Hi Team, I am experiencing difficulty in Articulate Rise 360, so I need your assistance and guidance throughout the development process. How can I add a text box for user input in Rise360? (any readily available templates from content library you can suggest). I tried the knowledge check option, but I don't want to see a result screen, therefore it's not a good fit. I also attempted to incorporate a quiz made in Storyline/Quizmaker 360 by going to Interactive > "Add a Storyline 360 interaction from Review 360," but I'm unsure of where the quiz's results and information are being saved in the LMS. The Multimedia > Embed > Pasted URL / iFrame Code feature in MS-Forms is really useful, however the embedded item still looks like MS-Forms. In the meantime, the two paths I have taken so far, namely: Adding a web form as an embedded object and using that to get the learner's input is a good way to achieve this. However, the challenge is if you do not want the form to look like MS Forms or a Google form, you would need to create and code the custom form separately. Using a Storyline block will work to get the input, however, the input is not sent to the LMS. Only the Storyline block completion is reported to the LMS. A possible workaround would be to send the data manually from within the Storyline course using JavaScript. Additionally, I wanted my learners to download a PDF file of the entire Rise 360 course. We've designated a digital journal in RISE 360 with several text inputs for the learners to fill out during the live classroom discussion. Our goal was to have the participant fill out text boxes (hard coded with JavaScript, not visible in Rise 360) with their responses and then have the page saved as a PDF. Please DO NOT suggest the below mentioned workaround solution. You can give the learners an option to download the PDF version of the course by doing the following: 1. Once you have finished your Rise 360 course, Select Export. 2. Export the entire course as PDF. 3. Edit your course again and add a Multimedia > Attachment block. 4. Edit the Attachment block and upload the PDF file you exported in step 2. Any advice or feedback you can offer is much welcomed.

I would like see a text entry added natively to Rise. I am not going to hold my breath. In a previous course I tried using an iframe embed and made a HTML page that can store the value in local storage. https://frumbert.github.io/public/reflective_activity.html?source=mybucket To get different values showing up I would then send in a 'source' parameter so that each text entry could be unique. I would then have to modify the exported Rise package in order to embed the iframe source file into the Rise package (so that it could run on an intranet without internet access). I made myself a tool for re-packing externally referenced files into Rise: https://www.frumbert.org/risefix/index.php In my next project that required text entries the client required that the learner enter a value before Rise would let them navigate. I hadn't been able to get that working properly with my iframe based solution. I had reversed engineered the Rise player enough to see how other interactions work to set a complete flag so that the Continue button would then become active, and emulated that in my own code. But it doesn't work on iframes, so that prevented me from implementing anything there. I now need learners to be able to write into a text entry and then, later in the course, have these entries show up again somehow. During output of the values, I'd like it to pop up or being something printable, since Rise doesn't save the value from a Storyline file. I had wanted to see if I could hook into the SCORM player of the Rise package and store a value there somehow, but cross-frame scripting gets in the way (and even after published when the package is in the same domain, the code didn't work). So I'm stuck with Storyline, since when a Storyline file completes, Rise will see that completion and release the Continue button. Here is as far as I am right now, and I've attached the storyline files that are loading for reference on that side. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/1770286b-a109-49b1-95ce-a34e61e662fc/review This reveals a couple of bugs in Storyline: You don't get scrollbars on text entry forms. So if the text is long, you might not know you have to click in it, then scroll using the mouse wheel / tap-drag. Depending on the font, the text crops on the last line of the text entry field and you have to know to press Enter afterwards so you can see what you typed. The other thing it reveals is that Rise will re-use the same Storyline instance if you add it multiple times. This might be an efficient programming thing, but it sure is annoying when I want to add multiple text entries. I have to publish the same Storyline file multiple times to Review 360 for each text entry I want in the course. On the summary page, I have a loader which is looking at my local storage and concatenating each entry into the text field. This is far from ideal - mainly because of the scrollbar bug. I tried using a TextBox in Storyline too, but it doesn't have a variable and you can't set its value at runtime. This would have been great since you can add a TextBox to a Scrolling Panel to get the scrollbars showing up. But you can't add a TextEntry field to a Scrolling Pane (or at least I couldn't get mine in one). Executing javascript on form load could pop a window (if the user allows it) or throw up a PDF like in the previous users example - I haven't got that far myself yet. I hope some other developers/creatives can chip-in with Text Entries in Rise and offer their own examples, because I don't think Articulate are ever going to add native Text Entry support to Rise.

