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Hide courses from Learner Dashboard

  • September 11, 2024
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slgoldstein
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Hello,

I am curious.  Does anyone know if there is a way to use HTML/CSS to hide courses that are ‘Under Maintenance’ from the learner’s dashboard?  We have courses that we have retired from our catalog, but unfortunately, if a learner was enrolled, they still appear on the learner’s screen with a lock symbol and ‘Under Maintenance.’  We have considered using enrollment archiving but there are some limitations there as well…

Thanks for any tips or advice!

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lrnlab
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  • Hero III
  • September 11, 2024

Short answer is, No. not sure CSS would be helpful in this case as it would need some logic to know to hide only those courses that are under maintenance…

Users can hide them from their My Courses page but not on the personal summary…

Archiving is. the closest you can get to hide those but I get that this is not always the preferred solution based on the many limitations of archiving.


slgoldstein
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  • September 11, 2024

Okay - thank you for the reply!  Hopefully Docebo gets the ideas portal back up soon.  I know the ability to retire or archive a course was raised there several times….maybe it can be raised and voted on again. :)


missyb
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  • September 11, 2024

When you retired them from your catalog, did you remove them from their course catalog(s), learning plans and/or channels? 


lrnlab
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  • Hero III
  • September 11, 2024

When you retired them from your catalog, did you remove them from their course catalog(s), learning plans and/or channels? 

they would still be viewable on the personal summary even if under maintenance, not in catalogues, etc.

 


lrnlab
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  • Hero III
  • September 11, 2024

Okay - thank you for the reply!  Hopefully Docebo gets the ideas portal back up soon.  I know the ability to retire or archive a course was raised there several times….maybe it can be raised and voted on again. :)

you can follow the ideas with this post:

 


missyb
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  • Novice III
  • September 12, 2024

When you retired them from your catalog, did you remove them from their course catalog(s), learning plans and/or channels? 

they would still be viewable on the personal summary even if under maintenance, not in catalogues, etc.

 

Correct. I was just going to suggest it so it might cause less confusion, if there is any, and suggest editing the title of the course to include something like inactive or retired so people aren’t thinking it is truly ‘Under Maintenance’. I really wish we had another option there too. It is by no means a fix, but helps clear things up on the user end and might be marginally less annoying. 


slgoldstein
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  • September 12, 2024

Hi @missyb - yes - we do all of that. We also notate in the title of the course ‘RETIRED’ and even include a thumbnail that says retired.  The issue is that even if they are retired, removed from the catalog, and the learning plans, if someone is enrolled, or started the course, it stays on their dashboard.  :(

I also wish Docebo had a better way, because even with doing this, we still hear lots of feedback from our users that they want the system to somehow hide or remove from the dashboard.  They don’t want to do this themselves.  We explored archiving, but there were way too many limitations with archiving from a reporting perspective, so we could not implement.  

I will check out and follow the suggested post.  Thank you both for the replies and suggestions!


missyb
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  • Novice III
  • September 12, 2024

Hi @missyb - yes - we do all of that. We also notate in the title of the course ‘RETIRED’ and even include a thumbnail that says retired.  The issue is that even if they are retired, removed from the catalog, and the learning plans, if someone is enrolled, or started the course, it stays on their dashboard.  :(

I also wish Docebo had a better way, because even with doing this, we still hear lots of feedback from our users that they want the system to somehow hide or remove from the dashboard.  They don’t want to do this themselves.  We explored archiving, but there were way too many limitations with archiving from a reporting perspective, so we could not implement.  

I will check out and follow the suggested post.  Thank you both for the replies and suggestions!

10,000% agree! We just do the best we can with the options we have. 


  • Novice III
  • November 26, 2025

Hello,

I am curious.  Does anyone know if there is a way to use HTML/CSS to hide courses that are ‘Under Maintenance’ from the learner’s dashboard?  We have courses that we have retired from our catalog, but unfortunately, if a learner was enrolled, they still appear on the learner’s screen with a lock symbol and ‘Under Maintenance.’  We have considered using enrollment archiving but there are some limitations there as well…

Thanks for any tips or advice!

We have the same need. Archive the enrollments and retire a course are two different things which arise from two different needs. As admin who is in a daily contact with users I receive any kind of request, even about things that seems obvious. Any possible sourse of confusion in users become 100% a request, at least, of clarification/assitance. The possibility to hide a course is really precious for an admin.