Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning

Description

Create beautiful and engaging online courses, lessons, and quizzes.

Sensei LMS is a powerful learning management plugin from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack. At Automattic, we use Sensei LMS to power all our employee training courses.

Share your knowledge and teach freely with Sensei LMS!

Powerful LMS Features

• Seamlessly integrate Sensei LMS into your WordPress site. Sensei LMS looks great with any theme and can be customized to match your branding and style.
• Create engaging courses with the WordPress Block Editor, fully utilized by Sensei’s free Course Theme.
• Enable Learning Mode for an immersive distraction-free learning experience.
• Track student progress and performance with detailed reports.
• Embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and VideoPress for video-based courses.
• Add the Course List block to any page or post to display available courses.

Create effective quizzes

Quizzes are a powerful way to improve your students’ understanding of key concepts and track their progress. Select from various quiz question types and settings, such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, free response, file uploads, and more.

Showcase your courses

Submit your course to Sensei LMS’ public course showcase at https://senseilms.com/showcase/. Sensei LMS’ course showcase allows you to reach new audiences to expand your course’s visibility.

Discover the power of Sensei Pro

Realize the full potential of your courses with Sensei Pro.

WooCommerce Integration: Effortlessly set a price and sell courses in just a few clicks. Sensei Pro seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce Subscriptions, Payments, Memberships, and Affiliates extensions.

Scheduled Content Drip: Control the pacing of lessons in your courses by specifying when students can access lesson content at fixed intervals after starting the course or on a particular date.

Immersive Interactive Blocks: Enrich your lessons, pages, or posts with engaging videos, flashcards, image hotspots, and task lists.

Enhanced Quiz Features: Set a quiz timer and incorporate an ordering quiz question type. With Sensei LMS Pro, you can include individual quiz questions in any WordPress content, not just quizzes.

Easy Groups & Cohorts: Organize students into groups and cohorts to manage access and customize learning experiences.

Course Access Periods: Define a start date, end date, or a set amount of time that courses will remain accessible to students.

Conditional Content: Personalize the learning journey by hiding or showing lessons and content based on groups, enrollment status, and date.

Dedicated Priority Support: Our team of expert and friendly engineers is always available to provide assistance and ensure your success!

Flashcards: Add text, videos, images, embeds, and more to both sides of the flashcard block type.

Co-Teachers: Share course ownership with co-teachers who can edit course settings, lessons, and quizzes.

Learn more about Sensei Pro.

Free Extensions

Certificates: Automatically generate beautiful downloadable PDF certificates for students when they complete a course.

Learn more about Sensei LMS Certificates.

Post To Course Creator: Create courses quickly by converting existing blog posts into course lessons in just a few clicks.

Learn more about Sensei LMS Post To Course Creator.

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 3 blocks.

• Exit Course
• Course Title
• Course Theme Lesson Module

Installation

Automatic installation

1. Log into your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins > Add New.
2. Enter “Sensei LMS” into the search field.
3. Once you’ve located the plugin, click Install Now.
4. Click Activate.
5. Configure the settings by going to Sensei LMS > Settings.

Manual installation

1. Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it.
2. Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s wp-content/plugins/ directory on the server.
3. Log into your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin from the Plugins menu.
4. Configure the settings by going to Sensei LMS > Settings.

FAQ

Where can I get support for Sensei LMS?

For the free plugin, please use the Support Forums for any questions that you may have. We monitor the forums regularly and will reply as soon as we can.

You can also check our Documentation on our website for guides, tutorials, and other helpful information.

Where can I report bugs or contribute improvements to the plugin?

Sensei is developed in public on Github. We welcome anyone to report a bug, submit a pull request, and follow along with our progress.

Visit Sensei LMS on Github.

Does Sensei work with membership plugins?

Sensei LMS can be used in conjunction with Sensei Pro and WooCommerce Memberships to enable you to sell courses as part of a membership plan. See Selling Courses as a Membership for more details.

How can I keep up to date with new releases and announcements for Sensei LMS?

Please visit the Sensei Blog or sign up for our mailing list.

How can I include my courses in the Sensei LMS showcase?

To find out how to submit a course to the Sensei LMS showcase, and the requirements, please see our documentation on the Course Showcase.

Does Sensei support live courses, Zoom integration, or webinars?

