New Modules for LearnDash Pro Toolkit
Yesterday we released version 1.4 of the Pro modules plugin for the Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit and it’s one of our biggest updates yet. Along with the usual suite of improvements, we introduced three entirely new modules: Send LearnDash Certificates by Email, Complete Lesson/Topic on Quiz Completion, and the Group Leader Experience. All 3 have been very popular requests and we’re very excited to be able to include them in the Pro plugin. All new features are, of course, available at no extra cost to existing users.
Here’s a screencast that outlines how the new modules and other changes work:
The biggest addition to the plugin is the ability to send LearnDash PDF certificates by email on quiz completion. Certificates can go to learners, of course, but even more exciting is that the site admin, Group Leaders, and even custom email addresses can be notified and also receive the certificate attachment. It’s a great way for managers and organizations to track staff achievements. One caveat with this module is that it works with quiz certificates only for now (not course certificates), but we know a lot of people are going to be excited about easy certificate distribution by email!
The Autocomplete Lessons & Topics on Quiz Results Page module addresses a common user experience issue on LearnDash sites–users must click a Click here to continue button to save results and be able to mark an associated lesson or topic as complete. If they didn’t, administrator intervention may have been required in order to complete associated lessons and topics properly. This module automatically marks an associated lesson or topic complete as soon as the quiz is completed so that users that accidentally forget to click the button won’t be negatively affected. (Clarification: LearnDash 2.3 did complete quizzes earlier in the workflow; our plugin allows easier autocompletion of associated lessons/topics.)
We have always found the Group Leader experience with LearnDash a bit confusing. For us, it was unusual for Group Leaders to have access to the WordPress Dashboard and back-end profile management, but not to have easy access to the courses they were managing and reports. This simple module, when enabled, grants Group Leaders access to the courses their groups are enrolled in and changes the back end user interface to something more suited to typical Group Leader functions.
Along with the modules themselves we’ve added some new organizing options for the course grid (including a fixed sorting option by menu order that ignores groupings), expiry date sorting for LearnDash Groups, better translation support and more.
If you don’t already have a copy of the plugin, make sure to check out the other modules already included in the Pro Modules plugin for the Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit!
Really cool update to your add-on!
Just a quick clarification, the ‘click here to continue’ button doesn’t need to be selected in order for a quiz to be marked as complete as of version 2.3 (released September).
Keep up the great work!
Thanks Justin! It may just be a language issue; we were mostly going by https://support.learndash.com/forums/topic/requirement-to-mark-quizzes-as-complete-still-causing-issues/page/2/#post-130215, which confirmed a few weeks ago that quizzes can’t complete lessons/topics and that may still cause problems for some users. I’ll update the blog post wording to make this clear.
in your new update i seen this update “Course Grid to truly ignore default sorting for enrolled courses” , is that mean showing just the enrolled courses for each user ? can you give more documentation about that , because we used your plugin in our site thanks ?
Good question, thanks. I created a screencast to better explain how this works. Try skipping to about 7:13 in the video that’s now in the post above; that outlines exactly what the attribute changes mean and how to use them.