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.
Enable Assignments
Read more: Enable AssignmentsAssignments may be enabled for each individual lesson and/or topic within your course. They are completely optional, but provide an additional way to monitor the user’s comprehension of course material. This article will explain how to enable assignment uploads so that users can submit assignments for you to review. If you’ve already done this, check…
Manage Assignments
Read more: Manage AssignmentsThis article will walk you through all the ways in which you can manage uploaded assignments. If you have not yet read our article on how to enable assignments, we recommend reviewing that first. Viewing Assignments By default, admins with the Administrator role will be able to fully manage all uploaded assignments, and Group Leaders…
Global Assignment Settings
Read more: Global Assignment SettingsThere are a few global settings that apply to all assignments. We recommend adjusting these settings before allowing users to upload assignments. To access your global assignment settings: Search Enable this setting if you want assignments to be included in search results when using the default WordPress search form on the front-end of your site.…
Topic Page Content
Read more: Topic Page ContentThe topic page content is where you have full control over adding whatever content you’d like to your topic. If you’ve added a quiz to your topic, LearnDash will automatically list it at the bottom of the topic page. The topic page content you add here is your own custom information that will be displayed…
Topic Display and Content Settings
Read more: Topic Display and Content SettingsThe Topic Content and Display settings provide a way for you to use additional content in your topic, as well as make it a little more interactive. You can include additional topic materials, add some helpful logic to your video playback, allow users to upload assignments, and include a topic timer. Locating Topic Display and…
Sample (Free) Lessons
Read more: Sample (Free) LessonsThe LearnDash sample lesson feature makes it possible for people to view some of your course content without having to enroll into the course. When a user clicks on a sample lesson they can view that content without needing to log into an account, or having to enroll into the course. You can have an…
Video Progression
Read more: Video ProgressionVideo progression is a way to require users to watch the entirety of a video before they can mark content as complete. It can be used for both lessons & topics, and works the same way for both. By default, the video will appear above your page content, but you can place it manually on…
SCORM and xAPI
Read more: SCORM and xAPISCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 are supported for Articulate, iSpring, and Adobe Captivate by using a third-party add-on (GrassBlade xAPI Companion or Tin Canny add-on by Uncanny Owl). These add-ons allow you to insert the SCORM content into your LearnDash courses. NOTE Content created within LearnDash is not SCORM compliant. If you go the route…