LearnDash 101

The LearnDash LMS plugin is designed to help you create, manage, and sell engaging online courses while sharing your expertise with eager students.

Out of the box solution

With the LearnDash LMS plugin for WordPress, you have full control over your courses and branding—no one-size-fits-all solutions, just the flexibility to make it your own.

Own your revenue

Keep your course revenue in your pocket; we never take a cut of your earnings. You have the ability to sell courses as one-time purchases, subscriptions, or memberships for flexible monetization strategies. LearnDash supports multiple payment gateways, including Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce, and more.

Get started with ease 

With an intuitive drag-and-drop builder, it’s easy to create and structure courses without needing coding skills. A Quick Start Guide and tutorials are available to help those that are new to WordPress.

Unlimited Courses & Users

Flexibility to grow with your business as your user and course numbers increase.

Learn how to make the most of LearnDash

Creating effective e-learning content is crucial for various educational contexts, whether it’s for academic institutions, employee training, or independent online courses. Effective content design doesn’t just save time and resources; it ensures a consistent and scalable learning experience. 

In this course, you will learn the basics of this plugin, including how to set it up, create course content, quizzes, and how to add new functionality with the various add-ons available for LearnDash.

By the end of this course, you will have learnt everything you need to know to host your own eLearning platform, offer courses on it, and manage the students who enroll in these courses.

Course Content

Section 1: Getting Started with LearnDash
Lesson 1: Getting Started with LearnDash
Lesson 2: Dashboard Overview: Courses, Lessons, & Topics
2 Topics
Lesson 3: General Settings Overview
1 Quiz
Getting Started with LearnDash Quiz
Section 2: How to Build Your First Course
Lesson 1: How to Build Your First Course
3 Topics
Course Settings Overview
Add Content to Your Lessons & Topics
Lesson Settings Overview
Lesson 3: How to Use the Course Creation Wizard
Section 3: How to Setup Registration and Payments
Lesson 1: How to Setup Registration and Payments
Lesson 2: How to Set Up Course Registration
8 Topics
Pages Needed for Registration
Setting Up the Registration Success Page
Setting Up the Reset Password Page
Customize the Registration Settings
Turn on Registration for Your WordPress Site
Registration Flow for Free Courses
Registration Flow for Paid Courses
Setting Up the Registration Page
Lesson 3: How to Accept Payment for Your Courses
3 Topics
PayPal Settings
Stripe Connect
Other Payment Gateways
Lesson 4: How to Create Coupons
2 Topics
How New Users Redeem Coupons
How Existing Users Redeem Coupons
Lesson 5: How to Create Memberships
Section 4: How to Create Quizzes and Certificates
Lesson 1: How to Create Quizzes and Certificates
Lesson 2: How to Set Up Quizzes
Lesson 3: Quiz Access Settings
4 Topics
Progression & Restriction Settings
Display & Content Options
Results Page Display
Administrative & Data Handling
Lesson 4: Creating a Certificate Using the Certificate Builder
1 Topic
Assigning Certificates to Quizzes and Courses
Section 5: How to Do More with LearnDash
Lesson 1: How to Do More with LearnDash
Lesson 2: Add-ons
Lesson 3: Guides & Tutorials
Lesson 4: Support & Community
Final Quiz
LearnDash 101 Final Quiz