Elapsed time in SL

I'm interested in this too Zola. We haven't been using audio very much lately but I'm looking at a new project where it's more like an interactive video rather than a self-paced eLearning course like I usually do.

I don't see options for displaying total time or elapsed time in the player but I do know that Storyline can automatically calculate the project's duration and include that in the project properties on publish. 

I'm wondering if we could use some Javascript to reference the duration and display that using a trigger and a variable on the Player?

Anyone else have some thoughts? I don't know Java so I may be completely crazy thinking this is a possibility - OR - since I haven't had to do this yet, I might be just missing something REALLY obvious!

Hi Zola,

Please see the following link:

http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=8ofngnyaoiv1

The duration of a specific slide or the entire course can vary depending upon the amount of interactivity, layers, complex branching scenarios, and more that are present.  Thus, it's very difficult to calculate it.  

If you've like to see that feature added to a future release, please submit a feature request to us by using the link below:

http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature

it is possible in javascript to save the started time to a variable and then increment a numerical variable.  You would of course have to build in some time logic (as storyline variables do not understand time).

Just thinking out loud here, but it may be easier to save the start time to a variable and each time you switch slides take the strat time from the current time, it wouldnt be a ticking clock but would let you know how long you have been on the course and it would be relatively easy in javascript

When embedding a video clip in a slide, is there really not a way to show the elapsed time? To me this seems so important, otherwise how can people refer to locations within the video, e.g. "go back and watch the video, notice at 1:30 minutes in..."

Will,

There is the options to have controls/timer on a video, but we could not (easily) say at what (linear) temporal point the video ITSELF occurred in the course - because it might be on on the 4th (optional) layer of slide 26 - which you might not have got to if you chose another path throught the course to get there.

Bruce

AH! Thanks Bruce. I had totally overlooked the Options menu. I notice there is a help page on it: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adjusting-video-properties.aspx

Although... those video controls have this issue I just discovered:

Although... I guess I can just turn off the standard seekbar.

...I never said it worked

Seriously....if you have discovered a problem, get it logged/bugged straight away.

Bruce

PS - please do NOT do that with needles again, or I'll start posting spiders, or balloons, or clowns, or whatever makes you go EEK!

Thanks Bruce. I've logged it.

Sorry about the needle! Guess that I'm jaded due to working in healthcare so long.

who doesn't like balloons?! haha! thanks for this post btw

Having an elapsed time counter ensures that our web-based training can be marketed as fulfilling certification requirements for #s of hours toward credit. We really need this. It is just a matter of a timer that runs independent of the actions taken in the course, during the whole time the browser window is open for the course. Surely this is not a difficult option to provide?

The utlity and importance of this feature has been overlooked by Articulate and should be remedied in an update, in my opinion.

Hi Shane. I would suggest submitting a feature request here if this is something you would like to see. Also, keep in mind that we only allow you to track by slides viewed or quiz results, not by time spent in a course. 

Thanks I can do that. However, I would ask, why not? to your statement that Articulate does not allow time spent in a course to be tracked. It is, basically, allowed in Articulate Presenter, at least I recall a total time at the top. That feature is not allowed in Storyline?

Presenter only allows you to track by slides viewed or an inserted quiz as well.

Both Presenter and Storyline report time elapsed to your lms, I posted a timer that could easily be added to your file to show how much time has been spent in the course.  Or it would be easy to use javascript to pull this from the LMS

Where is the time posted? Yes, at minimum, it would be good to just have a timer that ran independent of what the course does. However, it needs to work whether or not the course is hosted on an LMS, since it may also be published for CD, for example.

Does your timer do this?

We get elapsed time reported to our LMS so it must be being sent.

My timer is slide specific but also based on a variable so could track in an LMS and a CD, not sure where the link is now, will try to find

I am also interested in a timer.  please post if you find the link.  thanks!

are you able to provide the timer?

Thanks,

Tom

orry I dont have access to the files at the moment, I had a hard drive die on me and the files are archived somewhere

i may have found it here.  http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/17107.aspx

Does anyone know if its possible to move the timer to a different location?  either on a sidebar or top?

Tom