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Estimating timings on a course
Hi all,
I've been using Articulate 360 and Storyline for a while now. I have a query I have not managed to resolve. It is very helpful when sharing a course, if the trainee knows how long the course or sections of the course will take. Is there a quick way of establishing the duration of courses before publishing?
Anne
I estimate with Word count. Typically narrated text is 125 - 150 words per minute.
Reading speed is around 200.
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I estimate with Word count. Typically narrated text is 125 - 150 words per minute.
Reading speed is around 200.
Love this post as we struggle with this at my organization as well. LaraMcK - is there an easy way to get word count from the Articulate products? We use Rise for all of our eLearning and do the majority of development (except for scripted demonstrations) in Rise. Coming up with a word count seems to be cumbersome, but maybe I'm missing something?
Love this suggestion!
Thank you Lara, this is very helpful.
If it is a narrated Storyline course, I know someone who has developed a small software program that will give you a timed outline of the entire course based on each slide using the timeline and the layers. But if is just text, the reading estimate works.
That's super cool! Do you have a link?
I don't want to market anything here but here is a video of the tool. See if you find it useful. It has a number of features, one of which is creating a table of contents with timings. I have used it for a lot. Pretty handy tool and he keeps updating it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAxAvh1r2g4
