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What does the Student Time Spent statistic represent?

In your educator dashboard, you can see how much time each student has spent watching videos. This time measure represents the time a student would have spent if they had been watching at 1.0x playback speed. It excludes time spent reading, doing quiz questions and assignments. More details below.

In the educator dashboard, there is a table with downloadable data that displays the time a student has spent watching videos.

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When a student is watching a video, we record to the millisecond how much time is being spent. This time is then adjusted for the playback speed, rounded up to the nearest minute, aggregated into the relevant content module, and then displayed in the table on the educator dashboard (as shown in the image above).

Here are some important considerations to keep in mind:

  1. Often students will watch videos at faster than 1.0x playback speed. If they watch at 2.0x speed, they can watch 1 hour of videos in 30 minutes. This display will show that they have watched for 1 hour. It doesn't reflect time passing in the real world, it reflects the time amount of video they have watched if watched at 1.0x speed. 
  2. Often students will re-watch videos, and parts of videos multiple times. So a student could easily spend more time in a video than the duration of the video (i.e. the time taken to watch the video from start to finish once at 1.0x speed).
  3. Each chapter includes text and practice quiz questions alongside the videos. The time tracker does not measure the time they spend reading or doing questions. It only measures the time spent watching the videos in real-time. We plan to change this in the future, and include the time spent reading and engaging with questions too, so that you can get a real-world measurement of a student's time studying rather than just watching videos. We haven't done this yet though.