The advantage of the ‘Invitation’ feature is that it also allows to enrol users who are not yet registered on atingi, rather than only users who are already registered. In addition, this method can be used for both non-public and public courses. The Category (User) Manager must enable this method to enable other roles to use it.
The enrolment email sent out to learners contains an invitation message including a unique link. When the user clicks on the link, (s)he needs to login/create an atingi account, then (s)he is automatically enrolled into the course. Only a limited number of invitations can be sent per course/day; however, you can change the limitation to any number that suits your needs.
When adding the method via “Participants”, “Enrolment methods” and “Add method”: “Invitation” (for more details see the chapter about adding enrolment methods), you will be brought to the following page first:
You can give your method a name and need to set “Allow invitation enrolments” to “Yes”. You can leave the “custom instance name” blank.
Then, click “Add Method”.
If you go back to your “Enrolled users” overview now, you have a new button to “Invite users” that can also be used by other users with the respective permissions.
Click on the button to invite learners to your course.
Just like in the user bulk enrolment, enter the list of your learners’ email addresses.
Unlike the user bulk enrolment method, there is an email message that is send out to the users enrolled via invitation method. The email contains a link to register on atingi and enrol in the course.
You can either let the system send an automatic message or write your own custom message.
For an the automatic invitation message, you can choose the text language and leave the Custom message text box blank.
Then you can send another invite or return to the course.