Hi... I'm new here and very new on Totara. I have a client who uses the system. They no longer use the same tech support person and they have engaged me to build some e learning courses for them. 1 query I need to help fix is that they have created a course on Totara which includes text boxes where learners write free text in answering several questions. They are wanting the learner to be able to print that off at the end of the course as it forms a self-reflective report. They've been told by someone it cannot be done... I'm not convinced and was hoping some clever brains in this forum could help us find a way to make this work, even if it involves some additional coding.
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How can learners print off their free text answer sheets
How can learners print off their free text answer sheets
Re: How can learners print off their free text answer sheets
Hi Candida,
Welcome to the Totara Community - great to have you here and thank you for reaching out.
There are actually few ways you could achieve this with the standard Totara Learn tools. I'll outline a few here - but if you find these don't meet your requirements, let me know and we can look at your requirements.
Feedback
This tool is usually used as an evaluation or survey, but there's a question/form builder you could use alongside long text based answers. You can create one per question or a single feedback for all questions. Note here a feedback form isn't something you save and re-edit, it's a complete and submit setup. You may need to tweak the permissions to allow a user to view their responses after submission too.
Assignment (using the online submission option)
You can create any number of assignments and set a particular question or set of questions and a space for users to enter text. You can set these assignments to be re-editable at any point and there's a bonus that you can apply a rating, scale or add a trainer comment on each submission.
Blog
Blogs are enabled via Advanced Features and are a personal site level or course level journaling tool. While you can't specifically set questions, you could use a Page activity as a prompt for a user's posts to their Blog.
Wiki
You can set up a wiki per learner on a course and create a draft structure and content for them to use as a basis. Wikis are a great tool for collecting text, images, links etc in a flexible format, however for some folks, being able to edit a page/edit content on an ongoing basis isn't the preferred workflow.
I hope this helps? If you're unfamiliar with any of these tools, I suggest starting with the Academy courses (they are free!) then move on to the help docs for any specific set up questions.
If we can maybe convince your client that downloading the self-refection report rather than printing it is preferable, it would be win for trees too!
Kind regards,
Meredith
Re: How can learners print off their free text answer sheets
Hi Meredith
Where are the settings in the feedback activity to allow learners to see what they submitted?
I've looked around and can't for the life of me find it anywhere!
Thanks
Wendy
Re: How can learners print off their free text answer sheets
Hi Wendy,
You can either allow users to edit their submissions (and then print from there) or select the Show Analysis option after submission. This will show all responses, but unnamed.
Cheers,
Meredith