Display total project time using new elapsed time variables

Hi everyone,

I don't know if this will help, but it is possible to modify the numbers with other variables to make the numbers a little more representative (why not for a report for example).

It's not perfect, but maybe it can help.

I just created 2 new variables "minutes" and "seconds" and created a mathematical division with the triggers.

My English is not very good, the screenshot will probably be better 😉

Good day to all.

Hello everyone! That's an interesting comment. 

There are three possible options I can think of:

1. Send the value to another created variable.
2. Send the value to an LRS.
3. Send the value to a spreadsheet (googlesheet or datacloud).

I've already tested 2 and 3 successfully, it's interesting. And the advantage of solution 3 is that you can eventully display the spreadsheet values in Storyline (if you want to display them).

Hope this helps. Have a nice day 🙂

You can use some javascript something like this should work (sorry not tested):

 var player = GetPlayer();
 var minutes, seconds;
 var timeM = player.GetVar("timeM");

function timer() {
 minutes = zeros(Math.floor(timeM / 60));
 seconds = zeros(timeM % 60);

 totalTime = minutes + ':' + seconds;
 player.SetVar("time_Display",totalTime);
 }

Needs variables timeM that is set from inbuilt variable and time_Display that you show on your Timer. You would need to call each second for this to update in real time

Hi Phil,

I am planning to use the elapsed time to report back the time spent on each section. Is it possible to access the time spent in each scene from another scene? In my case, I want to total up the time spent in each section once the user completes the activity. So i need to be able to access each scenes total duration from the end slide.

Is that something that may be possible with the latest release?

Thanks for your help!

-Matt

Hi there.

My question is similar to Matt's. I want to know where to access the information on time spent per slide.

Thank you for your help.

Hi, Matt and Faffie.

Thank you for reaching out!

While you can't access the Scene.ElapsedTime or Slide.ElapsedTime values from a different scene/slide, one suggestion would be to assign it to a variable, which you would then display on your end slide. 

This will look differently depending on how you set up the course (is the navigation restricted? How many slides are in a scene? Does the user click a button to go to another scene? etc.), but as examples:

• Set Slide1Time to variable Slide.ElapsedTime when the timeline ends on this slide.
• Set Scene1Time to variable Scene.ElapsedTime when the user clicks Next.

I hope this helps!

I am trying to hide the button that completes the course until a video (hosted on Wistia) completes using the new built-in variable -  Slide.ElapsedTime., but it is not working. The variable is changing, but the button does not appear.  Has anyone been able to get something like this to work? I'd greatly appreciate any input!

My code is this:

Change the state of BTN Complete Course to Normal

When Slide.Elapsed Time changes

if Slide.ElapsedTime = 5000.

Hi, Glenda.

Can you try changing the condition to If Slide.ElapsedTime >= 5000 ?

Let me know if this works!

I created a timer on a slide master to track how long it takes a user to complete the quiz. It works great the first time through, but I cannot figure out how to reset it if the user wishes to take the quiz again. I tried setting Scene.ElapsedTime to zero, but my display variables rush through the first few seconds to get back to the total elapsed time for the scene. Does anyone have a suggestion? I attached an abbreviated version of the assessment and marked the correct answers. TYIA!