Hello folks
We have set up courses within a program and users being enrolled via dynamic audiences.
We would like to be able to have the 1st course available from day one and every other course only available from a month onwards. this would need to be relative to the start date, which of course will be variable for each user.
I don't seem to be able to do this unless i am miss reading the Minumum Time Required setting
Any help would be much appreciated
Kind regards
Stephen
Not sure you could do it within one program, but have you considered the following:
Not quite as neat, but provides a workaround to ensure only staff who have completed the first course at least a month ago can access the rest of the courses.
Hello Dan
Thanks for your advice. We provide courses to the car repair and insurance industry and host them on our Totara. We want to create a program of courses that we connect to it as a result of a skills check. This could be up to 12 courses
We will use audiences to enrol learners
What we want is for each course to become available one month after finishing the previous one
Ah, in which case I'm not sure my suggestion will solve the problem. Am I to understand that each user's selection of courses will be defined by the outcome of their skills check? If so, not sure I can think of a good solution within the current capabilities of Totara because you wouldn't be able to create dynamic audience rules if you didn't know which course precedes another one.
You are right that it would be useful to have an option to set the stages of a program to only "release" based on criteria (time since previous stage completed, etc.) although I'm still not sure that would solve this either. As far as I can see, there would need to be millions of different programs created to cater for every outcome of the skills check assuming all of the course are in one program, so not sure how you'd make programs work.
At the moment there is no requirement to apply the results from the skills check to individuals but rather to the audience of up to 120 learners. An Average Learning Plan if you will, not an ILP. :-)
Also, i am not expecting the audience to be automatically assigned to the program from the skills scan results. I would expect that to be done manually and the modules to be added to the program manually. We would then like for the audience to work their way through at a module a month.
The program provides much better messaging (albeit just text) than just using a course or collection of courses. Provides consistent high-level reporting to their line manager.
Cheers
