This section will guide you through all of the features and settings built into LearnDash. You’ll learn how to create courses, assign lessons & topics, build out complex quizzes with a variety of question types, grade assignments and more. We’ll also explain LearnDash’s settings, which provide a way for you to customize LearnDash to meet your specific online course needs.
Table of Contents
Settings
Here’s where you can adjust the global settings that will apply to your entire LearnDash site. We cover the following topics:
- General Settings
LearnDash template, admin settings, and per page defaults - Registration
LearnDash new (optional) registration flow settings. - Payments
Set up and organize different payment settings and processors. - PayPal Settings
For those who want to use our built-in PayPal integration to sell courses (optional) - Stripe Connect
For those who want to use our built-in Stripe integration to sell courses (optional) - RazorPay Integration
For those who want to use our built-in Razorpay integration to sell courses (optional) - Emails
Manage and customize system emails coming from both WordPress and LearnDash - Permalinks (URLs)
Set up and customize the URL structure for courses, lessons, topics & quizzes - Advanced Options
Information about Custom Labels, REST API, and Data Upgrade features of LearnDash
Courses
This section covers everything needed to build & set up a LearnDash course. We cover the following topics:
- Global Course Settings
Settings applied to all courses on your site - Shared Course Steps
Reuse lessons, topics & quizzes across multiple courses - The Course Builder
Add, edit, remove & organize course steps - Display & Content Settings
Add materials, assign certificates & more - Configure Course Access
Offer free courses, require login, charge a fee, set prerequisites & more - Course Progression Options
How a user can navigate through your course - Course Page
Course title, image, URL & a description
Lessons
Lessons are the first piece of content you’ll add to your course. We’ll walk you through the following:
- Global Lesson Settings
Settings applied to all lessons on your site - Configure Lesson Access
Sample lessons, drip content & schedule lesson availability - Display & Content Settings
Add materials, configure video settings, control assignment uploads & lesson timers - Create Lesson Content
Add text & images, insert videos, embed interactive content, etc.
Topics
Topics represent optional content that can be added to lessons. This section will cover:
- Global Topic Settings
Settings applied to all lessons on your site - Display & Content Settings
Add materials, configure video settings, control assignment uploads & lesson timers - Create Topic Content
Add text & images, insert videos, embed interactive content, etc.
Quizzes
Quizzes are designed to test a user’s comprehension of the learning material. This section covers everything needed to set up & customize a LearnDash quiz.
- Global Settings
Settings applied to all quizzes on your site - Quiz Builder
Add, edit, remove & manage a quiz, and all its questions - Questions & Question Types
How to set up quiz questions & all available question types - Quiz Access & Progression
Set access restrictions & control how a user progresses through a quiz - Display & Content Settings
Customize several options for how a quiz appears to your users - Display Results
Customize how quiz results are displayed & provide answer feedback - Custom Fields
Collect additional information from users who take a quiz - Leaderboard
Promote competition by displaying user results in a leaderboard - Email Notifications
Notify users and/or admins when a quiz is completed
Essays
Essays can include file uploads or written text. They are created as part of a quiz, and can be optionally graded by administrators.
- Manage & Grade Essays
View, search, filter, delete, comment, and assign points
Assignments
Assignments are files that can be uploaded to a lesson or topic by your users, and optionally graded by administrators. This section includes the following:
- Global Settings
Applied to all assignments throughout your entire site - Enable Assignment Uploads
Walks you through all the available options when setting up assignments - Manage Assignments
View, search, filter, approve, delete, comment, assign points & get notified
Shortcodes/Blocks
Shortcodes can inserted into various places throughout your LearnDash-powered site. They display various information about your users, courses and other LearnDash features.
If you’re using the newest WordPress editor (version 5.0+), all of our shortcodes are also available as Gutenberg blocks.
View all shortcodes & blocks »
Widgets
LearnDash provides several widgets that can be placed anywhere your theme has designated as a widgetized area, or sidebar. This varies from theme-to-theme, but when applied, these widgets will display additional information about your LearnDash courses & users.