Use the Courses area to invite learners to courses. You can access the Courses area from the Courses tile on the Learning Manager front page

or from the Courses tab at the top of the page.

Use the Invite and enrol learners button in the top right corner to begin inviting learners.

Select a run

First of all you will be asked to choose a course run to invite learners to. You can choose:

• the current or next available run of most open courses on the platform;
• any current or upcoming run of your own invite-only courses;
• current and upcoming runs of courses from other organisations when an agreement is place.

Important note: course status

Learners cannot be invited to a course or course run that is in draft. Please make sure that your course has been published before you attempt to invite any learners.

Then you need to invite your learners either by sending personal invitation emails or by creating a shared invitation link.

If your organisation has SAML single sign-on enabled you can also enrol learners on courses via SAML enrolment.

Personal course invitations

When inviting learners by email, you can paste up to 1000 email addresses at a time. Each learner will receive an email containing a personal invitation link to the course that expires 6 months after creation, or when the chosen run of the course closes for enrolment - whichever occurs sooner. 

Shared invitation links

Shared invitation links can be pasted anywhere your learners will be such as your virtual learning environment, a forum or a group email. Be aware, however, that anyone with access to this link will be able to join the course, including people from outside your organisation.

If a link has been generated previously for the chosen course, you may also reuse the existing link.

For invite-only courses, the link will always enrol learners on the specific run of the course you chose on the previous step and will stop working after 13 weeks or on the date that run closes for enrolment, whichever occurs sooner.

For open courses, the link will enrol learners on the current or next available run of the course at the time of clicking the link. The link will not work when there are no runs of the course open for enrolment.

For advice on managing invitations and invitation links, please see this page: Managing existing course invitations and links

Microcredentials and degrees

For advice on inviting learners to microcredential and degree courses, please see this page: Invite learners to Microcredentials and Degrees using Learning Manager

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