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WP Courses LMS – Online Course Builder, eLearning, and Learning Management System

By WP Courses

Description

WP Courses LMS is a full-featured, free learning management system ( LMS ) that makes creating courses on your WordPress site easier than ever with an intuitive interface, drag-and-drop tools, video tutorials and more.

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Create Courses with Ease

Something we hear from users of WP Courses quite frequently is how easy it is to use. If you can create a WordPress page or post, you can create a course. WP Courses leverages many familiar WordPress interfaces which makes creating courses feel familiar.

Create Any Type of Lesson

Video lessons are supported with videos hosted on Vimeo, YouTube, VdoCipher and other platforms. You can also create lessons with text, audio, images and more.

Organize Your Lessons into Modules

You’ll probably want to organize your lessons into modules. WP Courses keeps this process incredibly simple. Click “add new module” and drag it where you want. That’s it… Other competing plugins require that you manually attach each lesson to a module. This takes ages!

Quizzes

Create multiple choice and multiple answer quizzes and select from many options including maximum quiz attempts, if empty answers are allowed, your quiz welcome message and more.

Modern App-Like User Interface

WP Courses leverages many modern web technologies that allow for extremely quick content loading times as well as lessons and courses that load without having to refresh the page. This leads to a seamless and quick navigation experience that will keep your students more engaged with your course content.

User Profiles

WP Courses has a robust profile section with viewed lesson tracking, completed lesson tracking, course progress tracking and quiz results.

Integrates Seamlessly with Practically Any Theme

WP Courses has been designed to seamlessly integrate with any theme inlcuding popular theme and website builders like Divi and Elementor. There are also plenty of design options to help match the design of your website.

Mobile-Friendly

Courses are easy to navigate and look beautiful on any device.

No Coding Required

No coding knowledge is necessary for creating great looking courses.

Progress Tracking

Keep your students engaged with progress tracking. Icons and progress bars show your students which lessons they’ve viewed and completed. You can also view any of your student’s progress in the admin area.

Analytics Dashboard

See which courses are the most popular, which students are most engaged and how many people are viewing and completing lessons each day.

Restrict Lesson Content

Restrict your lesson content to logged in users only with the click of a button. Individual lessons can be restricted for fine control over your content’s visibility.

Seamless Browsing Experience

Browse by category or in one large collection. Each course has its own content with an area for a description, video and any other type of content you’d like to include.

Actively Supported and Developed

This plugin is actively supported and developed with new updates and features added regularly.

Full Translation Support

A tutorial on translating WP Courses can be found here.

Premium Version – Sell, Market and Engage

There is a premium version available which includes the following add-ons:

  • WooCommerce Integration: Sell your courses right in your WooCommerce store. Works with PayPal, Stripe, credit cards and much more.
  • PMPro integration: Sell members only access.
  • Certificates: Award certificates to your students for completing certain actions like completing a course or scoring a certain percentage on a quiz.
  • Badges: Award badges to your students for completing certain actions like completing a lesson or scoring a certain percentage on a quiz.
  • Automated Emails: The perfect marketing and engagment tool that allows you to trigger emails based on specific actions completed by your users such as viewing specific lessons, or scoring a certain percentage on a quiz.
  • File Attachments: Attach files like PDF’s, audio, images and more to your lessons.

Screenshots

  • The lesson view is where your course content resides and where users naviagate through your course content.
  • The course view allows your website visitors to browse courses by category and view each course's details.
  • WP Courses supports several profile views including viewed lessons, completed lessons, course progress and quiz results.
  • Connect your lessons to courses and change their restriction quickly.
  • Powerful drag-and-drop module editor and lesson ordering.
  • Plenty of options.
  • The powerful front-end design editor makes integrating WP Courses with your theme super easy.
  • Built-in analytics that include lessons viewed, popular courses and most active students.
  • Quizzes.
  • Easy-to-use quiz editor.
  • Several quiz options.
  • Your users can view all of their quiz results. You can also view all of your user's quiz results in the admin area.
  • Users can view each quiz result's details.

Installation

  1. Go to “Appearance->Menus” and create a new custom link to “mysite.com/?post_type=course” where “mysite.com” is your homepage URL.
  2. Click “Save Menu.”
  3. Create a new page called “my profile” or whatever else you’d like to call it.
  4. Include the shortcode [wpc_profile] in the profile page you just created.
  5. Go to “Appearance->Menus” and create a menu item which links to the profile page you just created.
  6. Click “Save Menu.”
  7. Click “WP Courses->Course Difficulties” and create at least one course difficulty. For example, easy, medium and difficult or 1, 2 and 3.
  8. Click “WP Courses->Course Categories” and create at least one category.
  9. Click “WP Courses->Teachers” and create at least one teacher.
  10. Create a course by clicking “WP Courses->Courses” and fill in the title, content and other applicable info.
  11. Create lessons by clicking “WP Courses->Lessons” and make sure to connect the lesson(s) you make to the course(s) you’ve made. If you are embedding a video, use the embed code. The embed code starts with “iframe”.
  12. Order the lessons by going to “WP Courses->Order Lessons.” Select a course from the dropdown menu and drag and drop the lessons for that course in the order you’d like them to appear.

Reviews

Excellent plugin and support!

