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Best practices for validity dates on courses

  • February 19, 2026
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estarks8
Helper I
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Hello! I’m trying to identify a best practice for setting validity dates on a course. 

Our users have until 11:59pm local time on the end date to complete a training. The deadline needs to be a hard deadline as it locks at 12:00am the next morning. 

Given the UTC configuration, what is the best practice for setting the validity? If I set it as a hard date for 2/18, we have Team Members who are -8:00UTC who aren’t able to access the course at 4:00pm local time. But, we also have Team Members who are -4:00UTC as well, and in some cases +1:00 UTC. Any insights would be helpful :)  

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lrnlab
Hero III
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  • Hero III
  • February 19, 2026

Short of updating your individual users’ validity end date to match their time zone, some users will always have different end dates based on their location and time zone if you apply a general setting for all enrolments. And since you cannot set a time zone when you set the Course validity period, those will always be in conflict as one remains on UTC time and the other does not.