LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you sell content or products on your WordPress site, then you know how important it is to get your online shop set up just right. Even the slightest delay or error in a check-out process can deter a potential customer. This is especially true if you’ve created a storefront on a custom-built WordPress site – your checkout experience needs to be seamless.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 4, 2022

Now that LearnDash Cloud is available, you may be thinking about switching from the plugin version on a self-hosted WordPress site to a fully-hosted LearnDash Cloud site. Previously, if you wanted to migrate data from one LearnDash site to another, you would have needed a 3rd party plugin. Now with the new built-in Import/Export feature , you can easily migrate your course from the LearnDash plugin to LearnDash Cloud.

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LearnDash

MARCH 15, 2022

LearnDash is continually improving and we don’t ever plan on stopping. Today we officially launched LearnDash 4.0 and it comes with some exciting new features. Here are the details. Onboarding Wizard. The new LearnDash Onboarding Wizard makes it quicker than ever before to get started with LearnDash, in under 5 minutes you can have a completely configured ready-to-go LearnDash website.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As a learning management system (LMS), our #1 priority is helping you easily create, manage, and sell high-quality courses. According to Hubspot, LearnDash is the best LMS plugin for WordPress so it’s no secret that we’re pretty good at what we do. But we’re always looking for better ways to deliver the best elearning tools to support our learners. This is why we recommend integrating WooCommerce with your LearnDash membership to extend your course capabilities. .

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Duolingo has created an elearning experience that is rewarding and effective. Here’s how to apply its best features to your course. 433 days ago, I created an account on Duolingo for the first time. I know the exact number, because that’s how long my streak is. Since that time, I’ve primarily spent my time on their mobile app, and have tried out their courses in Spanish, Russian, German, and Korean.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

How does one of the premium all-in-one LMSs on the market stand up to LearnDash on WordPress? In our recent series of comparison posts, we’ve looked at two popular platforms with similar price points— Teachable and Thinkific. Both these platforms offered free options, with Basic plans starting at $29/mo. and $39/mo. respectively. The next LMS we’d like to cover has a much more expensive pricing structure.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 12, 2021

Flow exists in the “just right” space between boredom and anxiety. In 1975, a Hungarian-American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, identified a cognitive state of high focus and productivity which he named “flow.” The concept of flow, also described as a state of “effortless attention” was nothing new, but Csikszentmihalyi’s research kicked off a surge of interest in the idea.

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LearnDash

JULY 15, 2021

If you’re a learning developer, understanding your client’s goals is key to delivering a successful project. We spend a lot of time on our blog writing to online educators, but a sizable portion of our userbase is comprised of developers who use WordPress to deliver projects for clients who don’t have the time, the technical skills, or the time to learn the technical skills to set up a website for themselves.

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LearnDash

JULY 13, 2021

Knowing what kind of certification course you want to offer will help with marketing. Certification is one of the biggest markets in online education. It’s one of the most direct ways to offer learners an educational opportunity that will affect their bottom line as well as your own. Plus, many industries require ongoing certification in various skills for professional reasons, and some businesses will subsidize their employee’s ongoing education costs, making certification courses lucrative bus

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LearnDash

JUNE 8, 2021

It’s not enough to just build a great course—you have to sell it, too. Many online educators create courses because they have a passion and want to share it. And, of course, that’s a fantastic and inspirational thing to see. But many educators, after creating their courses, run into a wall: their excitement carried them through the creation stage of their journey, and now they need to move into sales mode.

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LearnDash

MAY 6, 2021

Protecting your intellectual property is important, but securing your website should come first. A common concern for many course creators lies in how they can protect their content from being stolen. After putting all that work into developing course content as an intellectual property, no one wants it to be scraped and shared elsewhere.

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LearnDash

APRIL 29, 2021

Leading a successful employee training initiative requires planning and follow through. These days, many organizations—from large corporations to small non-profits—understand that the people who work with and for them are essential to their health and growth. Employees need support in their jobs, which includes training to help them grow personally and professionally in their work environment.

