Time to Complete (TTC) allows Learners to understand their time commitment and schedule that time appropriately as it relates to an Online Course. TTC is a setting available under the Catalog Visibility section of the Add/Edit Online Course page. By default, TTC is off.

When TTC is enabled on an active Course, the TTC value will be displayed for Learners:

Enabling TTC

To enable Time to Complete for an Online Course, proceed through the following steps:

1. Access the Admin Experience.
2. Navigate to the Courses Report.
   
3. From the Courses Report, Add or Edit an Online Course.
4. Navigate to the Catalog Visibility section.
   
5. Scroll down to find Time to Complete and select either Automatic or Manual.
   
6. Finish configuring the Online Course and click Save.

Automatic TTC

The Automatic option for TTC determines the Time to Complete for the Online Course as a process based on completions across enrollments. For this reason, it can take a few completions before the system can determine and display the TTC for a given Online Course.

• When selected, with less than five (5) completions, no TTC is shown for the Course in the Learner Interface.

• With more than five (5) completions and less than 150,000 completions, the median completion time is used after removing statistical outliers.

  • For example, in the case when Learners leave their browser open for a week.

• With 150,000 or more calculations, the average completion time is shown.

• Automatic time to complete will not show a time range, it displays in hours and minutes.

  • EX: 3h 27m

• When a Learner completes a Course, their completion time is taken into account and the estimated TTC value updates.

Manual TTC

Setting a Manual TTC allows you to use a static value, based on your own experiences or expectations. As a Manual TTC value will not change as Learners achieve further completions, it will appear immediately for Learners.

• When selected, hours and minutes can be designated and adjusted accordingly.

• TTC defaults to one (1) hour when set to Manual.

• Hours and minutes can be designated, the range is automatically the same plus five (5) minutes but can be adjusted accordingly.

• If a time range is not desired, the first value should be set to zero (0).

• Manual estimated time to complete is in five (5) minute increments.

Time to Complete Visibility

Once TTC has been configured on an Online Course, the value will be observable for different types of Users as described here:

TTC FAQ

The following is additional information relevant to the configuration, and usage of Time to Complete:

• When TTC has been disabled and then re-enabled, any Online Courses that were changed while disabled will be re-calculated.