Yes! You can add links to Zoom, Google Meet, or whatever platform you choose in a course lesson. In addition, Sensei includes a meeting lesson layout you can select when creating a new lesson to help make this even easier.

Does Sensei work in WordPress Multisite?

Sensei LMS works great in WordPress Multisite. Although a Sensei Pro license covers only one site, the Sensei Agency plan permits the activation of Sensei Pro on up to 20 sites. If you use or plan to use Sensei Pro on a Multisite with more than 20 sites, please get in touch for custom pricing.

How can I sell courses as part of a membership?

Sensei LMS is compatible with Sensei Pro and WooCommerce Memberships, enabling you to sell courses as part of a membership plan.

See Selling Courses as a Membership for more details.

Does Sensei work in my language?

Community members have translated the free Sensei LMS plugin into 18 languages, while Sensei Pro has been professionally translated into 16 languages. We welcome contributions to improve even more.

Reviews

So much potential but developers really slow to add features

sadi007 August 8, 2024 1 reply

I love lots of things about Sensei LMS but there are some key features I think needs to be added to improve the UX and to add more for users. I really wish there was a more dedicated team to the project that can listen to the users and take on new features otherwise it will just be the case that people go to other LMS plugins. So much potential here but I do wonder if anyone is bothered about making this the best LMS out there.

Nice, but tough

persoonlijkvaardiger April 7, 2024 1 reply

Sensei can do a lot for you, but if you’re no noob in building websites and really demand flexibility and free styling, it’s not as easy as they pretend it to be. It’s all possible, but you have to be a pitbull.

Does exactly what is says

SJW November 26, 2023

Flexible tool that allows full control over course management.

Nice plugin

Uri Lazcano October 2, 2023 1 reply

I’m testing Sensei for a client, the basic features are good for a beginner user.

Great plugin

gmollbomsfi September 28, 2023 1 reply

I have used Sensei for almost a year now and I am very pleased with both their excellent support and the plugin itself, which fills my needs of an excellent LMS that can teach people in different ways.

You better like green

Scott July 13, 2023 2 replies

I like the functionality but unless you simply accept the fact support considers ANY request for help changing the default colors as “beyond the scope of support” you’re never going to get along with it. Sure there are “some” tools to help change colors but as of todays date there is no tool to change the ugly greenish color of the “Complete Lesson” or “Take Quiz” button or even change the color of the button text. You’ll also notice the defacto, “it must be a conflict with your theme” excuse thrown around constantly. Frankly in my tests these issues exist in their theme too. It doesn’t matter if using the free or paid version. The support is useless. Which makes this LMS an option only for those who are developers themselves and not teachers or educational businesses. It doesn’t deserve the 1 star I gave it.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

4.24.4 – 2024-11-12

Security

• Messages and emails accessible using the search REST API

Added

• Allow additional users to manage students #7700

Fixed

• Horizontal scroll on Course page when using Course theme #7705
• Loading some translations too early which generates a warning on WP 6.7 #7701
• PHP deprecation notice in View Results block #7680
• Hello elementor theme throwing 404 when rendering the Courses archive page #7683
• Label on course complete email received by the teacher #7672
• Timed quiz not stopping when time ends #7675

Development

• Added a hook to conditionally render the lesson actions in the frontend #7677
• Filter course IDs associated with a given teacher #7702

4.24.3 – 2024-08-22

Fixed

• Ensure quiz description is displayed to the student #7669
• Incorrect URL for edited emails #7671
• Missing lesson status icon for “complete” status #7667
• PHP deprecation notice when opening site editor #7668
• Some reports not exporting all rows #7670

4.24.2 – 2024-08-08

Security

• Improve email templates security

Changed

• Pass checks argument to sensei_can_user_view_lesson filter #7657
• “Course Started” email is now “Course Enrolled” #7661

Fixed

• Deprecation notices on PHP 8.2 #7650
• Custom styles for emails in preview and in sent messages #7595
• Keep current status for a question when it is updated #7603
• Prevent lesson loading error in Learning Mode for themes that are using referenced styles #7658
• Remove limit from report export #7647
• Set default names for modules without titles when saving course in the course tour #7652
• Replace “Continue to next lesson” with “Back to lesson” CTA in quiz when lesson is last in course #7642
• Register blocks to make their translations available in the editor #7643
• Tour modal tooltip visibility #7653