If your course is open to anyone to enrol on then when it has been published it will appear on OpenLearn Create’s list of free courses listing. As well as promoting the course yourself, people will find your course using search engines or by visiting the site and searching the list for courses to study.

If your course is a closed cohort course in a private collection, you will need to notify the learners about it yourself. You can explain on the private collection page how learners can obtain the enrolment key for the course they want to study.

You can also send out an email from you or your organisation to a group of learners, telling them that they need to:

• register an account (if they don’t already have an OU account)
• log in to OpenLearn Create with their account
• go to the course URL and enter the enrolment key in the enrolment screen – you will need to:
  • include the course URL and enrolment key in the email
  • ask them not to share the enrolment key with anyone else. 

If you have sent out an enrolment key to learners, you will need to monitor who has enrolled on the course.