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8 years 4 months ago #127858 by pedwards2932
Is there anyway we can set up a question that tracks the amount of time it takes to answer. We are including a task oriented question that would take a while to look up using various resources and we want to measure how long that takes.
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8 years 4 months ago #127860 by holch
This depends a little bit on your survey set up. If you show just one question at a time it would be enough to set up the "Save timings?" to "Yes", which would create a time stamp for when the page was submitted. If you substract that from the time when the last question was submitted, you have the time that it takes. Of course, there is a little bit of delay for the loading of the question. But I think there is little to no way around it to measure exactly from the point when the respondent saw the question to when he finished it exactly.

Of course you could try to develop something with Javascript, but it would do very similar things (creating time stamps or counting seconds). So this is a solution that you can do with a click. But the timing can not be shown during the survey (as far as I know). So if you need to have the time during the survey (e.g. to show it to the respondent or do some calculations with it) you probably need to set up some Javascript solution that writes the time into a hidden question.

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8 years 4 months ago #127864 by pedwards2932
Replied by pedwards2932 on topic Set up a question to see how long it takes to answer
Thanks making each question a separate page and select save timings on the survey will work. I can beta test to make sure I can get the data I need. Thanks.
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7 years 10 months ago #135555 by ledoux
Hi,
In admin, "notification & management" I chose "Save timings" => yes
But in the result file (export) some questions don't have any timer data, nor some pages.

-Is that because some question types don't have a timer ?
- Why I don't have a timer for each page?

It is very important for my project...
Thank you !!

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7 years 10 months ago #135599 by tpartner
If your survey is in question-by-question mode, you should have timings for every page seen. If this is not so please file a bug report.

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7 years 10 months ago #135600 by ledoux
My survey is group-by-group mode. Should I have a timing for every page too?

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7 years 10 months ago #135607 by tpartner
You should see a timing for every group seen but, of course, if you have multiple questions in a group, you will not get individual question timings.

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7 years 10 months ago #135608 by Mazi

le_doux wrote: My survey is group-by-group mode. Should I have a timing for every page too?

Yes, Limesurvey starts the "counter" when loading a questions and calculates the duration/page when clicking next/submit.

So for an all in one survey there will just be one time being stored while for a question by question survey there should be timing data for each question/page.

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7 years 10 months ago #135636 by ledoux
It is great if I have a timing per page (overall time per group of questions), but I have this "page timing" only with few groups in the export file. But in "notification & management" I chose "Save timings" => yes

what is happening?
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7 years 10 months ago #135649 by Mazi
Which Limesurvey version do you use?

Can you reproduce the problem at demo.limesurvey.org?

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7 years 10 months ago #136323 by ledoux
Hi Mazi
sorry for delay in answering.
My version is 2.50+ Build 160418
I can provide the link to a test version of the final questionnaire ("anonymous") : does it help?

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7 years 9 months ago #136676 by Mazi

le_doux wrote: I can provide the link to a test version of the final questionnaire ("anonymous") : does it help?


The question is whether this works as expected when using the Limesurvey demo!?

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