How to set up online course using Learndash plugin:

Selecting a LMS for your E-learning system is a quite difficult task. It requires a deep research and a well prepared checklist you wants in your system.

We have multiple LMS available in market like LearnDash, Lifter LMS, Tutor, Sensai, Tutor etc, But it totally depends upon your requirements which plugin you want to use.

LearnDash is one of the popular LMS plugins to setup an online learning system.It covers almost all features that a learning management system needs.

It is the best available solution. Learndash is a paid plugin with these available pricing options.

1. You can buy this LMS plugin for a single site in 199$ basic package. It provides you
   • unlimited courses and users: Create as many courses and users you want.
   • course content protection: Content is only available to enrolled users.
   • Drip-feed lessons: Schedule lessons to become available on a specific date or “x” days after enrollment.
   • Advanced Quizzing: Choose from 8 different question formats
   • Certificates & Badges: Award certificates or badges for completing lessons, quizzes, or courses.
   • Course Forums: Private-access forums for those enrolled into the course.
   • Email Notifications: Automatically trigger email notifications based on course activity.
   • Free Integrations: Access to a growing list of integrations with other popular applications like woocommerce, BuddyPress, EDD and much more.
   • Unlimited support and updates for one calendar year.
   • Instantly clone the entire LearnDash demo site.
2. With Plus package in 229$ it provides you all the basic features with some extra
   • Up to 10 Site Licenses: Updates & Support for LearnDash+ProPanel on up to 10 sites.
   • Includes ProPanel: ProPanel enhances your LearnDash admin experience by consolidating reporting and assignment management, giving you the ability to send course specific communications, and showing the real-time activity of your courses.
     • See real-time activity as users take your courses.
     • Approve, delete, and manage all assignments & essays.
     • View and download user course progress & quiz results.

To know more about Learndash pro panel, Click here.

1. With Pro Package in $369 : you can get all the features for an unlimited number of sites.Updates & Support for LearnDash+ProPanel on unlimited sites.

We will show how to setup a simple learndash course step by step

• Install LearnDash Plugin :

Purchase the plugin and install it in your site. Click here to know how to install a WordPress plugin. Now               you can see we have installed the plugin and activate it.

• Create a course

Now go to Dashboard and click on Learndash LMS. It will open the first option of setting up the course.

• LearnDash Course structure is as follows:

  

  Course Hierarchy

   

  1. So, first of all, add some categories before adding the course.To add the course categories navigate to Courses >Settings > Course Categories and add a new category.

     

                    Course categories

                  Add New Category

  2. Now Click on Add new and start creating a course.Follow the steps mentioned in the image.

     

     New Course

     

     As we input like this

     

     We can set a featured image to course

      

  3.  Now Its time to set lesson,topics and quizzes via the Course Builder options.

Add Lessons, Topics and quizzes

As We input like this

4.Now click on Setting tab to add course related settings.

• 1. 1. 1. Display and Content options

        

        Course setup options

         

         

     2. Now implement Course access setting.
  2.                   Course Access Setting
  3. 3. We can set course prerequisite on the basis of our requirements.
•              Add Course Prerequisites

•            4.Now set the order in which the course content will be accessible to the enrollees.
  1. 
  2.          Course Navigation Setting

• Create/Update a Lesson

Create a new lesson and link it to your Learndash Course OR Update the Lessons that you had added before          using course builder.

1. 1. So, first of all, Let’s explore the settings  first

      

      

      Lesson Settings

      Lessons Taxonomies :

      With this setting manage your lesson with different types of learndash taxonomies.Following are the taxonomies included under lesson settings:

1. Lesson Categories : Enable to include categories into your lessons

2. Lesson Tags : Enable to include lesson tags into your lessons.

3. WP Post Categories : Enable to include post categories .

4. WP Post Tags : Enable to include Post Tags.

                                   Lessons Custom Post type options:

With these settings control lesson post type options.

1. Lesson Serach : Enable Lesson search on the basis of Logged in users                                                                                                only or enrolled users only

2. Archive Page : Enable/Disable Archive Page.

3. Editor Supported Setting: This setting includes following options:

a. Featured image

b. Image

c. Custom Fields

d. Revisions

• 1. Now Click on Add new and start creating a lesson. Follow the steps mentioned in the image. Associate the course and publish. Create some more lessons and associate it with the same course.
• Add Title and content of lesson

  

  Lesson Setting : Display and content option

  

  Lesson Setting :  Lesson access setting

• Create/Update Topics

  Now it is the time to create topic and link it to the lesson and courses. or update an existing topic.

  Topics

  1. Topic List

You can see all the topics listed here. These can be edited later. On the top right corner You can see Add New button to add a new topic.

• 1. Add A new Topic

     

  2. Topic Settings

     

     

     Topic Settings

     Display and Content Option: Add topic material, Videos,Assignments etc.

     Topic Access Settings: From this setting attach the topic to lesson and courses..

      

• Create/Update Quizzes

• Add a new Quiz

Give a name to the quiz, add content, set featured image etc.

• Quiz Builder

With Course builder settings, add Question and answers in the created quiz.

• Include Essays in Quiz

Learndash gives several types of question to be added under quiz. Essay is one of them. Submitted essays will be available to view on admin dashboard.

• Add Groups

Learndash provides a new feature of groups , You can create a group, assign courses,users into it, Manage the settings and much more.

• Add new Group

Add course titile,Content Featured Image, Categories,tags etc.

• Update Settings

With these settings add course material, Certificate, course content and much more.

Manage the group access setting.

• Assign Courses into Group

Assign courses to group. If you enable automatic group enrollment, Then users will be auto enrolled in group in case they enrolled themselves in an associated course.

• Assign Users Into Groups

Assign users to group. Assigned users can will be auto enrolled to the group.

• Alright! Now you can continue with your Learndash setup.