Create & sell online courses with the best WordPress LMS plugin

This very much depends on the type of learning experience you are offering, whether it’s online coaching, face-to-face classes, certification programs, etc…

At the core are course creation - your main product and the ‘building block’ of your elearning businesses.

Live classrooms via Zoom and other online meeting platforms have become must-have features as a result of the pandemic.

Also important is functionality that promotes effective collaboration and communication between students, instructors, and administration.

SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model and is a widely used feature to ensure learning content and tools are standardized. Wikipedia defines SCORM clearly:

"Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based electronic educational technology (also called e-learning). It defines communications between client side content and a host system (called "the run-time environment"), which is commonly supported by a learning management system. SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file called "Package Interchange Format."

Rather than a SCORM LMS, MasterStudy is a SCORM-compatible LMS.

We have developed a SCORM integration to achieve this. There is also a third-party plugin called Experience API for MasterStudy LMS by Grassblade that does a great job to ensure SCORM compatibility.

Yes! You can download it directly from our pricing page .

We offer a pro version that includes a number of premium addons to take your elearning to the next level.

There are many if you search around but we recommend our own free WordPress LMS theme , which is bundled with the free version of MasterStudy LMS. We have designed it to be clear, elegant and to present elearning related pages and elements in an intuitive way.

You can view a live demo and download it on our Starter Theme page .

Yes! We want our users - instructors, students, and administrators - to be able to complete their tasks as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Usability has always been a top priority for all of our WordPress plugins and themes . Feedback about ease-of-use has always been great too.

MasterStudy LMS is packed with over 100 features, so there would be too many to list.

Here are the main ones you can read up about:

• Advanced Quizzes
• Page Builders
• Online Lessons
• Monetization
• Course Builder
• Group Courses & Student Management
• Zoom & Live Streams
• Drip Content
• Custom Certificates
• Integrations

Sure, it can be used that way.

In fact, thousands of online coaches use the free version of MasterStudy LMS, which you can download on our pricing page , along with the free WordPress LMS starter theme .

Many of them "graduate" to the Pro version to add learning features they can use to grow their business further.

There are over 600 online learning platforms so you are spoilt for choice.

There are a few, like MasterStudy LMS, that is built on top of WordPress and offer a complete set of elearning features.

A tip: when considering the type of elearning business you want to run, and the type of experiences you want to offer, think beyond LMS functionality. You need a payment solution, content for marketing, enquiry forms, search, integrations, etc… which are all easy to install in WordPress.

Absolutely. You can brand it however you want.

Being powered by WordPress means that you can install different themes or create your own.

Look out for the following features:

• Ease of use by non-technical staff
• Flexibility when creating courses and lessons
• User management
• A system that can be used in face-to-face training too, so options for blended learning
• Quizzes and assessment features
• Certifications

Also important is where the platform and data are hosted, which IT departments typically manage. They may have strict requirements relating to security and where data is physically located. Given MasterStudy is powered by WordPress, it can be hosted anywhere. Even internally in a corporate network.

That’s a very broad question! Let’s consider functionality at a high level:

• How learning is structured. For example: courses > lessons > activities
• Learning content and degree of interactivity, including gamification
• Assessment and grading, including certification
• User types, permissions, and management
• Communication and collaboration

MasterStudy LMS offers all of the above packaged along with WordPress, making it very cost-effective, flexible, and supported by a large community.

Yes. We’re seeing it used in corporate training as well as by SaaS and software companies offering training and certification for their products.

Yes, and this is a very popular feature of our platform.

Certification represents the value a student derives from the learning they have completed. The certificate itself, which they can share or print off, is something they are proud of.

MasterStudy’s Custom Certificate premium addon is packed with options to fully customize certificates, including unique codes that can be used to verify their authenticity.

Technically, there is no difference between a certification program and any other course - students are awarded certificates when they complete a single or all course categories.