EDD Sell Services allows the vendor and site owner to sell his services online. Selling services means customers are paying so that you will do something for them after transactions are completed. Phone consultations, video editing, software installation, and direct support are all examples of services, even if they end in the distribution of a digital file. Many Easy Digital Downloads users sell WordPress plugins and themes and choose to offer installation services. While the sale of a plugin or theme is instant and does not require the store owner to be involved in most cases, installation services require that special attention is given to the customer. This plugin satisfied the vendors need of selling services online by providing a product type ‘Service’ apart from the default EDD product. As you are selling services, You need to know the requirements from the customer in order to fulfill his desires. Ex: you are building a website for a client you need to know following things:

• Purpose of the website like if you are introducing an e-commerce website or a learning management system, an informational site or just a blogging site etc.
• Information about the page design and layout.
• Information about the color scheme.
• Information about the site images.
• Information about the content
• Etc.

These all things can be done easily with EDD SELL SERVICES plugin as it provides a dedicated and interactive requirement section.As we know that Communication is the key to success and you can attract more and more customers if you have a smooth connection with your customers. Keeping this requirement in mind, This plugin also provides a chat feature to eliminate the lack of conversation between customers and vendors. Now they easily can send a text with this chat feature. A dedicated conversation also triggers for every single message on both ends. Full authority to accept or reject final delivery is a Plus feature that is under customer’s control,Whether he wants to accept the delivery or not.Customer can neglect to accept the final delivery if he is not satisfied. Once the final delivery is made both customer and vendor can rate each other.

Following are the features of EDD Sell Services plugin:

• Creates a new product type called Service to sell services.
• Allows vendors to add questions that will be required to process service.
• Vendors can add multiple questions and order will start after the customer will submit order requirements.
• Customers and Vendors can easily manage their orders in a tabular form.
• Provides an easy to communicate feature, a dedicated conversation section for each order.
• Vendor and customer will also receive emails for each conversation trigger.
• Allows customers and vendor to add reviews and ratings!
• Dedicated support to EDD FES.
• Option to recurring payment.

EDD Sell Services is an EDD add-on and hence requires Easy Digital Download (EDD) plugin to work.

To install the plugin follow the below steps:

1. Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your wbcomdesigns.com profile.
2. Upload the “EDD Sell Services” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

 

Highlights of general settings are page mapping, enabling/disabling notification and enabling product review.

Navigate to Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> EDD Sell Service >> General you will get following options:

• Manage order Page – Allows you to map “manage order” page, from here vendor and a customer can easily manage all their orders in a tabular form at one place.
• Enable emails on a conversation – Allows you to enable/disable email notifications for all conversation so that one can receive those directly in their email inbox.
• Enable Live Notification – Allows you to enable/disable live Notification. No chance of missing any single conversation.
• Display reviews on the single product page – Allows you to enable/disable reviews list on the single product page.

 

Head towards Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> EDD Sell Services >> Images you will get the following option to set your own brand image or image of your choice at different order process levels.

You will get the following levels to set images at:

Order Started Image – Change Image For Order Started Message.

Order Requirement Image – Change Image For Order Requirement Message.

Order Complete Image – Change Image For Order Complete Message.

Order Delivery Image – Change Image For Order Delivery Message.

Order Review Image – Change Image For Order Review Message.

 

A vendor can easily sell his services online by adding those via Dashboard >> Downloads >> Add New.

Enter the following details:

Title – Enter the title of your service

Description – Allows you to enter the short description for easy understanding.

 

Product type option – You will get this option inside “download files” widget, select the product type service here to enable the “EDD Services Widget“.

 

Enter following inside EDD Service widget

1. Estimate Delivery Time – Delivery in days. ** Delivery time is your deadline for delivering an order. Be sure to set a delivery time that you can easily meet! Late deliveries can result in cancellations or affect your reputation.
2. Add Your Question – Allows you to add relative questions to be asked from the client in order to proceed further. Here you will get five options in which you can format your questions, these are:

• Text Box
• Text Area
• Drop Down
• Checkbox
• Radio Buttons

 

Do not forget to publish your service.

