> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://faq.exode.biz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Courses in a company > How corporate company courses differ from online school courses: enrollment methods, the catalog, invite links and visibility for employees Courses in a company are built the same way as in an online school: modules, lessons, practice, SCORM packages, certificates. What differs is how an employee gets into a course. A course is not sold: it is assigned, opened for self-enrollment or shared via a link. All of this is set up on the course's **Access & assignments** page. To learn how to create and fill a course, see [Creating courses](https://faq.exode.biz/en/general/courses/creating-courses.md), [Course settings](https://faq.exode.biz/en/general/courses/settings.md) and [Lesson content](https://faq.exode.biz/en/general/lessons-modules/content.md). ## How a company course differs from an online school course | What | In a company | | - | - | | Price | The course is always free. There is no “paid / free” choice when you create it | | Publication | The course is published right when it is created | | Launch | It is created published, with unlimited access. The **Launch and tariffs** item in the course menu is hidden | | Catalog | A new course is hidden from the catalog | | Enrollment method | By default, by assignment only | | Visibility for administrators | A new course is visible only to its editors | | New menu item | **Access & assignments** | | Demo lessons | None: the lesson demo access setting is not shown in a company | Instead of a sales status, the course card in the list shows “Visible in catalog” or “Hidden from catalog”. The course list has the **Enrollment type** filter. ## Course enrollment methods Open the course and go to **Access & assignments**. In the **Access management** block, choose one or several methods. Changes are saved automatically. | Method | How an employee gets into the course | | - | - | | **By assignment** | Only after assignment: manually by an administrator or by an automatic assignment rule. Self-enrollment is not possible | | **By invite link** | Via a private link created by an administrator. Enrollment from the catalog is not possible | | **Open enrollment** | On their own, from the catalog or via a public course link, instantly and without approval | | **By application** | Marked “In development” and not available yet | Rules: * At least one method must remain: you cannot remove the last one. You see “At least one enrollment method must remain”. * Manual assignment by an administrator always works, whatever methods are selected. * People who are already enrolled do not lose access if you later turn off the method they came through. ### Showing in the catalog The **Show in catalog** toggle is on the same page. Below it is a short summary: whether the course is visible in the catalog and how people can get into it. * **Open enrollment** works only for a course that is visible in the catalog. If the catalog is turned off, you see the warning “Catalog visibility is off — enrolling via the catalog is not possible”. * A course appears in the catalog only if its launch is published and available for enrollment. Otherwise you see the warning “The course will not appear in the catalog” with the **To launch settings** button. * If a course is hidden from the catalog, only people enrolled in it see its page and lesson list. The exception is a course inside a bundle that is visible in the catalog. * If a course is visible in the catalog but **Open enrollment** is turned off, the employee sees the course page marked “The course is available by assignment only” and cannot enroll on their own. ## Course invite links The **Invite links** block appears if the **By invite link** method is selected. **1. Create a link** On the **Access & assignments** page, in the **Invite links** block, click **Create link**. **2. Choose a group** In the **Enrollment group** field, choose a course group. The default is “Last added group”. **3. Set limits** If needed, turn on **Limit validity period** and enter a date in the **Valid until** field. In the **Enrollment limit** field, enter how many people can enroll. An empty field means no limit. **4. Send the link** Copy the link and share it with employees. How the link works: * People can enroll only if the course has a published active launch. Otherwise you see the warning “Launch is not published”. * The link only enrolls people in the course. The employee must already have an account in the company. To let newcomers sign up on their own, use an [invite link to a department](https://faq.exode.biz/en/corporate/onboarding.md). * If an enrolled employee follows the link again, it does not use up the limit. * The link row shows how many people have joined, for example “3 of 10 enrollments”. * You can turn the link off with the toggle, archive it and restore it from the archive. ## Automatic assignments The bottom part of the **Access & assignments** page collects the automatic assignment rules for all course groups: for each group you see whether the rules are turned on and which conditions are set. The rules themselves are set up in the course group. See [Automatic course assignment](https://faq.exode.biz/en/corporate/auto-assignment.md). If the course has no groups, you see the hint “Create a course group to configure the auto-assignment”. ## Archiving and removing from the catalog | Action | What happens | | - | - | | Archive the course | Enrollment will no longer be possible, but current students will keep their access | | Remove from the catalog | Enrollment will only be available manually | ## Frequently asked questions > **Why can't an employee find the course in the catalog?** > > A new course in a company is hidden from the catalog. Turn on **Show in catalog** on the **Access & > assignments** page and select **Open enrollment**. Check that the course launch is published. > **Can I make a course paid?** > > No. In corporate mode all courses are free, and prices and tariffs are hidden. > **How do I assign a course to a specific employee?** > > Grant access manually in the user card or add the employee to a course group. This works with > any enrollment method. To learn how to grant access, see [Adding to a course](https://faq.exode.biz/en/general/users/adding-to-course.md). > **An employee followed a course link but was not enrolled. Why?** > > The link is turned off, archived, expired or has reached its limit. Other reasons: the course has no published launch, > the **By invite link** method is turned off or the person has no account in the company. > **Why can't I turn off an enrollment method?** > > It is the last selected method. First turn on another one, then turn off this one. > **Why can't a fellow administrator see my course?** > > In a company, a new course is visible by default only to the editors in the list. Add your colleague to the editors in > **Settings → Authors and editors** or turn on visibility for the whole team. See > [Roles and permissions](https://faq.exode.biz/en/corporate/roles.md). > **Can I show some lessons without enrollment?** > > No. A company has no demo lessons: the lesson access setting is not shown. To let an employee open a course without > an assignment, turn on **Open enrollment**: they enroll on their own from the catalog or via the course link. > **What happens to employees if I turn off “Open enrollment”?** > > People who are already enrolled keep their access. New employees can no longer enroll on their own: only by assignment > or via a link, if it is allowed. *** *Updated: 2026-10-15 18:32 UTC* This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.