💡 Confidence Self-Check: A Reflective Benchmark Tool UPDATED 151125 - See comments below!! 👇

 

Hi everyone,

UPDATED 151125 - See comments below!! 👇

Here’s a quick show-and-tell example I’ve been experimenting with — a Confidence Self-Check tool built in Storyline 360 and embedded into Rise 360 as a formative reflection block.

The goal was to give learners a way to benchmark their confidence and awareness before and after a session, helping them see their own progress and prompting metacognitive reflection — without the need for LMS data capture.

I wanted something that:

• ✅ Supports metacognition — helping learners think about their own learning
• 🔄 Tracks progress with “before” and “after” self-checks
• 🧠 Encourages reflection rather than testing knowledge
• 💬 Uses local storage only (no data collection) to keep it private and learner-centred

 

💻 How it was created
This build was produced through an iterative Generative AI-assisted workflow, where I coached an AI (ChatGPT – GPT-5) step-by-step through design reasoning, JavaScript development, accessibility checks, and instructional alignment. The focus was on human-assured prompting — using AI to accelerate build logic while maintaining learning design intent, tone, and pedagogy.

The project was inspired by JoeDey​’s “Perpetual Notepad” (huge kudos for the original concept!), and extended to include weighted confidence scoring, dual checkpoints, and adaptive feedback messages.

⚙️ Known limitation

Because this tool is designed to be session-specific, each new deployment requires:

1. Updating the SESSION_LABEL and STORAGE_PREFIX variables in the JavaScript to give that session its own ID.
2. Editing the question text to match the focus of that session.

These edit points are clearly marked in the script with:
>>> EDIT SESSION METADATA HERE <<<
and
>>> EDIT QUESTIONS FOR THIS SESSION HERE <<<

It’s a simple one-minute change — but worth noting if you plan to scale this across multiple modules or courses.

 

You can explore the working example here:
👉 Rise Review link

A downloadable .story file is included inside the review for anyone who wants to look under the hood, edit the JavaScript, or adapt the design for their own learners.

 

💬 Open for feedback

I’d love to hear from other e-learning designers — especially anyone experimenting with AI-supported authoring or reflective learner tools.

How might you extend or refine this concept? I’d love your thoughts or suggestions — particularly around:

• How you’d extend this for different learner profiles
• Ideas for alternative feedback messages or visual treatments
• Whether you’ve built similar “confidence meter” interactions in your own work

Feel free to reuse, remix, or expand the concept.
Always happy to connect and collaborate with other learning designers!

🔗 Portfolio: forgedframeworks.co.uk/
📧 Contact: dan.boyland@forgeframeworks.co.uk

Thanks in advance for any feedback, and again, credit to Joe Dey and the Articulate community for sharing the foundation idea that made this possible.