# Adding members with trust level 0 to private groups
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 21, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524 "2017-11-21T16:25:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@crazyhorse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/crazyhorse)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/1 "2017-11-21T16:25:44Z")
Hello,
I would like to use Discourse for an educational group programm. For that, it needs to be possible that everybody entering the forum can be added to all private groups, regardless of the trust level.
Is that possible?
Thank you! 🙂
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/2 "2017-11-21T18:17:54Z")
Users can be added to groups regardless of their trust levels.
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### Author:  [@crazyhorse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/crazyhorse)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/3 "2017-11-21T19:38:44Z")
Great, thank you, @jomaxro🕶
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/4 "2017-11-22T00:31:27Z")
I used to use Discourse to teach my online courses, here are a few other things that might help … or you might know already.
And if you’re adding them to groups manually, you could change their trust level.
Also, if they share an email domain name, you can use that to bump their trust level.
Also, you can do a bulk invite and assign them to groups (and maybe set trust level–I can’t remember) in a CSV file
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### Author:  [@crazyhorse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/crazyhorse)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/5 "2017-11-22T09:49:34Z")
@pfaffman, thank you, these are valuable tipps. You know, I have no idea how to deal with the software, so for now, I can only do what’s in the admin functions.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/6 "2017-11-22T13:30:14Z")
All of those suggestions you do through the admin interface.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/7 "2017-11-22T13:34:55Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> if they share an email domain name, you can use that to bump their trust level.
Hey @pfaffman can You explain me how to let anyone registering with a certain domain get escalated trust level?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/8 "2017-11-22T13:44:08Z")
In the custom group interface you can assign members to a group of they match a domain name. You can also specify that members of the group get a minimum trust level.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-members-with-trust-level-0-to-private-groups/74524/9 "2017-11-22T23:00:09Z")
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