Forum Discussion
Learning Journal In Rise
UPDATE JUNE 2020:
Firstly, Articulate recently implemented a small update to Rise. As a result, all new exports from Rise will need to include the most recent version of LearningJournal.js which is found at the usual link.
Secondly, at any time Articulate could update their code and bring a breaking change to the Learning Journal. Over a year ago, I shared this functionality freely with the community and the code comes with no warranty or support either implied or expressed. If at any time you want or need to remove the Learning Journal from your modules, simple remove any STATEMENT-NOTE entries that refer to the Learning Journal.
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I built a cool Learning Journal feature for Rise that has been very well-received. I thought I'd share it in case anyone wanted to a. use it or b. improve on it.
The Learning Journal allows the learner to enter text responses to journal prompts throughout a Rise course. At the end of the course, the learner can print their learning journal of all their responses. The responses are saved to the browser so that they persist on future visits to the Rise course.
EDIT May 2019: At the request of a member of the forum, I created a HOW-TO video below that shows each step of the HOW-TO document in action.
Example Rise Course
http://amelangrise.s3.amazonaws.com/learningjournal/index.html
HOW-TO Document
https://github.com/mikeamelang/learning-journal/raw/master/Learning%20Journal%20HOW-TO.docx
HOW-TO Video
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/33873893-2ea1-46d9-9415-3efca951d74c/review
Learningjournal.js file (right-click and save)
http://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikeamelang/learning-journal/master/Learningjournal.js
Learningjournal.css file (right-click and save)
http://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikeamelang/learning-journal/master/Learningjournal.css
Project github site
https://github.com/mikeamelang/learning-journal
I would love any feedback and help to improve the functionality and code.
Mike Amelang
Hi Mike!
The last update to Rise 360 was on June 1. Our engineers had a look at your learning journal, and nothing has changed in Rise 360 that would cause a problem so it could be a browser or security update issue.
Thank you for sharing a fix for everyone at the top of this discussion!
EDIT: After further investigation, our engineers found that the recent accessibility updates made on all statement blocks caused the learning journal to stop working. Thanks to Mike for helping our team discover this!Thanks for sharing this. This is absolutely best workaround for the Journal kind of requriement.
Query 1: As this works on browser cache, is there any possiblity to store date in LMS so that if the user acces the same course from mobile/mobile app the inputs are available accross all devices.
Query 2: Can we automatically send email to user email?
Chirag,
Both of your suggestions would make very useful features in the Learning Journal. Unfortunately, I don't have the capability/availability to add the features. However, the code is freely available on Github for anyone to extend the functionality of the Learning Journal.
Thanks and have a great day
it is ideal to insert the function directly into Rise.
This is so great! Thanks for sharing. Is it possible to NOT have the Take Action button?
This would be helpful for one of my projects but I can't seem to get it to work. I have watched the videos, read the quick reference guide, double checked the code, and I still get nothing. What am I doing wrong? I copied over the css and js files from your site and placed them in the same location as the index.html file. Then I copied the three lines of code (also from your site) and pasted them in the index.html. See screenshots.
I was just testing it out in Preview mode and then in Review 360. My client does have a sandbox site for their LMS and I am getting someone to QA the course in sandbox this coming week, so I'll come back to this post once I confirm whether it works or not.
I tested in Scorm Cloud and sure enough it doesn't work. See attached to see how it displays.
Pauline,
You can DM me a link to the scorm cloud and I can troubleshoot.
Mike
Mike, I sent you a message. Thanks for taking a look for me! :)
Hi Mike,
I have created the journal, so thank you its brilliant, and for the most part it appears to work until i press print or email journal.
Not all of the answers written down display in the journal. I have exported multiple times using the same version of the module and each time I export, different answers seem to appear on the journal. In addition, sometimes the email generates and sometimes it doesn't?
I am exporting to Web and viewing via chrome. I read a previous comment that it may only work in an LMS only, is this correct as we are not sure if we are going to put it on the LMS or just have a web version.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Mike, thank you, this is just what I was looking for and was able to use it to significantly improve a Rise course I just deployed. Did run into one issue in that unless I enabled the email button option, the print journal button would not appear. But come to think of it, I had already removed the js lines for the Print Actions button because I didn't want that, so maybe I messed something up in doing that. Anyway, many thanks!
