Storyline: Elapsed Time Triggered Lightbox

DorotaPreysn262
Community Member
3 years ago
Starting simple: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b581db75-b152-46ad-87d4-1145bb65a626/review
- AmandaNielsen-4
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Thank you so much for sharing your project, Dorota! I love it! And you're absolutely right—life truly is better with a dog! :)
AllenWay-bfd6a2
Community Member
3 years ago
One word: Exciting.

--Allen

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AndreaBossha306
Community Member
3 years ago
Just bear in mind that you want to give the learner as much control over the content as possible. Don't use time lapse for things that the audience needs to read.
- AmandaNielsen-4
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Great point, Andrea! You're right that it's important to use these variables wisely. You certainly don't want to cause the slides to proceed before learners have a chance to read or interact with all the content!
RamrajRaghuvans
Community Member
3 years ago
Exciting. I got a question:
We publish our Rise courses to LMS and export reports for further analysis like user's current course status e.g. subscribed, in-progress or completed. Are these elapsed time variables exposed to LMS as well to get the details in an exported report? This will help us to know how much time users spend on each slide and course.
- AmandaNielsen-4
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Hi Ramraj,
  
  Yes! You can use custom xAPI statements to report elapsed time variables used in a Storyline 360 course to your LMS. Here's an article that walks through how to create custom xAPI statements: https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-Custom-xAPI-Statements
  
  I hope that helps!
  - RamrajRaghuvans
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Thanks, I will check it out
AllenWay-bfd6a2
Community Member
3 years ago
Ramraj,

Keep in mind that Rise is not intended to have the kind of flexibility that StoryLine provides. That said, I think it can be done in a somewhat round-about fashion.

I haven't tried this yet but I think you could do that by using StoryLine blocks within Rise, as shown here: https://articulate.com/support/article/Rise-Use-Storyline-Blocks-to-Embed-Storyline-360-Courses.

The SL block would need to have the needed triggers to handle the elapsed time variables and reporting them to the LRS/LMS. That is described here:
https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-Elapsed-Time-Variables?_ga=2.269186616.897104204.1638401363-1685188032.1636129962.

I hope that helps.

--Allen

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- RamrajRaghuvans
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Thanks, I will check it out.
LeslieScarpace-
Community Member
3 years ago
Thank you! This is exactly what I need.
- AmandaNielsen-4
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  You're welcome, Leslie! I'm so glad you found this helpful.
MaryGutwein
Community Member
3 years ago
I'm really excited about this new feature! I'll be working on a project that requires the reporting of time, so this is timely! (that was intended!)

Is the only way to report the elapsed time through xAPI? Or can something be submitted using SCORM 2004?
- AmandaNielsen-4
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Hi Mary,
  
  I'm glad to hear you're excited about these new variables!
  
  To report elapsed time variable values to your LMS, you'll need to use custom xAPI statements and publish your project to xAPI format. Here's an article that walks through how to create custom xAPI statements: https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-Custom-xAPI-Statements
  
  I hope that helps!
RohitSaxena
Community Member
3 years ago
Hi there,

Does this elapsed time variable use the "left" verb by any chance? Our LRS is flooded with "Left" statements. Any builds on how to turn these off in case we don't need them?
JohnMorley-a8f1
Community Member
12 months ago
Amamda,
Thanks for providing this. As clever as it is (and your time variable may have other uses) is it not simpler to just create a trigger to show a lightbox when the timeline reaches a specific point?

Or is there an advantage to the variable that I am missing?

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