BuddyBoss

Want your learners to interact with each other? BuddyPress for LearnDash turns your course driven website into a social education platform, creating a seamless bridge between BuddyPress and <a href="http://www.learndash.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash</a>.
<h4>BuddyPress Groups</h4>
Easily tie any LearnDash Course to a BuddyPress Group.
<ul>
<li>Course participants automatically get added as members to the group</li>
<li>Group becomes private to course participants and invited members</li>
<li>Course Lessons become visible at the group</li>
<li>Course activity gets streamed into the group feed (optional)</li>
<li>Forum gets added to the group (if bbPress is enabled)</li>
<li>Course featured image becomes group avatar (if no group avatar has been set)</li>
</ul>
<h4>BuddyPress Activity</h4>
Activity is one of the core features of BuddyPress, allowing users to interact with each other in real-time. When a course is tied to a group, course actions are optionally added to the group’s activity stream. Group admins can determine which actions to allow in their group, including:
<ul>
<li>User starts a course</li>
<li>User completes a course</li>
<li>User creates a lesson</li>
<li>User completes a lesson</li>
<li>User passes a quiz</li>
<li>User comments on single lesson page</li>
</ul>
<h4>BuddyPress Members</h4>
<ul>
<li>Your members can view their Active and Completed courses in their profiles.</li>
<li>Leaders and Students get added as filterable tabs in your Members directory.</li>
<li>All LearnDash user links redirect to member profiles (instead of author pages).</li>
</ul>
<h4>bbPress Forums</h4>
If bbPress is enabled, a forum will be tied to every “course group” automatically, using the same name as the course for the forum title. Group members can then discuss the course in one central location.
<h4>Extend LearnDash with ‘Social Learner’</h4>
BuddyPress for LearnDash is built by the experienced developers at BuddyBoss who also offer a premium social learning solution called <a href="https://www.buddyboss.com/product/social-learner-learndash" title="Social Learner for LearnDash" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Learner</a>.

BuddyPress for LearnDash

If you disable groups component of BuddyPress then this plugin will fatal error and take out the entire site. This error was reported over six months ago but has not been addressed. 

Typical of this developer, they incapable of addressing a simple issue that was reported over 6 months ago. 

Avoid this developer at all costs. 

Fatal error still not fixed after 6 months.

BuddyPress for LearnDash integrates the LearnDash LMS plugin with BuddyPress, so you can add groups, activity, members, and forums to your courses.

