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.
Course Builder
Read more: Course BuilderThe LearnDash Course Builder is a visual drag-and-drop tool designed to help you create, structure, and organize your online courses easily. Instead of manually adding lessons, topics, and quizzes one by one, the Course Builder allows you to see your entire course layout in one place and make changes instantly. With the Course Builder, you…
Topics
Read more: TopicsIf you’ve got a lot of content, you can use topics to create even more hierarchy in your course. Some course admins might only create Section Headings, and add Lessons to each section, but topics give you one additional level of organization. NOTE: Topics must be added to lessons. You cannot have a course with…
Assignments
Read more: AssignmentsAssignments allow learners to submit files as part of a course. They support deeper engagement by allowing users to upload work such as essays, worksheets, images, or videos to a Lesson or Topic. This can help instructors assess comprehension, creativity, and practical application. Think of assignments as digital take-home tasks ideal for encouraging critical thinking…
Certificates
Read more: CertificatesCertificates are a great way to reward your students for a job well done. You might want to offer an official certification, or just give them a tangible way to prove their competence. You can award certificates in two ways: Upon successful completion of a course Upon the passing of a quiz Using certificates in…
Quizzes
Read more: QuizzesQuizzes provide a way for you to gauge how well your students are grasping your course material. LearnDash quizzes offer quite a few options to customize the experience. This section will cover all of those options in detail. You may also check out our other documentation about quizzes, such as how to import/export quizzes and…
Lessons
Read more: LessonsLessons are a place for you to start building out your actual course material. You can include text, images, video, audio, PDFs and virtually any other type of third-party or embeddable content. This section will explain everything you can do with LearnDash Lessons—free sample lessons, timers, additional materials, assignments and more. If you want to…
Courses
Read more: CoursesCourses are the foundation of any learning experience in LearnDash. They define the structure of the curriculum, control learner access, and determine how content is delivered and completed. This section introduces the core tools and settings available for building, managing, and optimizing courses in LearnDash. Global Course Settings Global Course Settings apply site-wide defaults to…