Hi e-learning hero professional's! Does anyone know if there is a way to accurately determine the duration of a Story line course ? There are posts on how to track the length of a course if there is audio, but not on if there is no audio in the course.
This would really help with being to accurately share data with stakeholders on the duration of a specific module.
I agree with Matthew - I've found that the best way to guess-timate course completion time is to have people take the course. The best option is to get a diverse group of people who haven't seen anything about it yet. If that isn't an option, go through the course as learner-like as you can and keep track of your time.
If you have a lot of text you can throw it into a word count read time calculator and get a good estimate. Audience is important, though. If you are creating courses for super-readers, this won't be as accurate.
it really only calculates the duration of the timeline of each slide base layer ie. doesn't include layers or time the user takes to interact with a slide so if you are trying to get an accurate timing read Matt's post above.
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Hi there Layla,
I agree with Matthew - I've found that the best way to guess-timate course completion time is to have people take the course. The best option is to get a diverse group of people who haven't seen anything about it yet. If that isn't an option, go through the course as learner-like as you can and keep track of your time.
If you have a lot of text you can throw it into a word count read time calculator and get a good estimate. Audience is important, though. If you are creating courses for super-readers, this won't be as accurate.
Thank you Mathew and Holley for your guidance. I was hoping there was a feature I was missing in storyline that would capture duration.
Hi Layla!
You can calculate the duration by using this feature when Publishing! I've walked you through it below:
Lauren,
You just blew my mind 🤯 That's fantastic! Do you know anything about how it calculates??
that is amazing thank you for sharing LAUREN
Hi Holley
it really only calculates the duration of the timeline of each slide base layer ie. doesn't include layers or time the user takes to interact with a slide so if you are trying to get an accurate timing read Matt's post above.
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