Uncanny Owl

Important: This plugin requires PHP 7.4 or higher and LearnDash 4.2 or higher.
The Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash adds 16 modules that every elearning site needs, including a login form, login redirect, resume capabilities and more. Trusted to power over 30,000+ LearnDash sites, it’s the easiest way to improve the learning experience for your students. Translation ready and multisite capable!
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The Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash adds the following features to your LearnDash site:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/disable-emails/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable Emails</a>: While this module is active, WordPress and any plugins using native WordPress email functions will be prevented from sending email. Use this on development and staging sites to block accidental customer emails.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/front-end-login/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Front End Login</a>: Add full-featured login forms with reCaptcha, password reset, and user validation support to front end pages.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/hide-admin-bar/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Hide Admin Bar</a>: Hide the Admin Bar at the top of WordPress pages based on user role.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-breadcrumb-links/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash Breadcrumbs</a>: Easily add breadcrumb links that work with courses, lessons, topics and quizzes using a shortcode or template change. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-certificate-widget/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash Certificate Widget</a>: Display all LearnDash certificates earned by a user in a widget.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-groups-user-profiles/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash Groups in User Profiles</a>: Display a user’s LearnDash Group memberships in the user profile.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-resume/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash Resume Button</a>: Inserts a button that allows learners to return to the course, lesson or topic that they last visited.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/log-in-log-out-links/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Log In/Log Out Links</a>: Add Log In and Log Out links to site menus, or to any page or widget with a shortcode.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-login-redirect/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Login/Logout Redirects</a>: Redirect learners to a specific URL after signing in or out of the site.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/menu-item-visibility/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Menu Item Visibility</a>: Toggle the visibility of menu items based on whether or not users are signed in to the site.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/redirect-user-if-not-enrolled/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Not Enrolled Redirect</a>: Redirect all non-admin roles to a specific URL if they are not enrolled in the course. This is useful for directing prospective customers to a course sales page.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/quiz-completion-advances-to-next-step/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Quiz completion advances to next step</a>: Automatically advance to the next course step when a user clicks “Click here to continue” on quiz results page inside a lesson or topic.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/show-learndash-certificates/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Show LearnDash Certificates</a>: Display a list of LearnDash certificates (course, quiz and group) earned by the user, with the most recent at the top.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/show-hide-content/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Show or Hide Content</a>: Conditionally shows content to either logged in or logged out users. Great for Open course types or protecting content on a course page.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/topics-autocomplete-lessons/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Topics Autocomplete Lessons (Legacy)</a>: Automatically marks lessons as completed when all topics and quizzes for that lesson are marked complete.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/user-switching-module/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">User Switching</a>: Easily and securely switch between users. Great for testing your site and troubleshooting user issues.</li>
</ul>
We welcome contributions to the Uncanny Toolkit! The plugin is managed in a <a href="https://github.com/UncannyOwl/Uncanny-Toolkit-for-LearnDash" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a>.
Ready to take your LearnDash site even further?
The <a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/downloads/uncanny-learndash-toolkit-pro/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version of the Uncanny Toolkit</a> adds a continuously expanding list of powerful features (currently 35) to the Toolkit. These include:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/autocomplete-lessons-topics/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics</a>: Automatically mark all lessons and topics as completed on user visit and remove Mark Complete buttons. Global settings can be overridden for individual lessons and topics.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/ffforms-auto-completes-lessons-topics/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics on Fluent Forms Submission</a>: Automatically mark LearnDash lessons and topics as complete when the user submits a Fluent form.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/formidable-auto-completes-lessons-topics/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics on Formidable Forms Submission</a>: Automatically mark LearnDash lessons and topics as complete when the user submits a Formidable form.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/gravity-forms-auto-completes-lessons-topics/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics on Gravity Form Submission</a>: Automatically mark LearnDash lessons and topics as completed when the user submits a Gravity form.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/autocomplete-lessons-topics-quiz-results-page/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics on Quiz Results Page</a>: Automatically mark LearnDash lessons and topics as completed when the user reaches the quiz results page with a passing mark (so users that forget to click “Click here to continue” don’t get stuck in a course).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/wpforms-auto-completes-lessons-topics/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics on WPForms Submission</a>: Automatically mark LearnDash lessons and topics as complete when the user submits a WPForms form.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/autocomplete-lessons-topics-when-quiz-is-graded/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Autocomplete Lessons & Topics When Quiz Is Graded </a>: Automatically mark LearnDash lessons and topics as completed when the associated quiz is manually graded.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/certificate-preview/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Certificate Preview</a>: Get a preview of your LearnDash certificate without leaving the editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-course-dashboard/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Course Dashboard</a>: Display a list of enrolled courses to students in a variety of ways. This tool also makes it easy to access individual lessons, topics, quizzes, quiz results and certificates for students.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/days-until-course-expiry/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Days Until Course Expiry</a>: Display the number of days until the learner’s access expires for the current course. This is a useful shortcode to include on course pages.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/download-certificates-in-bulk/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Download Certificates In Bulk</a>: Download course, quiz and group certificates in bulk. Available to admins and Group Leaders.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/drip-lessons-by-ldgroup/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Drip Lessons by LearnDash Group</a>: Unlock access to LearnDash lessons by setting availability dates for LearnDash Groups rather than for all enrolled users.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/drip-topics-by-ldgroup/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Drip Topics by Group</a>: Unlock access to LearnDash topics by setting dates for LearnDash Groups rather than for all enrolled users.