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LearnDash

APRIL 1, 2021

How to define your objectives before creating an online learning program. Starting an online learning program is an exciting and challenging endeavor. However, most courses take a lot of time to prepare, and you should know what you’re getting into before you start. Here are a few questions to help you think through your course idea so that you can start off on the right foot. 1.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Blogging is one of the oldest marketing tools on the Internet—and still one of the best. If you’re like many of our users, you may have put hours into developing your course, and are now faced with a common conundrum: how do you attract learners to sign up? Without a pre-established audience, progress might be slow. But there is a proven way to build that audience—and sustain it for years to come.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 14, 2021

How can you make homework interesting and engaging without discouraging learners? One of the greatest perennial problems facing online educators lies in keeping learners engaged with interesting and meaningful assignments. Learning is hard, and learners need homework to learn the skills necessary to master the course. Too little practice can leave a learner feeling like they got a lot of lectures without getting any real hands-on experience.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 11, 2021

Prepare for a very active year! Happy New Year, LearnDashers! I think we are all glad 2020 is behind us as we look forward to great things to come this year. No, we aren’t out of the pandemic quite yet (which has impacted everyone, including two of our very own at LearnDash), but I feel that there is a renewed energy! The result of COVID has meant that many of you have turned to LearnDash for your online courses.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Getting started with a fully functional online course website just got easier! If you are currently using LearnDash, or are thinking about choosing us for your LMS, then I have great news to share! The folks at Astra have released four new starter site templates designed specifically for LearnDash—giving you five amazing options to help you get started quickly with your online courses!

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Growing your membership is a combination of good marketing and removing usability errors. Membership packages are a popular choice for educators because they open up the possibility of regular subscribers who will not only stick around on the promise of future content, but who will become active contributors to your community. They’re also popular course options for learners, who often aren’t just looking for instruction and guidance, but peer support as well.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We’re considered one of the top LMSs in the industry. You might be surprised who’s not on the list. Well, the results are in, and we recently got named one of the top LMSs of 2020. In a year when online learning has become more essential than ever , we’re thrilled to be recognized for the quality of our platform. Of course, you’re probably wondering how Digital.com created this list.

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LearnDash

JULY 30, 2020

Over the past few months we have teamed-up Elementor to create an integration that allows for greater course customization. With this collaboration, we are expanding your ability to create a more cohesive look for their website than was possible before. In a nutshell: LearnDash design elements that were previously difficult or impossible to customize can now be easily edited to match your brand with Elementor, including color scheme and font choices!

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LearnDash

JUNE 23, 2020

Keep your learners invested in the long term by giving them a reason to keep coming back. We talked in our recent article on incremental learning about how expectations around learning are changing—especially for self-motivated adults. In fact, one of the factors fueling the online education boom is the desire for self-improvement, and a degree to which people increasingly draw their identity from being learners.

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LearnDash

JUNE 18, 2020

Turn learning into a habit, and your learners will be with you for life. Many of us are used to thinking of learning as something that happens once. We take a course, we read a book, we attend a seminar, and at the end of it, we’ve learned something! But the reality of learning is that it rarely happens this way. We might read something in a book, but it doesn’t “click” until we put it to practice.

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LearnDash

MAY 13, 2020

The pandemic has put online education in the spotlight and under the magnifying glass. The emergence of the novel coronavirus has initiated an abrupt shift around the globe toward online education. For many, the transition has been rocky. Many larger organizations have been scaling their educational infrastructure as rapidly as possible, while individual educators are trying to make their way through a sudden influx of new learners.

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LearnDash

MAY 7, 2020

Blended learning will play a significant role in classrooms of the future. Here’s why educators should embrace it. In the early days of online education, most people viewed it as a substitute for classroom learning. This contributed to the pushback online education has often faced. People like face-to-face learning, and the idea that it would be gone forever was, understandably, alarming.

