How to show time remaining next to the seekbar

Hi Francois!

I'm not aware of an example of this either. I know we have conversations surrounding the topic of course, like this one, but hopefully someone in the community will be able to chime in and share if they have done or seen something like what you are asking here.

I'm disappointed that SL360 did not address this need. Standard video players all show some sort of timer. Many course pages need to be full screen video content. When trying to re-review or point out a location in the video, it's nearly impossible to easily find the intended location.

Hi Anthony,

Have you tried using the video player controls? Enabling the controls adds a seekbar with a timer and a play/pause button to make it easy for learners to scrub to an exact place in the video.

Hi Alyssa and Leslie,

Is this still not a feature in 360? The problem I am finding when I use the video controls is that if a user goes to a specific time on the video control, it does not correspond to the timing of the slide. So, if I have other elements, layers, or triggers associated with the slide timeline, they are no longer in sync with the video. Is there a workaround for this? I have submitted a feature request to have the time remaining show on the seekbar, but need a solution more quickly.

Hi Deidre,

Thanks for reaching out here! Another idea if you're using the video controls is to look at placing a transparent shape or hotspot over top the video controls. That way the user can still see it, but they're unable to click on the seekbar and move it along. 

We haven't adding the time/duration element to the player seekbar yet, but our team tracks and categorizes all feature requests based on the method here. 

Thanks, Ashley. I actually did that, but we do want the user to be able to navigate throughout the video. When adding the seekbar on the player to control navigation, it looks a bit confusing to have both showing.

Ah, certainly understand that too Deirdre. There doesn't seem to be an option to accomplish both with the current set up of Storyline. 

Deirdre,

The attached sample slide shows the time remaining on the video, which is synched to and controlled by the slide seekbar.

The secret is to start and end the slide when the video starts and ends. That way, the slide seekbar controls everything; the objects, the video, the slide, and everything is synchronized.

If you need to take action during the video, pausing the slide timeline pauses the video.

If you need to take action before or after the video, put them on the preceding or following slides. If you don't put transitions, the user will think it is all one big slide, because it moves seamlessly from one to the other.

Hi Walt, yes, I initially used an object to cover majority of the video control seekbar, but I am not a fan of how it looks aesthetically.  I also don't like that you can all of a sudden see the seekbar progress as you get to the end of the timeline.  

I'm not sure if this is something you use in developing courses, but you might want to consider putting a transparent object over the portion of the video control seekbar that is showing so that the user can't click on it. 

Based on what I am reading here, the answer is likely: no--but I thought I'd try.

I'm trying to learn Articulate Storyline 360 as well as I can during my trial period. Looks like a great product (I'm a Captivate user). I'm trying to control the pacing of a scenario-driven environment, and allow the learner to advance to the next slide on their own. But I do want the length of "linger" time to be limited by varying amounts.

I'd love to put a variable on a slide that displays the time remaining before auto-advancing to the next slide. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance to any responders.

We need the time and time remaining to show on the seek bar. This can be an option that we can turn on/off during authoring. This will be really useful for end-users and during the QA process when we place the program in Articulate Review. Testers can actually refer to the time code in their comments.

Thanks