If I already have a Wordpress site built, but I want to add an LMS (I want courses, tests, certification, etc), how should I be doing this?
say I have: mysite.com
but I noticed most LMS plugins have a whole site overlay, like it’s pretty much a brand new site for your courses. I don’t want to change my original site at all. Could I do something like:
courses.mysite.com ? Is this even valid? Is it free to do? How would I implement something like this?
Or I would prefer just to add a “courses” button on my header navigation and that would take the user to the courses page, which has multiple courses for them to choose from. From there they could click one, pay, and then proceed to the course in the same website (mysite.com).
LifterLMS — is this LMS plugin free? On their main page, they say it’s 100% free and open source, but then they have pricing options. Also I was reading reviews that after a year some people got charged? I don’t know anything about it, so just wondering if any of you had any experience with LifterLMS.
I don’t really know what I’m doing here, so if anybody has any experience with free LMS plugins for WordPress, let me know. Thanks
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Why is it so important to have a free LMS if you are going to sell your courses? If you’re going to make money, it makes sense to invest some money.
However, if you are really looking for a powerful and well-maintained free LMS, just get Moodle. It’s not a WP plugin, but you can easily set up Moodle and WP side by side on the same domain. Then you can use your WP site to promote and sell your course, and Moodle to deliver course content.
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Because I’d rather not pay for something immediately and I have very specific needs that my LMS needs to meet – I need to set a minimum time requirement (which none of the LMS plugins that I’ve looked at so far have explicitly said they can do, and I need students to upload a document and then I would have to approve it BEFORE they pay for the course.)
Most premium LMS plug-ins also do not any trial period. I’d rather not immediately drop 200+ dollars if I don’t have to… especially because WP has many free plug-ins that I can play with first.
Concerning Moodle – I’ve asked about it before and was told to that while it could be done, to not do it alongside WP. I’ll look into it more though.
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LifterLMS has a free WordPress plugin that is quite powerful. You can download it on the WordPress repo where all the free plugins are right here. It can do like you describe and just integrate courses into your existing WordPress website. The free plugin is designed to help you get traction, validate your course idea, and get your platform up and running so you can choose to invest in any of the premium add-ons later if any of them look interesting after the money is rolling in from your courses. LifterLMS has a manual payment gateway that you can use to validate your course idea. I’m a cofounder of LifterLMS, and am committed to our community. If you would like to jump on a quick call about your project to see if Lifter might be a good fit or not, here’s my scheduler.
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Learnpress works for this type of thing
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Can I set a minimum required time limit on LearnPress?
Can I have students upload a document and then I would have to approve it BEFORE they pay for the course?
1 is more important. They MUST be in the class for a certain period of time. They can’t just speed through the material. Is it possible to set a minimum required time limit on LearnPress
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I believe so, it maybe an add on feature though. I know you can set it up so you must complete one task before you can access another
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