Best Learning Management Systems For WordPress

October 11, 2014

WordPress has many uses, it can be a blog, corporate, photography, business, portfolio, online e-commerce store and much more. But from last few years another use has become more popular and it is WordPress as a Learning Management System (LMS). A LMS is a one types of application for the administration, tracking, documentation, reporting and delivery of e-learning education courses or training programs.

WordPress is an amazing platform to build an online course from. In order to make you WordPress as an LMS you will need to install additional plugins to gives complete eLearning facilities for students hat need to learn from online and teachers to teach online. So, in this article we listed best Learning Management System plugins to use your WordPress as the eLearning platform to help you deliver your eCourses.

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WP Courseware

WP Courseware is one of the out of box and easy to use WordPress Learning Management System. It will turn any WordPress website into powerful and features rich online course delivery platform, while giving you the ability to use any theme of your choice.

It allow you to creating a limitless courses, modules, & lessons, with the option to award certificates to your students that completion quiz. It comes integrates with a lot of powerful WordPress plugins, allowing you to sell your courses online, create membership website, and use an achievements system. It offers you to show / hide quiz answers, Course outline shortcode, Course outline widget and Dynamic progress page.

WP Courseware has built in student management functionality that let your enrolled students to see a notifications, grade book, grade tracking and much more. WP Courseware is a perfect option that has been put to good use by many well-known websites to deliver online learning & courses.

Price : $67

Demo | Download WP Courseware

Sensei

Teaching coursework has never been easier, within a WordPress. But thankfully we have a powerful and efficient Sensei plugin, you can easily create courses, write lessons, and add quizzes. Easy to set lesson and course, and allow user registration and even charge for your course content if you want.

Sensei smoothly integrates with WooCommerce plugin that let you to charge for courses. It provides a reporting facilities of your content, grades, and students who are enrolled with the your course. In shorts, Sensei provides all the powerful, extendable, framework for offering courses online.

Price : $129

Demo | Download Sensei

LearnDash

LearnDash is another Powerful and Intuitive Learning management system to create and sell your online courses in a minutes. This plugin is used for build an online eLearning websites, online teaching, courses, or other universities websites. It is seamlessly integrate with any WordPress theme because it mostly uses Custom Post Types to display your contents.

If you are looking for a high quality and robust eLearning or Online LMS plugin, LearnDash is perfect option for you. However, even if you are looking for a solution to share an educational or training courses online, then LearnDash should still be on your list of options. It offers easily way to create and sell courses, set-up quizzes, automatically award certificates, and download user reports.

Price : $79

Demo | Download LearnDash

BuddyPress Courseware

BuddyPress Courseware is a online Learning Management System plugin for BuddyPress. It has built in class dashboard that let you to manage Progress Indicator, Overall status and Student evolution based on received grates. Other great features of BuddyPress Courseware is assignment upload option, CSV Import, Schedules with calender, custom CSS, BibTex Import and much more.

Price : Free

Demo | Download BuddyPress Courseware

Namaste! LMS

Namaste! LMS is another free learning management system for WordPress. It supports unlimited number of courses, assignments, lessons, students etc. It offers you to create different rules for course and lesson access and completeness based on assignment completion, test results, or manual admin approval. Also it lets you assign various roles to work with the LMS and other who will manage it.

Furthermore, it packed with features like Auto-approve or manually review, Charge to enroll in courses, Create assignments, Connect to exams, Run powerful reports, manage students, add notes, and more.