 

Customers and vendors can manage their order via manage order page which admin has already mapped from backend settings.
You will get a clear tabular format to easily navigate to a required order.

Click on “view” button beside particular order to view its details.

 

Woo Sell Services allows sellers to sell services to their customers/users. This plugin will add the ability to WooCommerce to sell services just like a product is sold.
Woo Sell Services creates a new product type called “Services”. This plugin allows the vendor to sell services and adds a conversation section between Shop Vendors and Customers so that all the requirements of service can be given by the Customer.
It also provides a feature of product review where customers can give their reviews and ratings for the purchased services.

Following are the features of Woo Sell Services plugin:

• Creates a new product type called “Woo Services” to sell services.
• Allows vendors to add questions that will be required to process service.
• Vendors can add multiple questions and order will start after the customer will submit order requirements.
• Customers and Vendors can easily manage their orders in a tabular form.
• Provides an easy to communicate feature, a dedicated conversation section for each order.
• Vendor and customer will also receive emails for each conversation trigger.
• Allows customers and vendor to add reviews and ratings!

Woo Sell Services is a WooCommerce add-on and hence requires WooCommerce plugin to work.

To install the plugin follow the below steps:

1. Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your wbcomdesigns.com profile.
2. Upload the “Woo Sell Services” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

Highlights of general settings are setting seller roles, enabling/disabling notification and enabling product review.

Navigate to Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> Woo Sell Service >> General you will get following options:

• Services email notification – You will have the option to enable or disable email settings related to services.
• Conversation email notification – Do you also want each conversation notification in your email inbox? Here you can enable email settings related to the conversation.
• Conversation notification – Do not miss any conversation by enabling this option and receive a notification related to conversation each time.

 

• Enable conversation notification tab – Allow customer to see all conversation notification within a tab of woocommerce my account page.
• Enable the review sync with  woo review – Enable this option if you wanna sync the customers feedback to woo review.
• Redirect to conversation page – Redirect to conversation page after service order place.
  Seller role(s) – Here you can select all the related seller/vendor roles.
• Send Email to support Agent – We are introducing the new functionality to add a support agent in our service. By enabling this option , you are giving your site users to add additional support agents to their services.
  
  
• Order Service Detail Page – Set up an order Service detail page from here.
• Notice : payment not Processed – Display notice on single service order page when order has been “On Hold Or Pending Payment”
• Notice: service not active – Display notice on single service order page when order has been “Canceled, Refunded or Failed”
• Seller Roles – Select roles you want to have the ability to sell service online.
• Send Customer Notification – Set an automated timeline to send a notification to the customers if they haven’t filled up the requirement before the timeline ends.
• Auto Complete Service Order After – From here you can set an automated time to accept final delivery in case the user did not accept it.

 

 

 

Head towards Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> Woo Sell Services >> Images you will get the following option to set your own brand image or image of your choice at different order process levels.

You will get the following levels to set images at:

Order Started Image – This image will be displayed on the requirement page at order started logo place.

Order Requirement Image – This image will be displayed on the requirement page at order requirement logo place.

Final delivery sent – This image will be displayed on requirement page at final delivery sent logo place.

Final delivery accepted – This image will be displayed on the requirement page at final delivery accepted logo place.

Order Review Image – This image will be displayed on the requirement page at order review logo place.

Order completed – This image will be displayed on requirement page at order completed logo place.

 

 

This ultimate feature allows vendors and customers to keep track of the individual order easily. Admin can assign the service status widget. Woo Sell Services provide some useful widgets by which customers can easily look for progress of each order by a single widget.

Admin can follow the below steps to set the widget:

1. Navigate to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets.

2. Set a “service status (Woo Sell Services)” widget inside “WooCommerce Right sidebar”.

 

 

This tab will redirect you to the WooCommerce << Settings << Emails here you can manage all your emails.

Vendors can create a product of type service – Plugins add a new product type called “service” if your product is a service type then do not forget to check the corresponding checkbox.

