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fraserwexport
Community Member
29 days ago

Retaining Text Entry in Rise

Hi,

I can see this topic has many discussions on this forum already, but the most recent is a couple of years old, so I thought I'd bring it up again, as it's a request I get so often. 

Does anyone know of a way to add a text box into Rise courses where users can type notes as a reflection of their thoughts on what they're learning? The key part is this data being retained, so when a user goes to a different section, or logs off and logs back in, the text is still there. 

I get tutors/teachers asking me for this feature constantly. If it's still not possible, can Articulate say if it's ever going to happen? 

Thank you! 

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4 Replies

  • Tim_'s avatar
    Tim_
    Community Member
    19 days ago

    The persistance is the main problem, and probably why Articulate won't tackle it. Where do you store what the user has typed?

    • In SCORM 1.2, there's no part of the API that lets users store long text.
    • In SCORM 2004 there's a way to store long text, but different servers/solutions might not let you read it back again afterwards.
    • in xAPI you can notify an external record store what the interaction was, but it's not a read-write situation either.
    • If you just publish to web, there's no way to store anything.
    • If you use the Mighty browser extension which extends what Rise can do, they have a long text entry - but again, it doesn't persist the value properly.

    You might have seen I've got posts on this all over the community about this subject, it comes up all the time. My current solution is to embed a special Storyline into Rise which persists the value onto an external service.

    You can download the latest version of my Storyline file from Github - https://github.com/frumbert/blob.frumbert.org/tree/main/resources

    This site shows the full source code for both the web service and Storyline javascript.

    I mainly run my Rise courses on Moodle, and as such I also made a Moodle plugin that acts as the data-store, and the above Storyline file already tries to connect to that before failing over to an online server. You can get the plugin here - https://github.com/frumbert/local_blobstorebackend

    There's also a 'Export' button Storyline file which compiles all the learners responses in the course and downloads them as a PDF, which I normally add to the conclusion pages in my courses.

  • EricSantos's avatar
    EricSantos
    Staff
    24 days ago

    Hi fraserwexport​, brand23​ and FraserWebster12​,

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the Rise 360 feature that lets users take notes and keep them even after logging out and back in.

    I've added your feedback to the existing request so our product team knows the community pulse.

    We really appreciate you taking the time to let us know. If there's anything else you need, please don't hesitate to reach out.

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