The LearnDash Instructor Role add-on transforms your LMS into a multi-instructor marketplace by allowing you to onboard independent teachers to create and manage their own courses. This powerful tool provides a clear separation between site administrators and content creators, giving instructors the autonomy they need while keeping your site’s core settings secure. By empowering others to share their expertise, you can rapidly expand your course catalog and reach a wider audience of learners.

A key feature of this add-on is the Frontend Dashboard, which allows instructors to build lessons, manage quizzes, and track student progress without ever accessing the WordPress backend. You can also configure automated commission structures and instant payouts via PayPal, making it easy to manage financial relationships with your teaching staff. Whether you are building a niche training site or a large-scale educational platform, the Instructor Role provides the professional framework needed to manage a collaborative learning environment efficiently.

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Use the administration guides and instructor onboarding tutorials compiled below to deploy multi-vendor permissions, manage course approval pipelines, and track instructor revenue.

Adding Instructors
Now that you are familiar with the Dashboard, you have the ability as an Admin to add instructors to your website. You can add instructors to your website in various ways: Was this article helpful? Yes No Thank you for your input. Thank you for your feedback.
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Commission Logs
Commission logs help you as an admin keep track of the payments you have made to your instructors. Along with recording the logs you can also edit, delete and export the commission logs. How Commission Logs are recorded An important note first, the commission logs are only recorded and the below actions are only performed…
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Create Learning Content And Quizzes
Once Instructors have been added to the website, they can log in and access the Instructor Dashboard to create new courses and edit them from the Courses menu in the LearnDash LMS menu. Similarly, Instructors have access to and can create Lessons, Topics, Quizzes, and Questions from the Instructor Dashboard. They can also create new…
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Elementor Compatibility
The Frontend Course Creator with Elementor Support is a powerful feature that allows administrators and Instructors to access the Elementor Editor directly from the frontend of the course creation platform. This feature provides a seamless and user-friendly way to create, edit, and manage course content while limiting backend access and still providing full Elementor support.…
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Frontend Course Creator
The Frontend Course Creator The Frontend Course Creator allows theAdministratorsandInstructorsto create and edit a LearnDash course on the frontend of the website. Activating Frontend Course Creator (FCC) Admin can activate/deactivate FCC from WP dashboard LearnDash LMS Instructors Frontend Course Creator Frontend Course Creator Setting Tab The Frontend Course Creator Settings Important:In order for the Frontend…
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Frontend Dashboard for Instructors: Gutenberg Blocks List
The Frontend Dashboard for Instructors and admin is made up of Gutenberg block making the dashboard fully customizable or extendable. These blocks can be used individually or in combination to create a seamless frontend dashboard for managing courses with ease. Dashboard Tabs The Dashboard Tabs block is essentially a versatile dashboard builder that allows you…
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Frontend Dashboard: Installation Guide
The Frontend Dashboard for Instructors (and Admins) allows access to core LearnDash and other related add-on functions from the frontend of your website without the need to provide instructors with backend access. This dashboard serves as an alternative to the previous Instructor dashboard, which was a simplified and access-restricted version of the WordPress dashboard in…
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Frontend Quiz Creator
The Frontend Quiz Creator allows the Administrators and Instructors to create and edit LearnDash quizzes on the frontend of the website. Activating Frontend Quiz Creator IMPORTANT: In order for the Frontend Course and Quiz Creator to function, your permalink structure must be set to pretty permalinks (i.e anything except plain permalink structure), and you must…
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