Mobile Ed Courses: Available, Partially Available, and Unavailable

When I log into my Faithlife Connect Account and select "Courses", the courses displayed are split into three categories: Available (33 plans), Partially Available (2 plans), and Unavailable (169 plans).

I have the Faithlife Connect Essentials plan. It was my understanding that members of this plan could chose any two individual Mobile Ed courses from the entire range of courses within Mobile Ed--no exclusions. (The only caveat being that members could not select bundled offerings, but could select any course that was offered individually, even if the course is also offered as part of a bundle.)

So what are we supposed to make of these three categories under which the courses are grouped?

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NB.Mick

what are we supposed to make of these three categories under which the courses are grouped?

Those are your current courses - available are those you have a license for, not available the others (partly available: bundles where you have licenses for a part of). This has nothing to do with your selection of courses

EDIT: what you see when launching the courses app from there is the same you would see in the courses tool on your desktop app. In order to select courses from your subscription program, you shouldn't launch the app, but scroll down to the very bottom of the site, where it says "choose your courses"

Rick Ausdahl

what are we supposed to make of these three categories under which the courses are grouped?

Those are your current courses - available are those you have a license for, not available the others (partly available: bundles where you have licenses for a part of). This has nothing to do with your selection of courses

EDIT: what you see when launching the courses app from there is the same you would see in the courses tool on your desktop app. In order to select courses from your subscription program, you shouldn't launch the app, but scroll down to the very bottom of the site, where it says "choose your courses"

Thanks, NB!

I haven't found an option that reads "choose your courses", but I have found one that reads "See available courses". I found that link at the bottom of the courses web page (https://connect.faithlife.com/courses), prior to selecting the option to "Launch apps". Selecting the link brings up a list of 193 ME courses, including those I already own. Is this the link to which you are referring?

NOTE: A prior occurrence of the link also occurs near the top of the web page in the section that reads "Self-paced learning--Courses that move with you".

Mark Barnes

“Available” means courses that you own or rent, and have most (all?) of the reading material.

“Partly available” means you own or rent them, but don’t have much of the reading material.

“Unavailable” means you don’t have a licence to the course.

To get use of a ANY course, just find it in the store and “buy” it using the supplied coupon code. It will appear free at the Checkout. The “purchased” licence will expire in the future, of course.

Andrew Batishko

“Available” means courses that you own or rent, and have most (all?) of the reading material.

“Partly available” means you own or rent them, but don’t have much of the reading material.

“Unavailable” means you don’t have a licence to the course.

"Available" means that you have all of the required resources for a course.

"Partly available" means that you have some of the required resources for a course.

"Unavailable" means you have none of the required resources for a course.

Mark Barnes

"Available" means that you have all of the required resources for a course.

"Partly available" means that you have some of the required resources for a course.

"Unavailable" means you have none of the required resources for a course.

Sorry. I had to do that from memory because the Courses tool is currently broken for me (I can only see started and completed courses — everything else is missing). It's been like that for a little while. Any suggestions while you're here?

Andrew Batishko

Sorry. I had to do that from memory because the Courses tool is currently broken for me (I can only see started and completed courses — everything else is missing). It's been like that for a little while. Any suggestions while you're here?

My best guess would be that there's some kind of problem with retrieving the course metadata from the server. A log file would help.

NB.Mick

“Available” means courses that you own or rent, and have most (all?) of the reading material.

“Partly available” means you own or rent them, but don’t have much of the reading material.

“Unavailable” means you don’t have a licence to the course.

"Available" means that you have all of the required resources for a course.

"Partly available" means that you have some of the required resources for a course.

"Unavailable" means you have none of the required resources for a course.

You are surely right, but as I understand (and this hopefully clears this up for the OP), in case of Mobile.Ed courses, typically the only "required resource" for a course is the course textbook, all the recommended reading is listed as "suggested" only, which means this matches up with the license to the course. Those are the ones in focus here.

However it makes sense to memorize your definition, as it also works for the "read-a-book" courses which are available when one owns the respective resource.

Andrew Batishko

You are surely right, but as I understand (and this hopefully clears this up for the OP), in case of Mobile.Ed courses, typically the only "required resource" for a course is the course textbook, all the recommended reading is listed as "suggested" only, which means this matches up with the license to the course. Those are the ones in focus here.

However it makes sense to memorize your definition, as it also works for the "read-a-book" courses which are available when one owns the respective resource.

Quite correct.

Philana R. Crouch

"Available" means that you have all of the required resources for a course.

"Partly available" means that you have some of the required resources for a course.

"Unavailable" means you have none of the required resources for a course.

Sorry. I had to do that from memory because the Courses tool is currently broken for me (I can only see started and completed courses — everything else is missing). It's been like that for a little while. Any suggestions while you're here?

This has been fixed in 8.4.