 

Vendors can add multiple questions – As soon as service type is selected, “requirement” section will appear that will allow a vendor to add multiple questions that are required to process service and the estimated time in which work will complete, make sure to set a delivery time that you can easily meet! Late deliveries can result in cancellations or affect your reputation. Order will start after the customer will submit order requirements.

 

 

Customers and vendors can easily manage their orders – A sleek tabular layout is available for customers and vendors to easily manage their orders via my account page from front-end.

 

 

Easy conversation between a vendor and customer – This add-ons provides an easy to communicate feature, a dedicated conversation section for each order.

 

Expand your business with ratings and reviews – Allows customers and vendor to add reviews and ratings! To share their experience of working with each other.

It is the Most Powerful Solution To Convert Your Reign Based WordPress Theme Into A Scalable Marketplace.

• Color & Typography Options
• Store Listing: Grid & List Layout
• Awesome Dokan Pages Design
• Awesome WooCommerce Pages Design
• Single Product Page Customization
• Mega Menu Support
• Additional Dokan Widgets
• Ready To Use Demos

 

• Useful Dokan Widgets

 

Get useful and attractive widgets to improve vendor and category listing for enhanced user experience

 

• Customizable single product page

 

Transform single product pages to your specific brand-oriented design and enable effective branding

 

• Elaborate WOoCommerce Page Design

 

Keep users engaged on your site from the time they come on your site to the time they leave with compelling WooCommerce Page Designs.

 

• Exceptional Store Listing Option

 

Attract new customers with exceptional grid and list layouts for store listings and make your site easy to navigate.

Reign Dokan is a Dokan add-on and hence requires the Dokan Pro plugin to work.

To install the plugin follow the below steps:

• Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your  wbcomdesigns.com profile.
• Upload the “Reign Dokan Addon ” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
• Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

Reign Dokan Addon provides vendor listing widgets. Admin can place it anywhere into his side to give end-users a better experience.

Admin can follow the below steps to set the widget:

• Navigate to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets.
• Set a “Reign: Vendors” widget inside the “Dokan store sidebar”.

We have placed the widgets under the ‘Dokan store sidebar’. Set that particular sidebar in the “Store” page(admin can set the page according to his choice).

This plugin provides two types of layouts for store listing

• Grid Layout
• List Layout

wpForo is one of the most popular forum plugins. Using forums with your courses will increase the engagement of your learners with your courses.

Admin can allow students to enroll in ALL or ANY of the associated courses.

Admin can allow Read-Only Access to students while accessing forums.

Offers a dedicated widget— Course WPforo Forum to see the forum list associated with a single course.

• Options for single forum
• Allows Read only access

To install the plugin. Follow the steps given below

• Download the zip file and extract it.
• Upload “learndash wpforo” directory to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
• Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.
• Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard > Plugins > Add New to add this plugin.

• • Go to Dashboard > Forums > Add New 

When you are going to create a new forum, Here at the end of the page you can see ‘LearnDash WPforo Setting tab’ to configure.

• • • LearnDash WPforo Setting tab
      • Associated Curses

Site admin can associate courses to forums. These courses can be single or multiple.

• • • Post Limit Access

• • • • All : If you select ‘ALL’ then the learner has to be enrolled in all courses before they will be able to access the forum

• • • • Any : If you select ‘ANY’ then the learner needs to only be enrolled in any one of the associated courses in order to access and participate.

• • • • Message shown to users without access

Site admin can update a customized message here. This message will be visible to non enrolled user at the time of accessing the forum.

• • • Forum View

By default, anyone who attempts to access a course forum who doesn’t meet the linked Courses criteria will be presented with an access denied message.

However, you may have some situations where you want to allow non-enrolled learners the ability to still read through the forum content, but without the ability to post.

 

 

Learndash Wpforo provides a widget to see the forum list  associated with a single course named Course WPforo Forum. Simply drag and drop this widget to Single course Sidebar.

Reign Learndash addon comes with some important and extensive features to make e-learning more easy with reign learnmate theme.

