Documentation:WordPress/Plugins/LearnDash

Overview

LearnDash is a plugin that enables you to create an online course on WordPress. It also integrates with the BadgeOS plugin If you wish to activate the plugin on blogs, please contact blog.support@ubc.ca. In the email, please provide your blog URL and the reason why you want to activate this plugin. (For ex: You want to use this plugin for your blog course- and quizzing feature is essential in your course)

Use Cases

LearnDash plugin can be used to:

Create a quiz on your blog.
Add a "course-like" structure to your blog. (i.e. page divided in modules, course progress bar and completion status of the course)

The plugin works well :

For a distance/online course where you will be putting up course modules, lecture videos and notes on your course blog. Students can track their progress of their course so it can be a good motivation
If you want to add a pre-test or quiz to your course. Students can check their mastery with the course material. (Note: The quiz is not linked to the grade book).

The plugin may not be your choice if:

You don't want your blog to look like a LMS and you do not need a quiz in your blog.
You want to create an open assessment/self assessment quiz (i.e. a quiz that allows student to get different feedbacks depending on the choice that student make ) - LearnDash quiz only allows one feedback per question.

Example

Below are the examples of sites that uses the LearnDash plugin

Japanese Pronunciation Tutorial
The Digital Tattoo Project (Uses only the quizzing feature)

How to divide course into lesson and topics

Blog post below will show you how to divide course by lesson and topics.

LearnDash Courseware WordPress Plugin by How to build an Online Course

Create a quiz

Follow the instructions below to create quizzes;

Step 1: Set Quiz Option from the Quiz Menu

Setting quiz options allows you to create a template for quiz questions.

Go to Dashboard> LearnDash LMS> Quiz
Click Add quiz button.
Set the title of the quiz.
There are several options you can choose. Recommended options are:

Under Options

Select Hide Quiz Title - This is to avoid having duplicate title in the quizzes
Select Activate for Statistics - This will give you statistics for the quizzes.

After you have created the quizzes, you can check the statistics from: Dashboard>LearnDash LMS>Quiz Hover on the quiz that you want to check the statistics>click Statistics.

Under Questions

Select Force user to answer each question - so that users will not be able to skip the question.

Under Quiz Description

Add instructions for the quiz

This is the Quiz Description for your participants.

Step 2: Create a quiz using the Quiz Menu

Creating Quiz Questions

Hover on the quiz you have just created in Step 1 and select the Questions link.
Select Create Questions

Under Points

Enter the points that you would want to award for this question

Under Questions

Type the questions. For example: "Who painted Mona Lisa? "

Under Answer Type

Select the type of quiz.

Under Answer (required)

Add choices and answers for the quiz questions.

If you are satisfied with the question, click on save. To add more questions to the quiz, click on back to overview and repeat the above steps.

Step 3: Create a page from Quizzes menu

To make your quiz accessible, you must create a Page and attach the quiz you created in Step 2.

Setting a Quiz, Repeats, Passing Percentages

Go to Dashboard>Quizzes
Click Add New Quizzes
Enter the title of the quiz. If you have already added the description of the Quiz in Step 2, you do not need to add a quiz description.
Under Quizzing, choose passing percentage. You can set the passing percentage to 0 if you your quiz does not require a grading system.
Under Quizzing, look for Advanced Quiz. From the dropdown menu, select the quiz that you have created in Step2.
Click on Publish

Badging the quiz

Under Step2: Set a trigger(or steps) for Badges, see Award_a_badge_when_a_user_complete_the_quiz

FAQ

See the FAQ page to solve common questions in LearnDash and BadgeOS.