content creators use Rise and Storyline at their basic levels just to get content out and simply want easy to use options. They are getting their heads turns, which I can understand by the applications that do that for them. The scrolling parallax look and feel is also a major request now as we need to look at that anyway. I think the scrolling parallax effect should be something Rise could do. Vertical navigation is something I have requested several times for Storyline over the years also.