Hi Barbara,

I can't see an 'Active courses block'. Can you supply more details? 

The process the Learner usually goes through with Programs is they are assigned, the Program becomes visible in their Record of Learning, they select the Program and they can then see the Courses in the user interface. The Learner only becomes enrolled in the course (via the Program enrollment plugin) when they go on to launch it.

In Totara we dont consider courses & programs to be 'live' as such. When they become available to users and they are assigned/enrolled in them and then they can interact with them. This means the same programs & courses can be made available to different users at different times.

"Do you want to use a staggered time-based method to make courses available to users?"

You can do this by using time-based rules (in conjuction with other rules) in a Dynamic audience/s, and adding Courses or Programs under the Enrolled Learning tab. Off the top of my head you could have, say, a self-enrollable course with a quiz in it. The quiz asks one question 'Do you want to do a series of courses, X?'. And there you have a course completion date you can use in an audience rule to allocate learning.

Hope this is useful - if you can include a screenshot of the 'Active courses block' in your reply that would great!

cheers,

George.