Forum Discussion
Estimated Seat Time or Duration of Course
Does Rise have a feature like Storyline360 that allows you to see an estimated Duration of the Course?
Hi Cortney
I think what would be ideal is a an estimated course duration range. "This course takes approximately 16-20 minutes to complete."
Perhaps, it could be calculated based on dividing the word count by an average reading speed and then adding some extra time based on the number of interactive elements.
If that is not doable in the short term, then a simple reading time (word count divided by average reading speed, but ignoring the interactive elements) would still be helpful.
Thanks
Pete
How long does it take to complete an interaction or a quiz? There is no real way of telling. Influencing factors:
- The number of interactions and the time spent on interactions
- The time spent on Quizzes which is impacted by the number of Quizzes, and the number of questions in each quiz, and the complexity of the questions.
Checking our LMS, for the same course, the quickest student completion time was just less than 1 hour. The slowest was 5 hours. That's a huge variation.
In my opinion, Rise simply cannot produce an accurate time estimate. as there are too many variables.
1 and 5 hours, that's a huge variation! Just out of curiosity, how many
hours did you estimate for that particular course to be completed?We do not provide time estimates for any of our courses for this reason.
Perhaps, in situations like yours, when the course is very long and has lots of interactions that is true.
However, I am not convinced that it is impossible for Rise to calculate the word count and average reading time. We could then manually add some extra time for interactions ourselves.
Given how many people want this feature that seems like a minimum response.
