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Is there a way to view the duration of each slide in a .story file or add them up to get a total duration?
Hi Cheryl,
Duration variables aren't available right now, but you do have access to elapsed time variables:
You can try setting a minimum value which you can then reference with the elapsed time variables, and you can set this up in such a way that your learners are unable to complete a course unless the elapsed time equals or exceeds the minimum time value that you've set. Elapsed time variables report time in milliseconds, so you may need to do some conversions to get everything working properly.
Hi Joe! I love this suggestion. In my ideal world, if learners haven't met the elapsed time, I'd be able to direct them back to review content slides that cover the little review and formative assessments that they did the least well in on their first pass. Which I'm sure would take some very careful thinking through, if I can even figure out how to do that. But since I'm early in the process of revising this course, now's the time to try.
Hi Cheryl!
So glad to hear Joe's suggestion could work for you! If you run into any issues with getting your elapsed time variables set up, please reach out and we'd be happy to work through them with you!
Best of luck and happy authoring!
Well, to be clear, Joe's suggestion will not help me calculate the total duration of all slides in a .story file. Y'all don't seem to have a way to do that. Elapsed time does not equal total duration. Joe's suggestion helps me with something else, maybe, if I can figure out how to send learners back to review whatever they didn't score well on, and I have no idea where to start with that, but it's a different topic.
