Adding Tickbox to PDF documents to confirm something has been read and understood

Hi, Chloe,

Check with the LMS folks. They may be able to enter a PDF as a "Read and Acknowledge" that requires the user to digitally indicate their agreement to the document. I've seen this implemented, so it at least some LMS's have this functionality. However, I'm not an LMS expert, so I don't have any other info to share about that method.

Storyline doesn't have any built-in functionality for letting users edit a PDF. (JavaScript might work, but I can't help with that, either.) 

I have sometimes includes an Acknowledgement slide at the end of a course. It's basically a T/F slide. It asks if the user understands the content. They can answer Yes or No, and there is a Results slide. If they answer Yes, the Success layer congratulates them for completing the course. If they answer No, the Failure layer suggests how to review the content. It also provides a button for answering the Acknowledgement statement again. When that Results slide is used to track completion of the course, that basically means anyone who passes has acknowledged the content. 

You could link to the PDF from Storyline, and then ask users to acknowledge it. Or you could put the PDF content into the course. 

Of course, no matter what tracking method is used, there's no real way to ensure that the user actually read the material. But the methods would meet basic compliance requirements.