We are here to help! Learnmate includes extensive documentation to set up every aspect of the theme, but if you need further assistance we’ll be right there with you on our fully monitored Support!

Yes this plugin needs Larndash LMS to work.

Learnmate Features: 

• Course Review

Add credibility to your course by allowing the students to share their review about their course.

• Related Course 

Encourage your students to get enrolled in more courses that makes sense.

• Course Coming Soon

Start preparing your students base before actual releasing the course.

• Learndash Extra Widgets

Take Course accessibility to the next level with our addon widgets.This addon provide following widgets with reign theme :

• • Course archive sidebar
  • Single Course Sidebar
  • Single Lesson Sidebar
  • Single Topic Sidebar
  • Reign ld Course Category
  • Reign ld course list
  • Reign ld course overview
  • Reign ld course search

• Unparalleled Course Layout

Show course features,content, instructor information and review at one place.

• Grid and List Layout

Visually appealing layouts for your course stack that helps to increase conversions.

• Awesome Learndash Pages

Make Learndash awesome E-learning capabilities come out with a spark. 

• Distraction-free reading 

Provide content focused E-Learning solutions to students.

• Three Different Layout for Single Course

Attract users with breathtaking three different course layouts.

• Filter On Course Archive

Hassle-free course searching with advanced search filters on the course archive page.

• Instructor Page with his Course Listing

Ease navigation to look for all the courses provided by the specific instructor.

• Meta boxes to add course features

Offers you with an option for a rapid, brief overview of what course contains.

 

To install the plugin follow the below steps:

• Download the zip file from My Account << Downloads section of your  wbcomdesigns.com profile.
• Upload the “Reign Learndash Addon” plugin to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory via FTP.
• Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu.

Alternatively, you can use WordPress Plugin installer from Dashboard >> Plugins >> Add New to add this plugin.

 

Reign LearnDash Addon has various options for an Admin to manage the Functionality.

• Go to Dashboard >Reign Settings >LearnDash > General

• Select Default Course Image
     From here Site admin can select default image to display at frontend.
• Disable Course Review Display :
     This will disable course reviews from listings and review tab at single course page.
• Allow guest users submit course reviews :
     This will let non enrolled users to submit course reviews.
• Disable Course Instructor tab :
      This will disable course instructor tab from learndash tabs section at single course page.
• Single Course Layout:
  User can choose any single course layout:
  1) Default
  2) Udemy
  3) Teachable
• Course Category Filter:
      This will enable course category filter on course archive page.
• Course Instructor Filter:
       This will enable course instructor filter on course archive page.
• Hide Course Content Tab:
       This will enable to hide course content tab on course detail page. And display course content below
  description inside course description tab.
• Related Course
• Enable Related Courses
         By enabling this, site admin allows the student to see related/similar courses list i.e courses of same                   category.
• Heading for related courses
         Site admin can change the heading which will be reflected at front end.
• Number of related courses show
        From this field site admin can select the number of course that would be listed under the related                           course-list
• LearnDash BuddyPress Integration

Reign Learndash Addon provide you the functionality to Integrate your Learndash activities with buddyPress.

• Enable BuddyPress group Integration:
       This will enable BuddyPress group integration with LearnDash.

 

LearnDash Dashboard gives the admin, instructors, and students a dashboard of their own, where they can easily manage anything related to their courses, lessons, and contact others.
Website admin can adjust each block as per their requirement if you want to disable some section, plugin setting offers you do it easily.
The plugin has inbuilt support for WooCommerce and Learndash WooCommerce add-on.

