It's not only Confluence users who can take quizzes and courses. You can let people without an account in Confluence do that as well.

Quiz and course creators can enroll anonymous participants even if Anonymous access is disabled in Confluence global permissions. However, in this case anonymous users will still have no access to your Confluence and will not be able to self-enroll to courses and quizzes.

Configure Confluence

If you want to allow participants, who don't have an account in your Confluence, to self-enroll to courses and quizzes, make sure:

  • Confluence Server is configured for Outgoing Mail to be able to email links
  • Anonymous access is enabled to your Confluence site in global permissions (only the 'can use' checkbox needs to be selected in the 'Anonymous Access' section)
  • page for self-enrollment has no viewing restrictions

While anonymous access to your Confluence site must be enabled in global permissions, public access to spaces with quizzes does not need to be granted. Therefore anonymous users do not need space permissions to take quizzes.

Enabling anonymous access to your site does not mean that non-logged-in users will be able to browse pages and spaces in Confluence. As long as a space is not publicly accessible (anonymous users do not have space permissions), non-logged-in users will not be able to browse pages and spaces, while being able to take quizzes.

Self-enrollment for non-Confluence participants

Once you've configured Confluence to send email messages and enabled anonymous access, you can share quizzes with participants who are not users in your site. It is also possible to create a page for self-enrollment and share it with non-Confluence participants. If self-enrollment is your choice, select a suitable self-enrollment option in quiz settings:

Checked Self-enrollment without confirming email:

  • participants who are not logged into Confluence have to provide their name and email

  • after clicking 'Take quiz' button in the dialog above, participants proceed directly to the quiz and do not have to check their email

  • the name and email are provided only for reporting purposes – quiz administrators will be able to identify who made a quiz submission

Anonymous self-enrollment:

  • participants who are not logged into Confluence can self-enroll without providing their name and email – they proceed directly to the quiz 
  • quiz results report will have 'Participant N' instead of participants' names, where N is a number automatically assigned to the submission

No option is ticked:

  • participants, who are not logged into Confluence, provide their name and email during self-enrollment
  • after clicking 'Send link' button in the dialog above, participants do not proceed to the quiz – the link to the quiz is sent to the provided email
  • to take the quiz, a participant must check their email and click 'Go to quiz' in an email notification
  • this option ensures the email provided by a participant is a valid one and belongs to that person