# Disabling Content Locking

**URL:** <https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/disabling-content-locking/89>\
**Category:** General Help\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/disabling-content-locking/89 "2018-03-14T22:05:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![barnetf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/barnetf/32/96_2.png) [@barnetf](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/barnetf)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/disabling-content-locking/89/1 "2018-03-14T22:06:00Z")

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If Content Locking is disabled while a course is active and then re-enabled, will the learner’s status stay intact? Will the course track what has already been viewed or clicked? 😀

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**Author:** ![appitierre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/appitierre/32/10_2.png) [@appitierre](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/appitierre)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/disabling-content-locking/89/2 "2018-03-15T09:44:57Z")

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@barnetf Any SCORM tracking in your LMS should be unaffected. It might affect your data if the criteria for content locked article/page has already been met, then the article/page won’t be locked. If you have issues do contact support from inside your Evolve instance.

In slight opposition to the above however, many LMS’s will offer the option to “Replace Course Files”. Selecting this will in all likelihood overwrite the data.

There is an FAQ on [https://learnevolve.com](https://learnevolve.com) that deals with Content Locking. The courses are free to access forever.