There are two variations to the idea of private and public enrollment. First, it is entirely possible for you to say, even though a course is private, I want to make it visible on the public catalog with instructions on how to gain eligibility. So for example, I'm going to take this course, which is privately enrolled, I'm going to add some information, and I will say in the information, to gain access, how to gain access. You must contact administrator to gain access to this course. Let's say we only need to do that on the catalog. So what we decide to do now is we're going to say, hey, I'm going to give you some instructions on how to become enrolled in the course, and if I'm going to do that, I will also make sure that even though I keep it as managed enrollment, I would display it on the catalog. So this is what we're going to do. Even though it's private enrollment, which by default hides in the catalog, we're going to display it in the catalog. Now what we're going to do here is I'm just going to refresh the screen. Notice that this course now shows up. It shows up on the catalog because even though it's private, you have overrode the default behavior and said that you want it to be visible on the catalog. So I'm going to click on it. It's going to say you must contact administrator to gain access. So let's just try to log in as a Mickey Mouse. You see that it is not eligible. So no amount of clicking will get the user access to it, even though this course is visible on the catalog. The flip of it is also possible. For example, on this catalog right now, partially restrained connection is a public course. Suppose you have a course that you want to give access to anyone who has a link, but you want to hide it from the catalog. This is what you would do. As administrator, you can do the flip of this course, which is public. You say it is public, but I don't want people to actually see it on the catalog. I will only want people to see it if I give them a link. So let's say this one link, let's call it connection. That's the product code. So now what happens is it's public. So anyone who can click on a link will be able to get to the course, but the course is hidden from the catalog, so you have to be either really smart to guess the link or the administrator have emailed you the link. So to see this in action, I am going to refresh my screen as a Mickey Mouse. Notice that the course on connection is no longer listed here. However, if I take the link, if I copy this link and paste it in here, I will be able to start the course. I can add it to the shopping cart. The reason is that even though it's not displayed on the public catalog, because the enrollment rule is public, anyone who actually get to this link will be able to add it to the shopping cart and make the purchase. So this is a very flexible way to have certain courses that you may not know who should have access to it, but you just want to give it a link and whoever has a link will have access to, but you do not necessarily want to publicly advertise it on the catalog.

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