CourseGlade is a full-featured Learning Management System plugin for WordPress. Build and sell online courses, manage students and instructors, and deliver engaging learning experiences — all from your WordPress site.
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Key Features
- 7 quiz question types (multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, matching, ordering, short answer, essay)
- Multi-instructor support with earnings and withdrawal management
- Become-an-instructor application flow with admin approval
- Public instructor profiles at /instructor/{username}/
- Built-in payment processing with Stripe, WooCommerce, Manual, and Free (zero-price) gateways
- Coupons and discounts, plus free course enrolment
- Student dashboard with progress tracking and a course wishlist
- Course reviews and discussion boards
- Course categories, tags, and difficulty levels
- Transactional email notifications (enrolment, course completion, orders, instructor applications)
- Maintenance mode for your learning site
- Shortcodes for course grids, dashboard, checkout, and authentication pages
More Free Features
- Drag-and-drop course builder with sections, lessons, and quizzes
- Video lessons from YouTube, Vimeo, self-hosted, or any oEmbed provider
- Distraction-free learning mode with a curriculum drawer and progress tracking
- Course catalog with search, category filtering, and pagination
- Custom student and instructor roles with granular capabilities
- Custom avatar uploads (falls back to Gravatar)
- React-based admin with a clean dashboard, orders, students, and reports
- Fully translation-ready (
.potincluded) and block-theme compatible
CourseGlade Pro — Premium Add-ons
CourseGlade Pro extends the free plugin with independently toggleable add-ons (requires the separate CourseGlade LMS Pro plugin):
- Certificates — auto-issue completion certificates with custom templates and shareable, verifiable certificate numbers
- Assignments — file-upload assignments with instructor grading and feedback
- Content Drip — release lessons and modules on a schedule or by enrolment date
- Leaderboard & Gamification — award points and badges, and rank learners
- Gradebook — a per-student grade overview across quizzes and assignments
- Advanced Email — broadcast campaigns, a send queue, and expanded notification events
- Course Bundles — sell groups of courses together as a single product
- Advanced Reports — detailed revenue, enrolment, course, and instructor analytics
- Live Classes (Zoom & Google Meet) — schedule and host live sessions with per-instructor connections
- Google Classroom — import and sync course rosters
- White Label — rebrand the admin with your own name, logo, and colours
Source Code
The admin interface is built with React (Vite). The full, unminified source code is included in the plugin under assets/admin/src/. The compiled output is at assets/admin/build/.
To rebuild the admin assets:
cd assets/adminnpm installnpm run build
External Services
This plugin connects to the following external services:
Stripe
Used to process course payments when the Stripe gateway is enabled. Checkout sessions are created against the Stripe API and the student is then redirected to Stripe’s own hosted checkout page to pay.
– Data sent: payment amount, currency, customer email, course details
– When sent: only during checkout when a student purchases a course
– Service URL: https://api.stripe.com (and Stripe’s hosted checkout at https://checkout.stripe.com)
– Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal
– Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
Video embeds (YouTube, Vimeo)
Used to embed lesson videos when an instructor provides a YouTube or Vimeo video URL for a lesson. YouTube is embedded through youtube-nocookie.com. If an instructor instead chooses the “Embed” video source, WordPress’s built-in oEmbed fetches the markup from whichever provider the supplied URL belongs to, under that provider’s own terms and privacy policy.
– Data sent: standard browser request (IP address, browser info) when the video is loaded
– When sent: only when a student views a lesson that has a YouTube or Vimeo video URL set
– YouTube — Service URL: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com | Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms | Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
– Vimeo — Service URL: https://vimeo.com | Terms: https://vimeo.com/terms | Privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy
Screenshots
Admin dashboard — revenue, top courses, and quick actions
Admin — Course Management list
Admin — Students list
Admin — Orders list
Course builder — general course settings
Course builder — drag-and-drop curriculum editor
Course builder — quiz question editor
Course catalog — browse all published courses
Single course page — curriculum, pricing, and enroll button
Learning mode — lesson player with progress tracking
Quiz player — interactive question types
Instructor dashboard — earnings and student overview
Instructor public profile
Checkout page