○ Subscribing learners to a course
You can subscribe learners to a course in multiple ways, but it all starts with publishing your template. Check out the following three steps to learn how to do this.
1. Publish your template
Before you can start subscribing your learners, your template needs to be published first. Important note: When the template is published, some settings and features cannot be changed later without depublishing the template again.
Read in the article below how to publish your template:
2. Create a course
To subscribe learners, you will need to create a course under the template first:
○ Creating a course
Important note: When creating a course, you also see the option 'Select learner group'. This is not mandatory and is linked to a specific method of subscribing learners. Only use this if it is applicable to your situation (see step 3).
3. Subscribe learners
After creating a course, you can subscribe learners using several methods. Each method allows you to send a notification about the new subscription to the learners:
- Create new accounts for the learners manually and subscribe them to the course. When the account of the user has been created, you can subscribe the learner to the course on the Learner tab.
○ Create accounts for new users (manually)
Another way to create an account for a learner and subscribe the learner to the course is via the
Add learners manually and subscribe them. When the user has been created, you can subscribe the learner from the 'Learner' tab. Alternatively, when you go to the course and then to the 'Learners' tab, you can subscribe new learners by choosing +Learner- Import learners and subscribe them immediately using Excel. To subscribe the learners directly while importing them, it is important that you use the column 'Course'.
- Use access codes to let learners subscribe themselves. When you use access codes, make sure the access code box is available on the login screen. To do so, you need the Tenant-role. Go to 'Settings' -> ' Advanced settings' -> Select 'Enabled' at the access code option -> Update.
After a learner has created an account, he will receive an activation e-mail. The link in the e-mail remains valid for 48 hours. If the account has not been activated within that time, the access code can be used again to create an account. - Subscribe via learner group(s). In some cases a learner group can provide an answer to your subscription needs. For example, if you want to subscribe the same users to different courses or when you have a specific class you need to subscribe.
- Subscribe via bundles. Through bundles, you can subscribe learners to a bundle of related course in one go.
- Linking to and subscribing via our API (only for advanced users with an external registration system/program)
If you use subenvironments, it is important that you are logged in to the subenvironment to which you want to subscribe the learners. When you subscribe learners to the course and decide to send them a notification mail with login credentials, the mail will include a link to the environment you are currently logged in to.
Licences
When you subscribe learners, you will need licences. When the message 'There is not enough balance to enrol' appears, you have an insufficient number of licences to complete the subscriptions. In this case, you can contact the tenant admin of the environment. The tenant can buy licences directly from the 'Settings' tab. It is also possible to contact us if you want to buy licences. For example, when you want to pay via an invoice.
In this video from our Success Framework, we also explain how you can subscribe learners to a course: