Capturing Information for Data Analysis
Nov 23, 2015
Hello, I work for a professional trade association. I am in the process of developing an online course that will be made available for purchase to our members. I want to personalize my course with the learners' name, so I inserted a text variable on the first slide (Example, "Enter your name here"). In addition to personalization, I also want to capture leaners' job titles and number of years on the job, which will be used for data analysis purposes. In other words, I want to find out the demographic of the learners who are purchasing the course. I don't anticipate referencing the learners' job title and years on the job in any other part of the course as I am going to do with the text entry field I created. Two questions: How can I make completing the job title and years on the job fields mandatory? And my second question is does Storyline have a feature for storing data (such as the job titles) for later retrieval? Thanks in advance.
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Hi, Michelle -- Thanks for your question! To get started, have you had the opportunity to review this information on Adding Data-Entry Fields?
Hi Christie,
Thanks for the link to Adding Data-Entry Fields. Yes, I have visited that page before. I actually have already inserted a text data entry field in my course for learners to enter their first name, which will be referenced on other slides. However, what I'm asking is if Storyline offers a way of capturing information that can be exported to let's say MS Word or Excel? Thanks.
Hi, Michelle -- Thanks for your response an for the additional information. It looks like a similar question was posed over here in this thread, so please check out the suggestions offered and let us know if that will do the trick for what you have in mind. :)
I would use javascript to save the data into a google sheet. Making the field mandatory really needs you to just add a condition on the button that jumps to the next slide
Hi Phil, unfortunately I don't know Javascript or any programming language. I was hoping that this capability was built into Storyline. Thanks.
Thanks Christie--I will check out the thread and keep you posted.
It will report to an LMS anything else you would need to code yourself
This might help http://www.tracyparish.ca/2015/08/how-to-send-variables-from-storyline-to-google-docs.html
Hi Michelle.
You should be able to add conditions to the Next button trigger to only go to next slide after you check that each of your text input variables are different from the default value ("undefined" or whatever text you may play inside like "Type your role here").
So something like:
Jump to "next slide" when user clicks the Next button if "TextEntry2" != Not Equal To "undefined" AND "TextEntry2 != Not Equal To "Type your role here", etc.
Hope that helps.
Hi Phil, sorry for my delayed response. I got caught up in the Thanksgiving holiday festivities. Thanks for the link. The steps look pretty detailed and thorough. I will give it a try. Thanks again!
Hi Scott, thank you very much - I'll try out your steps!
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