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Remember that the scheduling of a sessions is performed automatically for self-paced activities if you marked this option when you created the course. In this case, the participants on the session are all the members of the course and they will be sent a notification of their registration in the session.
Provisional scheduling
Classroom sessions can be marked as Provisional if you need to schedule them. They will not be confirmed if, for example,there is not a minimum number of enrolled students.
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