Switching From a Learning Management System Platform to Thrive Apprentice

Surely, the process of switching from a learning management system platform to Thrive Apprentice can seem long and troublesome, but you can use this article as a checklist and make sure that you’ve got everything in place.

→ Create content in Thrive Apprentice

As a first step, you can go ahead and start creating. You can focus on adding the content first, and only after that, you can jump into the design part and all the other aspects.

Thrive Apprentice is now a fully visually editable tool, which will allow the full customization of your online school.

However, before going into all that, you can create your course/s, set up their basic options and start adding the content.

Here are some useful articles that will help you:

• Thrive Apprentice Introduction

• How to Create Your First Thrive Apprentice Course

• How to Create and Publish a Thrive Apprentice Lesson

• Attach Downloadable Files to Your Lesson’s Content in Thrive Apprentice

• How to Organize Your Lessons in Chapters with Thrive Apprentice

• How to Organize Your Lessons & Chapters in Modules with Thrive Apprentice

• How to Set Up a Menu for Your Courses and Lessons

• Structuring & Managing Your Courses Using the Bulk Actions

Once all the content has been set up, the content and resources have been added, you can move on to the next step.

→ Create your online school design

A big part of creating a course that stands out lies within the way you’re presenting it to your audience. Thrive Apprentice has a huge advantage here – it will allow you to fully customize the visual part of it.

You are able to create lesson/homepage/course and module templates, that you will later apply to your content. Those templates can be customized as you wish using the Thrive Editor. More than that, you can also create templates to apply to restricted course/site content.

In case you need help designing your online courses, here are our related articles:

• Getting Started With Our New Thrive Apprentice Visual Editor

• The Thrive Apprentice Design Wizard

• Using the Design Section of Thrive Apprentice

• Editing a Thrive Apprentice Design

• Creating and Using Thrive Apprentice Templates

• How to Set Up the Typography in Thrive Apprentice

• How to Apply a Template to your Thrive Apprentice Content

• Integrating the Lesson List and Course List Elements on Your Thrive Apprentice Online School

Once the design and templates are ready, you can create the product (in case you want to sell multiple courses/a singular course alongside other types of content).

→ Create the product with the course/course package

This is, of course, optional, but it will help you organize the courses or course bundles, as well as let you choose the desired drip schedule/access restriction rules, in case you’re trying to use these features on your courses.

Get started with creating products by reading these articles:

• How to Use the Products Section of Thrive Apprentice

• Access Restriction Rules at Product Level

• What Happens When the Same Content Inside a Product Is Protected By Multiple Restriction Rules

Under the “Products” tab, for each product that you create you are able to set up its content (courses & other content types), drip schedule and access requirements and access restriction rules.

→ Set up access requirements and access restrictions rules

In case you want the course to be restricted and be available for certain users only, you can set up the access restriction rules.

You can create paid courses or just free ones that are available on a subscription basis, for members only.

Here are the resources that will help you set up the access restriction rules:

• Access Restriction Rules at Product Level

→ Set up the drip schedule

Dripping content is important in case you don’t want to release all of the course content at a time, but to gradually grant users access to it.

If that’s what you’ve envisioned for the course, you can go ahead and start creating drip schedules that can be later assigned to the product selling the course.

Read more about drip schedules here:

• Using the Drip Campaign Templates in Thrive Apprentice

• Using Decoupled Drip Schedules

• Setting Up the Unlock Conditions

• How to Hide Locked Lessons from the Lesson List

→ Set up the login process

Another important step here is setting up the login & registration process, as this will be crucial for your user experience. Make sure to set up the login & registration page, as well as the email templates. Here are some useful links:

• New User Registration Process in Thrive Apprentice

• Adding a Log In/Log Out/Register Button to Your Menu

→ Import your old customers

In your Thrive Apprentice dashboard, you’ll be able to access the “Customers” section to import all of your students. You can either import a CSV file, or manually add them.

Here are some related articles:

• Using the Customers Section of Thrive Apprentice

• How Do I Import Existing Customers to Thrive Apprentice?

You might also be interested in these two articles, which we’ve written in case you’re switching from one of these platforms:

• Switching from Teachable to Thrive Apprentice

• Switching from LearnDash to Thrive Apprentice

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