I have been at many eLearning agencies and estimating seat time is always a massive, complex hurdle. I would suggest using a calculation based on content and complexity over anything built in or averaged from users so that your estimates are consistent, demonstrable, and replicatable.
If you have video you would need to add that on top, images would need to be accounted for in the wordcount or complexity. A diagram could have no words for example, but add to the complexity of the content, or an infographic would have words that can be tracked into the estimate.
Using an average seat time from a group is not a great way to calculate seat time in my opinion. Often clients will also do this and will propose their own seat time in response, essentially trying to cut the cost and it's hard to account for how different learners will have different incentives to run through content fast or slow meaning your estimates will end up being meaningless.
I would also suggest avoiding the storyline seat time estimator. I believe it is using the timeline as it's main source of estimation, meaning you could put all of Tale of Two Cities on a slide in an interaction, set the timeline to 10 seconds, and the estimator will just tell you the seat time is 10 seconds.
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I agree that this feature would be very helpful!
I agree that this feature would also be extremely useful.
Yes! do it!
I agree. I am required to provide estimated course duration before I can publish to my LMS.
Also interested!
Also interested. Our LMS team requires we provide them with an estimated time of completion and Rise makes that hard.
Another vote for this feature from us!
We definitely need this feature; please implement!
Would love this feature. We work with clients so time billing is huge for us.
I am also very interested in this feature. Was it ever implemented?
Upvote for this feature!
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Still no feature?
Interested!
This may help: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/rise-360/what-is-the-average-time-of-an-elearning-course-to-be-finish-by-a-learner#reply-564568
Hi There
Can you please advise if this feature will be created anytime soon as I see its been over 3 years already.....
Thank you
Hi Kim. Thanks for checking in on this. Course duration isn't on our roadmap, but we will let you know if anything changes.
Please add me to the list requesting this feature!!!
Any updates on this feature yet?
I would like this feature as well
Has there been any updates for this feature? Thanks!
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Has this feature been looked at or implemented in Rise now?
I have been at many eLearning agencies and estimating seat time is always a massive, complex hurdle. I would suggest using a calculation based on content and complexity over anything built in or averaged from users so that your estimates are consistent, demonstrable, and replicatable.
I suggest using http://touchcalc.com/calculators/mergener
If you have video you would need to add that on top, images would need to be accounted for in the wordcount or complexity. A diagram could have no words for example, but add to the complexity of the content, or an infographic would have words that can be tracked into the estimate.
Using an average seat time from a group is not a great way to calculate seat time in my opinion. Often clients will also do this and will propose their own seat time in response, essentially trying to cut the cost and it's hard to account for how different learners will have different incentives to run through content fast or slow meaning your estimates will end up being meaningless.
I would also suggest avoiding the storyline seat time estimator. I believe it is using the timeline as it's main source of estimation, meaning you could put all of Tale of Two Cities on a slide in an interaction, set the timeline to 10 seconds, and the estimator will just tell you the seat time is 10 seconds.
Would love to see this feature implemented!