Is it possible to hide this message about withdrawing from a course ? The reason I ask is that we are using courses more for informational purposes rather than a traditional college or a vocational course. Users may people off by being told that they can never access if they choose the withdraw option. It seems that it's not really an issue if people just leave with the course unfinished as it shows a progress but users may not necessarily understand that.

There isnt a built in way in which to do that, but you could likely just hide the button with CSS

Before you use this, please bear in mind Ive not tested this, and we dont cover customisation as part of support. But something like this might help

.ipsBox a.ipsButton--negative[href*="/courses/course/"] {
    display: none !important;
}

Understand no guarantee ... but it does work perfectly thank you !