Rise & Google Analytics?

Hi Pete - sorry for the delay in responding.  I have been swamped with year end analytical reports.  I track interactivity within Storyline modules using Google Analytics events.  I put simple javascript code on buttons, links, resources, anything I need to track.  This is great for looking at usability of tools and modules and serious games.  Instructional designers put a great deal of time and work into creating online learning and tools, but the only way to see how the users are actually interacting with them is to track the events, unless you are with them watching them every time they use the tool or module. 

I also use Google Data Studio to create dashboards that are always up to date with the analytics reports.  This is also very useful for figuring out what to update based on usability results and activities. 

Most, but not all LMS's track quiz question results.  Our old custom LMS did not.  Therefore, I used Google event tracking for the quiz questions, so we could see how many were correct vs incorrect.  If most are incorrect, we go back and look at the wording of the question and the content pertaining to those questions.  You can send surveys asking your users about a module, game or tool, but IF they respond, it is only based on what they remember at the time.  Tracking real time shows you so much more!

Google event tracking can also show geography if you have a global audience, as well as what devices the content is accessed on.  I could probably write forever on things you could track, measure and recommend based on the analytics!

You can add it to your exported course by inserting it in the page's head tags.

Can you add Google Analytics event tracking in Rise?  In Storyline, I use event tracking for buttons to show us how the user is interacting with the module.  Our LMS does not provide this type of information; therefore, I have gotten creative with Google Analytics and Javascript triggers in Storyline.

I have a project that would be great to build and allows for easy reproduction for a series in Rise, but I need to have even tracking to see how our users are working with the content.

Happy to help where I can.  If anyone wants to know more specifically how I do the Google event tracking in Storyline, please don't hesitate to contact me.  Or maybe, if enough people want to know, I can post it somewhere on one of the forums.

I've managed to find a very easy workaround for using Google Analytics, it's called YandexMetrica and it provides a lot more data than Google Analytics, including behavioural metrics and the ability to watch session replays. I wrote a tutorial on it here if you'd like to see how to do it :) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/articulate-rise-page-level-analytics-behavioural-metrics-bandli/

What would it take to have each lesson or each block trigger google analytics?

I don't think just having index.html tracked is that useful. 

What say you?

Kind regards, Berno

Hey everyone - Zsolt shared some ideas for tracking Rise courses at the page level: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/rise/google-analytics-at-page-level-in-rise#reply-437242

Hi David - the problem is that further down the page Akash says that he tried to implement the analytics but we need the support of Articulate because when you made an update suddenly it stopped working. It really does seem like this is an issue for many of your users so would be great to hear how you're going to help us :) Thanks!

Pete - I have not done the tracking in Rise because I couldn't find a way to add JavaScript triggers.  I believe there have been some updates to Rise, so perhaps now we can do this with triggers, but I work mostly in Storyline, therefore, I have not had the opportunity to take another look at Rise.

Lisa - I am updating a tutorial now, which I will see if I can get permission to share.  

Possibly the wrong place to ask this.  

Just wondering what the benefit would be?  Would this simply provide visit/views stats? And how might the data be used.

Thanks in advance.