Inactivity detection / TIme-out function

Jan 17, 2022

Hi everyone,

I'm facing some issues a with the course I'm building on Storyline 360. This course, once published on the LMS, is subject to specifications. 

Specifications said "The lessons detect the learner's inactivity and close automatically by correctly recording the tracking information". Also called "time-out" function. After spending some inactive time on the course, nothing like this happened...

Is there any way to set such parameter in Storyline 360? Or any way to complete the requirements of the specifications?

By the way, I'm using SCORM 1.4 3rd edition.

Thank you for your help, 

1 Reply
Maria Costa-Stienstra

Hi, Michaela.

Thank you for reaching out!

The "time-out function" is usually a setting in the LMS. If you're comfortable sharing the name of the Learning Management System you use, maybe others in the community have suggestions on how to turn it on. 

From the Storyline side, you can put a timer on a quiz or manually trigger a time-out using the new elapsed time variables. Here are a few resources:

I hope this helps!