Zapier: Lesson Completed Trigger

You can trigger actions with Zapier once a student completes a particular lesson, reaches a certain percentage of completion within your course or every time a lesson is complete.

A few examples of this in action would be if you want to send reminder emails at specific intervals of their completeness to encourage their participation, or to email a promo code for the next course when they are close to completing the current one. Since the lesson completion is a trigger, you can have the action zap a part of any other application, like a CRM tool or doc/sheet, for example.

There are three ways you can use this trigger:

1. Upon completing a particular lesson
2. Once a student reaches a certain percentage of completeness within your course
3. Every time a lesson is complete

Trigger upon completion of a certain lesson

1. Select Thinkific as your Trigger App, Continue:
   
   
2. Select Lesson Completed as your Trigger, Save and Continue:
   
3. Connect or Select your Thinkific account, Continue:
   
4. Select the course you want to track for lesson completion and the specific lesson you want to be the trigger. You could also select multiple lessons within a course if you wanted to (e.g. selecting all quizzes within a course for example). Then Continue:
   
5. Test the Trigger by selecting Fetch and Continue.
6. Then Continue when the test returns as successful:
   
7. Select your relevant Action App.
   In this example, I will use Slack to send myself a direct message with the student’s name and the lesson name they completed. Continue:
   
   
8. Send a test to Thinkific. Once it returns successful, select Finish:
   
9. Check your Action app to ensure the Zap was completed and looks how you want:
   
10. Turn the Zap on and it will be live for your students.
    

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Trigger upon completion of a certain percentage of lessons complete

This means you can trigger the action according to a specific percentage of lessons complete in the course. In an example where you have ten lessons, and you set the trigger for 80% complete, it may not necessarily be on the eighth lesson the trigger occurs as the student may complete lessons one - seven and the ninth lesson, meaning the ninth lesson is the trigger as that was the lesson that met the criteria for 80%.

When you use the “greater than” enrollment percentage completion, the action will trigger for every lesson completed after that percentage. In the example above, the trigger will activate three times in total (80% trigger, then there are two more lessons remaining, each triggering the action once more). If you want to only have the trigger activated once, you will need to specify the filter appropriately.

1. Select Thinkific as your Trigger App, Continue:
   
   
2. Select Lesson Completed as your Trigger, Save and Continue:
   
3. Connect or Select your Thinkific account, Continue:
   
   
4. Leave the Lesson field blank. Continue:
   
5. Test the step until it is successful, then Continue:
   
6. Add another action and select Filter (Zapier’s own App):
   
7. Select the Filter ‘Only continue if…’. Save and Continue.
   
8. Then enter your criteria. For example, Enrollment Percent Completed, Number Greater than .8:
   
9. This means the action will be triggered when the student’s percentage completed is 80% or greater.
   
   If you want the trigger to a smaller subset of lessons, you can use the ‘less than’ filter in addition to the ‘more than’ like this:
   
   In this example, the action will trigger every time a student completes a lesson where their overall course percentage is between 80% and 99%.
   

   How many times these triggers activate will depend on the number of lessons you have in your course. If you have a course with two lessons and the percentage trigger you set is 50%, then the action will trigger twice. If you have a course with one hundred lessons and the percentage trigger you set is 50%, then the action will trigger fifty times.

10. Once you have entered your filter requirements, select Test and Continue.

11. Then Continue when the test returns as successful:
    
    
    

12. Select your relevant Action App.
    In this example, I will use Slack to send myself a direct message with the student’s name and the lesson name they completed. Continue:
    
13. Send a test to Thinkific. Once it returns successful, select Finish:
    
14. Check your Action app to ensure the Zap was completed and looks how you want:
    
15. Turn the Zap on and it will be live for your students.
    

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Trigger for every lesson completed in the course

1. Select Thinkific as your Trigger App, Continue:
   
   
2. Select Lesson Completed as your Trigger, Save and Continue:
   
3. Connect or Select your Thinkific account, Continue:
   
   
4. Leave the Lesson field blank. Leaving the lesson blank means that any change in lesson completion will trigger the action. Continue:
   
5. Test the step until it is successful, then Continue:
   
6. Select your relevant Action App.
   In this example, I will use Slack to send myself a direct message with the student’s name and the lesson name they completed. Continue:
   
7. Send a test to Thinkific. Once it returns successful, select Finish:
   
8. Check your Action app to ensure the Zap was completed and looks how you want:
   
9. Turn the Zap on and it will be live for your students.
   

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