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How to Update Course Completion Statuses After Updating Content?

In this article, you will learn how to update course completion statuses for learners after adding new lessons or quizzes, and how to notify learners about the new content

Written by Rita

The Resync Course Completions feature allows you to resync course completion statuses with a single click.

Learners who have new unfinished lessons or quizzes return from Completed to In Progress and receive a notification asking them to complete the new content. As a result, course statistics reflect the real picture of learner progress.

💡 When Should You Use Resync?

Use this feature if:

  • you have added new lessons or quizzes to a course, and some learners already had the Completed status;

  • you want learners to find out about the update and complete the new material;

  • you need course statistics to reflect actual learner progress rather than outdated statuses.

🔔 Learner Notifications

In Notification Settings, create a notification for learners with the Course Content Updated event, then configure its access and delivery settings:

The notification is sent automatically when the resync changes a learner’s course status from Completed to In Progress. The status change is what triggers the notification.

⚠️ Please note: the notification must be configured once, before you resync the statuses. Without separate setup in Notification Settings, the message will not be sent automatically.

📌 You can learn more about creating and configuring notifications in this article: How to Create and Configure Notifications?


⚙️ How Does the Resync Work?

After you launch the resync, the system performs the following steps:

  1. Finds all learners who have the course marked as Completed;

  2. Checks their current access to the course’s lessons and quizzes;

  3. If a learner has at least one unfinished lesson or quiz, changes the course status from Completed to In Progress;

  4. After the resync, the learner receives a notification about the content update.

Learners who have completed all the course content, including the new content, keep the Completed status.

🎁 Course Points

When a learner completes the course again, points are not awarded a second time. This protects the Gift Shop from exploitation: a learner cannot earn points for the same course over and over after every content update.


🔧 How to Launch the Resync

To launch the resync, open Statistics → Courses and select the needed course from the list:

On the course statistics page, click the three dots → Other → Resync Course Completions:

📌 Please note that statuses can be resynced once per hour. Launch the resync after you have finished making changes to the course.

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