Countdown timer for a single question

[jarvis24]

[edited from support email]

Quick question... I am having some troubles with the countdown clock. In the parameters box, I put in (d-60) for a essay question. However, when I try the questionnaire out, the clock is not present (also the question does not cut off after the 60 sec limit either). I am not sure why this is occurring. Also, is it possible in the above scenario to get the clock to popup with only 10 sec left, instead of for the whole 60 secs (I feel that is probably not possible, right)? Thanks

Re: countdown for a single item, see discussion above.

Re: a partial countdown: Currently, the timer will be on display the whole time. However, as an alternative, you could embed some simple HTML as a background to the essay question. Do a quick google search on "html countdown timer" and I sure you find some code. Display a blank html area as a background (see BackGround in the guide for details). Have it automatically advance to a second HTML page after 50 seconds which could be your 10 second countdown timer. If anybody dares to try this, please post the the html here--it would be a nice sample for others!

-Blair

thanks for the quick responses. Your solution was a good idea but I do not know anything about html. What i did was to embed a background track that told participant how much time was left. Also another suggestion from a collegue was to show a video clip of a clock counting down.