diff --git a/src/main/java/de/bps/course/nodes/cl/_spring/buildingblockContext.xml b/src/main/java/de/bps/course/nodes/cl/_spring/buildingblockContext.xml
index 20568ab455cffa21e571333b30bd22363cd68e7c..d8c602b3efc9f44dd3843be552f5a57e8b5b839d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/bps/course/nodes/cl/_spring/buildingblockContext.xml
+++ b/src/main/java/de/bps/course/nodes/cl/_spring/buildingblockContext.xml
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
-  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="cl" class="de.bps.course.nodes.cl.ChecklistCourseNodeConfiguration" scope="prototype">
 		<property name="enabled" value="${course.node.checklist.enabled}" />
+		<property name="deprecated" value="${course.node.checklist.deprecated}" />
 	<property name="order"   value="220" />
 	</bean>
 	
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/olat/course/nodes/AbstractCourseNodeConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/org/olat/course/nodes/AbstractCourseNodeConfiguration.java
index ad2106b047fee11055cef9227929ae2fc0c17043..1449a043c5f66a4d2ef313f2c47ae7799969e035 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/olat/course/nodes/AbstractCourseNodeConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/olat/course/nodes/AbstractCourseNodeConfiguration.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import org.olat.core.configuration.AbstractConfigOnOff;
 public abstract class AbstractCourseNodeConfiguration extends AbstractConfigOnOff implements CourseNodeConfiguration {
 	
 	private int order = 0;
+	private boolean configDeprecated = false;
 
 	private List<String> alternatives;
 	
@@ -55,9 +56,13 @@ public abstract class AbstractCourseNodeConfiguration extends AbstractConfigOnOf
 		return order;
 	}
 
+	public void setDeprecated(boolean configDeprecated) {
+		this.configDeprecated = configDeprecated;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public boolean isDeprecated() {
-		return false;
+		return configDeprecated;
 	}
 
 	@Override
diff --git a/src/main/resources/serviceconfig/olat.properties b/src/main/resources/serviceconfig/olat.properties
index d97e9fe18451660cf637f13744ff3442f4ef2bbc..3a49b4c28b85ca87d7cd2d52463d418d9aaa14b7 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/serviceconfig/olat.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/serviceconfig/olat.properties
@@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@ paypal.data.format.values=XML,JSON,SOAP11
 ########################################
 course.node.linklist.enabled=true
 course.node.checklist.enabled=false
+course.node.checklist.deprecated=false
 course.node.dateenrollment.enabled=false
 # The LTI course element
 course.node.basiclti.enabled=true