When building an eLearning site using LearnDash, you can run into a situation where you may need additional functionality that the plugin itself doesn’t provide. In this scenario, you can either search the marketplace for the right solution or hire a LearnDash developer to build you the plugin you need. In this article, I will show you 7 of the plugins that can often be used to get a more complete eLearning site.
Zoom WordPress plugin
Have you ever thought about adding Zoom meetings to your eLearning site to chat with your clients? Or do group coaching calls? The Zoom WordPress plugin can help you do just that. You can easily stream your Zoom calls directly on the website. Besides that, all of the normal features that you would expect are available. You can chat with your clients using Zoom’s messenger and even list the recordings for your students to access later.
LearnDash Instructor Role
The LearnDash Instructor Role plugin is going to allow you to add multiple instructors to your website. Instructors will be able to create and sell their own courses, monitor the students’ progress, and withdraw commissions with PayPal payouts. If you’re planning on building the next Udemy website with LearnDash, then you will definitely need this plugin.
Private Sessions
Private Sessions for LearnDash is another great plugin that allows you to have private sessions and offer 1 on 1 teaching or coaching for your students or clients. It allows you to work directly with the student, chat with them, upload and share files. If you want to increase the value of your course, I suggest you check out this plugin.
Uncanny ToolKit For LearnDash
Uncanny TooKit for LearnDash It’s not a classical plugin, but rather a set of useful tools that you can use to make your website LearnDash site run better. It allows you to disable the admin bar for students, add a custom login form, lets you switch between users so that you can check how the website works from a student’s perspective, and many more.
Private Messaging For LearnDash
Just like the plugin says, it allows you to send private messages between students, create group chats, upload files, and have a way for your members to have a productive conversation within the website. This plugin can help you increase the engagement of the website, which can lead to better customer retention, better results for your clients, and higher profits for you.
Students Voice
Student’s voice is another great plugin for LearnDash that lets your students leave feedback and suggestions for your course or any part of it – a lesson, quiz, assignment, or other parts. Besides that, the plugin will send notifications through the LearnDash notifications addon when the suggestion is added, heard, and approved. As the site admin, you will be able to manage all contributions, read them carefully, and apply the ones that you find the best.
WP Rocket
WPRocket is a great plugin if you need to optimize your website’s performance. If you’re a LearnDash site owner, you know that your website can become somewhat slow, especially if you’re using cheap hosting and a lot of plugins. What WPRocket allows you to do is to cache your website, minimize assets like images, CSS, and javascript files as well as do some other optimizations that will help you make your site faster. Some of the cool and unique features include CSS Critical Path generation and integration with Cloudflare.
It’s also important to mention that you need to be careful when caching pages on a website with LearnDash. Some pages can require not be cached, esp. pages that are protected. You will need to test it all out before you can use this plugin on a website with real students.
Summary
Even though LearnDash is a great plugin and in combination with WordPress it still remains one of the best platforms for online courses, it can sometimes be limited in its functionality. That’s why you will likely need to buy and use additional plugins to make your website work great. You can find a full list of 3rd party plugins that LearnDash offers here.
