You can enroll existing students or create a new student and manually enroll them into a course, bundle or community!
This article covers enrolling students one at a time. If you have multiple students to enroll at once, check out our Bulk Enroll feature.
In this article:
Create and Enroll a New Student
Manually Enroll an Existing Student
Create and Enroll a New Student
If you would like to create a new student and give them access to paid or private course or bundle, you can create and enroll them in one action!
- Go to Support Your Students
- Select Users
- Click + New User on the top right
- Fill out First name, Last name, Email address
- Don't worry about filling out External source and Company. External source is a field that is automatically filled out with some integrations like Infusionsoft and Company is a deprecated field. We recommend using Custom Fields if needed instead.
- Fill out any Custom Fields if needed
- Under Password, select User chooses their own password or Manually set user password. If you select User chooses their own password, make sure to enable Send site welcome email in the next step.
- Optional: Under Notifications, enable Send site welcome email. Your Site Welcome Email will prompt a new user to create their own password. We recommend leaving this on if you selected User chooses their own password in step 7.
- Under Enroll user in in the Enrollments section, search or select your desired course or bundle. Community enrollments are not currently supported while creating a student. See details here.
- Optional: Set an Expiry date if you want the student to lose access on a specific date
- Click Enroll
- Repeat steps 9 through 11 for any additional courses or bundles
Steps 13 to 14 are optional and will be available based on your current Thinkific plan. Click the feature linked in each step to learn more!
- Optional: Under Groups, add user to one or more Groups
- Optional: Under User roles, assign a user to a role. If no role is selected, they will have a student account
- Click Save on the top right. You can click Save & Add Another if you need to create multiple new accounts!
Manually Enroll an Existing Student
If you have an existing student, you can also manually enroll them into a course, a bundle, or a community!
- Go to Support Your Students
- Select Users
- Search or scroll to locate your desired student
- Click the Full name of the student
- Under Enroll user in in the Enrollments tab, search or select your desired course, community or bundle. You can select multiple products from the list as needed.
- Select Add Learning Products
- Optional: Set an Expiry date if you want the student to lose access on a specific date
- Click Enroll
Important Considerations
- We currently don't have the option to create a student and enroll them into a community in one action. If you need create and enroll a new student into a community, you can Create a New User and follow Manually Enroll an Existing Student instructions above.
- Once enrolled, your student will have access to your product as soon as they login and will receive a corresponding product Welcome Email if you have it enabled for the product they were manually enrolled in
- A product must be published before you can enroll students; courses, bundles, or communities that are set as drafts will not appear in the list of available products for enrollment.
Are you on the Free plan or looking for other options to allow students to enroll into your course or community? Check out Give Free Access to a Paid Course