Methods for Making Content Available to Users

For each organization, you can choose to decide which learning activities are available to which users (administrator-driven) or let users choose the content they want to add to their plan (user-driven).

Whatever method you use, users get access to a whole learning activity. If you want users to have access to only a few items within an activity, you need to create a new learning activity for those purposes.

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use rules to automatically give specified users access to specific activities (administrator-driven) Note: Payment, registration-time questions, or prerequisites related to these activities will not be applied to users who receive access through assignments. Why Choose This Method? This is fastest way to make multiple activities available to multiple users. If users are regularly added, this method will automatically provide access to activities to new users who meet your defined criteria.	create assignments
allow users to choose which learning activities they want to take (user-driven) Why Choose This Method? This method is useful if you want to let users choose which activities and events they are going to participate in.	set up learning activities for self-registration
individually select, for specific learning activities, which users have access to it (administrator-driven) Why Choose This Method? You must use this method when learning activity registration involves payment and/or has registration-time questions that gather additional data about each participant. It is also useful if you want to quickly make specific learning activities available to specific users.	make learning activities accessible to those users by adding them as participants
make content available for purchase through an online store	use the Firmwater app in your Shopify store

Although it is recommended that you standardize on a single method for making content available for each organization, you can use another method to meet specific needs.
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