Gated Courses

With Gated Courses you can block access to courses until certain requirements have been met. Create a structured way to progress through your academy or membership program.

About This PowerUp

Do you want to make sure your students complete "foundational course 101" before unlocking "everything else"? No problem - just use Gated Courses.

Do you want to block the 5 courses in your "Level 2" group of courses until they complete all 3 of the courses in "Level 1"? No problem, just use Gated Courses

Do you want to keep your students focused on your 12-week program, because we all know that over time they will forget where they left off and are not sure what to do next? No problem, use Gated Courses.

How about rewarding your students with a "bonus course" only when they complete "something else"? No problem, use Gated Courses.

With Gated Courses you can finally create a roadmap for your students to follow that will tell them exactly what they need to do. They will love you for it!

Using Gated Courses is simple. It requires no coding or technical skills and set's up in minutes.

  1. Add Gated Courses to your Student Dashboard page and choose whether you want to block a single course, a bundle of courses or "everything but"
  2. Then choose a course or a bundle of courses that are required to be completed in order for the block to be removed
  3. When your students log in, they will see all blocked courses greyed out. In fact, we handle changing the image to b/w automatically for you 
  4. When the student attempts to  click on the blocked course, they will be shown a configurable popup message that will tell them what is blocking them from accessing it
  5. Once the complete the required courses, they will be able to access the courses like normal


How this PowerUp Will Help You Be a Hero:

  • Keep your students focused and avoid confusion on what they should be watching
  • Create learning tracks with course completion pre-requisites
  • Gamify the student experience by unlocking courses when others are completed

Who Should use This:

  • Membership site owners who have "stages" of growth
  • Any Site Owner with required "foundational" learning
  • Works with standard student dashboards and PowerUp dashboards (Sidenav, Flix, Captain)
  • Site owners with content that takes a long time to complete

What Other Heroes Think:

About

Hi, I'm Rob Galvin.

I'm a Thinkific Expert and The Founder of SuperPowerUps. My team and I live & breathe Thinkific every single day. My team and I are always creating new ways to extend it so that it helps your grow faster and create happier members who think you are their hero

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Frequently Asked Questions:

Yes, Gated courses works with all standard themes automatically.

Yes, this works with Flix, Sidenav, Captain PowerUp Dashboards

No, this can only be used on the Student Dashboard and Course Page?

No, this only works with blocking access to courses.

A PowerUp is a collection of new Site Builder sections "with super powers" that will give you new designs, features and abilities - stuff you don't get out of the box in the standard themes.

Nope. These PowerUps are created especially for those who are not technical. All settings are exposed via Site Builder.

Nope. If you buy a single PowerUp - you pay once . If you buy the PowerUp Pass - you pay once per year. If you go for the "no brainer" "never pay again" edition - you pay two payments of $700 - and never another penny again!!

No, you will not need to remember another login. Everything will accessible and easy to use inside of Thinkific's Site Builder.

It would easily cost several hundred dollars just for a single PowerUp - In fact, our clients are paying us several thousand dollars to create similar experiences for them. Then add the time you will waste trying to put all of the genius marketing and design strategies together to give you the highest conversions and retention possible.

Yes, this new "App" model allows you to install theme extensions like this PowerUp and still be able to install Thinkific updates without losing anything. And there is no need to setup your super powers again after you upgrade your Thinkific theme. No work is lost!

Once you install a PowerUp into your Thinkific site. It is yours to keep as long as you have an active Thinkific account. And if you are a PowerUp Pass member, you will still be able to use it after you cancel your subscription.

Yes, even after you install a PowerUp - your site is not effected until you decide to add it to your page. You can see everything inside of Site Builder before making your page live for your audience to enjoy.

You must be on a current "Site Builder" theme and have an active paying subscription with Thinkific.

Yes!! All PowerUps are now available on all Thinkific plans, even the "free" one. The only exception is plaYEAH and any "early access" versions we release to our PowerUp Pass members.

After you create an account and submit payment, you will be instructed to install the Power Up into your Thinkific site. You will then be able to access helpful videos on how to set it up

Yes. In fact, if you are a PowerUp Pass member, you will be able to request tweaks. Occasionally we will release an update that contains all requests and they will be instantly available to you.

Each account comes with a license for two domains. Anything above that requires an agency license.

It is drop dead easy to setup and use in a matter of minutes. And with the helpful videos, I am practically right behind your shoulder guiding you. Sorry, this is DIY. PS- to work with Rob 1-1 it costs more than $10K

Crazy isn't it? If you paid for the PowerUP Pass, installed all of the PowerUps and then cancelled, you would still have the PowerUps available to you - even future updates.

I am taking much of the value I provide to my 1-on-1 clients and packaging them up for the rest of the Thinkific community to benefit from. Just call me "Rob"in Hood.