Storyline Course Duration

Hey Blake,

That's kind of a gray area, I think. What your definition of "duration"?

 Some define duration as the actual time required to view all available content (timeline duration), others (especially e-learning vendors) define it as "the time required for the student to study all available material presented in the course (including referenced content, bibliography etc)"...

If your definition is closer to A, then adding the timeline duration of each "active" slide may exactly what you are looking for - especially if your course is linear.

Hope this helps,
Alex

Hi Blake,

I don't see any means of doing this?

Presenter showed the time indication at the top left. 

You can always send in a feature request

Cheers

Geert

Hello - I am creating my first course and also need to add duration.  Do you know how this can be done in Storyline?

thanks!

Hi Layda and welcome to Heroes!

Currently the duration of a Storyline course only appears within the Articulate mobile player, and as the article suggests you can submit afeature request.

You can have a look in the meta.xml file in the storyline output folder. You can read an evalutation of the total duration of the course.

-<project title="video marker 3" totalvideo="8767" totalaudio="0" duration="About 34 seconds" enabledownload="true" mobiledata="mobile/data.gz" html5data="mobile/data.js" flashdata="story_content/data.swf" version="1.0.0.0" datepublished="2015-03-19T22:27:30" thumburl="story_content/thumbnail.jpg" courseid="6UMVy1bPbUW_course_id" id="5YO8omVNEXY">

 This example comes from an LMS publish.

HI Eric,

One thing i would like to add is that the duration displayed there will not include the timeline of layers.

It is not really neccessary to know the exact duration of an interactive course because users pass through a training with a different speed. Usually you can try to calculate the time a user needs. 30 seconds for each slide, and up to one minute if the users are non-native speakers who do not speak fluently the language of the course.

For many interactive courses I would agree the length is not easy to estimate because of the multiple paths people take, but Storyline is also often used for courses where the most common path is for the learner to watch it from start to finish. In cases like this it would be sooooo nice if Storyline would allow you to display a duration. I am literally playing back a course with a stopwatch right now to get the duration.  

When you click "Publish" click the "..." button next to Title. Duration is listed in there as well as in the meta.xml file.

Thanks for popping in to assist Jay :)