May 1, 2023
I really like this plugin because it's easy to use and I can create courses fast, without having any coding knowledge. I love the Premium version, because I can sell my courses through Woocommerce and the quizzes, attachments, badges, certificates make the learning more fun and engaging for my students. But, perhaps, the most important thing is that the support team quickly resolves any issues, even if they are not necessarily related to the plugin. Keep up the good work!

Support Excellent!

April 28, 2023
I was new at using WP Courses LMS and also run into a problem, my wpc_courses was not loading the data in a right way. I asked help and within few hours i got help, it was a hard problem to solve. First we thought caching was the problem, but after shutting everything down it was not the solution. The solution was to make a new subdomain on my website instead of the current one, and that solved the problem. He was friendly, helpfull and determined to find a solution. Together we solved it ! Keep up the good work with this wonderfull plugin, looking forward to work with it. With such support it has to be a good plugin!

Excellent service

March 2, 2023
I had my forst problem with WP Courses after a few years' use. The problem was nothing to do with WP Courses it was a PHP issue on my site. Nevertheless they very quickly looked at the problem and suggested where the problem might lie and they were right. A very quick and friendly service even if the problem was nothing to do with them.

An excellent Plugin for orgainising content as well as LMS

June 21, 2022
I've tried other lms plugins, but this was the simplest and easiest - others were complex and loaded with features I did not need. What I really wanted was a way of organising my how-to-draw youtube videos into playlists with extra text and images. WP Courses LMS does just that. Now I have it up and running, I'm building a new course that goes with a book and series of videos. The course is added-value for the book and videos so I'll not be charging, therefore I can't tell you how it integrates with payment systems, i'm afraid. I'd like to thank Myles for making the basic plugin free and for such amazing and rapid support. I had a problem after an upgrade. Myles had a fix up almost within the hour!

Excellent Plugin and Great Support!

June 22, 2022
I use another well-known LMS Plugin on one of our web properties, and chose to use WP Courses Plugin for this next project as it does a great job of simplifying the process of getting courses online, and ready to sell, quickly and without a lot of unnecessary extras. There are plenty of options if you need them, and lots of features to enable complex courses, modules, lessons and the like. I particularly like how simple it is to get up and running with badges and quizzes. The PRO pack is worth it for the files, emails and other features. On the support side, Myles is really great - open to ideas, quick to respond and on the ball. If you've struggled with other LMS plugins, this one is quicker, easier and more streamlined. Go for it! Update for 2022-06 : I've been lucky enough to work with the new user interface in version 3 for a while now and I have to say that I have been continually impressed by the support and assistance I've been getting. The new version is really impressive with the UX improvements and the quiz enhancements. This plugin just gets better and better.

Great way to do courses

July 2, 2022
It is a great way to build courses but I hope in the future to have the possibility to customize more and more every single part of it. Thanks
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Changelog

3.1.27: Fix courses column bug
3.1.26: Make h1 etc. important + fix Lesson Order bug when no lessons exist + fix CSS issues + fix prev/next button bug for legacy courses
3.1.25: Apply custom link color to profile links + update usability front end editor
3.1.24: Add more color customization options + move category nav to right + fix some styling bugs
3.1.23: Set default background color to white + set lesson item navigation color to white + fix profile view purchased courses bug
3.1.22: Update RO language + avoid scrolling when new lesson chosen + fixed next/prev/compl buttons + fix quiz multiple choice bug + fix print certificate bug
3.1.21: Update languages + fix prev/next button bug + fix profile view bug
3.1.20: Move purchased courses tab on top + change display of premium features
3.1.19: Fix prev/next button bug + add option to close modules + hide viewed progress + change styling of course nav bar
3.1.18: Display prev/next button also for courses without modules
3.1.17: Visual adjustments for bundled products (course counter, course details button)
3.1.16: Display more columns for All Courses, All Quizzes and All Teachers + tidy up column names + keep showing admin menu for Course Order and Lesson Order
3.1.15: Tidy up dashboard + setup and help page
3.1.14: Tidy up admin menu and admin nav menu
3.1.13: Change logo
3.1.12: Fix frontend display error for toggle: User > Options > Yes, send me emails that are triggered by my course progress
3.1.11: Fix “Add Image” button bug for quizzes
3.1.10: Fix CSS issue when printing certificates, cleanup of old folders and files
3.1.1: Major update with brand new AJAX powered UI, quizzes moved to free WP Courses and much more
3.0.0: Major update with new dashboard, help section, overhauled data model, connection of multiple courses to one lesson, updated options page, front-end options editor and general UI tidy
2.0.3: Can now connect multiple teachers to one course, added course search and added lessons to single course template
2.0.0: Added profile page with shortcode and back-end user progress tracking
1.3.41: Fixed bug with course ordering not working in course archive and category templates
1.3.4: Added support for WooCommerce integration + new filters etc.
1.3.21: Fixed error being thrown by empty variable on options page
1.3.2: Fixed issue with completeled lesson tracking throwing error when empty
1.3.1: Fixed issue with shared function name between WP Courses and the quiz extension
1.3.0: Added completed lesson tracking and additional options
1.2.0: UI overhaul and additional features
1.0.3: Fixed several bugs including scrolling to lesson current lessons and starting course on the right lesson
1.0.2: Release

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