Date limit or password protect course

Hi Markus!

Neither of these are 'out-of-the-box', but someone in the community should be able to assist you and I would advise checking out this thread as well.

Hi, Markus -- I see that Matthew has provided you with one potential solution involving JavaScript, so I just wanted to note if you should decide to go that route, unfortunately we are not able to provide support for JavaScript coding. In case you wanted to take a look, here is a document on recommended JavaScript Best Practices. 

I am new to Storyline 360 and am wondering if a course expiry date is a standard out of the box feature in the latest release? Thank you

Hi John and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

How are you publishing and sharing your file? I would utilize an LMS to provide an expiration to any course content.

Hopefully others in the community will be able to chime in and share how they handle a need for this requirement.

Hi Leslie

Thanks for your reply. I would like to achieve this within the Articulate suite rather than a LMS.

I believe the feature is in Adobe Captivate but am trying to find a way of doing this in Articulate.

Surely this is a simple task for your Devopps team and there are plenty of users who will test it for them.  Thank you. 

Happy to pass along your insight to our team, John! In the meantime, it may be something that folks in the community could help you accomplish using Javascript or another custom method. 

Hi Matthew, Thanks for replying. I am a newbie to Articulate and have no programming experience but I will certainly give it a go.  

Hi,

I am trying to publish to an LMS with a date expiry option. I have a client who would like to test one of my courses, but I don't want them to have more than a day or two to try it. I see the information above about JavaScript, but was wondering if there was an easier way to set up the expire date when publishing to LMS.

Thanks,

Greg

Hi Matthew

I look at your ExpiryDate.story above. Neat.. but then how to incorporate this ? I suspect this is the first slide.

You would add a trigger like

Show layer "expired" when "courseExpired" changes, if "courseExpired" is equal to True

and have a layer on that slide that says "Expired, please obtain a new version" and a a trigger on the layer that says:

Exit course when the timeline reaches xx second

and in case the "courseExpired" is false a trigger on the base layer that says:

Jump to Next slide when "courseExpired" changes, if "courseExpired" is equal to False

Is that about correct ?

Place Matthew's javascript code inside an Execute Javscript trigger on the very first slide of your project, as the topmost trigger that starts on timeline start. Once created, you should be fine to follow Matthew's directions regarding the project variable. A note to all - this technique relies on scripting support, which does not exist on all platforms and devices. See Articulate's official KnowledgeBase regarding the availability of javascript