Inviting People to Protected Courses
With protected courses, you need to explicitly invite people to participate in the course. You can create invitations for learners, level designers, achievement approvers, and admins. To create an invitation, take the following steps.
Navigate to Courses
Click into the Courses You Wish to Create Invitations For
Select Invitations and Click on Invitations List
Select Invitations and Click on Invitations List
Click on +ADD
Create the Invitation
When creating an invitation, you have three primary decisions to make: is the invitation open or closed; what role will invitees have in the course, and if you want to add the invitees into specific groups.
Open or Closed Invitation
There are two types of invitations for protected courses: open and closed. An open invitation, you create a unique link that anyone can use to access the courses. A closed invitation, every person specified in the creation of the closed link receives an email with a unique link that provides them with access to the courses.
- Open Invitation: An open invitation can be used multiple times by multiple people.
- Closed Invitation: A user will be emailed a link to the protected course. Once the user creates an account using the link it cannot be used by anyone else.
Roles
The people you invite into a course will have a role you define for the course. It is possible to make a person a player in one course and an admin in another. Whatever you decide, you must select a role.
Groups
Invitees can be put into course-groups with the invitation. You have to have the groups already made to add them to an invitation.
To complete the invitation, provide the email addresses of the people you wish to invite. They will receive an email with their invitation. Note, because closed invitations are unique to the individuals being invited, you must provide email addresses for closed invitations.
Copying an Open Invitation URL
You can share open invitations with anyone. To copy the URL, click the copy icon. You can then share this URL in email and in presentations.