My approach was always to use Storyline to do the text entry and embed that into Rise as an interaction, and then the problem was always storage and retrieval. Some people tried storing to local storage (browser), others to the comments field in SCORM, others have tried to send values to a LRS but then retrieval becomes tricky. My approach was to write an external service to load/store generic data, so that it's not reliant on scorm or specific browsers, and it remains compatible with the editor, with Review, Reach 360, and LMS's. I also needed to be able to generate a PDF with all the answers which could be picked up at the end of the course, so I made a separate storyline with a download button. This is all demonstrated here, and the source code to a storage service and storyline files are available here. I like the approach that Mighty have taken but wonder if updates to Rise will break it, and also it might break the terms of service which explicitly prohibits modifying the runtime code. I'd tried a similar idea except using a Storyline embed to inject the code (which self-deletes), an approach of having a notepad icon appear on all pages (example, appears on the top-right), but it wasn't a great experience and ended up abandoning that method. I'd also first approached the problem by using an iframe embed pointing to https://frumbert.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/courses/textarea.html which used the local storage approach

The use of Storyline makes it a bit complicated, and not ideal on mobile. But its a cool solution. I use a modal popup that the user can access throughout the course in a persisting global menu. It also uses localstorage. The user can simply download/print the single text input, the text is 'saved' for the user but it doesn't get sent to the LMS.

Hi Saikat I can't help with the first part of your question - i.e. the quiz - But we have been working on collecting data using a Storyline block in Rise and then outputting the data to a downloadable pdf. This demo I posted a couple of weeks ago demonstrates where we have got to: https://rise.articulate.com/share/CxNcomo7LqqWkBOahhImYPgO8E7PEeYG Inside the Storyline we use text input boxes to collect the input from the learner. We then use a JavaScript library 'pdf-lib' in our JavaScript code to take this input and fill out a pdf 'form'. In the demo the pdf 'form' template is included inside an attachment block. Using this technique, you could create the form to include part of the course itself with form fields where you want the learner input to appear. This works fine BUT... and it's a big BUT... we cannot carry variables over from one Storyline Block to another i.e. we cannot accumulate variables and store them until the end of the course. RISE doesn't have variables. so as soon as the learner exits from the Storyline block the variables are lost. You would have to store the data somewhere to get what I suspect you are trying to achieve. We have a client who has requested we work on this - we are going to try using local storage in the browser (not ideal - but viable). If we have success I will update this post.

Wow, this is great guys. Thanks for sharing, although unsure how to implement with such a little time. Up for Rise text entry functionality being developed ASAP!

saikatpandit-a8

Community Member

2 years ago

Adding a text box for user input in Rise360

Hi Team,

I am experiencing difficulty in Articulate Rise 360, so I need your assistance and guidance throughout the development process.

How can I add a text box for user input in Rise360? (any readily available templates from content library you can suggest). I tried the knowledge check option, but I don't want to see a result screen, therefore it's not a good fit.
I also attempted to incorporate a quiz made in Storyline/Quizmaker 360 by going to Interactive > "Add a Storyline 360 interaction from Review 360," but I'm unsure of where the quiz's results and information are being saved in the LMS.
The Multimedia > Embed > Pasted URL / iFrame Code feature in MS-Forms is really useful, however the embedded item still looks like MS-Forms.

In the meantime, the two paths I have taken so far, namely:

Adding a web form as an embedded object and using that to get the learner's input is a good way to achieve this. However, the challenge is if you do not want the form to look like MS Forms or a Google form, you would need to create and code the custom form separately.
Using a Storyline block will work to get the input, however, the input is not sent to the LMS. Only the Storyline block completion is reported to the LMS. A possible workaround would be to send the data manually from within the Storyline course using JavaScript.

Additionally, I wanted my learners to download a PDF file of the entire Rise 360 course. We've designated a digital journal in RISE 360 with several text inputs for the learners to fill out during the live classroom discussion. Our goal was to have the participant fill out text boxes (hard coded with JavaScript, not visible in Rise 360) with their responses and then have the page saved as a PDF.

Please DO NOT suggest the below mentioned workaround solution.

You can give the learners an option to download the PDF version of the course by doing the following:

1. Once you have finished your Rise 360 course, Select Export.

2. Export the entire course as PDF.

3. Edit your course again and add a Multimedia > Attachment block.

4. Edit the Attachment block and upload the PDF file you exported in step 2.

Any advice or feedback you can offer is much welcomed.

rise 360

AnnaJayamanne-1
Community Member
10 months ago
Hi John, I appreciate your offering this workshop. I am interested in the session at 15:30 UK time. Thanks again!
JohnCooper-be3c
Community Member
10 months ago
The FREE 'live' workshop "Creating downloadable notes from RISE using Storyline, Javascript and local browser storage" requested above is now scheduled - there are two sessions on the 26th March and you can reserve a place by visiting my website at:

Course Catalogue (profilelearning.com)

Just click on the link to the session you would like to register - it's a LearnDach site and will ask you for an email address which it will verify and the link to the event will be available on-line and be sent by email nearer the event.

