Tracking course completion without LMS

Hey Kai,

You could embed a web object at the very end (perhaps a Google Form or similar) and just tell people they have to submit the form in order to have it count for completion. 

Kai, I'm not sure exactly what data you want to record in tracking, but certainly we've been part of many posted discussions in recent years about recording data from SL without an LMS.  Rachel's suggestion above may have been right for you, but happy to talk you through various alternatives, just let me know.

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me. 

Let me clarify - Tracking in the sense of s/o entering their name and I get an email or notification that they've taken the course. Yes, something similarly to google docs. I am not sure how to execute this though. Amy thoughts?

@John - What other ideas do you recommend that you've used or that have worked?

There is an insert web object option that should basically embed whatever
website (Google Docs, etc.) So that should help! Whatever works best for
you :)

Thanks Rachel! I tried using that, but it doesn't work well. Could you perhaps provide an example of one that has worked successfully for you?

Ta!

This is the post I was referring to...i will give it a thorough read thru.

https://goo.gl/Ompsh3

Hey Kai, as it turns out, Google Forms doesn't play nicely with Storyline! I didn't realize that, I could have sworn I'd embedded Google Forms in the past.

That said, I was able to get Survey Monkey to work well. You can see it here: http://www.ohthatrachel.com/elearning/embedtest/story.html

Rachel, I told you that it doesn't work well with google docs. Thanks for testing this out. Not a fan of survey monkey and their interface. There has to be another way. 

Sorry, I just could have sworn I used Google Docs before so I tested it out
to confirm. There are lots of survey options out there, not just Survey
Monkey.

You could also temporarily pay for Articulate Online until you get an LMS.

There is another way if you want to spend just a little time creating some variables/triggers to a) pull some data from your quiz questions, or b) pull some information from your results slides or c) at a point in the course, record that it's been reached. 

It involves creating some objects and some javascript triggers, to send info to a database that you can then very easily interrogate, or dump data into Excel, or whatever. You may need help with the code that links to the dB (we can help you and provide the dB if you like) but the triggers/variables should be within the typical SL programmer's skill set.

Get in touch if you wish, you could be up and running with this quite quickly.

Sorry Kai, I just posted something saying 'get back to me', and you
already did. (Busiy week)

What has worked is to build some code which (eventually) goes into the
story.html file that SL publishes. This picks up any use of a simple
phrase in a javascript trigger. My technical colleague does the former,
but even I can use the latter.

You can dump any piece of data held in a variable, to a database, and
get any pice of data in the dB, into a variable, with a simple command.

Thus perhaps, you could get the data from the 'score' in a results
slide, and store it.
You could also set up a trigger to set a variable at a certain point in
the course (example: 'I'm done'=true), and then store that on the dB.

If your need is urgent, we could get you the code, and help you set it
up so it would use a local dB....or you perhaps could use our dB to
store/retrieve....

either way we try to make some that shouldn't be so complicated (but
is!), fairly easy at your end.

In a rush this quick, hence a hastily typed ansser, but can chat more....

JaF

Very detailed and interesting. Very technical. I fist need to find out whether there is a DB that I can use to sore this data. I will be in touch via PM. Thanks John.

Kai,

As some of the heroes have shared, there are technical solutions available. But if this is only 6 months, you may want to consider and "old school" solution like having the learner print/email a certificate and keeping track manually.  Why?   Because often when you implement an LMS the issue of learner IDs comes up and you have to manually transfer learning history over anyways. 

So if you are talking hundreds of learners in the next few months, ok. Maybe set up a database.  But if it's fewer maybe invest in a more manual approach for now for efficiency's sake.

Good luck!

Indeed Bob, I am leaning towards that. Fortunately we are small so it will be not be such manual labor.

Do you perhaps have a mock-up of what this would look like? 

Thanks!

Hi Kai,

Might want to start here.... https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/can-t-email-quiz-results-in-storyline

Thanks  Bob! Tom's is exactly what I was looking for. I appreciate you finding this for me :)

For anyone reading this thread. This is the answer: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204869861

The easiest way to add tracking to the course without having to use the LMS is with the Data Cloud widget for Storyline: https://cluelabs.com/data-cloud-elearning-widget.html