Step 3: Choose When the Activities Will be Available

You see the Specify Content Availability screen.
If you don't want to control when the selected activities are available (activities will become available immediately and remain available indefinitely), leave the fields at their defaults and click Next to go to the next step.

Note: Once you save the assignment, the date on which you created or enabled the activity becomes the Available on date.
Otherwise, choose from the following options.

To have the selected activities available...	Then...
from now to a specific date	click End on and enter a date click Next to go to the next step
from a specific date to a specific date	click Available on and enter a date click End on and enter a date click Next to go to the next step
from now to the activity's due date	specify a due date (see below) click Same as due date click Next to go to the next step

To have the selected activities available...

Then...

from now to a specific date

click End on and enter a date

click Next to go to the next step

from a specific date to a specific date

click Available on and enter a date

click End on and enter a date

click Next to go to the next step

from now to the activity's due date

specify a due date (see below)

click Same as due date

click Next to go to the next step

If you want users to be informed of a due date for the selected activities, do one of the following:

to set a specific due date, click Due on and enter a date
to set a relative due date, enter the number of days after the selected activities were available to the user that the activities are due
Give Me An Example

You made a set of activities available from July 1 through December 31 of 2010, with a due date of December 15, 2010. The activities will appear on the training plan of the designated users on July 1. On December 16, the content will be flagged as "overdue". Activities will disappear from the training plan of all designated users on December 31.