Why Does The Plugin Change the Group Type to Private?

@roughwriters

Glad to hear you’re loving the plugin. The reason it goes to private automatically is because the associated course is always going to be private, until a user joins the course. If it were public, you would have users in the group who are not enrolled in the course. We made this decision as the opposite behavior would break most people’s setups – private course with public group.

You should not need to manually add people. Any user who starts taking the course will be automatically added as a member of the group.

If this is still problematic, let us know.

Thanks for the quick response ??

It is problematic for my setup. For me, the course is an add-on / extra for the group, rather than the group being an add-on / extra for the course.

So there will be people in the group who don’t want to take the course.

And they’ll sign up for the group first without even knowing there is a course at first. But if the group is automatically set to private, they can’t join the group to even know there is a course.

Hi Roughwriters,

In our current approach all student of a course will be part of linked group.
If they are signing up for the course they will automatically added to group.

Right, but what about people who want to be in the group but don’t want to take the course?

For my setup, the course is an extra/bonus for the group, not the group being a extra/bonus for the course. I want anybody to be able to join the group, and take the course if they choose to.

So making the group automatically private means that I can’t really use this plugin which is too bad.

Hi roughwriters,
Group can be public after some code edit, but it will not solve your requirement.
Course will be automatically added if they are joining group.

Ok. How do I edit the code?

Hi

/buddypress-learndash/includes/bp-learndash-group-settings.php
It’s defined inside

function settings_screen_save()
Line 107
$group->status = ‘private’;

You can replace ‘private’ with ‘public’

I made this change and the group is still set to private.

I did this after I created the group though. Does it only apply when you create a group?

Got this to work. Just changed it to public in the admin panel.

Great

I did this, but when someone is added to the course, it doesn’t add them to the group. When someone registered and was automatically added to the now public group, it shows them as having 1 group, but in the list, nothing shows up.

And when they go to that group it says “join group,” so they’re not actually in it.

Hi roughwriters,
It will need to check how Gravity Form extension is adding user to course, it seems they are directly populating course meta with student id that’s why it is not getting sync with Groups.

Got this from Learndash:

It sounds like they BuddyBoss needs to update something in their plugin to be compatible with v2.2.1.1 of LearnDash since our latest release had updates to how users were enrolled to courses and LearnDash groups. I would pass this along to BuddyBoss and hopefully they will be able to update the plugin to resolve this issue.

Hi – I have the issue in that if I enrol all users in all courses they still have to “REQUEST ENROLMENT” in the PRIVATE BuddyPress Groups.

I want it to be automatic. e.g. Learndash Course Membership>Course Access = Buddypress Group Membership.

Is there a solution for this please?