Just started with a new client who want a clean LMS. Looked into the most popular ones: Tutor LMS, LearnDash and LearnPress.
For those of you who have experience with this, what would you recommend?
Thank you.
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Learndash is definitely the most robust in my experience. I’m currently building my own LMS for a client and I’m in awe every time I check if Learndash has some existing functionality.
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Do you know if it supports invoicing?
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I don’t follow. How does invoicing related to courseware? Can you explain your need more? Ultimately though, Learndash doesn’t do anything with e-commerce, you’d use Woocommerce or something to sell the courses.
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Hello friend, I have a unique opportunity in my life. I need to create an LMS where only a few video courses will be offered and live courses in less cases escenarios, but many students are expected, approximately 200 per month.
I have done a lot of research and found that Tutor LMS is one of the most practical and best options. I would like to know your opinions on this, please.
I need:
To offer courses
Exams
Grading
To provide certificates
A nice interface.
I know how to use WordPress, Elementor, HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript.
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I’m really liking MemberPress Courses. It’s a pretty complete LMS and has all the e-commerce functionality built in.
I have one client that uses MemberPress rules to upsell course participants into a premium membership. Every course has 101 level lessons. And then the 202 level courses are secured and require a paid membership.
I like having the membership/subscription and LMS in one solution.
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LearnDash is, by far, the best LMS out there for small and medium businesses. I’ve been working in the learning industry for a while and every time I worked with other LMSs, I found it hard to customize them (if possible at all). With LearnDash, you can modify pretty much everything with code – from simple snippets taken from chatGPT, to full customization with CSS. Plus, you yield the whole WP ecosystem, with its developers, plugins, and discussion boards.
So, if you’re using WordPress, don’t even think about using another one. While, yes, the default appearance suck, it’s very easy to modify it to adapt to your brand.
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Why would you not use a dedicated LMS like Moodle?
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The size of community and the availability and affordability in WordPress is higher compared to moodle.
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Yup, I agree with you. My university uses Canvas LMS as it has over 25k students and has 3-5k concurrent users. WordPress won’t serve this purpose.
But for a fitness trainer a full blown LMS platform would be a overkill.
Also, the free version LMSs have more than 300k active installations. LearnDash also has over 100k active installs. So the marketshare is higher I guess 
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These are good reasons. I am sure the WordPress community and platform support is broader that Moodle. However, I have had Moodle as an installable platform on all of the 10 or 12 hosting platforms I have used in the past 10 years and some of these have been quite obscure. As for the community as of April 2023, Moodle reported having a significant global presence with over 213,000 registered sites in more than 240 countries, serving tens of millions of users. That is not small potatoes…