What’s the difference between session duration and attempt duration? Timestamp or Stored? When should you record time taken and how can you report it? This series of blogs looks specifically at duration and how to report on it.
As a provider of an LMS, LRS or other system launching content and reporting on duration information, you can use the table presented last week as a guide for reporting. In an ideal world, you can simply look at the Result Duration property of the completed/passed/failed, suspended and terminated statements to grab your attempt and session durations. Win!
Handling limited data
Unfortunately, the world is not an ideal place. In practice, many Activity Providers have not implemented duration at all, or are only reporting duration at activity completion, leaving the report viewer wondering about the time spent by learners on partially completed attempts. Many early adopters, who designed their statements before the best practice I described last week emerged, are understandably waiting for the release of CMI5 before updating their statement structure.
Tags: Best Practices • Deep Dive • Keeping Time • Statements • Tin Can