A course that opens in stages
Some courses release their modules over time rather than giving you everything at once. It is a teaching decision — the course is meant to be worked through over weeks rather than in an evening.
How you can tell
Before you enrol, the course page says so: Released over 5 weeks, or a pair of dates if a group is going through together.
Once you are on it, the outline tells you directly. A module that has not opened shows when it will:
- “Opens in 5 days” — the course is paced from your own start date, so your fifth day is yours. Somebody who joined a week before you is a week ahead.
- “Opens on 20 October” — everybody on the course shares that date.
You can still open the module heading and see what is inside, which is the point: knowing what is coming is part of the course.
“You’re up to date”
When you reach the end of what has opened, the reader says You’re up to date rather than Done, and tells you when the next part arrives and how much is still to come.
That is a real third state, and worth knowing the difference:
- Up to date — you have done everything available. There is nothing you can do until more opens.
- Finished — you have done every lesson in the course.
Your progress bar does not reach 100% yet
That is correct and deliberate. The figure counts every lesson in the course, including the ones that have not opened — so it climbs steadily instead of reaching 100% and then dropping back when the next module arrives. A bar that went backwards would be worse than one that climbs slowly.
A module you already opened stays open
If the instructor changes the schedule after you have started something, you keep what you had. Work you have submitted is never put back behind a lock.
If you are waiting
Grapevine does not currently email you when the next module opens, so it is worth noting the date. The outline always tells you, and so does the reader when you reach the end of what is available.