This hands-on exercise is the perfect way to help service and sales teams boost their writing skills. Learners reword statements in their own words and compare them to some recommended wording.
Note: This template will work for folks using Storyline 360, the continuously updated version of Storyline included in Articulate 360. Want to try it out? Get a free trial of Articulate 360 right here.
Brilliant concept > execution. Really love your approach for using free form text in an activity.
- If you every needed to support the benefit of using open response there is a great article by Donald Clark titled Has the old ‘graphics-text-graphics-text-MCQs had its day? Evidence that effortful, open-response learning is better:
http://www.wildfirelearning.co.uk/has-the-old-graphics-text-graphics-text-mcqs-had-its-day-evidence-that-effortful-open-response-learning-is-better/
Hello Trina, great job! I'm looking to modify this exercise into a communication scenario. To provide the learner the opportunity to type what they want to say then see a recommended option.
Trina, I want to recreate a storyline component of your E-Learning Style Guide to use in a Rise course that I am developing. The rewording exercise is perfect for this. However, to put it into Articulate Rise it would need to be developed using layers. Is that how you did it?
Hi LaVon. Yes, I developed that writing practice activity in Storyline (using layers and triggers) and published it to Review 360. Then, I went into my Rise 360 course, inserted a Storyline Block into my lesson, and followed the prompt to search Review 360 for my published interaction. Rise 360 brought that Storyline interaction into my lesson where it works quite well!
I actually made this writing practice available as a Storyline download so you can save yourself a little time! Here it is: https://community.articulate.com/download/storyline-360-interactive-writing-practice
Trina, I need your help. I took what you did and turned it into an entry screen plus 3 questions for a total of 6 layers. If the learner clicks the submit button without entering anything into the entry text box a warning displays telling them they need to enter an answer. After they enter an answer the submit button should become active and when clicked it displays the next question with an entry box and so on. After 3 questions there is a Continue button instead of a next button. When the learner clicks Continue I need to get a complete so when I insert it into Rise the Rise "Continue" button becomes active.
Hi LaVon. It's a little hard for me to follow without seeing your project file, but it sounds like the challenge you're facing is to trigger the Continue button to become active when the learner's completed the writing practice in your Storyline block? If so, this article from our Knowledge Base should be of help: https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-How-to-Require-Learners-to-Complete-a-Storyline-Block If I've misunderstood the challenge, you may want to open up a support case with us so you can share your project file with us privately. You can open up a support case at articulatecase.com . Hope this helps!
I really like this template. It is also useful for other learning activities which provides an alternative to an in-class discussion and feedback response. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Thank you! You allowed me to learn the skill by customizing the template. I wonder if I can set trigger words to somehow show up in revision feedback. Perhaps as another color or in a feedback block they might trigger to appear? For instance, if we ban the passive linking verbs and someone uses them in an exercise to avoid them, could the software recognize them? Or have I imagined too much? :) Moderating online forums for trigger words using software alerts made me wonder.
Hi.. I am also trying to create an interaction for learners to write effective summaries. My plan is to give them a list of sentences that can be added/deleted to build their summary. This would basically work like a drag and drop, but due to accessibility restrictions, i am trying to use add and delete buttons.
Any other ideas anyone has to accomplish this in a better and easy way?
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