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LearnDash

APRIL 7, 2020

With so many in-person courses moving online, here’s how to make sure all your learners can access them. In the past few weeks, as schools have shut down and workplaces have made a rapid transition online, we have seen a tremendous shift in the way people are creating and engaging with online content. The learning curve for many has been steep, but it has also meant that organizations of every stripe are suddenly overcoming long-held prejudices against remote work and education as accommodating

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LearnDash

APRIL 2, 2020

Wondering if you should use the subscription model for selling your course? Here’s a closer look at how that works. One of the first decisions businesses have to make when they start running their online course is what pricing model to use. Should the charge a one-time fee? Sell their courses in bundles? Is access limited after a certain period has elapsed?

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LearnDash

APRIL 1, 2020

7 of our best blog posts on building community during quarantine. As we’re all social distancing right now, it may seem like an odd time to talk about social learning. For many people, that concept brings to mind group activities, class projects, and team building activities. How can anyone engage in social learning when we’re all staying home? Regardless, social learning has a place in online education—and not on the periphery, either.

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LearnDash

MARCH 31, 2020

Are your students struggling to finish their semester from home? Here are some online study tips to help them out. Many universities around the country are finishing their semesters online. For students who have never taken online courses before this can be a new and disorienting experience—not least because their professors are also teaching online for the first time.

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LearnDash

MARCH 3, 2020

E-learning videos help educators take their courses to the next level. E-learning videos can help enhance the overall learning experience, giving a deeper explanation for certain concepts or providing students with easy-to-follow visuals that are simply not communicated as well by text. While they are more labor-intensive to create than written content, they can pay-off by being more engaging and valuable to learners.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

How much content belongs on each page? Here’s how to avoid overloading your learners. Let me know if this situation sounds familiar to you: You’re writing a lesson, and as you work on it, the ideas keep coming. You want to add more videos, include every detail of information that comes to mind, and cram the page full of interactive features. Next thing you know, the page is a mile long and learners are struggling to complete lessons.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 9, 2020

Better E-Learning Quizzes Result in Better Knowledge Retention. E-learning, whether in a school environment or in the workplace, allows students and employees to take courses on their own time, at their own pace. Remote courses also give students ample time to review the material and ensure that they fully understand each module before moving on to the next.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Running an e-learning business is easier when you have the right tools. When starting your online course business , it’s natural to want to keep costs low. However, sticking to a tight budget doesn’t mean you have to miss out on tools that can help you run your business more efficiently. Take a look at these seven free tools to see how they can help get your e-learning business off the ground. 1.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Attracting volunteers is not enough. Here’s how to train them to be effective. Any non-profit that has experience working with volunteers knows that one of the greatest challenges facing them on a regular basis lies in training volunteers to do useful work. This can create significant logistic challenges, as training can be costly both in terms of expense, and the time and human resources involved.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 22, 2019

On-screen distractions can cause learners to lose focus and cause usability errors. Here’s how Focus Mode helps. Every teacher knows how hard it can be to hold the attention of students in a classroom. Absorbing new information is mentally taxing, which means that it can be difficult for learners to maintain their attention, even if the content is interesting to them.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Maximizing customer conversion rates for your LearnDash courses has never been so easy! I was first introduced to CartFlows last year by Adam from WPCrafter. Known perhaps foremast for his YouTube channel, Adam has an attention to detail and excellence that is increasingly more rare these days. Along with his founder Sujay Pawar (the man behind the popular Astra theme ), Adam has made CartFlows the go-to WordPress plugin for creating impressive sales pages, checkout forms, up-sells, cross-sells,

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Offering interactions with your students can enhance their learning experience. Online courses have many advantages: they fit very easily into students’ schedules, they are usually more affordable than courses offered by brick and mortar schools, and they are ideal for those who have caring or parenting responsibilities. While focusing on these benefits is great, I think it’s important to recognize the big downside of online courses: they lack a human element that is very important f

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Nail down the what, when, and why of your training course for best results. Now that you understand the why of investing in refresher training, it’s time to cover the how. In many ways, refresher training is like any other course. You have to establish learning objectives , offer feedback, and build a community around the course—even if that community is a subset of your larger office culture.

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