for creators

The course builder for serious creators.

Take control of your courses with LearnDash LMS and add-ons designed to make course design and admin easy.

Getting started

Three steps to building your first course.

Start with a template

Get started in seconds with customizable templates. Browse the templates to find one that best fits your course needs.

Drag and drop to perfection

Spin up a course quickly with a drag-and-drop builder, or our Course Creation Wizard to add your content in seconds.

Set up ecommerce

With Stripe integration ready to go, easy ecommerce is built right into your course.

Features for
course creators

AI Course Outline Builder

By entering some basic details, the outliner automatically creates a course with generated lesson titles for both new and existing courses.

Course Completion Page

Set any page you create as your completion page, where you can encourage students to share a review or invite them to explore your next course.

Course Start/End Dates

Run a cohort-based style course by setting the dates that your course starts and ends. 

Powerful group management

Delegate tasks to team leaders, create message boards, and sell course seats in bulk to organizations with Groups Plus by LearnDash.

Advanced analytics

Track enrollments and assignments or use filters to identify struggling learners with ProPanel by LearnDash.

Two-way communication

With Notes by LearnDash, let students take notes on course content where instructors can directly answer questions.

Course Creation Wizard

Automatically create a course from a YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia playlist.

Blended Learning

Integrate both virtual and in-person elements into your courses.

Advanced quizzing

Choose from eight question types, custom messages, question banks, and more.

AI Quiz Builder

Our quiz-building AI supports all of our question types and can generate questions for an existing or entirely new quiz.

Custom grading

Create report cards, use weighted grading, and adjust how grades display with Gradebook by LearnDash.

Dynamic content delivery

Drip-feed lessons, or set linear and open progression through your course.

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FAQs

Nope – whether you have one student or 50,000 students, there’s no limit to the number of courses you make or students who enroll.

With Groups Plus, you can assign multiple group leaders to easily manage a team.

LearnDash supports the ability to randomize quiz questions, but the questions still have to be set to that specific quiz and not to a generalized bank of questions.

You can toggle on a Forced Lesson Timer for any lesson to keep learners moving proactively.

With the LearnDash bbPress integration, you can link forums to your LearnDash courses.

LearnDash is compliant with common accessibility frameworks.

To access advanced analytics tools, subscribe to our ProPanel add-on. ProPanel lets you analyze real-time activity on your courses with flexible filtering by course, user, group, or date. Run reports and create charts to visualize your course data.

You can create report cards by purchasing the Gradebook add-on. This add-on lets you easily track student progression and scores. You decide how grades are displayed (percentage or letter grade), and you can add weighted grading as needed.

Note-taking isn’t built into the LearnDash LMS for WordPress plugin, but our premium Notes add-on enables this feature for your students. Learners can save notes on any piece of course content. Instructors can also interact with notes to answer questions and enhance communication with learners.

Yes, with help from our Groups Plus add-on. Create and sell organizations the same way you create and sell courses.

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