As an admin or content owner, you want to give people a certain amount of time to complete an assignment and automatically create due dates once assigned.

When you assign the content to someone, the due date is automatically set based on the number of days you defined. You can change the due date during the assignment process or you can override the default date after assignment.

Time to complete determines the default due date for an assignment while the Duration set for a content item gives an estimate of how long it will take to complete the content.

Completion settings include a Time to complete (which determines the default due date) and a Time to expiration (which determines how long an assignment is considered valid). Due dates apply to when someone should complete a content assignment and expiration dates are when content can be reassigned. The expiration setting is especially useful for compliance content that needs to be completed every year, for example.

You can set a Time to complete for an entire track while still keeping default due dates for individual content items within the track. This gives you a way to organize track content based on when steps should be completed.

The system always honors the earlier due date for a track step. For example, if a track has thirty-day default due date, and an article within the track had a 3-day default due date, both due dates would be honored as configured. On the other hand, if the track had 2-day default due, the article would also be due in 2 days as part of track completion.