Does Rise have a feature like Storyline360 that allows you to see an estimated Duration of the Course?

I have been at many eLearning agencies and estimating seat time is always a massive, complex hurdle. I would suggest using a calculation based on content and complexity over anything built in or averaged from users so that your estimates are consistent, demonstrable, and replicatable. I suggest using http://touchcalc.com/calculators/mergenerIf you have video you would need to add that on top, images would need to be accounted for in the wordcount or complexity. A diagram could have no words for example, but add to the complexity of the content, or an infographic would have words that can be tracked into the estimate.Using an average seat time from a group is not a great way to calculate seat time in my opinion. Often clients will also do this and will propose their own seat time in response, essentially trying to cut the cost and it's hard to account for how different learners will have different incentives to run through content fast or slow meaning your estimates will end up being meaningless.I would also suggest avoiding the storyline seat time estimator. I believe it is using the timeline as it's main source of estimation, meaning you could put all of Tale of Two Cities on a slide in an interaction, set the timeline to 10 seconds, and the estimator will just tell you the seat time is 10 seconds.

Hi All! Thanks for following up and casting your vote for this feature! We're still tracking requests for this, and if we have an update for you, you'll hear about it here!

Adding another vote for this feature!

I also agree, this feature would be great!

Hello! Could you please tell me if this feature was every implemented? Lots of votes for it... (estimated seat time)

Estimated Seat Time or Duration of Course

LearningEducati
Community Member
10 months ago
Add us to the list as well!
DamarisPaoli
Community Member
8 months ago
I also agree this would be very useful!
KayBoehnke
Community Member
8 months ago
Agree! Would love to see this feature
CortneyMarcus-8
Community Member
6 months ago
Agreed - upvoting this request!
- KellyAuner
  Staff
  6 months ago
  Hi Cortney,
  
  Thanks for reaching out!
  
  There are a few different requests in this thread so I'd love to get more detail on what you'd like to see. Are you hoping for a word count feature as Pete requested or the ability to calculate the estimated duration of a course? Once we receive that information, we'll certainly share your comments with our developers!
  - JessicaLopez-8f
    Community Member
    6 months ago
    I would like to see the estimated duration of a course including
    assessments, videos, labs, interactions, etc.
    I would love to be able to give the learner an estimated time it will take
    to complete a training and assessments.
    
    I hope this helps to provide clarification.
    
    Thanks,
    Jessica
KateMassa
Community Member
6 months ago
I would love to them to even just add back the course durations they had for the premade courses and microlearning that they took away a few months ago.
AlkidaKamberi
Community Member
6 months ago
We have been waiting for both Word Count and Course Duration for 5 years.

Regards

Alkida
CortneyMarcus-8
Community Member
6 months ago
Both would be great. Is there a way to have a word count feature and then some built-in algorithm that can estimate course duration based on word count + video length?
PeteScheller
Community Member
6 months ago
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
- KarlMuller
  Community Member
  6 months ago
  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.
  - AndresBowen
    Community Member
    6 months ago
    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?
PennySpacht
Community Member
6 months ago
Word count and estimated course duration are requirements when filing courses for Continuing Education Credits. At least this is the way it is in the insurance world. So, this feature is not a nice to have, it is a MUST have.
KateMassa
Community Member
6 months ago
You used to have it for the premade micro trainings. Maybe what you're saying is that they were just made up, but they definitely used to be there. I took this screenshot in January when I was working on adding some of the prefab courses to our LMS.