You can create a new student and manually enroll them into a course or bundle or enroll an existing student into a course!
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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 course or Private course, you can create and enroll them in one action!
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!
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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 or bundle
- Optional: Set an Expiry date if you want the student to lose access on a specific date
- Click Enroll
- Repeat steps 5 through 7 for any additional courses or bundles
Important Considerations
- Manual enrollments are available on our Basic plan and higher
- You might notice there is an enrollment option on your main Users page as well. This is for Bulk Enrollments available on our Pro plan plus Growth package:
- Once enrolled, your student will have access to your course as soon as they login and will receive a Course Welcome Email if you have it enabled for the course they were manually enrolled in
- A course must be published before you can enroll students; courses that are set as drafts will not appear in the list of available courses for enrollment.
Are you on the Free plan or looking for other options to allow students to enroll into your course? Check out Give Free Access to a Paid Course