Knowing When a Learner Is Done — Course Completion Detection in v1.0.40

Tracking progress lesson-by-lesson is useful, but knowing the exact moment a learner completes an entire course is the event everything else is built on — certificates, compliance records, downstream notifications, and dashboard milestones. v1.0.40 introduces that event.

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The Problem

Before this release, the platform could tell you how far through a course a learner had progressed, but it had no single, authoritative signal for done. There was no timestamp, no completion record, and no way for the dashboard to distinguish a learner who finished a course from one who simply had not yet started the final lesson.

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What We Built

v1.0.40 adds automatic course completion detection. Here is what changes:

A completion timestamp you can trust

When a learner finishes the last lesson in a course, enrollments.completed_at is stamped with the UTC time of that event. It is written once and never overwritten — a reliable, auditable record of exactly when the learner crossed the finish line.

A completion record on the learner dashboard

The completion event is stored as a record that the learner dashboard can read and render. This is the hook for completion badges, certificate states, and any confirmation UI you want to show a learner after they finish a course.

Zero configuration

There is nothing to enable. Every existing and future course benefits from completion detection automatically.

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Why This Matters

This is the milestone event in the learner journey. Every downstream capability that cares about full course completion — certificate generation, compliance exports, manager notifications, learner achievement records — can now key off a single, trustworthy field: completed_at.

It also makes the learner dashboard meaningfully more useful. A learner finishing a course should feel like a moment, not just the absence of remaining lessons.

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What's Next

Course completion detection is the foundation. Certificate generation, completion-triggered automations, and reporting dashboards are the natural next layers. Stay tuned.

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Read the full technical details in the Course Completion Detection & Certificate State feature guide.