Learning Journal In Rise

Hi Catherine

There are actually three different approaches in this thread. There's Mike's original approach in which you create Blocks in RISE of type "Note" and then his code extracts these notes and stores them in local browser storage ready for printing at the end of the course

Then there's Teresa's example where she uses Storyline blocks and JavaScript to capture the notes within the block and then constructs a screen with the notes on for printing - but this approach doesn't store the notes beyond the Storyline block in which they are captured.

And then there's my approach which again uses Storyline blocks to capture notes at different points in the RISE course, then stores each note to local browser storage ready for a final Storyline block to read all the notes from the local storage and output them to a pdf for downloading and/or printing at the end of the course

I've never used Mike's solution so I don't know if anything is sent to the LMS if published to SCORM. Mine doesn't sent anything specific to the LMS, but I have implemented a solution where the pdf, including the learner's responses, was emailed to the course tutor.

Since my code retrieves all notes out of local storage at the end of the course, the notes are sitting there as JavaScript text variables and could easily be written to an LRS using xAPI - or even to some form of external file like a Google docs file - but I have never done that.

Hi all, I've been using this for some time now but I've just tried to publish a new course using the same CSS and JS files it's not working. The index.html will open and function correctly in my local folder structure but as soon as I upload it to Amazon S3 or zip it up and upload it to SCORM cloud it stops working, any tips/ideas?

Note: I went back and republished an old Rise course and it's behaving the same so I suspect its a Rise update that's caused this but I don't know why/how to fix it.

Hi both, no solution, unfortunately, Articulate wouldn't provide support as it's custom JS and suggested I try publishing to SCORM 2004 but I actually moved away from this and used a different solution, see this heroes page https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/creating-downloadable-pdf-files-in-storyline-an-update-on-earlier-methods

Hi Emma

I'm glad the post on "creating downloadable pdf files in Storyline" was useful. The JavaScript library pdf-lib is pretty awesome - using a pre-formatted pdf template as the learning journal takes a lot of the hard work out of it.

As this thread is specific to RISE, I should just point out that, although the solution I proposed in the above article gives you the ability to create a single Storyline block which can then be built into your RISE course to capture and download notes at that point in your course, there is still the problem of capturing notes for your journal at multiple points in your RISE course and 'holding' them until the end of the course. As you know, RISE has no variables, and variables used in a Storyline block are lost as soon as you exit that block. This is where Mike's original solution was so good.

We have been able to solve this for one of our clients using "local" browser storage (similar to the 'cookies' websites use) - there is a discussion on how this works in the demo below:

https://demo12.profilelearning.com

I think there may be another solution where you write the first notes to create a pdf file and then pick the same file up and append more notes to it. This has only just occurred to me so I have no idea whether that would be possible. Anyone tried this using pdf-lib??

Hi Mike,

A belated 'Great job!'

I hope Articulate add this to their 'To do' list.

It would be a valuable feature enabling Learners to improve their learning outcomes.

Regards,

Peter

Any idea if there is a way to edit the buttons so the "Print Actions" button isn't there? I am not using that so it is a bit confusing for users. 

Hi Mike, thank you very much for the resource.
I'd like to be able to remove the "Print My Actions" button.
Do you know how to do this without breaking the rest of the structure ?

Thx

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to generate an image gathering all the answers before offering to print/download ? Like a summary that I could put as an image to tell the learner "here you can see a summary" and every response is listed. 

Thank you very much if you can help !

No problem Manon :) 

I'm not aware of a way to do that I'm afraid!

Hi Manon

My earlier post in this thread has kind of got lost in the general discussion but our demo here does exactly what you are looking for (I thiink).

The point being that it collects the learner notes and responses - stores them in local browser storage then uses JavaScript to 'fill out' a preformatted pdf form. So the form could contain a handout summarizing the course content AND the learner's own notes/responses.

Once the pdf file has been created it is offered for download - but, obviously, it could be viewed before the learner did that. You could probably open it in a new window within the course.

:)

https://demo12.profilelearning.com

I should emphasize, the pdf file can contain anything you want to put in it - and it can be over as many pages as you like. We use this quite a bit in client projects.

I should, perhaps, also add that unlike another solution using Storyline posted here - you can collect the user responses from several points in the course.