I agree/Acknowledgement option in Rise 360
Jan 11, 2022
We have a number of compliance courses which requires users to acknowledge that they understand the content or will discuss with their manager if they require further clarification.
I see there have been suggestions over the years to use the multiple choice option giving a 'yes' and 'no' option. This "grades" the response, which is pretty clunky (i.e: it displays "Correct" if they agree and "Incorrect" if they disagree, which comes across as a little passive aggressive).
I've also seen the suggestion of adding a continue section which forces the user to click on it in order to proceed, however this doesn't provide a definitive response to the LMS.
Has anyone found a way to create a single "I Agree" button which will report this response to the LMS?
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Personally I use a combination of a single item Checkbox List followed by a Continue button with the 'Complete Block Directly Above' completion criteria. This interaction isn't recorded by the LMS, but learners have to check the box in order to continue – assuming navigation is Restricted, as is typically the case – so acknowledgment is implicit in them progressing the module. The two-step process makes it less likely to be absentmindedly clicked through.
If you absolutely need an explicit record, you could embed a Storyline block that's essentially an agreement button and tie course completion to that. I'm not sure that's less clunky than using the built-in Knowledge Checks, but it should work so long as you're asking for confirmation at the end of the course so that it isn't marked as complete prematurely.
Another alternative is that you could embed an external survey. I've only used this for modules that don't sit on an LMS as a means of gathering feedback, but I suppose it's possible you could match a form response to a specific learner. Whether you could automate that process likely comes down to the LMS you're using.
I know my initial suggestion isn't perfect but you can probably see why it's the solution I settled for.
Thanks for the feedback/ideas Sam, i'll have to take a further look into the storyline block, as that may do the trick.
it is very surprising to me that this is not out of the box functionality, as it's such a common requirement for compliance modules...