Instructor Role
Intro to Instructor Role
Last Updated: February 2, 2026The Instructor Role allows multiple instructors to create and manage LearnDash courses without granting full WordPress admin access. It is designed for teams, guest instructors, and external partners who need access to course creation, reporting, and learner management—while keeping the rest of the site secure. Instructors see only their own courses and data, making collaboration...
Instructor Overview Page
Last Updated: December 4, 2024An instructor can see all the basic information about their courses at a glance from the Instructor Overview page.
Instructor Dashboard
Last Updated: November 26, 2024The Instructor Dashboard is a dedicated dashboard designed for instructors (Teachers). When logged in, instructors are automatically redirected to this dashboard. Whether creating courses, checking reports, approving assignments or customizing quizzes, instructors can find all the tools they need in one place. Each dashboard is instructor-specific, and will only display the data of the courses...
Instructor Dashboard Menu
Last Updated: December 17, 2024The Instructor Dashboard has a top menu similar to the primary menu displayed on the front end of the website. But you may wish to display a different top menu for the instructors on the Instructor Dashboard menu. You can enable different menus by using the Instructor Dashboard Menu setting under the Appearances Menu section...
Adding Instructors
Last Updated: December 16, 2024Now 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:
Multiple Instructors
Last Updated: December 16, 2024Collaborate with other instructors to create comprehensive, well-rounded LearnDash courses faster. Sharing a Course with an Instructor Are you looking to have more than one Instructor managing a course? This will help you quickly collaborate with other instructors in your team to create your LearnDash courses much more effectively. To add Multiple Instructors to your...
Instructor Commissions
Last Updated: December 16, 2024Instructor Commissions gives you the power to set a percentage of commissions earned for your instructors, along with a robust reporting system to help manage commissions and payments. To set instructor commissions, head over to the LearnDash LMS Instructor menu.There, you should be able to see a list of all the instructors on your LearnDash...
Selling Courses Through WooCommerce
Last Updated: July 25, 2025Instructors can now create and sell their own courses directly through your site using WooCommerce. By connecting LearnDash with WooCommerce, each course becomes a sellable product—giving instructors the opportunity to earn commissions from their sales. To enable this functionality, make sure the following plugins are installed and activated. 1. WooCommerce 3.0.x2.LearnDash WooCommerce Integration How to...
Instructor Profile
Last Updated: February 2, 2026The Instructor Profile Page is a new feature that gives site visitors a complete view of an instructor’s background and activity, right on the front end of the website. This page includes key details such as: It helps learners get to know the instructor before enrolling in a course and provides transparency about the instructor’s...
Profile Introduction Sections
Last Updated: December 3, 2024The instructor profile introduction section allows you to add and configure additional data to be displayed on the instructor profile page along with the flexibility to control how the data gets saved and displayed. The profile introduction section is a part of the instructor profile feature. To configure the profile introduction section navigate to the...
Create Learning Content And Quizzes
Last Updated: August 13, 2025Once 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...
Instructor Role Reports
Last Updated: December 3, 2024Reporting Since the Instructors are the ones who design and manage the course. So, they have a provision to check for reports of the courses they are associated with. View Course Reports An instructor can view reports for courses created by going to LearnDash LMS Course Reports. The report for a course is displayed using...
Instructor Notifications
Last Updated: December 3, 2024Instructors can setup notifications using the Learndash Notifications add-on for various triggers. It will enable various Instructors present on your website to setup custom email notifications for various triggers offered by LearnDash Notifications. After our recent update of version 3.3.0, the Instructor Role plugin now finally provides compatibility with the LearnDash Notifications Add-on. First things...
Instructor Role Email Settings
Last Updated: December 3, 2024Email Settings There are some settings available that can help set up various email notifications for instructors. There are different types of email settings to help configure emails to be sent for a course or product reviews, course purchases, and quiz completion. Review Emails The admin can customize the emails to be sent when a...
Review Instructor Course Updates
Last Updated: December 13, 2024As a website owner you would like your instructors to not update any live courses or even if they wish to do, the course should be reviewed by you or someone else. The course review feature will help you do just that. Course Reviews allow the site admin to review any changes made to any...
Instructor Groups Access
Last Updated: December 13, 2024The Instructor Role plugin supports and provides access to various LearnDash groups-related options for instructors like creating courses/lessons and topics and managing their enrolled students. Instructors have the ability to create and manage groups similar to a LearnDash Group Leader. Instructors can create new groups and add any student enrolled in any courses created...
