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Microsoft Course Updates

AKA – Everything we know about this mess.

Every quarter, MSFT will update some courses and retire others. At this time, they will issue a retirement/update notice. 

If a course is retired

90 days after the retirement notice, the course will stop being able to issue certificates.

In this case

  • Enrollment should be stopped on this course (customer should set the enrollment end date to the past)
  • The end date of the course should be set to the cutoff point
  • Learners currently enrolled should be notified that the course will no longer issue certificates beyond the end date.

If a course is updated

90 days after the update notice, the old version of the course will stop being able to issue certificates.

The new version of the course will have a new run ID, so needs to be imported as a brand new course, not an update to the old one.

In this case:

  • The customer has to provide us with updated versions of courses
  • The start date should be set to the day the course becomes available
  • Enrollment should be stopped on the old course (customer should set the enrollment end date to the past)
  • The end date of the old course should be set to the cutoff point
  • Learners currently enrolled should be notified that an updated course is available, and the old course will no longer issue certificates beyond the end date.