Managing and customizing course access on LearnWorlds is simple and flexible. You can control how students access your courses, update course settings, and personalize post-purchase navigation for a seamless learning experience.
In this article, we will learn how to:
- Select or change a course’s access type.
- Find the course’s public URL and ID.
- Change the course’s slug.
- Set course expiration dates.
- Personalize the user’s navigation after purchasing a course.
To access your courses' settings:
1. Go to your LearnWorlds dashboard and select the course you want to customize.
2. Click on the Access tab within the course settings to manage key configurations.
Choose/Change the Course Access
You can choose or update the access type of your course (e.g., Free, Paid, Private, Draft, or Coming Soon).
- If you change a course type from Free to Paid, Private, Draft, or Coming Soon, users who were previously enrolled in the course will be unenrolled. Users must purchase the course to regain access to the Paid and Private access types. Access can also be reinstated if you revert the course's price back to free.
- If a course’s access changes from Paid or Enrollment Closed to Free or Private, already enrolled users will retain access
Find the Course’s Public URL/Course ID
You can find and copy the course’s Public URL (not the authoring URL), the Course's ID, and the Mobile ID.
Change the Course's Slug
When setting up a new course, you choose a title and a public URL (slug). If needed, you can change the course slug later to make it more relevant or easier to share. Further details on how to change the slug are available in this article.
Expiration Date
You can configure the course to expire after a certain period, such as a specific number of days, weeks, months, or years.
This is helpful for courses with limited-time access, creating a sense of urgency for learners.
After Purchase Navigation
While your goal is to sell your courses easily, you should not forget that the after-purchase steps of the user have to be correctly predicted as well. This is a great moment to up-sell another course or to redirect the user straight to the course player. Decide whether, after the payment, the user will be redirected to:
- The Course Layout page (available for the Pro trainer plans or higher).
- The Course Player (available for the Pro trainer plans or higher).
- The school’s After Login page (where they can see their purchased courses).
- To the Thank you page (available for the Pro trainer plans or higher).
- To another page of your school (available for the Learning Center plans or higher).
- Or to an external URL (available for the Learning Center plans or higher).
You can apply the same after purchasing navigation to all courses by clicking on Apply to all Courses.
- Free Courses: The After Purchase Navigation settings do not apply to free courses.- Shopify Integration: If Shopify is used for payments, the After Purchase Navigation settings will differ.