To enable LifterLMS Groups you must install and activate the add-on plugin.
The plugin’s main integration settings allow site administrators to configure:
Click through all the Group Profile menu items and add content, associate a course or membership with the group, and adjust settings to your liking.
Once your group is setup and configured you can add seats and invite members.
Each user within a group are granted group-specific permissions based on their group user role.
The LifterLMS Groups is powered by REST API endpoints which are publicly accessible (with valid API keys) through the LifterLMS REST API.
In LifterLMS you can restrict courses to a membership by creating a members only access plan . Members only access plans can be made only available to students active in a membership (or memberships) of your choosing. Please note that members only pricing can be used to create both free and paid access plans.
You have the option to restrict a page or a (blog) post to a membership when creating the page or post. You can do this in the meta box settings at the right side of the screen.
You can use LifterLMS + bbPress to create a members only forum on your website. For more information click here.
If you are looking for additional types of content restriction you might need custom development. Check out our LifterLMS Experts if you have questions on custom needs.
The number of members in a group is governed by it’s number of available seats.
Group administrators can increase and decrease the number of available seats by entering the number of desired seats into a text box.
To add a member to a group a group leader or administrator must send the member an invitation.
A list of all group invitations which have yet to be accepted by the invited member can be found on the Members tab of the group profile in the Pending Invitations area of the sidebar.
To delete a pending invitation, locate the invitation you wish to delete, hover over the email address and click the red trashcan icon.
The Open Invitation Link acts as an open link that can be provided to anyone you wish to allow to join the group.
Group members with qualifying permissions can promote, demote, and even remove other members.
The course information is some “meta data” that you can choose to add to your course including:
Course categories and subcategories can be created and edited in the LifterLMS settings under courses.
Course tags can be created and edited in the LifterLMS settings under courses.
Tracks can be created and edited in the LifterLMS settings under courses. Tracks in LifterLMS are often used for creating online degree programs where a collection of courses must be completed in no certain order in order for the student to get some degree or certification.
Course completion time can be created and edited in the Course Information Block settings.
Course Difficulties can be created and edited in the LifterLMS settings under courses.
Under Membership Settings you have the ability to customize the sales page content displayed to unenrolled users and visitors, set a restricted access redirect, display message, and restricted content notice, and set the courses that students will be auto enrolled upon purchasing the membership.
Now that the membership is ready for launch, it’s time to add the pricing options. If you are using LifterLMS Stripe, PayPal, or Authorize.Net, follow these instructions to set up your access plans.
On top of the Auto Enrollment settings, you can have more control over student enrollment through the Student Management section. This will let you enroll individual students into the memberships as well as individually unenroll them.
In building your membership page, it is important to consider the membership as a sales page versus the membership as an information hub for students to connect to the lessons they receive as part of the membership, and other membership level posts or downloads.
The first thing you need to do is create a new course and lay out the curriculum or skeleton of the course structure.
Click the WordPress icon next to the lesson name to open the WordPress lesson editor.
Add the course description. There are 2 versions of the course description. One is for enrolled students. The other is for unenrolled visitors. Think of the unenrolled description as the “sales page”
Now that the course is ready for launch, it’s time to add the pricing options. If you are using LifterLMS Stripe, PayPal, or Authorize.Net, follow these instructions to set up your access plans.
Categories – You can add course categories to your courses which is especially helpful if you have a lot of courses.
You could simply use a different page on your site to sell from without the structure of the LifterLMS course template. Perhaps you don’t want to reveal your syllabus as an example reason to opt for a custom sales page.
You don’t have to have custom sales pages for your courses, as LifterLMS has always given you 2 versions of the course description to work with.