A Learning Management System Built on Wordpress
LearnDash courses are dynamic, engaging, and offer the latest in e-learning industry trends.
The industry’s best course builder makes course creation a snap.
LearnDash’s drag & drop Course Builder allows you to easily create (and re-use) multi-layer courses. Create course categories, lessons, topics, assignments, and quizzes. You can rename the labels to anything you wish. For example, you can rename “Lessons” to “Modules”.
Break-up courses into lessons, topics, quizzes, and categories.
Eight question types, custom messages, question banks, and MUCH more.
Using LearnDash you can choose from eight different question types with the options you need to customize the quizzing experience.
Single Answer, Multiple Choice, Sorting, Matching, Fill-In-The-Blank, Free Text, Survey, and Essay questions all supported.
Display custom messages based on quiz performance.
Enforce Quiz timers and use Question Banks
Select any type of media in both the questions and answers options.
Eight question types, custom messages, and MUCH more.
Drip-feed your lesson content according to a schedule.
Deliver all your lessons all at once, or choose to drip-feed (schedule) them over a specified amount of time resulting in a guided learning experience. You have two primary options for scheduling your lessons:
In either case, the content automatically release based on your predetermined schedule. Use the free Notifications Add-On to automatically notify learners that new content is available to them!
Set a minimum amount of time that must be spent per lesson.
Private or public course specific forums for your enrolled users.
Encourage course conversation among learners by adding a course specific forum to your courses and limit participation to only those who are enrolled into the course
Private or public course specific forums for your enrolled users.
Syncs with LearnDash quiz & assignments along with manual grading.
Take your class LMS to another level by using the feature-packed LearnDash Gradebook.
*Requires premium Gradebook add-on
Award points for completing courses and unlock new ones.
Award custom certificates and points for course activities.
Award official certificates based on quiz performance, completeing a course, or both! Certificates can be 100% customized and support dynamic data generation, including:
First & Last Name
Course or Quiz Name
Date Stamps
Quiz Score
Avg. Score of All Quizzes in a Course
And Much More!
Selling online courses has never been easier. Set your price, choose the payment schedule, and start taking orders!
One-time price, subscriptions, and shopping cart supported.
Simply set a price and your course is ready to be purchased using PayPal, Stripe, or 2Checkout. You can even entice them to purchase by offering free samples of your content.
Your customers get an account auto-created at purchase and are enrolled into the course that they purchased.
Want to remove access after a set amount of time? No problem! Simply check a box and they will need to purchase again in order to regain access once the course expires.
Charge a one-time fee, or maximize revenue through recurring payments and subscriptions.
Screenshot of WooCommerce Subscriptions, one of the many subscription options that can be used with LearnDash
Charge a one-time fee for your courses, or choose to maximize revenue through recurring payments and subscriptions. When using a shopping cart, customers will lose access the moment that their subscription payment fails – ensuring that they maintain their course access only if they continue to pay.
Charge a one-time fee, or maximize revenue through recurring payments and subscriptions.
Screenshot of WooCommerce Subscriptions, one of the many subscription options that can be used with LearnDash
Easily implement a shopping cart for selling courses.
Sell your courses online anywhere.
Easily implement a shopping cart experience for your courses by using one of our free WordPress shopping cart integrations. You can select from the following popular choices:
Shopping carts give you extra features such as additional reporting metrics, coupon support, affiliate programs, and hundreds of additional payment gateways!
Sell your courses online anywhere.
Sell traditional membership access to all of your courses.
Using LearnDash you can sell individual courses and each course acts as its own “membership”, effectively granting content access to only those who are enrolled. However, you can also use traditional membership plugins in conjunction with LearnDash! Popular options include both PaidMembershipsPro and the premium MemberPress plugin.
When someone purchases a membership level, they are automatically enrolled in any course that is part of that level!
Most membership plugins can be used with LearnDash, please contact us with any questions.
Sell your courses one at a time, or create bundles.
Want to create a course marketplace like Udemy?
Allow organizations to purchase licenses in bulk and then grant access to their staff. After purchase, the staff are all added to the same group where the Group Leader can track their progress and performance!
