Do you want to unlock your course lessons at different time intervals? Thrive Apprentice comes with features that let you manage this through the unlock conditions options in a drip.
In this article, we’ll show you how you can release lessons within a course at different time intervals.
The scenario we’ll be showing here is that we have two modules in a course, each with 4 lessons and an assessment each. What we will be doing is setting the unlock conditions in such a way that each lesson is unlocked 1 week after a student finishes the previous one.
The fourth lesson in each of these modules has a revision test that students will need to take before they proceed to the assessment. Therefore, we’ll release lesson 4 in each of the modules 2 weeks after the previous lesson is completed.
- Creating a Drip Campaign for the Course
- Applying Custom Unlock Conditions to Lessons in the Course
- Assigning the Drip Schedule to a Product
Creating a Drip Campaign for the Course
To add unlock conditions, you first need to create a drip schedule for the course.
In this example, we’ll be using a Drip on Specific date schedule for the course. Need help creating a drip campaign like that? You can refer to our document here.
If you want to implement any other drip schedule for your course, you can refer to the respective document from the list of documents available here.
After creating and setting up a drip campaign, the next step will be to apply custom unlock conditions to lessons in the course. This is where we will add specific time intervals between lessons as needed.
Applying Custom Unlock Conditions to Lessons in the Course
Before you begin applying unlock conditions to lessons, we’d recommend you to read our document that will help you understand lesson unlock conditions in Thrive Apprentice.
To apply the time intervals to unlock lessons, begin by opening the course page. To do so, open your WordPress admin area, navigate to Thrive Dashboard >> Thrive Apprentice, and click Courses.
On the Courses page, select the course that you’ve applied the drip schedule to.
On the course page, click to open the Drip tab.
Under the Drip tab, you’ll see the applied drip schedule. To view the lessons and content bounded by the drip schedule in the course, click on the drip block you see.
When you click the Drip schedule, you’ll see the modules with the list of lessons or content that the course contains.
To unlock the lessons weekly, start by editing the unlock condition for Lesson 1 (Introduction to Beginner Level Marketing in our example).
To edit the unlock condition, click the current unlock condition beside the lesson name.
When you click the lesson unlock condition, you’ll see a popup. On the popup, click +Add new rule.
Once you click Add new rule, select the unlock condition Time after campaign trigger.
Since this is the first trigger, you can unlock it one week after the campaign trigger is set.
So, after selecting Time after the campaign trigger, set it to unlock after 1 week and click Add.
When you add the unlock condition, click the Save button to close the popup.
After Lesson 1, click the unlock condition of lesson 2 on the course page.
On the popup, click +Add new rule.
Once you click Add new rule, select the unlock condition Time after campaign trigger.
This is the second lesson and we want to unlock this 1 week after the first lesson. Since the first lesson is unlocked 1 week after the campaign trigger, this one should be unlocked 2 weeks after the campaign trigger.
So, after selecting Time after the campaign trigger, set it to unlock after 2 weeks and click Add.
When you add the unlock condition, click the Save button to close the popup.
After Lesson 2, click the unlock condition of lesson 3 on the course page.
The next steps here will be the same as how you went about for lesson 2 above.
However, since lesson 2 will be unlocked 2 weeks after the campaign trigger, set lesson 3 to unlock 3 weeks after the campaign and click Add.
When you add the unlock condition, click the Save button to close the popup.
After Lesson 3, click the unlock condition of lesson 4 on the course page.
The next steps here will be the same as how you went about for lesson 3 above.
However, since lesson 3 will be unlocked 3 weeks after the campaign trigger, and we want to add another week’s gap before unlocking lesson 4, set lesson 4 to unlock 5 weeks after the campaign and click Add.
When you add the unlock condition, click the Save button to close the popup.
If you have multiple modules in the course, follow the same steps for all the applicable modules.
Assigning the Drip Schedule to a Product
To apply the created Drip campaign to a Thrive Apprentice product, you’ll have to begin by accessing the Drip settings for that specific product.
To access the Drip tab in a Thrive Apprentice product, first open your WordPress admin area, navigate to Thrive Dashboard >> Thrive Apprentice and click on Products.
On the Products page, click on the Product you want to open.
On the individual product page, click on Drip in the left column.
On the product drip page, click the dropdown to select the drip schedule you’ve just created.
Once you assign the drip to a product, you’ll need to ensure you’ve set the access restriction rules for content that is protected by a drip.
You can read our document to know more about access restriction rules at product level.Â
Need help understanding products in Thrive Apprentice? Here is a document that will help.
Next, if you want to exclude some lessons from a drip campaign, you can refer to our document here.