Manage Attendance Options for Courses

When setting up a course, managers can set parameters for attendee enrollment including:

• maximum number of seats
• enabling/disabling waiting lists
• allowing overflow
• guest registration

Setting up a Maximum Number of Seats

Step 1: Select the Workshop Settings gear in Strive.

Step 2: Under Workshop Setup, select Training Locations and choose the appropriate location. Each location can have a Maximum Seating number assigned for the space. 

While this places a number in the setting for the room description, it does not limit the ability for staff to register for courses. It is only a description of how many seats are available in the location. Staff can register for sessions with "pending registration" status if the maximum number of seats are taken. This can be changed in a setting for "Enable/Disable Waitlist" in this help article below. 

Individual courses can also have an override for the Maximum Number of seats: 

• Select Courses under Course Management.
• Select a Course.
• Click the Attendees tab.
• Click on Max Seating to adjust the number for the event.

Note: The checkbox for Enroll pending staff members is used to add any staff members who attempted to register for a course after the maximum seat number was met. It is not a setting. The checkbox allows a manager or instructor to complete an instance to enroll pending staff members.

Enable/Disable Waiting Lists

Courses by default allow registration after a maximum number of seats have been reached and put these attendees into a "Pending Registration" status. To remove the ability for staff to register for a course, Disable Waiting List must be applied to the individual courses. 

• Select Courses under Course Management.
• Select a Course.
• Click the Attendees tab.
• Select the Wrench icon on the menu bar.
• Select the option to Disable Waiting List.

When a course has the Disable Waiting List option selected, a green check mark appears to the left of the setting. 

Allow Overflow for Registrations

This setting allows registrations to exceed the Maximum Seat Number for a room. It is useful for gauging attendance locations for larger audience events by allowing more seats than a specific location to determine where to move the event for hosting the number of registrants. 

• Select Courses under Course Management.
• Select a Course.
• Click the Attendees tab.
• Select the Wrench icon on the menu bar.
• Select the option to Allow Overflow for Registrations.

Guest Registration

Under this same setting, courses can be opened up to allow guests to register for specific courses. 

• Select Courses under Course Management.
• Select a Course.
• Click the Attendees tab.
• Select the Wrench icon on the menu bar.
• Select the option to Enable Guest Registration.