 

1. Instructor Role
   • Learndash Dashboard plugin provides Instructor role, Which has the full access to create and manage courses.Know more about instructor role here.
2. Dedicated widgets for admin instructor, group leader, and students.
3. Commission calculation and reports.
   • Based on WooCommerce and LearnDash
   • Default method to sell courses
4. Course-specific reports for the instructor, admin and group leader that include
   • Pie graph of a number of students who have started the course, completed the course, and yet to start.
   • Detailed student wise report for a specific course.
5. Student specific details for admin, instructor, and group leader to display pie chart for the following:
   • Course Progress
   • Assignment Progress
   • Quiz Progress
6. Email Options:
   • Admin, Instructors, and Group Leaders can send emails to their students.
   • It allows sending emails to many students at a time based upon selected course.
7. Private Message Option:
   • With BuddyPress integration, we added Private messages option at the dashboard that allows sending messages to students from the dashboard.
8. Activity Feed: It displays and logs all the activities done by students on the right-hand side.
9. Dedicate Menu For Dashboard: We have hooked a WordPress menu at dashboard which can be managed from Appearance >> Menu
10. Shortcode – Shortcodes for the dashboard and student logbook, you are free to display the dashboard on any page as per your choice, you can also insert inside template files.
11. Sleek Layout – LearnDash Dashboard provides the easiest way for an Admin, Instructor and Student as well to view every detail of their courses at one place!
12. Learndash Notes Integration
    • With learndash notes integration, a dedicated section of course specific notes added by the students for will show up at Learndash dashboard.

My dashboard page is automatically created on plugin activation.  A common dashboard page for all users to manage activities having the ability to display role-specific content and apart from this you have the freedom to display what you want.

Admin can manually create this page using the shortcode provided by the plugin. Check here.

 

Navigate to Dashboard >> WB Plugins >> LD Dashboard >> General
Following are option admin can enable or disable to show on the dashboard:

 

1. Enable Course Count – Enable this option if you want to show the total LearnDash course count. Number of courses added by the instructor or admin or Group Leader will display on their dashboard page.
2. Enable Quizzes Count – Enable this option if you want to show total Quizzes count.
3. Enable Assignments Count – This will have two options enable the first option if you want to show Assignments statistics. Enable the second option if you want to show total Completed Assignments count. Otherwise, display total pending Assignments count.
4. Enable Essays Count – Enable this option if you want to show total pending Essays count .
5. Enable Lessons Count – Enable this option if you want to show total count.
6. Enable Topics Count – Enable this option if you want to show total Topics count.
7. Enable Student Count – Enable this option if you want to show total Student count.
8. Enable Instructor Earning: Enable this option if you want to show Instructor’s Earning on his dashboard.
9. Enable instructor statistics – Enable this option if you want to show instructor statistics.
10. Enable course progress – Enable this option if you want to show course progress.
11. Global commission – Enable this option if you want to enable commission on courses. Enter global commission rate for all course author.
12. Welcome Message  : Ld Dashboard has a default welcome message on My dashboard page . This message can later be customized by the admin. See How to change this.
13. Welcome screen Cover Image : : LD Dashboard provides a welcome cover image that can later be changed by the admin, through plugin settings. See how to change Cover Image.

 

Admin can easily manage commissions by navigating through
Dashboard << WB Plugins << LD Dashboard << Instructors

Here he can see the list of all the instructors and admin can easily set his commission under commission percentage table.

Learndash DashBoard plugin provide a feature to set and manage the commission easily.He also can export the commission report in CSV Format . Follow the below steps to access the commission report

1. Navigate to Dashboard << WB Plugins << LD Dashboard << Commission Report
2. This Report has following sections
   • Order Id
     • This column shows the ID of the order(Learndash course), purchased by the student.
   • Course Name
     • This column shows the course name. This is a clickable link. Course detail will be accessed on click of this link.
   • Actual Price
     • This column shows the actual price of the course.
   • Admin Commission %
     • Admin Commission in percentage ,  that is set by the admin will display here. know more about How Admin can set Commission .
   • Paid Earning
     • In this row, the earnings of selected instructor that is paid by Admin will display.
   • Unpaid Earning
     • In this row, the earnings of selected instructor that is unpaid by Admin will display.This is automatically calculated by Learndash dashboard plugin, after deducting the Admin Commission.
   • Pay
     • Pay Instuctor’s earning on click of this button. Know more about How Instructor will get the commission.
   • Export CSV
     • Export Commission report in CSV Format  on click of this button.

