What are the different methods for giving access to a course?

In this article, we’ll explore different methods for granting course access to your students.

What you'll need:

There are 4 different methods for giving contacts access to a course:

1) Automatically add a student to a course after a purchase:

To grant course access automatically after a purchase, you must configure the settings in the Order form resources section of your sales funnel (1).

To learn more about how to sell a course online, click here.

2) Automatically add a student to a course after registration using an opt-in page:

To provide access to a course automatically after a contact registers on your opt-in page, follow these steps:

a. Select Submit form as the form button's action, and then redirect subscribers to the page of your choice (2).

b. Add an automation rule with a Funnel step form subscribed trigger and Enroll in course action (3).

To find out more about the complete process, please refer to the article: How to give free access to a course.

Note: If you want to give free access to your course, we suggest using this method.

3) Manually add a student to a course:

For a detailed tutorial on how to add a student to a course, click here.

4) Manually adding multiple students to a course:

To add multiple contacts to a course, follow these 3 steps:

Create a new tag (click here for a detailed tutorial).
Create a new automation rule with a Tag added trigger and select the newly created tag.
In the same automation rule, choose the Enroll in a course action and select the relevant course.
Save the automation rule.
Assign the newly created tag to your contacts (click here for a detailed tutorial).

With this method, the automation rule triggers immediately when the tag is assigned, automatically enrolling the contact in the course.

Note: With any of these methods, students will receive an automatic email to log in to their account and access the content.