Courses
Courses are the core of how your material is organized and presented to your students and users. Learn all about Course content creation and organization, Course management, Course completion and more here.
Course Grid
Last Updated: June 20, 2025The LearnDash Course Grid feature displays courses in a visual, grid-style layout. This layout helps learners easily browse available courses and works especially well on larger screens. The Course Grid is built to be user-friendly, with full support for the WordPress Block Editor. It includes customizable visual styles (called skins), built-in filtering options, and a...
Course Enrollment Mode Settings
Last Updated: May 30, 2025The course Enrollment Mode settings control how students gain and keep access to a course. You can choose from several options, including: Each option allows you to customize the enrollment experience based on the course’s needs and how you want students to join. Locating Course Enrollment Mode Settings Enrollment Mode Enrollment Mode controls how students...
Course Builder
Last Updated: April 7, 2025The LearnDash Course Builder is a visual drag-and-drop tool designed to help you create, structure, and organize your online courses easily. Instead of manually adding lessons, topics, and quizzes one by one, the Course Builder allows you to see your entire course layout in one place and make changes instantly. With the Course Builder, you...
Courses
Last Updated: November 21, 2024Courses are the heart of any effective learning curriculum, and LearnDash provides the tools to make this process effective and engaging. In this section, well explore everything you can do with LearnDash courses to enhance your teaching experience from customizing settings to adding engaging content and controlling access. Lets get started! Global Course SettingsApply settings...
Shared Course Steps
Last Updated: August 7, 2025The Shared Course Steps feature in LearnDash allows course creators to reuse the same Lessons, Topics, or Quizzes across multiple courses. This eliminates the need to recreate content for each course and offers several benefits: WARNING: Once Shared Course Steps is enabled, it should not be disabled without careful consideration. Disabling this setting will break...
Course Display & Content Settings
Last Updated: May 30, 2025Each course offers customizable display options. This article details each setting and explains how it influences the presentation of your course, enabling you to adjust them for optimal suitability. Locating Course Display Settings Course Materials Course materials are supplemental resources for your course. These typically include PDFs and other downloadable files, but you can also...
Course Sections
Last Updated: July 26, 2025NOTE: This feature was introduced in LearnDash 3.0 and works with the LearnDash 3.0 template. This feature does not work with the Legacy template. Course Sections offer a simple way to group lessons and topics into logical parts within a course. They don’t replace lessons or topics, but they help make long or complex courses...
Course Progression
Last Updated: July 26, 2025Course progression determines how learners move through the content in a course. LearnDash offers two modes of progression—Linear and Free form—allowing course creators to control how structured or flexible the learning path should be. This article explains how course progression works, where to adjust the settings, and how it affects learners after course completion. What...
Course Page
Last Updated: December 24, 2024The course page content area is where you add a course title, description and featured image for your course. This is what people will see before they enroll (or purchase) the course. LearnDash will automatically add a course content table with a list of lessons, topics and quizzes associated with the course below your course...
Course Create Wizard
Last Updated: June 20, 2025The Course Create Wizard allows you to easily create and publish courses using a YouTube Playlist, a Vimeo Showcase, or a Wistia Project URL. Simply by entering the playlists URL, the wizard automatically loads all the data that is needed and creates the course with lessons corresponding to the individual videos in the playlist. Using...
Course Outline Builder
Last Updated: May 7, 2025The Course Outline Builder introduces AI integration via OpenAI into LearnDash Core. After connecting your OpenAI API Key, Course Outline Builder allows you to quickly generate course outlines in just a couple of steps. By entering some basic details, the outliner automatically creates a course with generated lesson titles for both new and existing courses....
Pre-Selling
Last Updated: November 21, 2024Course Creation Creating a pre-sold course is easy, follow the instructions below: Course Enrollment: What Your Students Will See When someone buys your pre-sold course, they’ll be enrolled but won’t be able to access the content until the start date. Theyll see the standard course layout and see a “Pre-Order” status on the course which...
Course Dashboard
Last Updated: November 22, 2024The Course Dashboard allows you to get an excellent overview of the success and status of your course all in one place. Accessing the dashboard If you are viewing the course list by navigating to LearnDash LMS > Courses, clicking on a course title will redirect you to the Dashboard tab where the dashboard is...
Course Completion Page
Last Updated: December 5, 2024The Course Completion Page enriches the user experience by guiding students to a pre-set page after they successfully complete a course. This is designed with flexibility and customization in celebrating student achievements in mind. The Course Completion Page can be configured at the global and individual course level. You have the ability to establish a...
