Lesson Access Settings

Lesson access settings give you a few options for when you want your lessons to become available. You can also choose certain lessons to offer for free, as sample lessons. And perhaps most importantly, this is where you assign a lesson to a specific course. Let’s take a look at the options.

Locating Lesson Access Settings #

1. Navigate to LearnDash LMS > Lessons
2. Click on the lesson you want to edit
3. Click on the Settings tab at the top of the page
4. Locate the section titled Lesson Access Settings

Associated Course #

In order for a lesson to show up within your course content, you need to associate it with a course. Next to Associated Course, click the dropdown menu, and choose the course to which this lesson belongs

NOTE: If you’ve enabled Shared Course Steps, this field will be disabled, as lessons can be associated with more than one course.

Sample Lesson #

You can turn any lesson into a sample lesson, which will make it available to all users, regardless of whether or not they’re enrolled in the course. This is a great way to showcase your teaching style, or entice someone to enroll in or purchase your course. Next to Sample Lesson, turn the setting on.

Here is what your visitors will see:

NOTE
See the Sample Lessons User Guide for more information and examples.

Lesson Schedule #

The Lesson Release Schedule option allows you to make a lesson available at a specific time, supporting drip-feeding content to your learners. With this feature, lessons can be set to become available immediately or at scheduled intervals in the future, enabling a gradual release of course material to keep students engaged and on track using the following options:

• Immediately (default) – The lesson is made available as soon as the user is enrolled in the course
• Enrollment-based – The lesson will be available X days after the user enrolls in the course
• Specific date – The lesson will be available on a specific date

These options also applies to the topics below these lessons. If a topic is associated with a lesson and that lesson is scheduled to be available at a certain date, the topics will also be available at that time. If a topic is not associated with that lesson, you can set the Topic Release Schedule for that topic separately.

Blended Learning #

The External Lesson option is applicable when you offer Blended Learning. It is when you teach an online-based curriculum but have a requirement (from either the government or for regulatory reasons) for an in-person exam or classroom-based learning.

Enabling this option gives you the following:

• Ability to mark a lesson as Virtual or In-Person
• Ability to bypass the attendance requirement of a lesson, either Virtual or In-Person
• Ability to mark a student as “attended” in their user profile by an admin or a group leader

How To Use This Feature? #

1. In the lesson settings page, toggle the External Lesson switch to ON.
2. Under Type, select Virtual if the lesson takes place in a virtual setting, e.g., Zoom or In-Person if the lesson takes place in-person.
3. Under Require Attendance, select Yes if attendance is required or No if it is not required.
   • When set to Yes, the student cannot continue to the next course step (applies to Linear Course Progression) unless an admin or a group leader has marked them that they have attended the virtual or in-person lesson. The Mark Complete button will not be available on the lesson page. The admin or group leader must mark the lesson as complete from the User Profile page in the backend.
   • When set to No, attendance is not required to be able to continue on the course. The Skip Event button is available for the student to click to proceed to the next step of the course. This is equivalent to the Mark Complete button.