Morgan

<p><strong>THIS PLUGIN IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND HAS NO WORKING FUNCTIONALITY.  CHECK BACK JANUARY 2012.</strong></p>
<p>UMatter2Us turns WordPress into a web-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system" rel="nofollow ugc">learning management system</a> (LMS).<br />
The primary motivation behind this effort is the perceived deficiency of existing tools, e.g. Blackboard, for the effective<br />
creation of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student-centred_learning" rel="nofollow ugc">learner-centered classroom</a> environment.</p>
<p>The name of the system is a double entendre:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>You Matter to Us</strong><br />This interpretation acknowledges the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructivism" rel="nofollow ugc">social constructivist pedagogy</a> that underlies the system.  The system is designed to foster a learning community in which all members work to help others have rich, meaningful learning experiences.  In such an environment, every member of the community is important–you matter to us–we wouldn’t have as deep an experience without you.</li>
<li><strong>University Matter, To Us</strong><br />Members of a learner-centered classroom see a college education not as a means to an end, but as an end in and of itself.  The system is designed to foster an intrinsic love of learning that will carry on throughout life.  It is designed to produce “enlightened citizens who live meaningful and productive lives” through self-aware, reflective study.  It’s how we see university matter, the stuff you study in college.</li>
</ul>
<p>The basic principles upon with the system is built:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructivism" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Constructivist Pedagogy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning" rel="nofollow ugc">Mastery learning approach</a></li>
<li>Self-directed, flexible learning</li>
<li>All members of the learning community are learners, including the “professor”; all are equals</li>
<li>Mutual trust, respect and support</li>
</ul>
<p>Key features of the system include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Robust peer and self-evaluation tools designed to make all community members competent to recognize quality as a precursor to producing quality work</li>
<li>Multiple paths for achieving all learning goals allowing community members to select or create paths most appropriate to their own learning styles</li>
<li>“Community health indicators” that allow community members to monitor their own and each other’s learning trajectories. These indicators will alert community members when a peer is in need of attention or assistance.</li>
<li>Flexible messaging which takes advantage of multiple modes of communication, e.g. email, text messaging, chat, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, phone; allows members to send and receive messages in the manner that suits them best.</li>
</ul>


UMatter2Us

UMatter2Us turns WordPress into a web-based learning management system (LMS).

BuddyBoss

<p>Want your learners to interact with each other? <strong>BuddyPress for LearnDash</strong> 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>.</p>
<h4>BuddyPress Groups</h4>
<p>Easily tie any LearnDash Course to a BuddyPress Group.</p>
<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>
<p>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:</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Extend LearnDash with ‘Social Learner’</h4>
<p>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>.</p>


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.

UMatter2Us vs BuddyPress for LearnDash