Any way that you could share with us how the Learning Journal from the Storyline Showcase was put together. I like the idea of a lightbox where students/learners could enter personal notes to help enhance their learning....but how did they do this.
That's pretty easy to pull off. I'm guessing this is a slide with a set of buttons that toggle open layers. Each layer contains an input field. Each input field is connected to a variable. Since variables retain their values, the input field retains the input when the layer is reopened and even when stored on the LMS.
To take this a step further you could print out a sheet containing all of the notes using some javascript.
Steve is right about this being easy to pull off! I'm going to try to put together some screenrs soon to show exactly how this was done, but in the meantime, here are the basic steps to create a learning journal like the one in Avoiding Meeting Missteps:
1. Create the learning journal home page.
2. Build individual journal layers with text-entry boxes and project variables for the text-entry boxes.
3. Create triggers on the journal home page to open the appropriate layers.
4. Create your course content slide.
5. Add a journal button to your content slides.
6. Create journal variables and triggers to your content slides so that the journal opens to the appropriate layer depending on the slide it is launched from.
Here is a screenshot from the story file so that you can get a peek at how some of the triggers were set up.
Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions. Hopefully screenrs will follow soon Trying to find time to pull them together!
I am having trouble with the second part of step 2:
2. Build individual journal layers with text-entry boxes and project variables for the text-entry boxes
How do you project the variables for the test entry boxes?
In the text entry box I inserted the reference and selected the variable and that kind of works but then it disapears when I close out of it and then open it back up. Plus it shows up as the reference before something is typed - so that's not correct either.
Would you mind providing further direction for step 2?
Dawn, question on the learning journal. Do you know the code or options available to have the journal saved or emailed by the learner. Anyone have any thoughts on using this feature in an LMS? Does not work on our side, need alternate ideas.
Dawn, question on the learning journal. Do you know the code or options available to have the journal saved or emailed by the learner. Anyone have any thoughts on using this feature in an LMS? Does not work on our side, need alternate ideas.
Thanks.
Alicia
I would also like to know how this could be accomplished using an LMS.
You may want to private message Taylor or Dawn, as this thread is a bit older and I'm not certain they're still subscribed.
In the meantime, if you're looking to capture a user's text entry and report it to your LMS you'll want to use a method such as this one to report the variable to your LMS. You'll also want to confirm with your LMS how you'll be able to pull individual user's short answers within the report set ups they offer you.
This thread is a bit dated and it looks like that was one shared in the community and not by our team, so I would not be able to help out with the source file.
I do have a couple of threads that may get you headed in the right direction though. Check them out here and here.
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Hi, Bret -
That's pretty easy to pull off. I'm guessing this is a slide with a set of buttons that toggle open layers. Each layer contains an input field. Each input field is connected to a variable. Since variables retain their values, the input field retains the input when the layer is reopened and even when stored on the LMS.
To take this a step further you could print out a sheet containing all of the notes using some javascript.
Hi Bret,
Steve is right about this being easy to pull off! I'm going to try to put together some screenrs soon to show exactly how this was done, but in the meantime, here are the basic steps to create a learning journal like the one in Avoiding Meeting Missteps:
1. Create the learning journal home page.
2. Build individual journal layers with text-entry boxes and project variables for the text-entry boxes.
3. Create triggers on the journal home page to open the appropriate layers.
4. Create your course content slide.
5. Add a journal button to your content slides.
6. Create journal variables and triggers to your content slides so that the journal opens to the appropriate layer depending on the slide it is launched from.
Here is a screenshot from the story file so that you can get a peek at how some of the triggers were set up.
Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions. Hopefully screenrs will follow soon Trying to find time to pull them together!
Dawn Ferullo
DFLearning
Dawn,
Thanks so much for posting this. Would love to see your screenrs... Hopefully I will have some time in the next few days to give this a shot!
Thanks for your help!
Hello Dawn,
Thanks for listing out the steps.
I am having trouble with the second part of step 2:
2. Build individual journal layers with text-entry boxes and project variables for the text-entry boxes
How do you project the variables for the test entry boxes?
In the text entry box I inserted the reference and selected the variable and that kind of works but then it disapears when I close out of it and then open it back up. Plus it shows up as the reference before something is typed - so that's not correct either.
Would you mind providing further direction for step 2?
Thanks so much!!
Dawn, question on the learning journal. Do you know the code or options available to have the journal saved or emailed by the learner. Anyone have any thoughts on using this feature in an LMS? Does not work on our side, need alternate ideas.
Thanks.
Alicia
I would also like to know how this could be accomplished using an LMS.
Hi Taylor and welcome to Heroes!
You may want to private message Taylor or Dawn, as this thread is a bit older and I'm not certain they're still subscribed.
In the meantime, if you're looking to capture a user's text entry and report it to your LMS you'll want to use a method such as this one to report the variable to your LMS. You'll also want to confirm with your LMS how you'll be able to pull individual user's short answers within the report set ups they offer you.
Hello,I am trying to create a journal page for a project I am currently working on. But I am having some trouble with the triggers.
Are there any more detailed tutorials on this available yet? Or perhaps a .story file that I can compare to my own?
Hi Elne,
There were some examples mentioned in this thread, as well as some general suggestions from Christine that you may want to look into.
hi
I was wondering if you could please let me download this template please
I would be very grateful for your kind help
Hi Za,
Which template were you looking for? I'd be happy to share it with you here if you can let me know which example you were looking for.
Thanks!
can we see the complete template for the avoiding meeting missteps
Hey Lesley!
This thread is a bit dated and it looks like that was one shared in the community and not by our team, so I would not be able to help out with the source file.
I do have a couple of threads that may get you headed in the right direction though. Check them out here and here.
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