Expiration date for a course inside Storyline

I’d recommend setting the expiration date through the LMS, as this allows the course to be completely inaccessible after a specified date, or to redirect learners to an internal page such as an expiration_notice.html.

While this can be implemented in Storyline, it would require using JavaScript to define an expiration date and then, once that date is reached, display a layer or message indicating that the course content is locked due to expiration.

I’ve attached a simple Story file that demonstrates this functionality. You can test it by adjusting the date values in the code to see how it behaves in your environment.

const expirationDate = new Date('2026-06-12').getTime(); // set exp date
const currentDate = new Date().getTime();

const timeDifference = expirationDate - currentDate;

if (timeDifference > 0) {
  
  const daysRemaining = Math.ceil(timeDifference / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
  setVar('daysRemaining', daysRemaining); // storyline var
  
} else {
  
  setVar('courseExpired', true); // storyline var
  
}