Classroom - Setting Content as an Exclusive Member Benefit (MC Professional)

To offer a course and package as an exclusive member benefit, use groups to restrict access. For more information on creating the course and package, see Classroom - Setup Step 1 - Determining Content.

When a learner logs in to Classroom from MC Professional, any group assigned to their MC Professional profile is added to their Classroom profile automatically. This works as long as an admin created that group in Classroom. For example, a member might be in these groups in MC Professional:

• Individual
• 2019 Conference Attendee
• Classroom User

The member is added to any of those groups that also exist in Classroom. If only Individual and Classroom User exist in Classroom, the member is added to only those 2 groups.

Complete the following steps for each group that you want to restrict access for. Typically, use the same group for each member type that you want to restrict, because these groups already exist in MC Professional.

Creating an MC Professional group

Identify the existing groups that you want to use, or create new ones in MC Professional. If you know the member types that you want to offer content to, the groups already exist. Skip to the next section. To create a new group:

1. In MC Professional, go to Database > Groups.

   

2. Select Add.

   

3. Enter a name for the group, then select Add.

   

Creating the corresponding group in Classroom

After you identify or create the groups in MC Professional, create the corresponding groups in Classroom.

1. In Classroom, go to Groups > Group Management.

   

2. Select Add Group.

   

3. Enter the Group Title.
4. (Optional) Enter a Group Description.
5. Make sure the Visibility checkbox is selected.

   

6. Select Save.

When Visibility is selected and the group is assigned to a package, only users in that group can access the content of the package.

Updating the Classroom package

Update the Classroom package with the appropriate groups. This restricts the package to only the profiles in the selected groups.

1. In Classroom, go to Store > Packages.

   

2. Select the blue pencil icon for the package that you are restricting access to.

   

3. Select Add to Group, then choose a group. Repeat for each group that should have access to the package.

   

   

4. Select Save.

   

Now only learners in those groups have access to the contents of the package.