If you click publish then beside the Title you will see a button with an ellipsis (...). Click the button. You can then see duration of the course. This is a rough approximation, some slides may take the learner longer or shorter to go through.
Just my .02 worth, but is it possible to release a course to anybody without someone going through it from beginning to end, just like a learner will, for QA purposes????
Have that person time themselves, and it doesn't add any time or effort to what should be normal workflow.
We try to understand how the Articulate comes up with the approximate time of the lesson, definitely it is not only based on the total audio time, would you please explain the criteria used?
We need to decide if we are able to use the approximate time provided by the Articulate for our lessons.
The Course duration within the publish settings will account for the individual slides and their timelines, and won't take into account any interaction the learner needs to participate in.
It helps to give a rough estimate, but if you've included layers, web objects, or lots of learner interactions those will impact your overall time.
Hi there, Kassy. Currently, the estimated duration in the project info window calculates the duration of all of the slides' timelines in the entire project. I'll submit a feature request for you to have that field dynamically change if you're choosing to publish a single scene!
Hi Crystal - thanks for submitting the feature request. Just so I can confirm with someone on my team asking about this - as of now, if I want to know the approximate length for a specific set of slides or a scene, there is no way unless I just manually go to each slide and add up the timelines? Or copy and paste those slides/scene into a new empty projeect and act as though I am publishing just those slides to see the project length?
Yup - it sounds like those are the two options to calculate a single scene or set of slides. Keep in mind you don't have to complete the publishing process, only open up that dialogue and look in the project info window to see the duration.
Why not include layers? Seems like another feature request that could be pursued. Not sure I know of a direct way to request a feature or to view existing and +1.
In my case it's common to include tab reveals for more information on layers and those layers have timelines that could easily be calculated to add onto the time estimate, perhaps provide base slide estimate and all slide/layer estimate. Obviously, sending learners to outside resources would need to be calculated by the designer, but with layers the data is already there in Storyline.
Esther - you have to click on the ellipses at the top by the title, and then you'll see estimated duration. Then you have to MANUALLY type that into the box in the Reporting & Tracking section shown in your image.
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If you click publish then beside the Title you will see a button with an ellipsis (...). Click the button. You can then see duration of the course. This is a rough approximation, some slides may take the learner longer or shorter to go through.
Thanks Cary!
That's exactly what I was looking for.
Me too!! You just made our department's day!!
Just my .02 worth, but is it possible to release a course to anybody without someone going through it from beginning to end, just like a learner will, for QA purposes????
Have that person time themselves, and it doesn't add any time or effort to what should be normal workflow.
Hi,
We try to understand how the Articulate comes up with the approximate time of the lesson, definitely it is not only based on the total audio time, would you please explain the criteria used?
We need to decide if we are able to use the approximate time provided by the Articulate for our lessons.
Thank you!
It is based on the timelines of the slides, but if you intend to include any learner actions, it becomes really inaccurate.
It only uses the main timelines and not layers. We've got a lot of content in layers making this very inaccurate unfortunately.
Hi Brett,
The Course duration within the publish settings will account for the individual slides and their timelines, and won't take into account any interaction the learner needs to participate in.
It helps to give a rough estimate, but if you've included layers, web objects, or lots of learner interactions those will impact your overall time.
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to establish the duration of each scene?
I need to know so that I can put breaks in at the right time...
At the moment, it only seems to show me the total time, even when I ask it to just publish one scene.
Thanks
Kassy
Hi there, Kassy. Currently, the estimated duration in the project info window calculates the duration of all of the slides' timelines in the entire project. I'll submit a feature request for you to have that field dynamically change if you're choosing to publish a single scene!
Hi Crystal - thanks for submitting the feature request. Just so I can confirm with someone on my team asking about this - as of now, if I want to know the approximate length for a specific set of slides or a scene, there is no way unless I just manually go to each slide and add up the timelines? Or copy and paste those slides/scene into a new empty projeect and act as though I am publishing just those slides to see the project length?
Hi Mary,
Yup - it sounds like those are the two options to calculate a single scene or set of slides. Keep in mind you don't have to complete the publishing process, only open up that dialogue and look in the project info window to see the duration.
This totally just made my day!
Hi Ashley - does the duration calculation include the duration of slide layers, or just the base layer of slides?
Thanks,
Hi Fazzi,
It will only calculate the base slide layers, and will not take into account any slide layers, web objects, or other media not synced to the timeline.
Why not include layers? Seems like another feature request that could be pursued. Not sure I know of a direct way to request a feature or to view existing and +1.
In my case it's common to include tab reveals for more information on layers and those layers have timelines that could easily be calculated to add onto the time estimate, perhaps provide base slide estimate and all slide/layer estimate. Obviously, sending learners to outside resources would need to be calculated by the designer, but with layers the data is already there in Storyline.
Hello Geordie and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
Thanks for reaching out and sharing your need and use-case as well. I've submitted a feature request on your behalf.
If you have any other ideas and use-cases you'd like to share, here's a link to our feature request form.
Hi! I'm not seeing how the total duration is calculated. In my screen shot, it shows blank. Please help! Thanks!
Esther - you have to click on the ellipses at the top by the title, and then you'll see estimated duration. Then you have to MANUALLY type that into the box in the Reporting & Tracking section shown in your image.
Thank you!!!
Very helpful! What a time saver.
Hello, does the duration estimate include the course simulations etc..?
Hi Aja!
The estimated duration is calculated by adding together the duration of the timelines of every slide in a project. Screen recording slides included.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Hi Katie,
I have a question. Does the duration calculates the timelines of layers as well or only base layer? Appreciate your reply. Thanks!
Hi Katie,
I have a question. Does the duration calculates the timelines of layers as well or only base layer? Appreciate your reply. Thanks!