Forum Discussion
Estimated Seat Time or Duration of Course
Does Rise have a feature like Storyline360 that allows you to see an estimated Duration of the Course?
- TJBarber-a1e652Community Member
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/mergener
If 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!
- APAcademyCommunity Member
Hello! Could you please tell me if this feature was every implemented? Lots of votes for it... (estimated seat time)
- IlsaMcBrydeCommunity Member
Adding another vote for this feature!
- KarenBumann-470Community Member
I also agree, this feature would be great!
- DaneSydow-e1dbdCommunity Member
I also agree. Course duration would be a great feature.
- AndreasApostoloCommunity Member
I agree too. It will be very helpful for us.We use the timing to calculate the accreditation of our courses with CPD points for our healthcare professionals.
- SharonKeung-299Community Member
Is this feature request been implemented? I also agree that this would be a great feature!
- AronBernetCommunity Member
We are very interested in this feature!
- RosemarieWhi387Community Member
Yes Please this would be very helpful
- NikishaWatson-7Community Member
Adding a vote for this feature!