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- LisaWhalen1Community Member
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.
- LawrenceFaulstiCommunity Member
@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?
- LisaWhalen1Community Member
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.)
- GailChambers-fdCommunity Member
Is anyone using Google Analytics for tracking users in Rise? Any input would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!!
- LisaWhalen1Community Member
What is it that you are trying to track for users? I use Google Analytics (GA) quite creatively for tracking things that users do. However, keep in mind, that GA does NOT track user names, so you would need to obtain that from your LMS.
- GailChambers-fdCommunity Member
Thanks, can you detail how that might work? Export as? Options to view user completion - etc?
- LisaWhalen1Community Member
Tracking via my LMS and GA, I export as LMS - SCORM 2004 - Edition - 4th Edition. I also add the GA code to the header of the story.html file, as well as the other 3 in that main folder to activate the GA portion, which tells the browser to send that data to your GA account. You can also publish for TinCan (which is really xAPI) if you have an LRS, you can track users and activity that way as well, or instead, depending on your coding expertise and comfort.
- StephanieBan925Community Member
Hey all, I think I've found a solution to this! Could you click on my link so I can see if data feeds through? If it works I'll create a tutorial :) http://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stephtesting/index.html#/
- JaredNewnamCommunity Member
I found this thread and I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I've instituted GA in my articulate files via GTM. I have event tracking built in and I'm able to view when someone goes to a specific course, the navigation they use within the course. Currently, I'm working on instituting a way to track when the video files are played and what's clicked on regarding the interactive parts. It's fun, but can be annoying at times when stuff doesn't come together. All I can say is keep pushing and really learn GTM (with preview mode).
- PeteGermanCommunity Member
Thanks for this Jared - what is GTM?
- LauraStraubCommunity Member
Hi Paul GTM is Go To Market
- BrianRuno-6f040Community Member
Currently having trouble when inserting code for GA. Once the code is inserted, it is causing issues/error messages with the videos in our LMS program.
Has anyone run into anything like this before?
- SriSrikrishnaCommunity Member
I know this threat was about GA and Rise - but I'm interested in any analytics capability that's either built in to Rise or what progress (or ready made modules/advice) is available since this thread began 2 years ago :) Thanks in advance.
Thanks for asking, Sri. While Rise 360 doesn't have analytics built-in, what sort of data would you want to access? Are you using a learning management system to host your Rise 360 courses?
- SriSrikrishnaCommunity Member
Hi,
I am looking to see if my students watched videos fully and how and where they navigated - starting with simple to as complex as it gets - at presently I'm sharing a link from Canvas to the Rise on Articulate. I don't plan to import SCORM into Canvas for now.regards,
Sri
Thanks, Sri. It's helpful to know more about how you would want to use analytics, should we add that feature in the future. I appreciate your feedback!
- RichardPfisterCommunity Member
I think I may be in a similar situation. I created a Rise 360 item as a reference / information items and share it via the link to the cloud. There is no "completion," but I'd like to know number of hits, so I can tell if it's being used and is worth the effort of maintaining it.
- KarlMullerCommunity Member
Hi Richard,
Where and how are you hosting and sharing your Rise course with your audience?