Use LearnDash Groups? Get this Toolkit Pro Update
Version 3.2.6 of the Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit Pro might sound like a small point release, but for users of LearnDash Groups, it’s going to make things a lot better. We worked really hard on this one to accommodate a number of user requests (including from the LearnDash team), so we know it’s going to add a lot of value.
Send Group Drip Notifications
The Group Drip module is now compatible with the LearnDash Notifications plugin!
What does that mean for you? Well, if you control how lessons are dripped by LearnDash Group, it means you can send users an email when the lesson is available. Workarounds, like using a CRM to drip notices based on group tag, are no longer needed.
This makes is much, much easier to let students know when content is available in their courses.
Please note that while we did our best to make things as simple as possible, because of how the Notifications plugin works, having emails triggered by group drip date does unfortunately require that everything be set up in a particular order. Here’s what’s needed to make the notifications work:
- Create the Lesson Notification in the LearnDash Notifications plugin.
- Create or edit the lesson you’re going to drip.
- If Shared Course Steps are off, choose a group for the drip behaviour and then select a date.
- If Shared Course Steps are on, select a course in the Course Switcher dropdown, choose a group for the drip behaviour and select a date.
- Save the lesson changes.
The lesson update after setting up the notification is unfortunately needed for emails to be triggered properly. It’s worth it though for this powerful new feature!
Integration with the Uncanny Groups Plugin
The 3.2.6 release of Pro also adds some really compelling new ways to use Pro with our Groups plugin. The Import LearnDash Users and Group Registration modules now recognize and work with seat limits set in Groups. What does that mean for your site?
For the Import Users module, it means that user uploads into LearnDash Groups that have seat limits will now count against available seats. In other words, if a group has 100 seats assigned, 40 in the group already and you add another 40 by import, the group will now have 20 seats remaining. The imported users will count against the seat count for the group. And, if you were import 100 instead of 40, then the seat limit for the group would be increased to 140 (since there were 40 and 100 were imported) and the available seat count would change to 0.
It’s pretty great, but the Group Registration changes are even better. Now all users that register from the group URLs count against the available seat limit. These means you can now limit how many people can use these registration URLs, but even better, you can let group members self-register directly into groups without using enrollment keys. Instead, the unique URL they register from effectively acts as the pre-populated enrollment key. This approach is far easier for learners to use when signing up for group-based access.
And that’s it for Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit Pro 3.2.6! If you use LearnDash Groups, you’re definitely going to enjoy these new features.
Have you added the ability to modify group licenses? Add/remove seats in particular?
Admins can always override seats and add or remove them. Group Leaders shouldn’t really have this ability, except via purchase, which is supported now. Can you confirm what you would want this behaviour to be?
Our use case is this:
– User buys X number of seats in a Group License
– User can then add/remove seats and monthly renewal rate would change
Our customer is school owners and administrators who want to buy our product for their teachers and view their progress. Giving them the ability to add/remove seats as needed would be important in a seat licensing subscription scenario.
Ah, this is for subscriptions. I’m afraid the WooCommerce model we lean on here cannot support this workflow. It would of course be great if we could add support, but seat reductions in particular can’t reduce monthly charges.
Thank you – I did read that somewhere but wanted to see if anything had changed.