how does a sensei course look

How do you create a course on Sensei?

One of the first things that you can do with Sensei is to add courses. Navigate to Courses > All Courses > Add New to create a new course. Here, just like any other post, you can create a title, and content in the designated fields. You will also see an option to add an excerpt.

What is Sensei LMS?

Sensei LMS is a teaching and learning management plugin built by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack. In fact, Sensei LMS is used to power all of Automattic's employee training and courses too. Your knowledge is worth teaching – teach freely with Sensei LMS!

What is WordPress Sensei?

Sensei is a WordPress LMS plugin by the makers of WooCommerce and Jetpack. Build engaging online courses in minutes. Start teaching for free.

What is Japanese sensei?

Definition of sensei : a teacher or instructor usually of Japanese martial arts (such as karate or judo)

Sensei Modules

Sensei Modules enables you to group your lessons into various modules, adding further structure to your courses, and helping your students to easily digest their learning.

Sensei Media Attachments

Sensei Media Attachments enables you to attach media files (PDFs, audio files, slideshows etc.) to your courses and lessons in Sensei.

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Great job and thanks for the update here Dan. Free is certainly a bonus also! Would love to see the Product Vendors plugin become Course Vendors plugin and allow teachers to only access their courses and mark their courses – this would be a natural next step for sites with many courses and many teachers involved in the marking of the courses.

What is Sensei course?

Sensei is built to integrate seamlessly with your WordPress site. It creates a custom post type ‘Lessons’, to make the process of creating a course pretty simple. If you are familiar with the WordPress interface, you can create a course just like you create any other post.

Why do we use quizzes in Sensei?

Sensei helps you create multiple types of quizzes to test the involvement of your learners.

What is an eLearning website?

An eLearning site is a popular eCommerce option you can try if you have specific knowledge on a topic. You can create a website and teach your students online. There are several tools to help you with set up an eLearning website. If you have a WordPress site, there are different interesting plugins that would help you create eLearning courses ...

Can you set pre-requisites for a course?

If you want to set pre-requisites for your course, you can select an appropriate one. Only those users who complete the pre-requisite will be able to take up this particular course.

Can you set a prerequisite for each lesson?

Similar to the case of courses, you can set a prerequisite for each lesson as well. You can do this from the ‘Lesson Prerequisite’ section. Once you have set a prerequisite, learners who have not completed that would see a message directing them to finish it first.

Is Sensei compatible with WordPress?

Sensei is compatible with most popular WordPress themes out there that you will find. It comes with a default styling that would irrespective of the theme, given the theme is created following modern coding standards.

Configuration

Once you have completed all of the above setup, you would need to add your Paypal email address to the WooCommerce payment gateway settings page.

Create Subscriptions

If you want multiple options for a Subscription, you can create an attribute in a Variable Subscription product, and then add variations based on the attribute (Please note: this is not a multi-tiered option, Premium users do not get Gold and Premium access, and Gold users do not get Gold and Premium access).

Sensei Upgrades

Something we haven’t mentioned before is that Sensei has seen a major update in the last 2 versions (1.2.0 and 1.2.1) including….