Learning Path Enrollment Priority not being added to Course

You’re intuition tracks, ​@B0LT. The “Enrollment Priorities” feature lacks a few critical capabilities for us, so we’ve not enabled the feature. Here are some of the limitations we’ve flagged, and some ideas to upvote if you feel inclined.

If you mark a course as “required”/”mandatory” for some users, but “optional”/”recommended” for others, all users are notified of expiration dates. This is a problem for us because optional/recommended users should be able to disregard the deadline. Upvote a suggested alternative action.

Setting the priority at the LP level only applies to the learning plan. If you want the courses within the LP to mirror the priority, you must set it at the course level. Because LPs cannot have a soft deadline, our practice has been to set deadlines at the course level. If we want learners to see the deadline and priority information in one place, we’ll have to set the priority at the course level which would be time consuming and defeats the main purposes of LPs. Upvote a suggested alternative action here. Note: I was told soft deadlines in LPs are part of the October Release

You cannot filter reports based on enrollment priorities. If you want to remove “recommended” enrollments from a report, you will need to export the data file and then filter in Excel. Having to manipulate this report would prevent us from sending a “ready-made” report to internal   clients and stakeholders. We would always need to manually adjust the report ourselves. Upvote a suggested alternative action here.

Self-enrollments do not set an enrollment priority. In my mind, it stands to reason that self-enrollment = optional. Upvote a suggested alternative action here.

Hi ​@shanejacques, 

Thank you!!!! I really appreciate your reply. I am upvoting all these. The second feature you highlighted is where we are stuck. But all the features you mentioned are things we noticed but weren’t pain points quite yet. 

In regards to the learning path enrollment priority issue, I found a quick workaround for what our org is doing - since we are using Enrollment Rules into the learning path, I discovered if we create an enrollment rule into the course first (with enrollment priority), and then into the learning path it will add the enrollment priority to the course. It seems enrollment rules follow alphabetical order so if your (course enrollment rule) comes first alphabetically and then the (learning plan enrollment rule) comes later then it should enroll them into the course first with the enrollment priority and then bucket it into the learning plan. In this case the enrollment priority on the course level sticks. 

Unfortunately, it’s a painful and inconvenient work around but it gets the job done for us. 

Thanks again for the post !