 

It is not possible for an instructor to manage the course him self all the time. Some times this requirement arise that he needs a coauthor to manage the course or we can say that he want to assign some  module of the courses to another instructor to release the burden.Keeping this important requirement in mind, LearnDash Dashboard Plugin provides a feature to add a co-author in the course.To add a co-author in a single course follow the below steps:

1. Navigate to WB Plugins > Ld dashboard > Courses> Edit Course > Add More Instructor
2. Select the instructor
3. Click the Add Instructor button
4. You can also Search the instructor’s name from the search box.

 

Note :  These assigned instructor’s can later be unassigned from the course using the same method.

Admin can create instructor in two ways.LearnDash Dashboard plugin provides ability to users to be registered as an instructor.This plugin provides two roles

1. Instructor Pending
   • When a new user register himself as an instructor by filling the form , He will not automatically be approved. this user will display under Instructor Pending role on admin’s end under users . Now admin will approve that user by following below steps:
     • Login to wordpress dashboard
     • Navigate to Users >  All Users > Instructor Pending
     • Select the user
     • click on the dropdown named Change Role To
     • Change role from Instructor Pending to Instructor role
     • Your newly Registered instructor is ready to sell the courses now.
2. Instructor
   • Instructor role has the ability to create and sell the courses manage the students etc.

Know more about How users can do register himself as an instructor.

 

This is Learndash default feature. If a course Access setting is open then all users will automatically be enrolled in that course. Hence This course  will display on users My dashboard page.

Learndash dashboard provides a new menu location called LD Dashboard Profile Menu. By default this location has three menu item :

1. My Dashboard : Displays Learndash related statistics.
2. Courses : Displays courses of the logged in user.
3. Logout : Triggers Logout action on click.

If you want to add a new menu item ,

1. Navigate to Appearence>menu>select a menu/Add a new menu
2. Choose the items
3. Tick mark the LD Dashboard Profile Menu location
4. Save menu and check My Dashboard page . You can see that additional item now.

Check the video here.

Learndash dashboard Provides two pages.

• • My Dashboard
  • Instructor Registration

Both pages will automatically be created and mapped on plugin activation. Admin can also manually create them using short codes. This plugin gives a dedicated section to create map and preview the pages.

 

1. Navigate to WB Plugins > LD Dashboard > Page mapping
2. Map the pages
3. Click on view button to preview the page
4. If pages are not being created or somehow you have lost them. Create using the shortcodes.
   • My Dashboard
     • My dashboard page uses the shortcode [ld_dashboard] . To create this page, go to pages>Add New. Create the page and then map it from the plugin settings.

• • Instructor Registration
    • Instructor Registration page uses the shortcode [ld_instructor_registration]. To create this page, go to pages Add new. Create the page and the map it from the plugin settings.

 

As we know that Learndash Dashboard provides a Default Welcome message on My Dashboard page. Admin has the ability to customize this message. To customize the message follow the below steps :

1. Navigate to WB Plugins > General Settings > Welcome Message
2. Change the Message.
3. Save The changes.
4. Navigate to front end to view the changed message.

 

LearnDash Dashboard provides a default image on My Dashboard page. Admin has the option to change this image from the plugin’s backend settings. To change the cover image follow the below steps:

1. Navigate to WB Plugins > LD Dashboard> General Settings >Welcome Screen Cover Image
2. Click on Upload Welcome Cover Image button
3. Select the image and upload
4. Check the front end to view the effect

Note: In Case no image is set as a cover image LD Dashboard will display it’s default image.

 

Learndash Dashboard provides seemless integration with BuddyPress, LMS Notes, Email and BP User to do list.These integrations are useful for site admin, Instructors, Students and Group Leaders.

Following are the basic integrations are provided by the LD Dashborad.

