Hi all. We are running Totara 12 getting ready to upgrade to 13, and pretty soon after will upgrade to 17.
There has been one thing that bugs me about events, and I wonder if it gets resolved in a future version.
Our system is based almost exclusively on Seminar Direct enrollment. Meaning that users don't enroll themselves into courses. Instead, we prefer they find the event they want to attend, and sign up for the event, then of course the seminar direct enrollment feature enrolls them into the course once they're in the event.
It's been a constant source of frustration, though, that even though Seminar Direct enrollment is an option, users in the system cannot see the event offerings unless they are enrolled (circular logic at its worst).
To get past this, we have always given the permission to "View Course Without Participation." This is not without it's negative side effects. What happens is, users can see the course without being enrolled, and will try to click around and think that they are "progressing" through the course, but since they aren't enrollled, they aren't. They typically don't realize this until they get to a quiz, when the sytem will then alert them to the fact they are not enrolled. Then they contact our help desk, and they're pretty mad.
So my question is do current versions of Totara still require to "view without participation" If we want (currently) unernolled users to see and select events to signup for? Or has there been improvements to this process.
Or, third option, was there always a better way that I was unaware of, lol?
