Social Sharing

Prompt your students to share your course landing page with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn!

This feature, previously known as Social Selling, was part of our Thinkific Labs beta feature tests. It's now available on all Thinkific plans, including Free!

About This Feature

Encourage your students to share your course landing page on social media to increase exposure and help gain new enrollments!

Turning Social sharing on will prompt students to share your courses with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn - directly from the Course Player.

Social sharing can be enabled globally, for all courses, and on a course-by-course basis. Messaging to accompany students' shared posts can also be set globally and at the course level.

When Social sharing is enabled, students will see a share button in Chapter and Course Completion popups:

Clicking Share Your Achievement will then allow them to choose the platform they would like to post on or copy a direct link to your course landing page:

How to Turn on Social Sharing

Admin Permissions

The Site Owner and Site Admin(s) are able to enable Social sharing for all courses
Course Admin(s) are able to enable Social sharing for any courses they are the admin for

Enabling Social Sharing for All Courses

Select Settings from the menu on the left-hand side of your Admin Dashboard
Select the Learning content tab
Check the box for Social sharing at chapter completion to enable Social sharing pop-up messages every time a student completes a chapter in your courses
Check the box for Social sharing at course completion to enable Social sharing pop-up messages when a student completes one of your courses
Optional: Check both boxes to enable Social sharing pop-up messages at the end of every chapter in every course and at the end of every course
Optional: Edit the text in the Social sharing text field to customize the message shown alongside your course link when students share it on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn
Click to Save

Settings and messaging enabled for Social sharing in your Site Settings will apply globally to all courses' Social sharing messages unless you modify these settings or messaging in a course's individual settings. See instructions below for how to set course-specific Social sharing messages.

Enabling Social Sharing for Individual Courses

Select Manage Learning Content from the menu on the left-hand side of your Admin Dashboard
Click on the Courses tab
Click on the Course Card for the course you'd like to edit
Select the Settings tab
Select the Course progress & completion tab from the left menu and scroll down from the Course Completion settings to Social sharing
Check the box for Social sharing at chapter completion to enable Social sharing pop-up messages every time a student completes a chapter in this course. Note: This setting will already be selected if you've previously enabled Social sharing from your Site Settings.
Check the box for Social sharing at course completion to enable Social sharing pop-up messages when a student completes this course. Note: This setting will already be selected if you've previously enabled Social sharing from your Site Settings.
Optional: Check both boxes to enable the Social sharing pop-up messages at the end of every chapter in this course and at the end of this course
Optional: Edit the text in the Social sharing text field to customize the message shown alongside your course link when students share it on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn
Click to Save

Social sharing messaging for individual courses will show as Default when it matches with the site-wide Social sharing messaging set in your Site Settings. If the Social sharing messaging for a course shows as Default, it will be updated with any changes to this site-wide messaging.

How to Remove Thinkific Branding on Social Sharing

Follow the instructions in our article on Removing Thinkific Branding to remove the Teach Online with Thinkific text at the bottom of Social sharing pop-up messages in the Course Player:

How to Test Social Sharing

If you'd like to test out how Social sharing works, you can simply Preview Your Course as a Student and complete a chapter or course to see the share prompt!

You can also Create a Test Student Account and run through the course.

Important Considerations

In order for students to see a share option in your course, you must have Chapter Completion Messages turned on.
If you have turned on a Custom Completion Page for your course, there will not be a social share prompt at the end of the course, however it will still be visible at the end of each chapter.
We do not recommend turning on this feature if you are using Private or Hidden Courses; it will allow existing students to share links straight to your course landing page.

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