Accessing the data from questions - Newbie question
Nov 26, 2023
Hello all
I'm looking to design a e-learning product as part of a research degree. It will be a pretty simple e-learning product with a couple of videos and then the participant will be asked to answer a question based on said video.
What I am really hoping that can be achieved is that there can be certain questions I create that I can then access the data from.
For example, on the first screen I might ask them to currently rate their knowledge out of 10. I would like the same question on the final screen so then I can make basic conclusions as to whether going through this training has enhanced their learning. There will be other questions that I would look to ask in order to gain feedback about the online training that they had just completed, on the actual articular online training platform itself! This would keep everything in one place and means that they wouldn't have to then click on another link to open up another survey. This survey would be about how useful the eLearning session was in regards to implementing the knowledge they have just learned in a real world setting.
I have looked on Google and YouTube and although I can find many tutorials about how to set up a question bank etc I cannot seem to find any information about how the data or the answers to these questions are accessed by the creator/admin. Indeed, are they accessed by the admin, and if so, how and in what form (i.e. can these be downloaded as a spreadsheet for analysis)? All questions are also going to be anonymous and I will not try to collect personal data through this e-learning form.
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All depends on where you host your course. If as a Scorm on any LMS then variables, score and completion status will be sent to the LMS and thus can be reviewed there. If you use a LRS you need to use xAPI. xAPI is not perfect yet in Storyline, although some improvements are made recently. And last if you use a webserver, then Google sheets and databases are you only way to get the data.
thanks for the reply.
It will be hosted on a webiste/server...no fancy LMSs etc! So any ideas how i link a google sheet type thing?
LMS's not perse fancy. Moodle is a free good one. However if you go pure webbased... Link a google sheet is not the correct term ;-) You can write and read data with Javascript.
On the forum here several posts on how to get that done.
This is by far the most complete post on this subject on the forum.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/articulate-storyline-export-to-google-drive
Still works although there might be small differences on both Storyline as Google side.
In fact i have created a few Google Cloud functions that have all functionality in it. createSheet,deleteRow,formatRow,formatSheet,readSheet,updateSheet,writeSheet,sendMail. All Google Cloud functions that just do whats needed. Quick and clean.
Thanks for the reply. I am not a TEL person, just someone doing a research project with TEL related stuff... so, for a Nooob, I though Moodle is a VLE? Are you saying I could set up my own VLE for this project?
I have had a look through the link... tres confusing! But i have only skimmed it...saw the coding and panicked!
If you want to learn to code, Math’s idea may give you the most flexibility. I believe coding can be a valuable skill for a researcher.
If all you want to do is analyze the data, Google has already invented that particular wheel. Create a Google form, and link to it (even if you don’t want to). You will have a lot of options for analysis that way, including automatically saving to a spreadsheet.
Unfortunately, as the project is more about pedagogy and physiology... Learning to code for a relatively small project is probably not achievable (assuming that I had the mental ability!)
I am aware of Google forms, and use them regularly in my day job... I believe you are suggesting that the articulate storyline product would have a web link in which then goes to the Google form? From an academic point of view, there is a survey tool called Jisc which is used more regularly in academia... I guess I could do the same thing...
Problem obviously is is that people could use the articulate storyline product that I develop and not complete the survey, what about if it is embedded in the product then I'm more likely to get more data. I kind of hoped and assumed it would be a little bit simpler