# Introduction - Training

Programs, assignments, and the difference that explains every number on the screen.

**Video coming soon:** A tour of Training: the programs you run, the assignments they generate, and what overdue really counts.

A program is the course. An assignment is one person doing it. Everything on this screen counts one or the other, and knowing which is what makes the four numbers at the top readable.

![The Training Programs screen, headed Training Programs above the line Create and manage employee training programs, with a Central Warehouse location picker and a blue Create Training button. Four count cards read 13 Total Programs, 177 Active Assignments, 106 Completed and 69 Overdue. Filter chips read All Status and All Categories. The table has columns Title, Category, Duration, Deadline, Modules, Assignments and Created, listing thirteen programs across Leadership, Systems, Compliance, Health and Safety and Technical Skills.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/training/programs-list.png)

*Thirteen programs, 177 live assignments between them. The table counts programs; the cards count assignments.*

## The four counts

![Four count cards: 13 Total Programs with a book icon, 177 Active Assignments with a clipboard icon, 106 Completed with a green tick, and 69 Overdue with a red warning triangle.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/training/program-stats.png)

*Only the first counts programs. The other three count assignments, which is why they are so much larger.*

> **Note:**
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> **Overdue counts people, not courses**
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> 69 overdue does not mean 69 courses are late. It means 69 individual assignments have passed their deadline, and a single mandatory course assigned to thirty people can contribute thirty of them.

## What a program row holds

![Rows of the training programs table. Supervisory Skills in the Leadership category runs 4 Weeks with a 60 day deadline, 3 modules and 5 assignments. SorviAI Systems Onboarding in Systems runs 2 Days with a 14 day deadline and 30 assignments. New Starter Induction and GDPR and Data Protection are Compliance. Fire Marshal and First Aid at Work are Health and Safety. Hydraulic Systems Fundamentals and 18th Edition Wiring Regulations are Technical Skills.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/training/program-rows.png)

*Deadline is a window, not a date: 60 days from whenever each person is assigned.*

*Columns on Training Programs*

> **Tip:**
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> **Filter by category to see your compliance position**
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> Health and Safety plus Compliance is usually the set somebody has to answer for at an audit. Filtering to those two and reading the overdue figure is the fastest honest answer.