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Overdue dates on courses

  • September 24, 2025
  • 1 reply
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This has been raised before and closed with no action. 

The ability to set a due date relative to the enrolment date is essential for ensuring compliance and meeting audit requirements across many businesses.

Using a soft deadline is not effective, as it applies a fixed date that does not accommodate learners who enrol after that date. This limitation makes it unsuitable for ongoing or staggered enrolments.

In our case, we must meet SOC2 auditing standards, which require us to demonstrate a specific "completed by" date for each learner. This date must accurately reflect whether a learner is overdue, making enrolment-based due dates a critical feature.  

Having worked across multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS), I’ve found this to be a basic and expected feature. It allows for flexibility and accuracy in tracking learner progress, especially in environments with rolling enrolments.

This could be a deal breaker for us 

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  • Novice III
  • October 29, 2025

 

G11378 - are you asking if you can put a due date on a course based on the enrollment date? For example, User A enrolls in a course and then you want the due date for User A to be 30 days from date of enrollment and then User B enrolls 10 days later and you also want  their due date to be 30 days from enrollment. That's totally possible if you use the Enrollment Validity Period under the Time option of the Properties of said course.  

The Soft due date isn't relative to this unless you want the users to be able to access and still complete the course after the due date is reached. If you don't want them to be able to complete it after the due date then you simply turn that off