Arsen’s Awareness Training module allows you to structure and deliver awareness programs composed of educational lessons, helping your employees develop the right cybersecurity reflexes.

1 – Objectives

This article explains:

the differences and advantages between the two available program types:
- Continuous Program
- Time Bound Program
how to correctly choose and configure a program based on your needs

2 – Prerequisites

Have the required permissions to access Awareness Training
Have sufficient permissions to configure programs (Admin)

3 – Creating a program in Awareness Training

Click Programs in the main menu
Click + New Program
Enter a program name
Choose between:
- Continuous Program
- Time Bound Program

Arsen dashboard showing the list of training programs with their audience, engagement rate, and status, along with recommended learning paths displayed at the bottom of the page

3.1 – Launching a Continuous Program

Arsen program configuration screen showing program name field and choice between continuous or time-bound program.

3.1.1 – Description

A Continuous Program has no global end date and is designed to run continuously.

Each employee follows the program for a personalized duration defined during configuration.

3.1.2 – Benefits and how it works

Automatically enroll new employees and start their journey as soon as they join
Allow returning employees to resume exactly where they left off
Give each employee a fixed duration to complete all lessons (defined in program settings)

3.1.3 – Setting the program duration

Select a duration from the available options (e.g., 1 week, 1 month, 3 months…)

Arsen program duration selection panel showing predefined options: 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year.

📚 Tip
Use a shorter duration if the program contains only a few key lessons.

3.1.4 – Important reminder about lesson expiration

⚠️ Lessons expire 7 days after being sent, regardless of program type.
If an employee does not complete the lesson within this time, it is marked as expired.

3.1.5 – Reminder policy

A reminder policy can be configured in Settings to automatically prompt employees to complete their lessons.

3.2 – Launching a Time Bound Program

3.2.1 – Description

A Time Bound Program has a fixed start date and end date, covering a specific time period.

3.2.2 – Configuring the date range

Click Time Bound
Click Select your Schedule
Choose:
- the first date → when lessons start sending
- the last date → when sending stops

The selected period appears in purple to confirm the date range.

Arsen calendar view showing selected dates for a program with highlighted days in November 2025

3.2.3 – How lessons are sent

Lessons are distributed progressively and linearly across the selected date range
Sending does not depend on employees joining— the window is fixed

3.2.4 – Lesson expiration

⚠️ Lessons still expire 7 days after being sent.

Implications:

A lesson sent on the last day remains available for 7 days after the program’s official end
Arsen continues to collect events during these additional 7 days

4 – Summary of differences between Continuous and Time Bound

Criteria	Continuous Program	Time Bound Program
Duration	Fixed, based on when an employee joins the program	Fixed, with a defined start and end date
Assignment	Manual or automatic via groups	Manual at program launch
Lesson sending	Continuous, based on employee entry date	Linear over the defined program window
Lesson expiration	7 days after sending	7 days after sending