Timer

[David Clingingsmith]

Can someone give me some pointers on using the "timer" feature. Here is what I am trying to do.

Subjects participate in a time-limited quiz consisting of 20 questions. Each question is implemented as a "Form Choice" steptype. I would like subjects to have 15 minutes to work on the questions and be moved to the next stepgroup when time is up if they have not finished it.

My thought was that I could use the timer feature to do this, but it is unclear how to set it up. I've been fooling around with it using a "Form Info" steptype, but whenever the timer is turned on the contents of the info do not appear.

[Achim Hendriks]

Hi David,

if I understand you right you want the timer to limit the time for all
the 20 questions (or as you said the whole stepgroup). At the moment the
timer is bound to handle timing for each step individually and thus this
will not work for your use-case.

Still the problem with content that is not appearing in the info step
sounds like the timer is never started. Please check the setting of the
"Timer Start" option. If it is set to "manually started by experimenter"
you will have to click on the small green arrows in the session monitor
next to the step that you want the timer to be started for. You could
also set the start option to automatically to not having to start the
timer yourself. For that case please also check the setting for timer
context. If you set it to everyone the timer will be started only once
all participants are in that step. You can set it to per participant to
have the timer started for each participant individually.

Coming back to the problem with the 15 minutes timer for a complete
stepgroup I would suggest that you time this manually and move all
participants to the next stepgroup manually. You can do this using the
edit participants tab in the session administration. Simply choose the
step that all participants should end up in. I would suggest to make
this a sync everyone step at the beginning of the next stepgroup.

Best regards and a Merry Christmas to everyone on the list

Achim

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[mkirmes]

I'm also having trouble with the timer function.
Similar to David, I have a sequence of quiz questions with the "Form Choice" steptype.
I want each of the questions to be limited to 30 seconds, and if the answer hasn't been submitted in that time, it should move to the next step - and that's how I understand the "Continue by going to the next step" option for "On Timeout" in the Timer settings as well.

But it's not doing that. It works fine when an answer is submitted: the next question loads, and the timer starts counting down from 30 seconds again. But when I don't submit anything on a question (no matter whether something is selected or not), it continues on from the unanswered question, but never actually reaches the next step, staying in the white loading screen (with the little grey circle) instead. The time variable for the stopped question is also still counting up, and the Log shows "Process returned false" (repeatedly).

I also tried putting in a participant sync in between the questions, but that doesn't help either.
The only way to continue the game is to manually move the participant to the next step in Session Control.

Am I missing something?

Michael

[Philipp Mamat]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your inquery. We could reproduce the issue in the beta 6 version. Luckily the bug is fixed in the current release which is available for download on http://www.sophie.uni-osnabrueck.de/download/ since July 7th. Please upgrade your installation!

Regards from Osnabrück,
 Philipp

PS: Greetings from Achim -- unfortunatly he did not yet manage to send a release notification to the mailing list.

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