ULPT: Homeschool makes me watch long un-skippable videos before answering questions. Is there a way to speed up the videos or make it think I watched them?

Posted by PerfessorPigglet@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 24 comments

I'm sick of it. The videos are incredibly drug out and don't teach anything. Maybe is there a way to speed up my web browser to skip through the videos? I honestly don't know what to do with it anymore. The method should just allow me to answer the questions that come after the videos.

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DegaussedMixtape@reddit

It's incredibly difficult to know the answer to this with the info provided since every video player is different. Many video players have speeds options somewhere near the scrubber at the bottom. If they don't, sometimes your best option is to just open several videos at once, let them all play out in real time but you are kind of going at 4x if you have 4 going at once. If you can only watch 1 video at a time in your web browser, then you may be able to pull up 1 in chrome, 1 in chrome incognito, 1 in edge, 1 in edge incognito, 1 in firefox, 1 in firefox incognito etc.

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Skreeethemindthief@reddit

We get these at work and can confirm if you change the speed, it invalidates your completion forcing you to do it again at the correct speed.

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PerfessorPigglet@reddit (OP)

I know this has worked on other programs in the past, but it now now requires you to be logged into one singular account, so it can detect when you have more than one session open. If it weren't for that, It would probably be easy to play the videos all once.

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GallantChaos@reddit

Right click on the modal and inspect the element. You may be able to edit the code of the player or set an 'iscomplete' flag on the video or something.

I ended up learning a lot about Javascript messing around training videos one day for work... Ended up skipping about 30 hours worth of training that way.

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NotAnEmergentAI@reddit

Spend time entertaining yourself around the subject material. If you are studying a foreign language, try to translate the material into that language while you watch the video. If you don’t have a second language think about how you could write the material into a rap or a rhyme. Then start learning a second language.

You will always be faced with boring slow information that somehow you must pay enough attention to learn from. Find a way to do that, the best ways seem to be - lean into it and get even more involved, not less.

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SanguinPanguin@reddit

As someone that was homeschooled for a few years, I'm going to tell you something you're probably not going to listen to.

It's important to learn as much as you can, because being homeschooled like that is a straight up disadvantage.

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PerfessorPigglet@reddit (OP)

I'm currently compiling my own courses that I'll take throughout the year. Those will focus more on things like financial education and personal development (You know, the things that actually matter) I've been in public school most of my life anyway. Thanks for the advice though. (:

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RsCaptainFalcon@reddit

Your best bet unfortunately might just be to set a timer and goof off until it's over. They're probably intentionally there to pad out the total time you spend on their application/website.

ULPT: Send piss discs to their HQ

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StalkMeNowCrazyLady@reddit

This is exactly what it is. The education system you must spend X amount of time learning, those videos plus the questions that have to be answered fill that required time.

Same thing with stuff like online defensive driving. Think you're going to just skip the 8 hour course and pass a test built for the lowest common denominator of intelligence? Nope they'll make you sit through 6 hours of videos and ask you stupid questions at the end of each 15 minute video like "what color shirt was the man in the truck wearing?" Get it wrong and you got to watch the video over again.

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Flatulence_Tempest@reddit

Turn the volume off on the computer and let it run while watching or surfing on another device such as laptop, phone or even old school, TV.

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Salty-nutter@reddit

If they are to dumb to figure this out they should suffer

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TacoDad189@reddit

Stop being a home schooled jungle freak. You’re going to end up with no real abilities to interact socially if you keep down the current road.

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PerfessorPigglet@reddit (OP)

I've been in public school for most of my life. I've only got a few years left anyway, so I'll just enjoy my free time.

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Drink_Deep@reddit

You could always bring it up to your teacher.

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TacoDad189@reddit

Who is also their roommate.

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Drink_Deep@reddit

As well as their landlord

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Undrwtrbsktwvr@reddit

I use HTML5 Video Speed Controller for Chrome.

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SuggestionOne7761@reddit

There are some chrome extensions that allow you to speed up video playback. It may or may not work with whichever video player they use. If you’re familiar with JavaScript you could dig around in inspect element and see if there’s a function that signals video completion and call it through the console.

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PerfessorPigglet@reddit (OP)

Nah, I'd rather sit through the videos than have to go back to my old crap-shoot of a school. lol

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SnooObjections488@reddit

Open the video, click play, clean ur house, answer quiz

Don’t play games or watch tv because you can get sucked into those. Do something you don’t want to do regularly that beats watching the video

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wouldnt-u-like-2know@reddit

Load a piss disk in the floppy drive.