1. LearnDash Email Integration : Enable this option if you want to enable Email integration. If this option is enable, Site Admin, Site Instructors and Group Leaders can sent email to their students based upon a particular course.For a detailed description check this article.
2. LearnDash BuddyPress Group Integration : Enable this option if you want to integrate buddypress groups integration into your site.To know more about BuddyPress group integration follow this article.
3. LearnDash BuddyPress Messaging Integration :Enable this option if you want to enable buddypress messaging integration. To know more about BuddyPress messaging integration, check this article.

To use these settings , Admin has to enable these settings first. Follow the bellow steps to enable these settings.

1. Navigate to WB Plugins>LD Dashboard>Integration
2. Enable the option
3. Save the changes.

As we know that all instructors want to send a notice or any update to their students in a bulk,Keeping this feature in mind LearnDash DashBoard provides LearnDash Email Integration which allows the following user roles to send email to their students :

1. Site Admin : Site Admin has the authority to send the email to all student registered on his site.
2. Instructor : Instructors can send  emails to the students that are enrolled in his courses Or we can say that course specific student will show for a instructor to send the email. instructor
3. Group Leader : A Group Leader can send the email to the students that are  associated to the group belongs to him.

• • • • Select Course : Select the course from the dropdown .
      • Select Students: Based upon the course selection, Select the students. You can select multiple students at a time.
      • Email Subject : Enter the Email subject here.
      • Mail Body : Write your detailed message here with the help of text Editor.

Note : No Instructors or group leaders can be able to sent the email to the students that are enrolled in those courses which are not created by them, or they are not assigned as a course author in that particular course.

See how to assign the co-author in a course HERE.

 

Learndash Dashboard provides a feature of BuddyPress Group integration into your site. This feature helps to increase the engagement between the students and instructors. This feature also helps to solve course related problems. It works in the following manner

1. Admin or instructor will assign a BuddyPress group into the course.
2. When the group will be attached in a course, All previously joined member will  be removed from the group.
3. Enable/Disable to list student’s learning activities on group page.
4. As soon as a student will be enrolled in the course, He will join the attached group automatically.
5. He can see all group related activities from now.
6. Student can post his problems there on group Wall that can be solved by other group members.
7. Student  can also list his learning Activities on group. If he wants otherwise he can disable this.
8. Admin will sync the BuddyPress group from LearnDash DashBoard’s backend settings, If joined member’s list is not showing on front end.

If you are using BuddyPress in your learning website, You can use an important feature of BuddyPress messaging integration into your website. with this feature Admin instructors, and Group leaders can directly communicate with their students using  this feature.

1. Site Admin : Site Admin has the authority to send the BP Messaging to all student registered on his site.
2. Instructor : Instructors can send  emails to the students that are enrolled in his courses.
3. Group Leader : A Group Leader can send BP Message to the students that are associated to the group, belongs to him.

• Select Students : Select the students from the dropdown .
• Enter Message Subject: Enter the message subject.
• Enter Message : Enter Message and click Send Message button.
• A buddyPress notification for a new message will be sent to the selected students.

 

As Learndash dashboard provides My Dashboard and Instructor registration form. It is necessary for the admin to set them as a menu item so that all site users and visitors could be able access them easily.

follow below steps to insert these pages as menu item.

1. Create and map pages. See how to create and map LD DashBoard’s pages HERE .
2. Navigate to Appearance>Menus
3. Select my DashBoard and Instructor registration pages
4. Click on Add to Menu button
5. Now these pages can easily be accessible to all the users.

Learndash dashboard provides a dedicated  Instructor Registration Form Through which site users or site visitors can register himself as instructor.

1. How Site Users(Logged In Users) can become an instructor
   • Users will click on Instructor Registration Menu.
   • A button Become an instructor will appear
   • Click that button
   • You will See a form
   • Fill the details and click the submit button
   • Your Role Status as Pending will be shown there
   • Status Will be changed once Admin approves it.
2. How Site Visitors(Guest Users) can become an instructor
   • Users will click on Instructor Registration Menu
   • You will See a form
   • Fill the details and click the submit button
   • Your Role Status as Pending will be shown there
   • Status Will be changed once Admin approves it.

 

 

Know More about How Admin will create or approve new instructor.

