Creating Your First Course
- Navigate to LEARNDASH LMS > COURSES
- Click the “Add New” button at the top of the page
- Click the “Builder” tab in the top navigation bar
Course Builder Overview
- The total number of steps in the course
- This is comprised of all lessons, topics & and the final quiz that have been assigned to the course
- An “Undo” link, after you’ve made your first edit
- A link to “Expand All” or “Collapse All” course steps
- This makes it easier to see all steps at once, and more quickly rearrange, add or remove course steps
Immediately following this, you’ll see all of your course content. This is where you’ll spend the majority of your time building out your course.
Add Content to Your Course
There are multiple ways to add content with the course builder. How you go about adding your content will depend on a few things:
- what type of content you’re adding
- personal preference
IMPORTANT
All new content created via the Course Builder (i.e. Lessons, Topics, and Quizzes) is automatically published and set to “Public” once the changes are saved for the course.
Course Builder Overview
Section headings (requires LearnDash 3.0+) provide a simple way to break your course into sections. They don’t contain any actual content, and are simply a text-only heading that can be placed between any two lessons. They work in a similar fashion to chapters in a book.
- Click on the lesson before where you want the section heading to appear
- Click the “New Section Heading” link
- Type your heading
- Hit ENTER, or click the “Add Section Heading” button
To edit a section heading…
- Click on its title
- Make your edits
- Press ENTER or click the “Save” button
To remove a section heading…
- Hover over the section heading
- Click the red “Remove” link
For the remainder of the content we’re going to discuss (lessons, topics & quizzes), you have two options:
- create them first, one at a time, and then use the course builder to add them to your course, -or-
- create them with the course builder, organize them within the course however you’d like, and then go back later to add content to them
This depends on your own personal preference and how you’ve chosen to develop your course content.
Lessons
Aside from section headings, lessons will likely be the first type of content you’ll want to add to your course. You can create brand new lessons directly from the course builder, or add existing lessons that you’ve already created. Let’s take a look at each.
Create New Lessons
- Click the “New Lesson” link
- Type the name of your lesson
- Press ENTER, or click the “Add Lesson” button
Add Existing Lessons
Your existing lessons can be found in the “Lessons” box in the sidebar. By default, your most recent lessons are shown, but you can click “View all” to see all lessons, or use the search box to find a specific lesson by title.
IMPORTANT
Shared Course Steps must be enabled or existing lessons, topics, and quizzes will not be available for selection.
If you don’t see the lessons box depicted below, click the settings cog icon icon to display the sidebar.
There are multiple ways to add existing lessons.
Add a single lesson: Hover over a lesson in the lesson box and click the “Add” button. This will add the lesson to the end of your course.
Add multiple lessons: Select the checkbox next to multiple lessons, and then click the “Add Selected” button. This will add all selected lessons to the end of your course.
Drag & drop: If you’d like to add lessons in a particular spot within your course, you can click & hold down your mouse, drag the lesson to the course builder in the spot you want it, and then release. This will place the lesson in your specified location within the course.
Edit a Lesson Title
- Click on the title of the lesson
- Make your edits
- Hit ENTER or click the “Save” button
Edit a Lesson’s Content
NOTE
This will open the “Edit Lesson” page in the same window. Be sure to save any edits to your course first.
