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LearnDash Core

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.

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:

Lessons

Lessons are the first piece of content you’ll add to your course. We’ll walk you through the following:

Topics

Topics represent optional content that can be added to lessons. This section will cover:

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.

Essays

Essays can include file uploads or written text. They are created as part of a quiz, and can be optionally graded by administrators.

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:

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.

View all widgets »

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