If you’re reorganizing your training structure and wondering whether moving a course to a different category might impact user progress, rest assured—it’s completely safe to do so.
Use Case Scenario
You may occasionally need to create new categories or reorganize existing ones to better manage your training library. For example, you might want to:
Create new training categories to reflect an updated structure.
Move an existing course (that already has users in progress or completed) into a newly created or different category.
A common concern in such cases is whether these changes could reset or affect users’ recorded progress or completion data.
What Happens When You Modify Categories
Changing or modifying training categories does not affect the recorded progress or completion status of enrolled users.
Categories are designed for organizational and visibility purposes—they help you structure and locate your courses more efficiently but have no connection to how user progress is stored.
User progress and completion data are always tied directly to the course itself, not the category it belongs to.
So, when you:
Move a course to a new category, or
Edit your category structure,
you can be confident that data will not be affected.
Key Takeaway
It’s completely safe to update or reorganize categories as needed. User records will remain intact.
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