# Use invite system to invite course participants to topic in secure category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-invite-system-to-invite-course-participants-to-topic-in-secure-category/222106>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** invites\
**Created:** [March 27, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-invite-system-to-invite-course-participants-to-topic-in-secure-category/222106 "2022-03-27T19:36:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-invite-system-to-invite-course-participants-to-topic-in-secure-category/222106/4 "2022-03-28T10:08:16Z")

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Hi Gassim,

This is an interesting way to use the invite system. I changed the topic title to reflect the contents, to hopefully attract more people here who might be trying to do the same thing.

> [@gassim](#):
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> One issue when creating the invitation link is that it must have a limited number of uses, but in this use case, we need to create the invite links to work indefinitely because there is no limit to the number of participants who will enroll in the course; moreover, it has been the best way to ensure that the participant will have an account, be added to the private category, and redirected to the related topic post. Great features!! 😊👍

@dan will take a look at this. I agree we should not have a max number of redemptions allowed. Though the default should still be 1.

> [@gassim](#):
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> Invitation links are a perfect solution if they worked! I don’t know how come they work fine for @JammyDodger but @tobiaseigen and I are facing an issue when reproducing the steps that new users are not redirected to the topic post ([https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-links-to-topic-send-user-to-home-page-not-to-topic/221078](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-links-to-topic-send-user-to-home-page-not-to-topic/221078)).

This is a bug @dan is working on too. Stay tuned over in that topic.

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