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Adding a timer into rise to ensure a minimum amount of time is spent on each lesson
A very easy way to set a timer in RISE is to include a Storyline Block with a Countdown Timer in it that 'Completes' when the timer runs out.
Set this above a 'Continue' block with the setting "Complete Block directly above".This works just fine.
I included a demonstration on my website that showed two examples of using a simple timer - one to allow the user to time themselves and the second one (which demonstrates what is being requested here) the learner has to complete a drag and drop exercise and get it right against a timer. In this second part you will see that the learner cannot move forward until either (a) they get the exercise correct or (b) the time runs down.
Hi JohnCooper-be3c. Thank you for the Rise timer demonstration. I used it as a guide to create one similar. I am wonder though, how your timer continues to run when the user scrolls past the block. My timer is stopping when the block is not on screen. I find it interesting that a video can continue to play when not on screen but the storyline block timer cannot. Would you happen to have any insight on how to keep the timer running as the learner completed the all content below the timer block?
Hi JoshuaStape
I don't really know the answer to your question - as you say, my timer blocks continue even after you navigate past them in RISE on the screen. It may be something to do with the way the timers are created. They don't use JavaScript, as some of my other 'real-time' clock demos do. They use two key layers - each layer is one second in duration - at the end of the timeline on the first layer it decrements the clock, shows the other layer and hides itself. The second layer does the same thing. So the two layers are constantly passing control to each other until the time reaches zero. The Storyline Block is continually running. I don't know how RISE decides that a Storyline block has ended. Maybe someone else can elighten us?
Thank you for the quick response JohnCooper-be3c! Could any of the staff StevenBenassi JoseTansengco LeaSAgato help us understand how RISE decides to not allow a storyline block to continue when it is not on screen, but allows a video to play when it is not on screen?
