LearnDash Features

All the tools you need to create functional, beautiful courses
that promote learning and generate revenue.

All features

Explore all that LearnDash offers for course administrators and students.

For learners

Focus Mode

Eliminate distractions with focus mode by hiding content that cause students to click out of the course.

Video progression

Learners won’t miss a second by requiring a video to be watched entirely before moving on.

Automated notifications

Students can receive instant feedback and communication when they achieve a certain score or perform a certain action.

Learning Paths

Allow learners to test out of courses by enabling challenge exams.

Badges & certificates

Award official certificates based on quiz performance, completing a course, or both.

Profile dashboard

Learners can view courses, quiz scores, and points earned at a glance.

For course creators

AI Course Outline Builder

By entering some basic details, the outliner automatically creates a course with generated lesson titles for both new and existing courses.

Onboarding Wizard

Once you install LearnDash, we’ll take you through an onboarding process that shows you how to maximize the plugin’s potential.

Blended Learning

Integrate both virtual and in-person elements into your courses.

Drag & drop course builder

The industry’s best course builder makes course creation simple.

Assignment management

Approve, comment, and award points on submitted assignments.

Course Start/End Dates

Run a cohort-based style course by setting the dates that your course starts and ends. 

Course Dashboard

Get an excellent overview of the success and status of your course all in one place.

Course Completion Page

Set any page you create as your completion page, where you can encourage students to share a review or invite them to explore your next course.

Advanced quizzing

Eight question types, custom messages, flexible question display, and more.

AI Quiz Builder

Our quiz-building AI supports all of our question types and can generate questions for an existing or entirely new quiz.

Flexible prerequisites

Set access to courses, lessons, and quizzes based on a set of prerequisites.

Dynamic content delivery

Drip-feed lessons, or set linear and open progression through your course.

Extend Access

Change the course access expiration date to a course on an individual user basis.

For ecommerce

One-time purchases

Sell courses individually. Simply set a price and your course is ready to be purchased.

Subscriptions

Sell courses through a recurring fee at an interval of your choosing.

Pre-sell courses

Offer your courses for sale before they start is a great way to generate revenue and interest for your course.

Payment gateways

Use a built-in payment system or integrate with WooCommerce for a full shopping cart experience.

Memberships

Sell memberships, restrict content, and more, through the MemberDash plugin.

Course bundles

Run promotions and deals for course bundles that add value for students.

Stripe integration

Skip the shopping cart and offer seamless checkout with Stripe ready-to-go.

For
flexibility

Drag and drop course builder

Move around course design elements in an easy-to-use backend.

Extendible

Thorough developer docs, hooks & filters, and REST API help you create robust custom functionality.

Choose any theme

LearnDash works with any WordPress-reviewed theme you’d like. Or, get started with templates built specifically for LearnDash.

Use any media

Supports images, videos, audio, SWF files, HTML5, SCORM, xAPI, and more*

*SCORM & xAPI require a 3rd party paid add-on

Integrations

LearnDash integrates with the most popular apps for running a business.

Marketplace

100+ developers have created add-ons to extend the flexibility of your WordPress course.

LearnDash FAQs

LearnDash is a fully customizable WordPress plugin that is adaptable and flexible for any business. Check out our Customer Spotlights to be inspired by how some of our 10,000+ customers have used LearnDash.

Yes – the LearnDash demo lets you experience a LearnDash course from both a course creator’s and learner’s perspective. Go through our demo course as a learner or spin up your own course in a sandbox first before buying. 

Our demo lets you experience all LearnDash offers without any commitment to purchase. Additionally, we offer a 15-day money-back guarantee if LearnDash is not the right fit after purchase.

LearnDash has custom templates built using the Kadence theme that are designed to maximize course design. You can also build your LearnDash course using your favorite WordPress theme. 

Nope – whether you have one student or 50,000 students, there’s no limit to the number of courses you make or students who enroll. 

Yes! You can limit the number of attendees for each course.

Not quite; LearnDash will not map the content from a competitor site. Instead, you can upload the raw course materials to a LearnDash install. You can also import videos from YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia using LearnDash’s course creation wizard. You can easily move content between two LearnDash courses using the Import/Export tool.

H5P content can be added to any LearnDash lesson page using a third-party plugin

With additional plugins, LearnDash is a SCORM-compliant learning management system. 

Yes! You can use the free LearnDash Migration add-on to seamlessly move to LearnDash.

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