Keeping Enrollments Open Past Start Date for Live Courses

We’ve had a few use cases where we’ve wanted to keep web registrations open past an event’s start date. Typically, we’ve found that the platform closes enrollments and displays a message that a learner can not register for the course past the start date. I think that this could be circumvented with enrollment by text (when the text window is open). I can see the rationale to why by default administrators would want enrollments to close on a start date. There are use cases where this behavior isn’t desired.

Are there ways to circumvent this?
We’ve had a use cases where we

  • wanted to keep enrollments open for a parent in a parent-child course
  • were doing a website usability study for a live course over multiple days. (To rectify, we’ve had to modify the start date for every day of the study)

It would seem that there might be other use cases where a learner might have a window to drop in and enroll within a duration of days. I’m imagining a skills check-off where the learner could register or come on any day that course would be open. My understanding is that the learner couldn’t self enroll. Has anyone determined a work around or had a similar use case?

In general, we want the event to show-up on the calendar. Excluding live dates would not work.

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Hi Dave,

You can change adjust how long the course stays open under Configuration, Signup Settings. First option, “Close x hours before”. This is a global setting so will apply to every course.

We chose to add -72 so registration stays open 72 hours past start date. We chose -72 because we have course over 5 days and will allow learners that show up after the start date to enroll.

We have not had issues with learners enrolling in shorter courses that have already happen.

Karen

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