Private courses remain hidden in your course catalog, are not indexed in search engines, and access is restricted to enrolled users only. There are some cases where you might want to give access to those courses without changing their status. Some use cases might be:
- Corporate Training: A company wants to provide specialized training for its employees. The organization can create private, unlisted courses tailored to different departments or roles, ensuring that only selected employees have access. This allows for a focused learning experience without the content being available to the public.
- Exclusive Membership Content: A membership-based business offers premium content to its members. The business can create unlisted courses available only to paying members, providing them with exclusive access to advanced lessons, webinars, or resources as a perk of their membership.
- Beta Testing for New Courses: An educator or course creator wants to test a new course before launching it publicly. By offering the course as a private, unlisted option, the creator can invite a select group of students to provide feedback and help refine the course content before a wider release.
- Customized Learning Paths: An educator offers personalized learning experiences for high-profile clients or students. By creating private, unlisted courses, the educator can provide tailored content to individual clients or small groups, catering to their specific needs and goals
To simplify enrollment, you have the option to generate checkout URLs. These URLs enable the sharing of free or paid access to these courses without the need for manual enrollment.
In this article, we will explore methods for selling or granting access to private courses without the need for manual user enrollment.
Sell your Private Courses
To sell a private course, you can create it and set its price under the pricing tab
1. Navigate to Courses → Course manager.
2. Navigate to the desired Private course, select Course settings → Pricing, and add the price.
3. Save your changes.
Users will be able to enroll via a payment URL you will create that leads to the course's Payment page. The payment URL will have the following format: https://yourschool.learnworlds.com/payment?product_id=Private-course-id You need to replace the value "yourschool.learnworlds.com" with your school domain and "Private-course-id" with your course ID. |
Give Free Access to your Private Courses (without manual enrollment)
If you want to give free access to a Private course without manual enrollment, you need to create a 100% discount coupon.
1. Navigate to Courses → Course manager.
2. Navigate to the desired Private course,
3. Click on the course's Pricing, scroll down to the Related Coupons, and click on Create Coupon.
4. Create a 100% discount coupon. You can find more information on how to create coupons in this article.
Share with your users the URL of the payment page for them to enroll in your Private course for free (the course will have a discounted price of 100%). The payment URL needs to have the following format: https://yourschool.learnworlds.com/payment?product_id=private-course-id&coupon=free-coupon-code You need to replace "yourschool.learnworlds.com" with your school's domain, "private-course-id" with your course ID, and "free-coupon-code" with the coupon code. |
With the payment URL, users will be redirected to the course's default Payment page, where they can enroll on their own, and no credit card information will be requested.
- We recommend always setting a symbolic price in the Pricing Tab of your Private Courses. In case you decide to sell the Private course, you can set the price of your choice.
- It is only feasible to share the payment URL link of the private course and not the Course Layout Page.
- In case you are using private courses as part of bundles or subscriptions, users who choose to buy these products will be able to see the course's title on the payment page under "courses included"