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Storyline Course Duration
I need to know the exact duration of a course built in Storyline. I can find the approximate duration; however, the exact duration is what I need.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Blake
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This was very helpful. Thank you!
I checked both the .xml file and the "Publish ..." button as described below. Both stated my Storyline 2 course was "about 6 minutes". Knowing by reckoning that it was NOT just 6 minutes, I ran the preview and used a stopwatch. Actual time? just under SIXTEEN minutes.
What's wrong here?
Hey Patrick! Welcome to E-Learning Heroes-- I'm happy you're here 🎉
Can you share your unpublished .story project file here so I can take a look? You can add it as an attachment right to a comment here in the thread like this:
Thanks! 😊
Hi Patrick,
The duration shown in the Publish window is calculated based on the timeline length on all of your slides. Keep in mind some slides with interactions may take the learner longer or shorter to go through, so it's a rough approximation.
Being 10 minutes off of a 16 minute course doesn't sound within the boundaries of even a rough approximation.
Unless Articulate Storyline doesn't count layers and only takes the initial slide length into account - which still wouldn't be accurate, as my slides all have fairly short introduction - I don't see how this isn't working.Patrick Naillon
Hi Patrick,
You're right, layers are not included in that calculation. Layers could be triggered to appear automatically at any time during the slide timeline, or they could be triggered to be opened manually by the learner.
You do have the option to enter a custom duration, since you manually calculated seat-time.
Hi Alyssa - does Storyline 360 no longer automatically calculate duration based on the timeline of all slides (layers excluded)? I have several files that I've created that are showing blanks in the Duration field within the LMS Publishing tab (image attached). Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Katherine
Hey Katherine!
There are actually two duration fields in the Storyline publishing window. The one you're looking at is always blank, to be filled in manually.
The one that is automatically calculated by Storyline can be found by clicking the three dots [...] next to the Title field. I hope that helps!
Hey Gordon,
Glad that this thread was able to help you out as well. Thanks for chiming in to share :)
Is this option no longer available? Using Storyline 360 and don't see elipsis.
Hi Don!
This option is available when publishing to Web or LMS. Here's what it looks like in Storyline 360:
So, I have tried the way, but it calculates each slide's timeline time and add it to give an approximation. But it only calculates base layer timing and not slide layer, so my point is, is there any way to get timeline time only but for full project include slide layers?
The other way to do is manually, go on each slide and its layers and add all time manually, but its tiresome for large modules.
