Different Types of Courses in LearnWorlds

You can find a general overview of creating courses in LearnWorlds here and as soon as you prepare your course sections & learning activities, you can set up the course Access type from the course's Access tab.

You can have 6 different types of courses: Paid, Draft, Coming Soon, Enrollment Closed, Free, and Private.

You can find more about the plan availability per course type below.

Paid

Whenever your course is ready to go public, you can choose to offer it as Paid. From now on, this course will only be accessible to those who will purchase it or have been manually enrolled, so if this course was previously free, already registered users will no longer have access to it.

In the Access tab, select Paid and click on Set the price. A good way to attract users is by offering a discount, with the discounted price shown below. In Enroll Button, you can take a sneak peek at the enrollment button.

You can also offer Free Sections in a Paid Course or further check how to Edit the Pricing of your Courses.

Draft

The course will be in the authoring mode and hence not published/visible. This is the preferred mode when a course is under development.

Building your course on your schedule is simple. With a Draft course, you can take your time adding content. It is preferable to use this mode when a course is under development because it gives you time to establish it more effectively.

Coming Soon

To get your users excited about your new course, you can give them a hint about it and raise their interest in upcoming content. If you select Coming Soon, the course will be published in your school, however, it will not be available for enrollment and the course card will indicate that the course will be available soon. 

Note: In case you would like to pre-sell courses, you can check this article.

Enrollment Closed

If you wish to have a certain amount of users enrolled in your course, you can close the access to more users. Enrollment Closed prevents you from enrolling in that course. However, the course appears in course catalogs, its layout page can be accessed by anyone and already registered users can still access the course's content.

Free

Turn your course to Free and it will be accessible to any school user. Everyone will be able to join the course and get acquainted with your content, making it easier to purchase one of your premium courses.

Private

You can offer your users a Private course, which you can very easily adapt to each learner's needs and abilities. Private Courses will be accessible only to those who have been explicitly manually enrolled in them. 

Since private courses are not published, they cannot be found in course catalogs. For more information on how to give access to Private Courses, you can check this article.

Important Notes

• If you change a course type from Free to Paid, Private, Coming Soon or Draft, users that were previously enrolled in the course will be unenrolled. In Paid and Private courses, users will need to purchase the course in order to regain access. Access can also be reinstated if you revert the course's price back to free.
• If you change a course from Free or Paid to Enrollment Closed, enrolled users will not lose access.
• If users are enrolled in a Paid or Enrollment Closed course and the access status changes to Free or Private, they will not lose access.
• You can check anytime Edit the Access of your Courses.