The Audience feature allows portal administrators to set up rules that define membership and then leverage that Audience as a group for enrollments, notifications, and other uses. This makes Audience membership dynamic. Once an Audience rule is established with specific criteria defining the membership, the LMS includes anyone who matches those criteria at the given time. Membership automatically fluctuates to include or exclude individuals depending on how they meet the rule’s criteria.
Note:
If a portal administrator attempts to inactivate an Audience which is used for controlling enrollment in a Course or future open Offering, they will not be able to proceed with the inactivation and will get a message “This audience is being used for controlling enrollment for a course or an offering and cannot be inactive.” Portal administrators can remove an audience from the associated course or offerings, then proceed to inactivate it.