LearnDash
LearnDash is a powerful learning management system (LMS) designed to help you create and sell professional online courses directly from your WordPress site. This software provides the structure you need to organize educational content into courses, lessons, and topics, making it easy for your students to navigate their learning journey. By using LearnDash, you can transform your knowledge into a scalable digital product while maintaining full control over your content and user experience.
With a focus on engagement and student success, LearnDash includes features like automated emails, quizzes, and course certificates to reward progress. You can easily manage student enrollments, track individual performance, and set up various monetization options, such as one-time purchases or recurring subscriptions. This comprehensive toolset ensures you spend less time on technical management and more time creating high-quality educational material for your audience.
LearnDash topics
This collection provides step-by-step instructions for setting up LearnDash, managing course content, and handling student enrollments on your WordPress site.
Add Content to Your Lessons & Topics
Read more: Add Content to Your Lessons & TopicsNow that your course settings are configured, it’s time to add actual content to your lessons, topics, and quizzes using the LearnDash Course Builder. Editing Lesson Content To begin, return to the Builder tab and hover over any lesson, topic, or quiz. You’ll see options to Edit or Remove each item. Click Edit on your…
Course Settings Overview
Read more: Course Settings OverviewNow that your course outline is built, it’s time to configure how learners will access and move through your course using the Course Settings tab. This section gives you full control over enrollment, payment, prerequisites, and progression. Course Access Settings Define how users gain and maintain access to your course. Choose from several access types:…
Lesson 2: How to Use the Course Builder to Add Lessons, Topics, and Quizzes
Read more: Lesson 2: How to Use the Course Builder to Add Lessons, Topics, and QuizzesThis video walks you through how to use the LearnDash drag-and-drop Course Builder to create and organize your course using sections, lessons, topics, and quizzes. Getting Started To begin, navigate to LearnDash LMS > Courses from your WordPress dashboard.Click “Add New” to open a new course page. Here, you’ll: Click “Save Draft” once your course…
Lesson 1: How to Build Your First Course
Read more: Lesson 1: How to Build Your First CourseLearn how to build a course from the ground up using the intuitive LearnDash drag-and-drop Course Builder—no technical skills required. This video also shows you how to use the Course Creation Wizard to instantly generate a full course using a YouTube playlist, making setup faster than ever. Whether you’re starting from scratch or repurposing existing…
Dashboard Overview: Challenge Exams, Coupons, Assignments, Design, Reports, Add-ons, & Settings
Read more: Dashboard Overview: Challenge Exams, Coupons, Assignments, Design, Reports, Add-ons, & SettingsThis final section of the dashboard walkthrough introduces additional tools and settings that help you personalize, monetize, and manage your LearnDash site more effectively. Challenge Exams Challenge Exams allow learners to test out of a course by proving their knowledge upfront. For example: Coupons The Coupons tab becomes available when LearnDash registration is enabled. Once…
Dashboard Overview: Quizzes, Questions, Certificates, & Groups
Read more: Dashboard Overview: Quizzes, Questions, Certificates, & GroupsThis video explains how to manage some of the most powerful learning tools in LearnDash: Quizzes, Questions, Certificates, and Groups—all designed to enhance engagement, track progress, and personalize the learner experience. Quizzes Quizzes are your primary tool for assessing learners. In the Quizzes tab, you can: Questions Each quiz is made up of individual questions.…
Create Dynamic Learning Paths with Challenge Exams
Read more: Create Dynamic Learning Paths with Challenge ExamsWe are introducing Learning Paths, a new way to allow your students to test out of courses and move up to more complex, advanced courses thanks to Challenge exams. Challenge exams are quick and simple to set up thanks to being built with the native block editor interface in WordPress. Was this article helpful? Yes…
See the New Built-In LearnDash Coupon Feature in Action
Read more: See the New Built-In LearnDash Coupon Feature in ActionThe latest update for LearnDash has made coupon creation simpler. We now have coupon support for both flat rate and percentage-based discounts natively built into our plugin. This gives you more control over how you market and sell your courses without having to install any additional e-commerce plugin. Join this live webinar to learn how…