Can Rise work not only like a course but also, with some tweaking, like a Decision Support Tool?

Mar 27, 2017

Hello Heroes! Can I make 360 and Rise work for me the way I would love to do? I will describe it below. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.  Rise appears to be a terrific addition to the world of rapid knowledge transfer.  Here is what would greatly enhance its utility from my perspective, but you need to let me know if it is feasible.  Here are the steps:

1 -  After 2 or 3 Steps into the program, maybe the user wants to test his or her knowledge by playing along with a hypothetical set of facts or perhaps the "real" facts that the user is wrestling with as they learn from the program.  

2 -  The user would have to be able to indicate that they wished to do this or not.  If yes, then the next Step could have an iframe which triggers a program through a url address that asks the user questions, secures and assesses the answers, and provides answers and information based on the assessment.  Expert system shells do that.  They can be quite tidy.  They run in iframes and can complete their business there without having to touch the actual Rise structure (although it would be great if there could be some communication between the external program and Rise).

3 -  The iframe program then -- having done its thing -- has to be able to either go away on its own or be put away by the user as he or she moves on to the next Step in Rise.  

Can this be done?  It would require at a minimum that the user choose whether to take the lesson with the iframe, i.e. some kind of branching communication or perhaps a way to simply bypass the lesson.

I hope this makes sense.  I am committed to explaining it again if it doesn't.  The idea of having an excellent e-learning tool that can double as a Decision Support tool when needed is too heady to give up without best efforts.

Of course, there is nothing to prevent me from writing up a standard HTML5 program and doing it that way, but I am attracted to the rapid, easy approach that Rise seems to bring with it.

John McConchie

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John McConchie

I would love to get an answer but fear I won't so I will use some better terminology.  Forget discussion of "expert systems", the more attractive term in use is"chatbots". The only things needed, I think, to run a chatbot in a iframe is a way for the user to trigger it.  This may be so simple I am totally missing it. Sure would like a response!  Thanks so much. 

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