LearnDash Platform Details & Review

LearnDash is a free course building plugin for WordPress. LearnDash makes creating courses on WordPress easy. Create and sell online courses with LearnDash.

LearnDash

LearnDash is a platform for creating course websites using WordPress. In addition, LearnDash offers great LMS features for course instructors, educators, and knowledge creators.

LearnDash Features

The drag & drop course builder helps course creators create courses easily and quickly.
It offers gamification tools like badges and certificates - Award certificates based on quiz results and course completions.
It has a built-in notification feature that prevents your students from missing any necessary updates.

LearnDash Pricing

Paid plan starts at $199/year.
No free trials available.

Pros

The video preview feature gives students a sneak peek into video lessons and makes the course more engaging.
It offers a flexible quiz builder that makes creating QnAs easy.
Provides gamification tools that help in engaging your members in your courses.

Cons

Its URL structure is highly complicated, making SEO difficult. There is no way to shorten it.
It takes some time to get used to all the new features. The learning curve is steep.
It runs only on WordPress, which means you'll need to know all WordPress functionalities.

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LearnDash Reviews

"Best LMS Solution for WordPress"

The ease of setup and effective end-user adoption. Apart from that it has almost every aspect of LMS covered using its feature rich add-ons.

Review on Capterra.

"Allows me to add course functionality to my WordPress website"

I would say that I like the drag-and-drop builder functionality the most, as it is by far the most useful feature. It allows my team to see how their course will look as they construct it, so that everything is perfect when it is released. This allows you to see how your courses will look before they go online, and it also allows you to connect everything in real-time.

Review on G2.

“Excellent product - terrible support”

The support experience has been horrendous! My task has been to integrate this LMS into an existing website which is very complex and sophisticated, without turning the existing UX on its head. The Support organization has been utterly useless either re-directing me to other plugins or mis-directing me with information that was simply wrong. The GravityForms integration is so poorly conceived as to be useless for my needs, and Support cannot provide any developer-level assistance at all. I've tried everything to get through to them - even contacting the CEO via LinkedIn - with no success. I'm now on the verge of demanding they cancel my license and refund the fee.

Review on Capterra.

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