Post Enrollments automate Enrollment into follow-up Courses when a Learner is enrolled into, completes, or fails a Course. This article describes how Post Enrollment Rules are configured, the options available, and how the feature behaves across the supported Course types.
Removing a Post Enrollment rule does not cancel enrollment jobs that have already been queued. Learners who met the trigger conditions prior to the removal may still be enrolled as those jobs process. The removal only prevents the rule from applying to Learners who meet the conditions going forward.
About Post Enrollments
Post Enrollments are configured under the Completion section when adding or editing an Online Course, Instructor-Led Course (ILC), or Curriculum. Post Enrollments is not available on Course Bundles.
Use Post Enrollments when you want to deliver a learning path automatically rather than rely on Self-Enrollment or manual Admin Enrollment. Common use cases include sequenced onboarding, follow-up training that depends on completion of a prior Course, branching paths that respond to a pass or fail outcome, and recurring Re-Enrollment for recertification.
Post Enrollments Versus Prerequisites
Prerequisites and Post Enrollments can achieve similar outcomes from opposite ends of the Enrollment process. The right choice depends on how you want Learners to access the content.
| Prerequisites | Useful when Courses are offered in the Course Catalog via Self-Enrollment or purchase. Learners can still enroll themselves, but only after meeting the required conditions. |
| Post Enrollments | Useful when you do not want to rely on Self-Enrollment or list the follow-up Course in the Catalog. The Learner is enrolled automatically once the trigger condition is met. |
Adding a Post Enrollment Rule
To add a Post Enrollment Rule, edit a Course and navigate to the Completion section, then click the Add Post Enrollment button. The When, Delay, Courses, and Allow Consecutive Enrollments settings are revealed.
- As an Admin with appropriate permissions to edit Courses, navigate to the Courses report in the Admin Experience.
- Select the Course you need to add a Post Enrollment to, and click Edit via the righthand side Actions menu.
- Navigate to the Completion section of the Course.
- Click Add Post Enrollment.
- Configure the Post Enrollment rule as needed (refer to the Post Enrollment Rule Settings section below for more information).
- Publish the Course to save the change.
Post Enrollment Rule Settings
Each Post Enrollment Rule uses the following settings to determine when and how the follow-up Enrollment is created.
| Setting | Description |
| When | Selects the trigger that initiates the rule. Options are Enrolled (rule triggers when the Learner is enrolled in this Course), Completed (rule triggers when the Learner completes this Course), and Failed (rule triggers when the Learner fails this Course). Failed is only available when Allow Failure is toggled ON. |
| Delay | A numerical value representing the number of days the system waits after the trigger before processing the rule. Enter 0 for immediate processing. |
| Courses | The Course or Courses the Learner will be enrolled into once the When and Delay conditions are met. |
| Allow Consecutive Enrollments | OFF: If a Learner has already completed the selected Course(s), a new Enrollment is not created. ON: A new Enrollment is created even when the Learner has previously completed the selected Course(s). This is the setting used to drive Re-Enrollment through Post Enrollments. |
As an example, a rule configured with When set to Completed and Delay set to 5 will enroll the Learner in the selected follow-up Course five days after they complete the current Course.
How Post Enrollments Behave
Post Enrollment Rules are evaluated against the configuration in place at the moment the trigger event occurs. Rules added after a Learner has already enrolled in, completed, or failed a Course do not apply retroactively to that Learner.
When an Admin manually enrolls a User in a Course, any Prerequisite requirements are bypassed. Post Enrollment Rules configured on the source Course still process normally.
Inactive Target Courses
A Post Enrollment Rule that targets an Inactive Course is still processed by the system. The Learner will not see the Course in the Learner Experience while it remains Inactive, but the Enrollment record is created and reflected in reporting.
Course Bundle Exception
Post Enrollments cannot be configured on Course Bundles. Course Bundles are also the exception to the standard non-retroactive behavior described above.
Post Enrollments on Curricula
Post Enrollment Rules on a Curriculum follow the same trigger and configuration logic as those on an Online Course. They are particularly useful when a Curriculum needs to be retaken on a regular schedule, such as annual compliance training. Pairing a Completed trigger with Allow Consecutive Enrollments set to ON ensures the timing of each reassignment is consistent for Learners who completed earlier Courses in the Curriculum before being assigned to it.
Common Use Cases
The following scenarios illustrate where Post Enrollments are typically used.
| Scenario | Configuration |
| Sequenced Learning Path | When: Completed. Delay: 0 or a short number of days. Courses: the next Course in the path. |
| Remediation on Failure | When: Failed. Courses: a remedial or refresher Course. Requires Allow Failure to be ON. |
| Recertification | When: Completed. Delay: the recertification interval, in days. Allow Consecutive Enrollments: ON so the Learner is re-enrolled in the same Course. |
| Bypass the Catalog | When: Enrolled. Use when the follow-up Course should not appear in the Course Catalog but should be assigned automatically. |
| Automate Enrollments in a Curriculum | When: Enrolled. By default, Users are not automatically enrolled in a Curriculum's Courses following Curriculum enrollment. Post Enrollments can be used to automatically enroll Users into these Courses upon enrollment. |
Related Articles
The following articles cover settings and workflows that interact with Post Enrollments.
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