It is important to keep only those students who should have access to the courses. We have different methods that we can use to disable enrollments. The use of one or the other depends on each institution and the way they decide to do things.

Enrollment Duration

All enrollments can have an assigned duration, regardless of how they are created. This duration will ensure that after the specified time, the enrollment will automatically end.

Suspend Enrollment

Enrollments can also be suspended. This keeps the user in the records, such as the Gradebook, but removes them from the active use of the course and does not allow them access to that course. Suspensions can be approved as an update of the enrollments in Conduit or can be done manually in the Edit Enrollments interface in the course participants list.

Self-Enrollment with Enrollment Duration

For courses that use self-enrollment, we can configure this self-enrollment plugin to control how long each self-enrollment remains active. The previously configured Enrollment Duration can be used so that the enrollment lasts for a determined period, or Unenroll inactive after can be used so that Open LMS automatically removes/suspends enrollments that have been inactive for a specific period of time in days.

What happens to enrollments once they expire is controlled from Site Administration > Plugins > Enrollments > Self-Enrollment, while the Enrollment Duration can be set as a default value for the entire system at this same site, and then edited and assigned different values for each course that uses this enrollment method.