MasterStudy WordPress LMS plugin is a powerful online education, course, and learning management system plugin for WordPress that is available free of charge.

MasterStudy LMS is packed full of exciting features. The system includes a powerful admin panel, a messaging system, spaces for posting quizzes, and their results, and a place for course announcements.

MasterStudy LMS Free plugin includes the MasterStudy Starter theme that allows you to create a dream WordPress site for your education company in a short period of time.

PRO Version

MasterStudy LMS PRO is included in MasterStudy theme and Nineteen add-ons are available. If you are owner of MasterStudy theme please check out the Theme Documentation:

PRO Plus Version

MasterStudy LMS PRO Plus allows you to apply tons of beneficial options. Nineteen add-ons with extra premium features are available with the PRO Plus version of the plugin:

• Udemy Course Importer

• Prerequisites

• Online Testing

• Statistics and Payouts

• Trial Courses

• Sequential Drip Content

• The Gradebook

• Lessons Live Streaming

• Group Courses

• Assignments

• Point System

• Course Bundle

• Multi-instructors

• Google Classroom

• Zoom Conference

• SCORM

• Email Manager

• Certificate Builder

• LMS Forms Editor

Another biggest premium option of the PRO Plus Version is full WooCommerce Integration. WooCommerce is the best solution for selling your courses online. The system brings the ability to create LMS course products, set up a store, apply coupons and discounts, manage bundles.

WooCommerce and MasterStudy LMS brings you a complete engine for running an eCommerce platform on your LMS website which allows you to:

• Take full control over the checkout experience

• Sell courses as well as physical products

• Offer coupons & discounts

• Use a payment gateway like Stripe, PayPal, and others.

Overall, the MasterStudy WordPress LMS plugin offers a competitive solution to the issue of adapting your website for online education. The variety of tools and features available support every aspect of this business, and the creatively designed content is simple yet eye-catching. It will help attract potential customers looking to develop their knowledge in your field.

Here are the system requirements you need in order to use the MasterStudy LMS Plugin and avoid any technical issues. If you are not sure whether your server supports this, contact your host.

• WordPress 4.6 or Greater It is recommended to use WordPress 5.5 or greater with Masterstudy LMS Plugin

• PHP 7.4 or Greater

• MySQL 5.6 or Greater MySQL version 5.6 or greater.

• WP Memory Limit WP Memory limit of 128 MB or greater (256 MB or higher is preferred).

Using One License for Live / Production, Staging, Dev, and Localhost Sites

The number of licenses purchased equals the number of sites where you can use them. Furthermore, in addition to each paid license, you can utilize one free license for development purposes. This free license is automatically available after the purchase.

In practice, this means that localhost, staging, and development environments will not count towards the maximum resolution of licensed sites if their domain name is clearly a development or staging site.

Top-Level domains that are considered as dev or staging:

• *.dev

• *.dev.cc (DesktopServer)

• *.test

• *.local

• *.staging

• *.example

• *.invalid

• *.myftpupload.com (GoDaddy)

• *.cloudwaysapps.com (Cloudways)

• *.wpsandbox.pro (WPSandbox)

• *.ngrok.io (tunneling)

Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:

• local.*

• dev.*

• test.*

• stage.*

• staging.*

• stagingN.* (SiteGround; N is an unsigned int)

• *.wpengine.com (WP Engine)

• dev-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)

• test-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)

• staging-*.kinsta.com (Kinsta)

• staging-*.kinsta.cloud (Kinsta)

• *.mystagingwebsite.com' (Pressable)

If you want to utilize a license on a dev site that doesn’t fit the criteria listed above you can deactivate the license from within the Account page in WP Admin dashboard, and then reuse the license.

Multisite Network License Utilization

Each subdomain of the multisite counts as a separate site. Therefore, if, for example, you would like to activate a license for a 20-subsite network, you will need to purchase a license that can be activated on at least 20 sites, or multiple licenses whose combined activations limit is 20 or more. If there is a license for only one site, you can use only one subdomain of the multisite.

This section of the documentation is valid for customers who bought the MasterStudy LMS Pro plugin from AppSumo. If you bought the MasterStudy LMS Pro from our official website through Freemius you can skip this section and go to the next one.

Redeem the new AppSumo code

After purchasing MasterStudy LMS Pro on AppSumo, you will receive a unique code and URL to create an account in Stylemix Support Portal.

Then go to the following link to create an account: https://support.stylemixthemes.com/auth/appsumo?code=xxxxx

*Here xxxxx is the unique coupon code that you received.

On opened page fill out the required fields to create a new account:

After filling out the form agree to the terms of the Service and Privacy Policy and hit the Register button:

After creating an account you will be redirected to the Support account.

Upgrading Pricing Plan

After signing up, you will see a notification about the successful activation of the AppSumo coupon code:

MasterStudy LMS section displays information about your pricing plan including the assigned date, used AppSumo Redeemsion codes, and the number of sites that can be activated.

After redeeming the new code, the Plan will be upgraded and limits will be updated:

Downloading and installing MasterStudy LMS plugins.

Now time to download the MasterStudy LMS plugin files. To do this, download the Free and Pro version of the plugins:

The Pro version requires a Free plugin to be installed and activated on the website.

