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Adding Students to a Course

How to add people or a whole cohort to a training course

Add everyone you need to a course in one go. Search for people or filter by cohort, business unit, employer or trade, tick who you want, and add them all at once. You can add students to a draft course or one that's already published.


Choosing Your Students

  1. Select Training, then In-Person Courses, and open the course.

  2. In Students, select Add students.

  3. Search for people by name, or use the filters:

    • Cohort

    • Business unit

    • Employer: choose Directly employed or one of your suppliers.

    • Trade

  4. Tick the people you want to add.

    • Your ticks are kept when you change your search or filters, so you can build up a list from several searches.

  5. To add everyone who matches your search and filters, select Select all.

    • This selects every match, not just the people on the page you can see.

    • If more than 100 people match, you're asked to confirm first.

  6. Check the Adding panel on the right.

    • It shows everyone you're about to add and how many there are.

    • To take someone off, remove them from the panel.

Adding Them to the Course

  1. Select Add.

  2. A message confirms how many people were added.

    • It also tells you if anyone was already on the course or couldn't be added.

Your students are now on the course. If the course is already published, they're sent their invitation straight away.

Adding a New Cohort

  1. Open the Cohort filter and select Manage cohorts.

    NB: Cohorts settings open in a new tab, and the Add students window stays open.

  2. Create your cohort. See Creating a Cohort.

  3. Go back to the course tab and open the Cohort filter again. Your new cohort is listed.


Use Case

Training managers and coordinators booking people onto a course, whether that's a handful of named people or a whole team or cohort.


💡Tips

  • Adding a cohort adds the people in it at that moment. People who join the cohort later aren't added to the course automatically.

  • People already on the course don't appear in the search, so you can't add anyone twice.

  • On a published course that adds to timesheets, new students' Training Days appear on their timesheets shortly after you add them.

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