Essay Questions

Further to this,

If I used a text or data entry box, where would the pupils' responses be saved? 

Aaron - I think Stephanie's demo could help you out: http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/41146/232037.aspx

Hi Ashley,

Thanks for this! Stephanie's work is fantastic but I'm not sure that it solves my problem. As I'm working with children I need to see what they have said in order to give them feedback. As far as I can see, my articulate lessons are not sending the pupils' writing from an essay box or data box to my GrassBlade LRS, which is where I planned on seeing their comments.

Has anybody successfully configured the above so you can capture all of the prose or notes written by your pupils in an LRS?  

Hi Ashely T,

Thank you for the updates. Can you clarify a couple of things for me please?

1. Is the quiz data generated and sent on a slide by slide basis within a complete lesson? I say this because I have several activities in each of my lessons, several of which are quizzes in different formats. In this regard, the only statements coming through to my LRS are user has 'experienced' an activity, not 'this is what they said' or 'this is their score'. The troubleshooting post suggests changing the tracking to another variable like pass/fail but what if each lesson has several pieces of content that need tracking in different ways, like a pass/fail test and written text that also needs recording?   

2. Are you aware of any issues where Articulate Storyline and LearnDash are used together and negatively affect the kind of statements that are sent?

3. 

If these statements came through to my LRS, it would be great, but they are not:

• id: Storyline sends a series of data for this string to identify the Scene#, the QuestionDraw# (if applicable), and the Slide# in that particular scene or question draw.
• type: This is the type of question (True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, etc).
• student_response: This is how the learner answered the question.
• correct_response: This is the correct answer for the question.
• result: This designates whether the learner answered the question correctly or not.
• weighting: Articulate content doesn't currently utilize this item. It'll always be set to 1.
• latency: This is how long it took the learner to answer the question.
• objective: Articulate content doesn't currently utilize this item. It'll always be set to 0.

If you have any further knowledge on these questions that would be really appreciated. 

Many thanks,

Aaron 

If you have the question assigned to the results slide you are reporting on then the data should be sent to your LMS.  The caveat here is that the survey questions are often LMS dependent, some will limit the number of characters allowed others will just not pick up any meaningful data.

I would first test in Scormcloud and then open a support case with either Articulate or Learndash based on these results

Hi Aaron,

As Phil mentioned, it'll depend on each LMS system and how it interprets the data that Storyline sends. I haven't heard of any specific issues with Storyline and LearnDash - but I also always recommend testing content at SCORM Cloud as it's an industry standard for testing SCORM Content. 

Hi Phil and Ashley,

Thank you both for your replies. I have obtained an example lesson from somebody that does successfully send the 'text response' to my GrassBlade LRS. Interestingly, the text box is a right/wrong box where the pupil can type what they like however, a specific answer is required for a statement of 'pass/fail' to be sent, along with the actual text inputted by the student. 

I am still at a loss of how to configure a data entry box or an essay form to send the pupils' writing to my LRS. I want to use these types of text input to see what the pupil says, not if they are correct or incorrect. This is definitely an articulate issue, and my own lack of knowledge, as both LearnDash and GrassBlade have successfully recorded the pupil's writing when the text box is a 'pass/fail' type of box. 

Do either of you know how I can ensure that a data entry box or an essay form are calibrated into the results slide so  that the pupils' text is sent to the LRS?

Many thanks for your help guys!

Aaron 

Hi Aaron,

I'm not sure I understand the "pass/fail" box you're describing - but it sounds like you mentioned it was set up and worked in such a way to score it and provide the students answer? 

I do not know enough about the different LMS systems to determine how to set this up for yours, but if you have an example that works and can reference the .story source file as you develop yours - I'd look into working specifically with that one, and then as I mentioned continue to test at SCORM Cloud as well to help determine the limits/expectations of the SCORM standards. 

Hi guys! The plot thickens....

1. Completed when x amount of slides are viewed
2. Track using quiz result.