Advice or Ideas? Designing an assessment that also gathers freeform text information for management review

Mar 10, 2017

Mark S
By Mark S

Hi All -- 

Would greatly appreciate any advice, templates, links or tutorials, etc.   Have been asked to build something I haven't seen before in Storyline... but my experience is limited to courses w/ typical "correct vs incorrect" assessments. 

This is an HR-related course, mostly straighfoward content with typical assessments.  But at key junctures, (either within the assessments or in a separate module) they'd like to ask several reporting questions like "Are you aware of any workplace conflicts involving favored treatment?  If yes, please explain..." with a box available for entering text.

The standard assessment questions would be graded for passing or failing the course.  But these "reporting questions" (if answered yes and/or an explaination entered) would need to report out the text associated with the test-taker's ID so that someone in HR can follow-up.   (We have someone who can work on the "reporting out" part in My Learning -- but only after I build a test deck.)  

Do you have any advice about how best to proceed?   Or where I might learn more about building this type of thing?   Not sure if this is a relatively common thing or something exotic...  

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Best,

Mark 

1 Reply
Allison LaMotte
7 years ago03/14/17 at 2:54 pm (UTC)

Hi Mark!

You can definitely build open-ended questions in Storyline. If you're using Storyline 360 they'll be in the Slides tab under Survey Questions (see screenshot). If you're using Storyline 2 they're in the Insert tab under New Slide, Quizzing, and then Survey (see screenshot).

The thing you'll need to make sure is that the LMS you're uploading your course to is able to capture this information from your course and give you access to it somehow. Since each LMS has it's own features and capabilities, I'm not able to help you out more there. I would contact your LMS administrator for more information.

Hope that helps! :)

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