Letting students annotate...?
Feb 27, 2016
Hi all :)
Before I started designing the course I'm working on now (and before I'd settled on using Storyline2) I had an idea where learners would read a paragraph and annotate it and then be able to recall their annotated paragraph when they needed answer comprehension questions about it. They would be accessing this course via iPad, so that writing interactivity would be great to have. Ideally, they are reading a paragraph, identifying the topic sentence, and then circling related words to help them locate information when it comes time to answer the questions (during a timed test practice).
I think I've concluded - after googling my fingers off and reading myself blind - that this is not possible in Storyline2. It seems there are no options within the authoring tool to include such interactivity, and the player needed for iPad doesn't seem to support writing anyway. Can anyone out there correct me if I'm wrong, please?
So then I thought maybe there's some other solution...? Maybe I could work around with some hotspots or a 'pick many' and students could select them to highlight specific words (maybe this would mean a hotspot/pick many on every word?!?!) or something else. Then if that layer could be called back when they are answering their questions, it would be most helpful.
Does anyone out there have any ideas that could work for such a thing?
3 Replies
Hey Sam! I like your ideas to allow readers to recall content that they selected previously in future slides.
I think you're on the right track with using hotspots, and you may want to assign variable triggers and references to those hotspots based on what language is being selected in the hotspot. Of course, as you pointed out, hotspotting every word would be tedious, so you could consider limiting what your learners select. I'm not sure if that would subvert the point of the exercise.
But, great stuff here! And I hope some other folks can chime in with tips and tricks!
Hi Sam, I am not sure why you need to do that. But if you want learners able to view their notes , you might consider to use the concept of bookmark. Let them annotate for pages and open it when needed. Please click on demo to see if it closes to what you want.
Demo
Thank you Crystal and Joanne! I'm trying to think of an idea to work around this - maybe a small bank of shapes they can use to drag and underline/circle the information they pick, though maybe the hot spots are better.
I do like the idea of a bookmark, though. Joanne I can't seem to get the demo you provided to work, but I have been snooping around. The bookmark issue wouldn't really solve the part where the students can annotate, I don't think (??) because as I said, they will be accessing this on an iPad so the way they annotate the slides will be limited anyway due to the capabilities of the player.
Unless, that is, they can access it via an LMS...but even then would their capabilities be limited by using an iPad...?
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