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Rise & Google Analytics?
Can Google Analytics be integrated into Rise?
I have received permission from my company to post my generic version of the Google Analytics event tracking tutorial that we use in Storyline. You can bring Storyline modules into Rise and obtain event tracking via the imported Storyline module. In that scenario, you would need to import the Storyline file as a block in Rise and add the main Google Analytics javascript code to the head section of the main index.html file. This will let Google know to send event tracking and general Google Analytics to your Google Analytics account.
Note: If you insert a Storyline file into Rise that contains Google Analytics for tracking events, you can also obtain Google Analytics via Rise. In this case, you would add the main code to the HEAD section of the RISE project, like you would with the Storyline files. Note, the analytics will show the general analytics (country, device type, new vs returning users) for the entire Rise project and the event details for the Storyline block only.
@Lisa Whalen - Thanks so much for sharing! Do you know if it's possible to take your tutorial and apply it to Rise courses wrapped in Scorm 1.2 as well?
Yes and no. You can apply general Google Analytics to the main html files from Rise outputs, regardless of Scorm 1.2 or web page, etc. However, you cannot do event tracking in Rise yet (hoping they add a way to do this in a future release). Therefore, you can only get general analytics like location, device, page views, etc.
If you have a Storyline block in Rise that does have triggers in it for event tracking, then that is how you can get event tracking through Rise, but ONLY for that Storyline block. (See the Note in my previous post for combining Rise and Storyline blocks for event tracking.)
Thanks for that. The main thing we're looking for right now is page views, device, and duration spent on the page. It sounds like what you proposed would be a good fit for our needs right now.
My company's use case is more tied to product and training sales. We want people to learn for sure, but we give a lot of free education as a hook, so we need to track conversions and see what's effective for keeping eyes on screens :)
For event tracking that involves external links, we're using bit.ly + Pardot + Salesforce. This lets us track conversions whenever we have a need to.
