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Return Students to Any Course or Website From the Same Survey

Sage Sterling
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Overview:

A common requirement is to use a single assessment, such as a survey, for a variety of purposes. The benefits of doing this are that all results are maintained within a single survey, making trend analysis more clear and comprehensive. 

Achieving this goal requires linking to the same assessment from many different places, like websites or course pages. The objective is to have all assessment respondents (students, learners, etc.) complete the same survey. Once the survey is complete, the respondent will be returned to the same web page or course that they launched the assessment from. The way we do this is by using the powerful and often underutilized Respondent Fields.

Scenario:

  • Students will be taking many courses using a website or learning management system.
  • After each course, students need to complete the same assessment.
  • At the end of the assessment, students need to return to the course page to continue.

Problem:

The assessment Logout button can be used to link to any web address, but adding a web address in the Link After Assessment field would only work for a single web address. The requirement here is to create a “Return to Course” button that would return students to any course page or website from which the assessment was launched. Each site would require a different URL.

Solution:

The solution is to use a Respondent Field to capture the URL of the course page, then set the Logout Button label to “Return to Course”, and use the course page URL as the Link After Assessment (activated when the Logout button is clicked).

When to Use This

  • If you launch the same assessment from multiple pages (website, LMS, email)
  • if you want users to return to the exact page they started from, regardless of the assessment htey take
  • You are using HTTP-based integration
Important: This solution is not recommended if you are using AICC or SCORM integration, as these methods already return students to a course page. This solution is recommended when using an HTTP integration method (for a website or Course system such as Thinkific or LearnWorlds).

How It Works

  1. The launch page URL is passed into the assessment
  2. The URL is stored in a Respondent Field
  3. The Logout button uses that value as its redirect destination

The result is that each user will be returned to the exact page where they started the assessment.

Step 1: Create a Respondent Field to Hold the Destination URL

  1. The first step is to create a Respondent Field we can use to hold the course web address that students will be returned to at the end of the survey.
  2. Create the Course Link Field
  3. Select the Settings icon (Gear icon)
  4. Select Respondent Fields
  5. Select a Respondent Field that is not currently in use or is unlikely to be used, such as Field 20, for instance.
  6. Enter a Display Name. For example, “Course Page”
  7. On the Requirements Dropdown, select Hidden. This will hide it from Student when the enter the Survey.
  8. Leave the Field Type to As Entered
  9. Select Save
Tip: Use higher-numbered fields (such as Field 20) to avoid conflicts with integrations or existing data usage.

Step 2: Create a survey.

  1. Select Assessments from the Main Menu
  2. Create a Survey using the +Add New Button
  3. Create a Survey.
  4.  

Step 3: Hide the logout button.

  1. Still in Assessment Builder, Select the Requirements Tab
  2. In the Assessment Logout Options section, select Web Link from the Button Action dropdown.
  3. Enter a label in the Button Label field. For example: "Back to Course”
  4. In the Link After Assessment field enter: [CUST20] - this represents the custom Respondent Field 20 that we created in Step 1 and will hold the web address (URL) that will be the destination 

Step 4: Obtain the Assessment link.

  1. Select Assessments from the Main Menu
  2. Select the (…) (ellipses) icon next to the Assessment just created.
  3. Select the Link icon
  4. Select the Copy icon (clipboard) to copy the Assessment Link. We’ll expand upon this to make our Survey Link on the Course.

Step 5: Modify the Assessment Link

The Assessment Link will vary slightly for each course. The steps below will be repeated for each Course page or website page where it is used.

In the Assessment Link, after the “?” Question mark, add “a=L2&”. This instructs Brillium to search for additional information, such as the Course Name and Course Link. At the end of the link, include the course page link, which will be stored in Respondent Field 20. We achieve this by adding the course page link with the following: “&CUST20=https://www.brillium.com”. In this example, we use “https://www.brillium.com”, but this should be replaced with the actual course link.

Link Example:

https://mybrillium.onlinetests.app/assess.aspx?a=L2&aid=A0B7GXQEZR1F&key=f3RCBngCEaVuwr6A&CUST20=https://www.brillium.com

To include the respondent First Name, Last Name, and Email address, the link would look similar to the one below:

https://mybrillium.onlinetests.app/assess.aspx?a=L2&aid=A0B7GXQEZR1F&key=f3RCBngCEaVuwr6A&CUST20=https://www.brillium.com&FNAME=Todd&LNAME=Ronson&EMAIL=todd@mail.com

Summary

Respondent Field values, one of the more powerful features of Brillium, can be utilized in assessments. These values can be incorporated into various assessment settings, including the URL of the logout button, text within the assessment UI, and even within questions, topics, logout button labels, links, feedback, and conditional feedback information.

This flexibility enables you to leverage Respondent Field information to modify the behavior of an assessment and, in certain cases, create entirely new behaviors that cater to very specific use case scenarios.

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