I was using KA to study, and I found that I could not get a good estimate for how long each course, unit, and exercise should take. I have a solution that I would like to propose. Introducing...

Minimum Video Completion Times!

Want to see how long a course will take to 'complete'? Hover over the course name to see the cumulative video time that this course has and how much of it you have gotten through.

Want to see how long a unit/exercise will take to 'complete'? Do the same exact thing!

Now, problems will come up if we replace the videos with new videos that have different lengths, so I propose that KA fetches the video length of each video that is a part of some set (ex. BC calc unit 8) every time a change is made to the course. This is to ensure that these times stay up to date and do not require employees to manually update. I'm assuming that this should be easy to do.


How this helps students.

Gives students a bare minimum view of how long it will probably take them to learn something. (I jumped into calc thinking things would be easy to learn if I dedicated a bit of time. The time commitment was more than I initially thought it would be). If I had had this tool, I could organize my time on the fly, as could other KA users.

I hope in earnest that something like this sees implementation at least on the laptop/browser versions of KA.

Again, I know that it is difficult to tell students how long it will take them to finish a course; however, telling them how much length they need to go through to reach full KA Completion minus the actual work they must do in answering questions themselves will be a good tool to make freely available.

To build on this, KA could implement a 'course planner' where students say they will finish a number "n" courses in X units of time. If the student is above the their own remaining content time, this could tell the student this and by how much.

Instead of leaving KA users guessing, we should be giving them datapoints on which they can make decisions about their learning. The more we inform our learners, the better off we all will be.

Toodaloo.