LearnDash Course Management
Effective course management is the backbone of a high-quality online learning experience. LearnDash provides a comprehensive set of tools that allow you to control every aspect of your curriculum, from how content is delivered to how student progress is tracked. By mastering these management features, you can create a structured, engaging, and professional learning environment that guides students toward successful completion.
Within this section, you will find resources for configuring advanced course behaviors, such as setting up “Blended Learning” for a mix of online and in-person instruction, and using “Virtual Instructors” to provide AI-powered assistance. You can also manage access rules, such as lesson release schedules and course expiration dates, ensuring your content is consumed at the right pace. With the Course Dashboard, you gain a centralized view of your course’s performance, making it easier than ever to monitor enrollment and student success in real-time.
LearnDash Course Management
This collection offers in-depth guides for managing your LMS curriculum, including settings for lesson access, course completion, and student progression.
User Groups
Read more: User GroupsLearnDash Groups (memberships) give you the ability to group certain users together and assign a Group Leader who can track the progress and performance of any user in their group. Groups can have any number of courses associated with them, and anyone in that group will be automatically enrolled into the course(s). Creating and Managing…
Manage & Grade Essays
Read more: Manage & Grade EssaysThis article will show you how to manage, grade, download and comment on submitted essays. To learn more about setting up essays within a quiz, please read our article on the Essay Question Type. Accessing Submitted Essays This page will list all essays that have been submitted by all users, for all quizzes. Filter Essays…
Quiz Leaderboard
Read more: Quiz LeaderboardThe LearnDash Quiz Leaderboard feature allows quiz scores to be displayed publicly, so students can see how they rank among others. This friendly competition can help boost engagement and motivation to improve performance. Before You Begin How to Enable the Leaderboard To activate the leaderboard for a specific quiz: Leaderboard Settings Once the leaderboard is…
Quiz Custom Fields
Read more: Quiz Custom FieldsQuiz Custom Fields allow course creators to collect additional information from learners, either before the quiz begins or just before it ends. These fields are useful for gathering feedback, capturing learner details, or asking custom questions relevant to the course. NOTE: Custom fields are configured on a per-quiz basis. There is no option to set…
Quiz Results Display
Read more: Quiz Results DisplayThe quiz results page is where users land immediately after they finish a quiz. There are quite a few elements on this page, and you can control which ones to display. How to Access Settings NOTE: Quiz results page display settings are set on a quiz-by-quiz basis. They cannot be set globally. Heres an example…
Quiz Display & Content Settings
Read more: Quiz Display & Content SettingsLearnDash quizzes come with a plethora of display options. You can add materials, show/hide a handful of different elements, autostart quizzes, display numbering, randomize answers and more. How to Access Settings NOTE: Quiz display and content settings are set on a quiz-by-quiz basis. They cannot be set globally. Here’s an example of most of the…
Global Quiz Settings
Read more: Global Quiz SettingsThe LearnDash quiz settings screen is where you can set some global options that will apply to all quizzes on your site. Quiz settings are organized into a few sections, outlined below. To access your global quiz settings: Global Quiz Management & Display Settings Quiz Builder The quiz builder is enabled by default. It simplifies…
Quiz Builder
Read more: Quiz BuilderThe LearnDash quiz builder provides a quick, intuitive way to add, edit, move and delete all the questions in your quiz. This article explains how to use every aspect of the quiz builder to make creating quizzes and managing questions a breeze. NOTE: The quiz builder is enabled by default, but if you don’t see…