*Requires premium Group Registration add-on
With LearnDash, you have more control over your learners and courses than nearly any learning management system on the market. Grouping users, altering progression, clearing data, re-printing achievements, revoking access – you can do it all!
Front-end profiles so users can track their course activity.
Front-end profiles so users can track their course activity.
Front-end profiles so users can track their course activity.
LearnDash offers robust user profiles so your learners can see which courses they can access, their progress, quiz performance, and print any earned certificates. As the admin, you can quickly and easily manage your users.
Enroll and un-enroll any user
Re-print certificates
Assign Groups
Manage points
Delete course data
Modify usesrname, email, password, and more
Mark and un-mark courses, lessons, and quizzes as complete
Automatic email triggers increase learner engagement.
Communicating with learners and Group leaders is a breeze with LearnDash email notifications.
Email learners of a particular course or status
Configure automatic emails based on activities
Set-up reminder notifications when a new lesson is available, a course is about to expire, or if the learner has not logged in for a few days
Connect to popular email platforms like MailChimp (requires an add-on)
Automatic email triggers increase learner engagement
Place users into groups and allow others to manage them.
Organize your learners any way you wish by placing them into LearnDash Groups. Once in a group, assign a Group Leader who can manage their progress and performance.
LearnDash Groups is a great way to mass-enroll users into courses and to make sure that they are all on the same drip-feed schedule for the content. You can also pull group related reports so you always know how they are performing.
Quickly run reports on user enrollment, progress, and quiz performance.
* Requires ProPanel, which is available in the PLUS & PRO plans
LearnDash reporting captures all the details you care about on your learners and courses. Popular reports include:
View a learner's courses and their progress in each one.
Track learner quiz attempts, if they passed, and their score.
Track how long a learner has spent on a course.
See how learners are interacting with your course content in real-time.
Graphical representation of exactly how far along learners are in a particular course.
Queue of the assignments and essays requiring your attention.
* Requires ProPanel, which is available in the PLUS & PRO plans
Approve, comment, and award points on submitted assignments.
Require that your learners submit assignments at different parts of your course. Assignments can be required at the Lesson level and the Topic level. Choose to have them automatically approved, or require that they be manually awarded points & approved.
Leave feedback by including private comments on the assignment that only the submitter will be able to see.
[I]t keeps getting better and better! Thanks for your devotion to LearnDash and it’s users. I am glad we chose this as our learning solution!!
Jeff Slapp
LearnDash supports the latest tech tools in both the e-learning and WordPress industries!
Have a need to use a program like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, iSpring, or H5P? No problem!
Have a need to use a program like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, iSpring, or H5P? No problem! LearnDash add-ons makes this possible. And since you are using WordPress, you can say ‘goodbye’ to user and enrollment fees!
Just want to insert content created in Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate without worrying about Tin Can API or SCORM*? We have you covered there too!
*SCORM support requires a premium add-on. Other API’s are supported but not listed
Use LearnDash on a WordPress multi-site network.
Works with any modern WordPress theme – no custom coding needed.
LearnDash is built to work with modern WordPress themes as well as many of the popular page builder plugins available today. Just upload and start creating your course content. LearnDash will adopt your installed theme’s styling attributes.
Want more styling options? Check out the LearnDash Visual Customizer or follow our guides on modifying LearnDash related templates.
Insert videos, Articulate & Adobe Captivate files, images, audio, Google Docs and more.
LearnDash supports any media format WordPress supports.
Since LearnDash is built on WordPress (the world’s most popular CMS), you can use literally any type of media for course content, including:
LearnDash supports any media format WordPress supports.
If your theme works on Mobile, so will LearnDash.
Responsive support from e-learning experts with extensive Fortune 500 experience.
We have deep knowledge in the e-learning industry with experiencing consulting some of the world’s largest brands, as well as the U.S. government. Not only can we answer your technical questions, we can give you recommendations on optimum course configuration based on your desired goals.
Read more about our background on the About page.
Create your courses today!
