How to Give Users/Members/Clients Access To Login To Your Course

Note: The article below covers the specifics of setting the actual "login" process for your Course members. 

If you FIRST need information on any of the topics below - please click the links: 

-Step-By Step Instructions on How To Set Up a Course

-How to Set up your Course as a "product" to Sell 

-How to Add New Member Groups

-How to set the Page your Course Members See First Upon Login

-Overview on the Member Login/Registration Widget

To give course members access to the members-only course content pages you have created, you need to do two things:

1) Give them a way to Sign In

2) Set the page they will be directed to upon Sign In

Step 1:

To give your users a way to login to their course, you can either

A) add the "Login" Widget to your Header menu (the Login widget is a Header-only widget) or

B) provide a hyperlink or button that you link to your system-provided Login/Sign in page (always available yourdomain.com/signin)

or

C) Add a "member login/registration" widget to any page.

D) Manually Add Members to a Member group (see This Article)

E) Import multiple contacts as members - see this article:  How to Import Bulk Contacts as Subscribers and Members

(The header-only Login Widget will automatically direct people to this system-provided page.)  

If you would like to Edit this system-provided login/signin page you can do so by going to Pages > System Pages > Member Login/Registration (see below) 

Note - If you choose to link to the "Sign In" page from a text link or a button vs. the Login Widget then on the "Select a Link" window - choose "External Link" and simply type in "/signin" in the URL bar. This will redirect to "yourdomain.com/signin" (see image below)  

Step 2:

Now that your members have a button or link to sign-in, you'll need to set where they will go - which page they should see first! :)

To set which page you'd like your members to start with/view first, go to your CONTACTS Tab on top. From the list of Members on the left hand side, click on the name of the member group (or groups) that will have access to your pages.

From there, click the small hyperlink to "show group settings" under the member group name.

This brings up a link window where you can choose which page they will see upon login. This can be a "Member DashboardPage", a "Course Welcome Page" or any other page you create or choose.

Note: This is also the page to which they will be directed from the button in their emailed membership confirmation notice.

That's it! Now your members have a way to login/sign in and they have their first-page set!

p.s. - these instructions all assume that your Member Settings are set to "Allow Registrations" in the first place. You may want to check this by clicking the word "Settings" next to the word "Members".

NOTE: You can always direct your users via link to your system-generated "Member Details" page by linking them to yourdomain.com/member This will show them any/all membership or subscription-type products they may have purchased and allow them to click into the "Page to redirect to after login" for each.

To learn more about linking to your system-generated pages (like the "Member Details" page) - see THIS ARTICLE.