enhance process to aggregate individual page reading time into a total sum per course and per learning path

[abohoss]

Current Behavior

Only number of courses appear at each learning path with a total time

Desired Behavior

have a total time field per course and learning path to be displayed in each card to the user

Implementation

Add a small Hugo partial in academy-theme that aggregates the per-page .ReadingTime values into:

1. a per-course total (sum of reading time for all lessons in that course), and
2. a per-learning-path total (sum across all courses and lessons in the learning path).

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[yash37158]

Hi @abohoss, I was trying to build this locally and this is how its looking

[abohoss]

Hi @yash37158 ,
Can you tell me the specific steps of how you built it?

[yash37158]

I've implemented a reading time system that aggregates individual page reading times into total sums per course and learning path. The solution includes a recursive calculation engine (calculate-total-reading-time.html) that traverses the content hierarchy and sums up all child page reading times. Users can now see both individual page reading times (e.g., "5 minutes read") and total time commitments for entire courses/learning paths, making it easier to understand time investment for specific content.

[abohoss]

Sorry for telling you this, but I opened the issue and actively working on it as I told the organization on the slack channel. Are you in it?

[zihanKuang]

Closed as completed #117