Solution: Storyline block for text input and save to cmi.interactions (SCORM 1.2)

Really cool, Sam. Will the Rise 360 course need to track by course completion for this to work? Could you use this in conjunction with tracking by a quiz?

Hi Crystal, this does work with a tracking quiz. Our implementation was with a quiz. Writing to cmi.interactions doesn't interfere with Rise writing to cmi.interactions.

So does this mean you can have a quiz within Rise AND this block and both results will post to an LMS?

Yes Kimberly, both will post to the LMS.

Can you repost the demonstration video for how to use this? When I clicked the link, it said it had been deleted.

Hi Jennifer, I have attached the video to the original post. Thanks for letting me know it was broken.

Hi Sam,

How would I go about making the font smaller in the input field?

How difficult would it be to create multiple StoryLine screens with the input field so that you could add multiple questions to a Rise course?

Thanks for this, Sam. Now we're just trying to get the cmi data out of our LMS (Canvas.)

If anyone has successfully done this with Canvas already, please let me know.  

Sam, thank you!

This is a wonderful solution, Sam! We've even been able to store user responses for two separate questions in our LMS.

We'd like to do the same with Likert style questions (4-5 questions in a Storyline block). Have you been able to use a similar solution? Do you have an example *.story file? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Janelle, I have a couple of Likert styles. One a slider and the other the more traditional radio button style. The rating is currently 1-5, but can be adjust to whatever you need.

Set-up and integration should be similar to the text input method.

And for anybody interested, here's a notes one too (for SCORM 1.2 LMS). Allows you to Save notes, and view all notes that have been saved throughout a module.

Thanks for sharing your files, Sam! These will be very helpful to the community for sure!

Thanks so much, Sam! This is a fantastic solution to capture learners' input in our LMS. I'm very grateful for your willingness to share your expertise and blocks with the community. Thanks!

Hi,

So, I downloaded and used the input block which worked with our LMS (Litmos). Now, I am trying to add multiple open ended questions in one block to create a quiz and the integration is not working past the first question. I've played around with the javascript (I'm not an expert) but I'm not making any headway. Has anyone else created multiple open ended blocks that upload completion to an LMS? 

If the RIse developers are watching - yes the community would like updates in this area.
But , It should be done in rise as blocks and  functions, not via storyline insert.

But thank you Sam for sharing and showing it can be done.

I had hoped when starting to use Rise that all the interactions possible in storyline, including likert,  would be made possible very soon for Rise as well. Turned out not to be the case. Why, i dont know.
Rise is due for a major update in that regard. I would even suggest that they offer an advanced section of blocks that can be expanded on frequent basis. based on user needs. 

Its not like it takes years to create these blocks, test and implement. So hoping to see a major update with relevant functionality blocks this year. At the very least to be on par with storyline.

I agree and would love it to be a Rise functionality.

Our team did get multiple input blocks working and storing to our LMS (Moodle through SCRM 1.2). However, we just ran into two issues:

1) If there is more than one input block on a lesson, then the response in the last block in the lesson replaces the response in the input block right before it -- when the user moves onto a different lesson and comes back. For instance, with 3 input blocks, block 1 remains unchanged, but block 2 gets overridden with block 3's response. We have "resume saved state" set but that doesn't seem to make a difference. However, in our LMS, all 3 distinct answers are saved (the user just can't go back and review their answers).

2) The input blocks in the subsequent lessons gets filled in with the response from  the last input block in the earliest lesson -- and then the user cannot enter any other responses.

When we were doing our testing a month ago, we didn't notice this issue at all! I'm not sure if we weren't paying attention or if something has changed in our LMS?!? We're just about ready to roll our module out to pilot users.

Hi Janelle, for issue #1, did you ensure that each input is on it's own Storyline block, and has a unique ID set where {ID} is a unique ID:

When the timeline starts on this slide
- Set id to value "text-input-01"

#2 - This sounds related to #1, just ensure you have unique IDs defined for each of the SL blocks. This will mean, publishing each unique SL block to review 360. Ensure you publish the block to review 360 using the unique ID as the name too, to make it easy to identify when inserting into Rise.

Hi Sam,

Thank you so much for this :)

Did the video have sound? I cant seem to hear anything.

Could you say how to collect the data to an LMS like Moodle?

Many thanks

Hi Janelle,

Please could you let me know how you stored the answers to Moodle?

Best wishes,

Kate

Is there a way for the learner to save their responses? I'm working on a writing activity where the learner is planning for their own project and would likely want to remember the content they entered.

This is great info! Thanks so much! I'm learning so much here.