Hi George,
thanx :)
To answer your questions, it doesn't happen all that often. However, this is a dedicated learning program for a big number of users with a big number of sessions. And it happens that because users don't get enrolled at the beginning of the series we get requests to sign them up & send them notifications about the upcoming sessions after the 1st or 2nd session is already in the past. However, there are much more sessions in the future & this is why I think this tweak would be useful.
I've thought about alternative ways to administrate this program. There is an option to create a bunch of seminar activities on the course & set the enrolment method to Seminar Direct Enrolment and a setting there Automatically sign users up to seminar events to "Yes". This would serve as a good functionality in any other case than the one I found myself in - having to sign up users as admin. If the action was up to the learners, I wouldn't have bothered :) However, this is a dedicated program & users are not expected to action anything in LMS, but just wait for invitations :) Had I used this way of administering, I would have to sign them up manually for every seminar activity - a task I tried to avoid.
Hope this makes sense :)
Best regards,
Vlad