In this article, we've compiled several useful recommendations to maintain the privacy of your school during its construction phase:
- Deactivate the registration process for visitors to your school (prospective users).
- Pause or stop the search indexing of your school.
- Use a temporary Landing or Home Page.
- Incorporate a prelaunch section.
Disable the Sign-Up process
a. Go to Website → Website Settings → Authentication → LearnWorlds.
b. Click on No one can sign up. I will add my users manually under the Sign up process.
You can find more information in our respective article.
Pause/Stop the Search Indexing of your School
If you want to stop the Search Indexing of your school:
a. Navigate to Website → Design → Edit website → Custom Code and add the following, under <head> logged in (html) and under <head> logged out (html):
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
b. Click on Update and Save your changes.
You can also exclude specific pages from Sitemap, by following the steps in our respective article.
Use a Temporary Home/Landing Page
There are several reasons for replacing your school's default homepage with a new or temporary one. This may involve displaying an "Under Construction" or "Pre-launch" page if you're not ready to welcome your initial users yet.
a. Go to Design → Edit Website and navigate to your Pages Manager.
b. You will notice that there are different types of pages. Currently, your home page has the /pages/home slug.
c. Click on Clone Page.
d. Once the page is duplicated, click Website → Site Navigation.
e. Click on Select a page and choose the page you wish from the dropdown menu, under Home Page (before login page), and click on Apply.
Incorporate a Prelaunch Section
If you wish to inform your users about the upcoming launch of your online academy, you can add one of our Prelaunch Sections.
a. Go to Website → Design → Edit Website.
b. Choose the page you want to edit from the Pages Manager.
c. Click on the +Add section to add one of our available Prelaunch Sections.