LD Dashboard provides a feature to set course commission for the admin. Follow below steps to set admin commission

1. Navigate to WB Plugins > LD Dashboard > Instructor > Set Commission
2. Set Commission Percentage
3. Click Update button and save changes.
4. Admin can also manage commission report. know more about Easily Accessible Commission Report.

The transaction will be handled by the payment gateway set on your site, the plugin only allows admin to set commission percentage per instructor.Admin will pay the commision into instructor’s via the payment gateway used on your LMS site.

Learndash Dashboard provides a dedicated My Dashboard page which has the  [ld_dashboard] short code.See also How to Create my dashboard page.

It has following options.

1. Dashboard menu
   1. My DashBoard : My DashBoard tab shows following options:
      1. Statistics Cards
         • Upper section of Dashboard shows statics of following data:
           • Instructor Earning
           • Number of courses
           • Number of Quizzes
           • Number of assignment completed/pending
           • Number of Lessons
           • Number of topics
           • Number of students
      2. Instructor Statistics
         • It has three dedicated sub sections:
           • Instructor Earning graph:
             • This section shows instructor’s total earning graph during one year. hover on graph to view Earning in price .
           • Course Earning data
             • A written information about course specific earning.
           • Course wise Earning graph
             • shows Course wise earning graph.
      3. Course Details
         • This section displays course wise information in following way
           • A course dropdown is given there , On selecting of which students progress enrolled in that course(eg: How many students have completed,started on not started the course) will show in pie chart as well as in a form of student list . This list can also be exported in  a CSV format on click of Export CSV button.
      4. Student Details
         • This section displays student wise information in following way
           • A student dropdown is given there , On selecting of which following pie graphs will displayed :
             • Course Progress
               • Selected students all course progress in which he is enrolled. These courses are logged in instructors.This data shows in following values:
                 • Courses: Not Started in Percentage
                 • Courses: In Progress in Percentage
                 • Courses: Completed in percentage
             • Assignment Progress
               • Assignment progress pie chart will show related to courses in which student is enrolled.
                 • Assignment : Approved in percentage
                 • Assignment : Unapproved in percentage
                 • Assignment : Pending in percentage
             • Quiz Progress
               • Quiz progress pie chart will show related to courses in which student is enrolled.
                 • Quiz: Completed Quiz in percentage
                 • Quiz: Uncompleted Quiz in percentage
         • Couses progress bar section is also there,which shows courses progress for selected students, which can be exported in CSV format on click of Export CSV  button.
      5. Email
         • Instructor can contact with his students using LD Dashboard’s Mail feature. know more about How Email Integration works in LearnDash Dashboard.
      6. Message
         • Instructor send buddyPress messages to his students using this section. know more about How BuddyPress messaging integration works .
      7. Notes
         • In this section instructor will see the notes added by his students .
         • Note : Notes section will only show in your My DashBoard page if you have LMS Notes plugin installed and activated into your site.
   2. Courses
      • Courses page list of the courses enrolled by logged in user.
   3. Logout
      • On click of this button user will be logged out.
2. LiveFeed Widget:
   • This widget shows the feed of students that are enrolled in logged in instructors courses.

Learndash dashboard Provides various options on My Dashboard page for student.

 

 

Following is the detail of the options displayed on Student’s My DashBoard page:

1. Dashboard menu
   1. My DashBoard : My DashBoard tab shows following options:
      1. Statistics Cards
         • Upper section of Dashboard shows statics of following data:
           • Courses
           • Quizzes
           • Assignments
           • Essays
      2. Course Details
         • This section displays course wise information in following way
           • A course dropdown is given there , On selecting of which students course quiz and assignment progress enrolled in that selected course graph chart.
           • There is also a Course Progress section in which Progress bar for the courses enrolled by the logged in users will display.
      3. Notes
         • In this section students will see the notes added by himself.
   2. Courses
      • Courses page list of the courses enrolled by logged in user.
   3. Logout
      • On click of this button user will be logged out.
2. LiveFeed Widget:
   • This widget shows the feed of logged in Students.