Places will be limited as it's an interactive session with plenty of opportunity to discuss methods and ask questions.
- RachelleTulloch
  Community Member
  10 months ago
  Awesome! Thanks John, I'm registered! Can't wait. :)
- MelanieKing-f58
  Community Member
  6 months ago
  Hi @John Cooper - i am just stumbling on this thread now and wondering if there is any chance there was a recording of the free workshops you ran in March? TIA cheers mel
CherylTyler-746
Community Member
10 months ago
Have you looked at Mike Amelang's solution using notes and javascript. I've just got it working but not sure how it will go when there are Rise updates. Time will tell. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/33873893-2ea1-46d9-9415-3efca951d74c/review

You can either print a pdf or email when you put into the notes section at the end of the course. See example here. https://amelangrise.s3.amazonaws.com/learningjournal/index.html#/
RachelleTulloch
Community Member
10 months ago
Hi Cheryl - yes, I have Mike's solution as well, but I am concerned about asking my client/s to do the extra work with Notepad. Given most of my clients are small to medium enterprises with limited IT resources and know-how, I feel asking them to download Notepad and further customise it for it to work with their LMS (and they will have different platforms) after I send them the Rise course will be a bit too much.

But if I can't make it work with John's solution, then I will look further into Mike's solution. And of course, keep hoping that this feature becomes native to Rise 360 one day - I think it really is needed given the level of interaction that is now expected with online learning.

And it's a whole different conversation with where AI is going to eventually fit in with learning development...
- CherylTyler-746
  Community Member
  10 months ago
  yes it is easier if it's just for yourself rather than for different clients. Maybe it suits what SAIKAT PANDIT is trying to do. I'm hoping AI can bring us some interesting new ways to do what we've always done. So far I'm impressed but not wowed. :)
JohnCooper-be3c
Community Member
10 months ago
I know there are several threads here looking at this issue - and there are certainly some great, but different approaches.

Just to be clear - the objective of my project was to allow learners to respond to prompts in the course and allow them to make notes which are then included at the appropriate point in a pdf course handout which can be downloaded at the end of the course. Effectively to 'fill in' a pre-formatted workbook.

What my project doesn't do is offer the user a facility to click a button at any time, make their notes and then download those notes at the end of the course. Phil Foss's approach is much closer to that - as is the Mighty plug-in mentioned above by Mitch. This is a slightly different application to mine - equally valuable (more valuable if that's what you are looking for!) - but different.
JohnCooper-be3c
Community Member
10 months ago
Hi Tim

Brilliant solution! Love it.

I also use Storyline to do the text entry but prefer to use the pdflib JavaScript library to create the pdf (which is actually a course notes template form which the JavaScript fills out)...

But the problem in RISE is, as you say, the storage and retrieval of the data. I use local browser storage in my current projects which means the learner loses the data if they pause and switch device or browser.

I'm working on a version that will use a small server side node.js app to listen out for data - assign a session id to it and store it in a database. The data can then be retrieved and sent to the client side code when it sends another request to the app. This is effectively creating an external service as you have done. I will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again, for sharing your code.

Best regards, John

PS It would be so much easier if Articulate just provided a few server side variables in RISE for developers to use!!
StaceyAtiyeh
Community Member
9 months ago
+1 for an open field / free-form text block for learners to interact with as part of an assessment or reflection.
LenaDavies
Community Member
9 months ago
Hi John, that looks great! Is this solution responsive how would it look on a mobile?
Also Mitch, the plug in looks interesting, does that mean you have to view the course in Chrome or is that just for development?

I would also like to have a text input feature which then allows you to see a model answer e.g. 'What can you do to improve the patient experience in your ward?' Then free text box to write suggestions. The model answer button will show some suggestions. This means you could reflect on your learning, write examples, and see if it matches with the model answer.
I've used that feature in the 'Adapt' authoring tool (it's one of the component of Adapt) and it would be great if I could do the same in Rise.
- mitchhorn-5ccb3
  Community Member
  9 months ago
  Hi Lena,
  
  It is just during development. I use Brave and it works fine for building.
EmilyWhite-ce3a
Community Member
9 months ago
I would love to see this feature added as well.
SucharitaPat603
Community Member
9 months ago
+1 vote for this feature. Would be a great addition to Rise.