# Required vs Optional Training instances can be assigned as required or optional. Both types of trainings will be visible to the end learner. But, in your reporting you will see a different output in your CSV to indicate if this training was optional or required. This is useful for you to separate data to bank sponsors (or similar) who only care about the required trainings. ## Why optional trainings? You may want some trainings to be optional because they: * are at a higher difficulty level and allow the learner to go above and beyond * they are for fun educational purposes, such as "What committees does our company have?" * they are useful to a learners domain, but not required for compliance reporting reasons ## Overrides Requirements status can be set at a training instance level, but also overridden at a [learner level](/product-guides/internal-organizations/learner-management/trainings/requirement-override.md). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.itsaffinity.com/product-guides/internal-organizations/training-management/required-vs-optional.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.