Every person who takes a Coassemble course counts as either an Identified Recipient or an Anonymous Recipient for your workspace. This article explains the difference, how each is counted, and where you'll see them in the product.

Every person who takes a Coassemble course counts as either an Identified Recipient or an Anonymous Recipient for your workspace. This article explains the difference, how each is counted, and where you'll see them in the product.

## What's an Identified Recipient (IR)?

An Identified Recipient is anyone who takes one of your courses with an identifier attached. The identifier might be:

* An **email address**, captured when they open the course (for example, through an email invitation or a share link with email capture turned on).
* A **unique identifier** passed through from your platform, when Coassemble is embedded inside your own product.
* A **Slack identity**, when you share a course to Slack with identified access turned on.

Whatever the identifier is, each unique person counts as one IR per period, no matter how many of your courses they take.

## What's an Anonymous Recipient (AR)?

An Anonymous Recipient is anyone who takes one of your courses without an identifier attached. This is the default behaviour for share links where email capture isn't turned on, and for Slack shares set to anonymous.

ARs are tracked at the device and session level (a combination of browser cookie and device profile). This means uniqueness is approximate: one person across two browsers will count as two ARs, and two people sharing one browser may count as one AR.

## How each is captured

The mechanism depends on how you share the course.

| Share method | Default counts as |
|----|----|
| Email invitation | IR (email captured at access) |
| Share link with email capture turned on | IR |
| Share link with no email capture | AR |
| Slack share with identified access | IR |
| Slack share with anonymous access | AR |
| Embedded session with identifier passed through | IR |
| Embedded session with no identifier | AR |

You can also see whether a particular share captures identity by checking the access setting on the share itself before sending it out.

## Where to see your usage

Open **Settings** and select **Usage limits**. The Recipients usage section shows your current period's IR and AR counts with progress bars. Click into either row for a breakdown.

For the full picture of how allowances and caps work, see *Usage limits*.

## How counting works

A few details that come up often:

* **One person, one count.** The same Identified Recipient taking five of your courses still counts as one IR for the period. Same for ARs: one device, one session, one count.
* **The count is cumulative within the period.** It doesn't matter when in the period the person accessed a course, they're counted once.
* **Allowances are pooled across creators.** A workspace's full IR/AR allowance is shared by everyone creating content in that workspace.

## Common questions

### Does the same person count if they take multiple courses?

No. One Identified Recipient is one IR for the period, no matter how many of your courses they access. Same logic for Anonymous Recipients.

### What if the same person uses two browsers?

If they're identified (an email or unique identifier is captured both times), they count as one IR. If they're anonymous, they'll be counted as two ARs because the device and session signals differ.

### What if multiple people share one device?

If they're identified, they each count as their own IR. If they're anonymous, the session-level tracking will likely count them as one AR.

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