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/duplicate-pages-posts/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Duplicate Pages & Posts</a>: Easily clone pages, posts, LearnDash courses, lessons, topics, quizzes and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/send-course-certificates-email/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Course Certificates</a>: Sends a copy of certificate earned from course completions and optionally save certificates on the server.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/send-group-certificates-email/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Group Certificates</a>: Sends a copy of certificate earned from group completions and save certificates on the server.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/send-quiz-certificates-by-email/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Quiz Certificates</a>: Sends a copy of certificates earned from quiz completions and save certificates on the server.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/enhanced-course-grid/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Enhanced Course Grid</a>: Add a highly customizable grid of LearnDash courses to the front end, learner dashboard or anywhere you want. This is a great tool for sites with a large number of courses.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/enhanced-learndash-csv-reports/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Enhanced LearnDash CSV Reports</a>: Add additional columns to the LearnDash Course CSV report, including custom user and course meta records.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/enhanced-lessontopic-grid/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Enhanced Lesson/Topic Grid</a>: Add a highly customizable grid of LearnDash lessons/topics to the front end, learner dashboard or anywhere you want. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-group-expiration/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Group Expiration</a>: Set expiration dates for LearnDash groups so that course enrolment for the group is removed on the specified day. Reminder emails can be sent to users advising them of group expiration.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-group-forums-with-bbpress/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Group Forums with bbPress</a>: Create group-specific discussion forums with bbPress. Only group members will have access to group-specific forums. Includes a handy widget.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-group-login-redirect/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Group Login Redirect</a>: Adds a group-specific login redirect setting to LearnDash groups. Automatically redirect group members to a specific page on login.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/ld-group-logo-list/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Group Logo/List</a>: Add group-specific logos to any page, including registration pages. A shortcode to list a user’s LearnDash Groups is also available.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/group-sign-up/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Group Registration</a>: Allow users to add themselves directly to LearnDash groups on registration by assigning each group a unique registration URL. Users can also change or add groups themselves by visiting group URLs.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/import-learndash-users/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Import Users</a>: Create or update users and assign them to courses and LearnDash groups from a CSV file. Supports custom user fields.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/group-leader-access/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Improved Group Leader Interface (deprecated)</a>: This legacy module helped LearnDash 2.x and 3.x sites hide unrelated menu entries from /wp-admin/ and enroll Group Leaders in group courses.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/lazy-loading-course-navigation/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Lazy Loading Course Navigation</a>: Shortcode that loads a course navigation tree via AJAX. Useful on sites with many lessons and topics where the native LearnDash Course Navigation widget is extending page load time.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learner-transcript/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Learner Transcript</a>: Add printable transcripts to the front end for your learners. This is a great way for learners to have a record of all course progress and overall standing.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-table-colors/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Lesson/Topic/Quiz Table Colors (Legacy)</a>: Change the background and header text color of LearnDash tables. This module modifies the course, lesson, topic, quiz, and Pro Dashboard tables. (Legacy LearnDash theme only).</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/learndash-reset/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Reset Progress Button</a>: Inserts a button that allows learners to reset all activity for a course, allowing them to retake it.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/restrict-page-access/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict Page Access</a>: Restrict access to any page by logged in/out status, course enrollment, group membership, or role. Display a message or automatically redirect users that are denied access.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/simple-course-timer/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Course Timer</a>: Tracks time spent in all LearnDash courses, lessons, and topics, and detects when a user is idle. Course completion time and total course time are both added to LearnDash reports. Enables blocking access to quizzes until minimum time spent in a course.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/knowledge-base/single-page-courses/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Single Page Courses</a>: Create microlearning courses that have no associated lessons; this moves the Mark Complete button up to the course level.</li>
</ul>
Uncanny Automator
If you like the Uncanny Toolkit, you’ll love <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/uncanny-automator/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="ugc">Uncanny Automator</a>! Our free no-code automation plugin connects LearnDash to over 150 plugins and apps plus other WordPress sites. Build personalized learning paths and automated instructional workflows with an easy-to-use interface in minutes. Trusted by over 40,000 WordPress sites to build powerful learning workflows and automations.
More LearnDash Plugins!
Uncanny Owl offers a full suite of <a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/plugins/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">plugins that extend the LearnDash platform</a> and make it easier to build and manage a great learning experience. Here are a few:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/downloads/tin-canny-reporting/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Tin Canny Reporting for LearnDash</a>: Add support for your SCORM and Tin Can modules inside WordPress as well as powerful drill-down LearnDash course and quiz reports.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/downloads/uncanny-learndash-groups/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Uncanny Groups for LearnDash</a>: Make it easy for your customers and member organizations to manage their learners in the front end, track and manage their progress, and buy buy groups with B2B sales tools.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/downloads/uncanny-learndash-codes/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Uncanny Codes</a>: An easier way to get your learners into LearnDash groups, courses, and more. Generate codes that can be used by learners to self-enrol into LearnDash groups and courses when they register, make a purchase, or are simply signed in.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncannyowl.com/downloads/uncanny-continuing-education-credits/?utm_medium=ldtoolkitreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Uncanny Continuing Education Credits</a>: Assign credits to LearnDash courses and archive LearnDash course and quiz data to offer recurring training.</li>
</ul>
Follow Uncanny Owl for updates about our latest LearnDash enhancements on <a href="https://twitter.com/uncannyowl" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UncannyOwl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/UncannyOwl" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a>.

Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash

Extend LearnDash with a variety of useful modules that make it even easier to build great learner experiences with LearnDash.

BuddyPress for LearnDash vs Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash