Creating a LearnDash Course and Adding a Lesson

This lesson describes how to create a LearnDash course and add a lesson to it.

Creating a Course

In the administrative area, hover over “LearnDash” in the right menu. In the pop-up hover menu that appears, click “Courses.” Click the “Add New” button at the top of the page. At minimum, enter a course title in the skinny textbox and a description in the big textbox.

Structure of Courses

A LearnDash course is made up of one or more lessons. Lessons may contain contain one or more topics, if you want to break the lesson up into subcomponents; having topics its optional — a lesson can no topics or it can have many. Courses can also feature certificates and quizzes, which will be discussed in a later training.

Hierarchy of LearnDash courses:

• Course
  • Lesson
    • Topic

Adding a Lesson

In the administrative area, hover over “LearnDash” in the right menu. In the pop-up hover menu that appears, click “Lessons.” Click the “Add New” button at the top of the page. At minimum, enter a lesson title in the skinny textbox, a description in the big textbox, and select the course that the lesson belongs to in the “Associated Course” dropdown box.

Adding a Topic

In the administrative area, hover over “LearnDash” in the right menu. In the pop-up hover menu that appears, click “Topics.” Click the “Add New” button at the top of the page. At minimum, enter a topic title in the skinny textbox, a description in the big textbox, select the course that the topic belongs to in the “Associated Course” dropdown box, and then select the lesson that the topic belongs to in the “Associated Lesson” dropdown box.

Editing a Page

Method 1: In the administrative area, hover over “LearnDash” in the right menu. In the pop-up hover menu that appears, click “Lessons” or “Course” (depending on which you want to edit). Find the page you went to edit in the list that appears, then click its name. You will be taken to the edit area for the page. Make any changes you need. Click the blue “Update” button when you are done making changes.

Method 2: Navigate to the page while logged in as an administrator. In the black menu bar at the top of the page, click the “Edit” link with a pencil next to it.  You will be taken to the edit area for the page. Make any changes you need. Click the blue “Update” button when you are done making changes.

Revising the Order of Lessons and Topics

Method 1: Go the the lessons and change the the number in the “Order” textbox under “Post Attributes.”

Method 2: Go to the course’s edit page (see “Editing a Page”). Scroll down to the “LearnDash” Course Builder. Use the drag-and-drop builder to re-order the lessons and topics into the correct order. Click the blue “Update” button (top right of the page) when you are done making changes.

You can read more about the Course Builder feature here and here.