Hi Darren,

I did not realise this happened and would not have assumed this! If the above is correct, this could potentially cause massive problems for clients.

If completion data is wiped if they leave a dynamic audience then that makes no sense what-so-ever. They will need to keep their records of learning.

Many people have audiences based on location, so they can enrol departments/areas onto courses. If a person was to move, all their records of learning would be los? If so thats not great!

Can this be addressed?

Cheers,

Joe

First of all can I make it clear that no completion data is ever wiped.

Secondly, if audience start and end dates are set then the audience cron does not add or remove audience members if the audience is inactive.

Thirdly, on program enrolments this is the way dynamic audiences was designed and is the expected behaviour in many cases - for example consider a dynamic audience based on location or position, where people in that location or position have a required program of learning.

If the learner moves from that location or position, then the program associated with that location or position is (usually) no longer relevant to the learner and so they should be unenrolled from it and it should no longer be required learning. Though any courses they completed while part of the program should still be in their completion record.

I can see the case however that in certain circumstances you might want Audience Program Enrolments to be "sticky" so that once you were ever in an audience then you get the program which always remains required learning even after you have left the audience. It's something we'll have to think about in case it has knock-on effects elsewhere but I can see how it might be useful. However often the same effect can be obtained by re-thinking the dynamic audience rules.

With the existing functionality, in your particular case you want all new hires to have a required induction program which always remains in their required learning. This could be accomplished by creating an audience, with an attached program, where the start date is after whatever date the induction program came into effect. If the induction program changes every year, then two rules - start date after 01/01/2012 and start date before 31/12/2012. The program would be assigned to this audience.

If you also want a quick way to just list this week's new hires, then have a second audience which is users with a start date in the last 7 days, with no attached enrolled program.

Hope this helps