Outside of making a video, is there a way to require a learner spent a minimum amount of time on a training material? I know that time spent is reportable, but we would like to proactively encourage learners to slow down on some specific items.
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Is there a way to require time spent with the material?
Best answer by dklinger
On some types you can do this. For example, the native Docebo test has an option to limit the exam time, the time on allotted to each question, etc. For other types like SCORM, you can configure this when you create the training material via your authoring tool. You can do things like not allow users to move ahead in a video and I think you can also add timing to a knowledge check/test you add inside those objects.
Nothing direct in the course set-up that I can think of though.
So purely an FYI - if you asked an instructional designer about the question you posted - this technique is called “gating”. Like
Now with clever use of the assessment builder, you should be able to A) create those gates and B) enforce them by leveraging:
- Sequence (with prerequisites)
- A completion criteria is met before moving on to the next part (with the assessment builder)
That will limit the person’s navigation and enforce that sequence of learning. All of this said - It is ALOT more straight forward to do this with other tools and authoring platforms today that support exporting to a SCORM course (all stated by
Many modern instructional designers push back at this idea - you cant really force a person to learn things by enforcing certain interactions - but I would be digressing to another topic. BUT for those that get pushed to do it - gating can be done in alot of different ways once you go towards tools like Captivate or Storyline.
Happy to cover it with you if using an external development tool is permitted in your situation. Its not necessarily hard to do - an instructional designer - YOU? - just needs to consider the ask carefully and then attempt a best match.
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But lets go to the basics. A video training material does support a pretty reasonable completion criteria for a video:
Even though there is a reference to Flash - um….that is a bad idea nowadays.
In theory you can chop up your video into segments (with an external tool) and then add an assessment training material after each step, ensuring that the detail is sticking by enforcing the completion criteria to be met at each step….that would work nicely. It may feel like an awkward UX - but it is doable.
But with SCORM - and certain authoring tools - you can actually do a few things to encourage a person to watch the video that I would assert are a bit more elegant. A few examples:
- with certain authoring tools - you can have total control over your completion criteria
- with certain players, you can add questions inline in your video itself (yes interactive video has been around actually for years now - even though it used to be buggy and very browser specific, HTML5 is well implemented now).
- with certain authoring tools you could control your navigation/scrub bar and even disable them.
- with certain authoring tools, they can flat out enforce a person watching the content and disabling their ability to move forward (but in theory you can do that with Docebo by making the video a pre-requisite).
You may want to argue - and it may feel philosophical - that as a requirement a person must watching a video is actually not fool proof...and once adult learners pick up on the completion criteria - they will take a chance to do other things. Lets say a person is told to go complete a course. The person learns they need to watch a 7 minute video. And maybe the video was authored in such a way that it was “dissonating” to the learner. Most adults will cognitively call the video a waste of time...and not even pay attention. Some will attempt to open another window and keep on working at their workstation.
In that case, some browsers and course players have wised up to it - and they pause or suspend the session until the browser window is active. But really at this point - you are already on a slippery slope with the learner. Dont believe me on this? Measure the time that a person is spending with your course.
What I mean is - once a video player starts..who is to say that the person is actually going to watch the content???
All of that said - some of the tricks in SCORM and LMSs support the instructor with enforcing requirements on video. I am just saying….did a person actually learn from said video? That could be a different story.
+10On some types you can do this. For example, the native Docebo test has an option to limit the exam time, the time on allotted to each question, etc. For other types like SCORM, you can configure this when you create the training material via your authoring tool. You can do things like not allow users to move ahead in a video and I think you can also add timing to a knowledge check/test you add inside those objects.
Nothing direct in the course set-up that I can think of though.
+11On some types you can do this. For example, the native Docebo test has an option to limit the exam time, the time on allotted to each question, etc. For other types like SCORM, you can configure this when you create the training material via your authoring tool. You can do things like not allow users to move ahead in a video and I think you can also add timing to a knowledge check/test you add inside those objects.
Nothing direct in the course set-up that I can think of though.
I had a response that got moderated….will cover this a little more once it clears the human check.
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+11On some types you can do this. For example, the native Docebo test has an option to limit the exam time, the time on allotted to each question, etc. For other types like SCORM, you can configure this when you create the training material via your authoring tool. You can do things like not allow users to move ahead in a video and I think you can also add timing to a knowledge check/test you add inside those objects.
Nothing direct in the course set-up that I can think of though.
So purely an FYI - if you asked an instructional designer about the question you posted - this technique is called “gating”. Like
Now with clever use of the assessment builder, you should be able to A) create those gates and B) enforce them by leveraging:
- Sequence (with prerequisites)
- A completion criteria is met before moving on to the next part (with the assessment builder)
That will limit the person’s navigation and enforce that sequence of learning. All of this said - It is ALOT more straight forward to do this with other tools and authoring platforms today that support exporting to a SCORM course (all stated by
Many modern instructional designers push back at this idea - you cant really force a person to learn things by enforcing certain interactions - but I would be digressing to another topic. BUT for those that get pushed to do it - gating can be done in alot of different ways once you go towards tools like Captivate or Storyline.
Happy to cover it with you if using an external development tool is permitted in your situation. Its not necessarily hard to do - an instructional designer - YOU? - just needs to consider the ask carefully and then attempt a best match.
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