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Came to the forums for another reason, but as this has been our biggest problem with Totara for about 5 years, I thought I'd comment.

It's not just failing the seminar event for us, but the fact that one cannot fail a course. They simply don't meet completion requirements and remain enrolled for potentailly years, or take it again and pass. The big problem with that is there is no record of the initial failure. No failure date stamp.

They way we have gotten around this is by adding a "Failed" option to Attendance. However, this results in a discrepancy in the Course status report versus the attendance report. The course status report will simply no have a completion date as it "hangs" there in limbo, while the attendance report will show "Failed." This also requires a lot of instruction/communication to system trainers to be sure to correctly mark the attendance as passed/failed.

I hope this helps. If you don't have programmers who can add the attendance option for you, you can go into the language pack and change "Partially attended" to say "Failed," however this would have all the downsides mentioned, and doesn't take into account whether you actually need the "partially attended" option.