Instructor Comments Access
Last Updated: December 13, 2024Instructors have the ability to view and reply to comments posted by students on their courses, lessons, topics and quizzes. A Comments menu item located in the Instructor Dashboard allows instructors to view all the comments on their course content. Instructors can Approve valid comments, Spam or Trash invalid ones, Edit and Reply to them...
Student Teacher Communication
Last Updated: December 13, 2024Do you know what to do when a Student has a course-related question to ask? Yes, the plugin has a new Student-Teacher Communication feature that helps students communicate with a course instructor from the lesson or topic page itself. Pre-requisites Listed below are the prerequisites, you will need to use the student communication feature: If...
Multiple Instructors Shortcode
Last Updated: December 13, 2024The multiple instructors shortcode is helpful in displaying all the instructors specific information on the course page. Course Page Add the below shortcode to the course content to display all its related course instructors on the course page. Course Grid If you are using the LearnDash Course Grid add-on then you can make use of...
Instructor Dashboard Settings
Last Updated: December 13, 2024After the major release of v4.0.0+, the Admin Customizer has been removed and replaced with a new and improved Instructor Dashboard layout. Additionally, a new menu setting is available in the Appearance menu for Administrators called the Instructor Dashboard Settings Admins can use these various settings to customize the Instructor Dashboard view.
Instructor Role Color Schemes
Last Updated: December 13, 2024Instructor Role gives Administrators the ability to set color schemes for their Instructor Dashboard. The color schemes provide a list of basic presets along with a custom preset giving an option to choose your own colors for certain instructor dashboard areas and elements. Once you visit the page, you can scroll andTogglethe Color Schemes to...
Commission Logs
Last Updated: December 13, 2024Commission 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...
Instructor Role Navigation Settings
Last Updated: June 20, 2025After various updates, we have added a bunch of settings in the Instructor Role Menuthat make navigating around the plugin pages easier for both the admin and the Instructor.So, we request you to go through this article below and address the changes the plugin has to offer and how it can benefit each and every...
Instructor Role Overview Settings
Last Updated: December 13, 2024Instructor roles new overview settings enable us to hide and show all the available blocks on the instructor overview page as listed below. All Block Hidden Message settings What we see below is the default message that is shown when all the blocks are disabled. We provide functionality to edit this default message Reset settings...
Instructor Role Menu Settings
Last Updated: December 26, 2024With the Instructor Role Menu Settings in LearnDash, you can easily customize what instructors see and access in their dashboard. This helps create a simpler, more focused environment by showing only the tools and features Instructors need. It’s a simple way to enhance the instructor experience and ensure they have everything they need to succeed....
Frontend Course Creator
Last Updated: December 18, 2024The 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...
Frontend Quiz Creator
Last Updated: December 12, 2024The Frontend Quiz Creator allows theAdministratorsandInstructorsto 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 save the permalink settings...
Frontend Dashboard: Installation Guide
Last Updated: February 2, 2026The 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...
Frontend Dashboard for Instructors: Gutenberg Blocks List
Last Updated: December 11, 2024The 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...
How to Customize the Frontend Dashboard
Last Updated: December 11, 2024The Frontend Dashboard plugin offers a range of simplified settings to help you tailor the dashboard according to your preferences. Explore how you can make the Frontend Dashboard truly your own by customizing it through Gutenberg editor. Customizing the Frontend Dashboard via Gutenberg Editor Since the Frontend Dashboard is made up of Gutenberg blocks you...
How to disable the WordPress admin page for Instructors
Last Updated: December 11, 2024The instructor dashboard serves as a dedicated space exclusively designed for instructors on your website. Before introducing the Frontend Dashboard for Instructors, the Instructor dashboard was simply the WP admin dashboard that was simplified and modified to provide a dedicated space for Instructors on your website. Normally, this Instructor dashboard was accessible in the same...
Introducing Frontend Dashboard
Last Updated: December 18, 2024Presenting the Frontend Dashboard, exclusively designed for Instructors and Admins! Now your instructors and admin will be able to access LearnDash and other Instructor Role plugin features right from the frontend of your website. Instead of using our access restricted backend(WP) Instructors dashboard embrace the complete frontend experience. With a visually appealing interface and an...
Elementor Compatibility
Last Updated: August 13, 2025The 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....
Setup PayPal Payouts for Instructors
Last Updated: December 11, 2024Using PayPal Payouts you can pay your instructor their commissions directly from your website instantly. Setting up PayPal Payouts for Instructors in the Instructor Role Plugin can be a simple process if you have the necessary prerequisites in place. Before you can use this feature, there are certain things you need to ensure are in...