If you are the owner of the AppSumo 2 or 3 Code Tier, you can download the MasterStudy LMS Mobile App as well:

After downloading the MasterStudy LMS plugins (in a zip file), you need to install them on your WordPress:

MasterStudy LMS Pro plugin activation.

On the support account, the MasterStudy LMS License should be copied out to activate the MasterStudy LMS Pro plugin and receive regular updates:

The license should be used after activating MasterStudy LMS Pro on the WordPress dashboard:

Management of Active domains.

All domains where the MasterStudy LMS Pro plugin is activated will be listed in Manage your domains section:

There the active sites can be removed to use the license in other domains.

How to update the Pro plugin

The free version of the MasterStudy LMS plugin can be updated from the WordPress dashboard when updates are available:

The Pro version of the MasterStudy LMS plugin can be updated manually in WordPress dashboard or through FTP by downloading the Latest version of the Plugin from your account:

Updating the Pro plugin in WordPress Dashboard

To update the Pro Plugin in WordPress Dashboard go to the Dashboard > Plugins > Add new section and upload the downloaded the latest version of the Pro plugin:

After clicking the Install Now button, WordPress warns that the plugin is already installed:

By clicking on Replace current with upload button the plugin can be updated.

Updating the Pro plugin through FTP (Expert)

Unzip the downloaded .zip file which will give a masterstudy-lms-learning-management-system-pro folder. Make sure your unzipping software does not create an extra directory with the same name nested into each other.

Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting admin panel. Login to your FTP account via an FTP software (FileZilla or similar) to access your website folders.

Once you access the FTP account, navigate to the WordPress Plugins directory YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/plugins and remove the masterstudy-lms-learning-management-system-pro folder.

Upload by drag and dropping the previously unzipped masterstudy-lms-learning-management-system-pro folder into YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/plugins directory.

Congratulations, you have successfully updated the plugin!

Support ticket creation

After, filling out the form and describing the issue the support ticket can be created. Providing screenshots in the ticket to speed up the help process:

Update Billing Details

Updating or adding billing information to your entire Freemius account is a straightforward process. You have the ability to manage it all directly from your profile. To do it:

1. Log in to your account at https://stylemixthemes.com/ using the email address you used when you purchased the plugin. (My Account -> Dashboard Only)

1. Go to the My Profile tab and update the needed information. There is no need to save, it will be done automatically.

Access Invoices

Upon the purchase or renewal of your subscription, Freemius will send you an invoice email on our behalf. If you encounter difficulties in finding this email, there’s no need to worry. You have the convenience of downloading all your past invoices directly from your account.

1. Log in to your account at https://stylemixthemes.com/ as we did previously.

2. Navigate to the Orders History tab and you can find the invoices for your orders there.

Just click on the Invoice button to download it.

MasterStudy LMS – Learning Management System plugin is the most powerful WordPress LMS Plugin for online courses. It has three versions Free, PRO and PRO Plus:

• MasterStudy LMS Free - The plugin includes basic features of the LMS without Pro addons. The Plugin can be downloaded from WordPress repository directly: MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin.

• MasterStudy LMS Pro - The plugin is included only in Masterstudy Theme and installed while the demo import process. The Pro plugin includes Pro add-ons which description can be found in MasterStudy Theme documentation. The theme can be purchased in ThemeForest Marketplace.

• MasterStudy LMS Pro Plus - The plugin includes extra premium features in addition to premium add-ons. The Plugin Can be Purchased in MasterStudy LMS Plugin official website or in AppSumo Marketplace.

The LMS plugin will convert any WordPress website into a specialized online portal that supports all e-learning & LMS functionality unique to the industry. It gives you the tools to build and sell online courses.

The plugin includes everything for making your website LMS Portal and easily creating and selling professional online courses. Here is a full tutorial on how to set up the settings for LMS:

For the management of lessons, quizzes, and instructional materials, this flexible WordPress LMS plugin has all the necessary Learning Management System (LMS) functionalities. The plugin includes everything for making your website LMS Portal and easily create and sell professional online courses.

You can use it for the administration, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs. The Learning Management System manages all types of content, including videos, quizzes, lessons, slides, assignments, announcements, FAQs, and certificates. In the education and higher education markets, the LMS may be used to create professional structured course content. The teacher can add, text, images, videos, pdfs, tables, links and text formatting, interactive tests, slideshows.

Moreover, you can create different types of users, such as teachers, students, administrators. Teachers can manage courses and modules, enroll students or set up self-enrollment, check students' assignments, launch a video conference, and sell their online courses.

An LMS supports content in various formats: text, video, audio and one can access materials anytime, from everywhere, teachers can modify the content, and students can see the updated material or directly download them.

Installation of the Free Version

The installation process of the MasterStudy LMS Plugin is just like any other WordPress plugin. Two ways of installation are shown in this manual.

In the first way, download the plugin from the default repository of WordPress.

Go to the Dashboard > Plugins > Add New.

Click on the Upload Plugin button(1), select the MasterStudy LMS Plugin, downloaded from your local folders(2), click the Install Now button(3), and wait for the installation to finish.

In the second way, follow the Dashboard > Plugins > Add New path.

On the opened page, search for the MasterStudy LMS Plugin(1), Install the plugin(2) and Activate it once it's installed.

Installation of the PRO Plus Version

The PRO Plus Version of the plugin can be purchased from our official website and the following manual works with Freemius. If you are Purchased the MasterStudy LMS plugin from AppSumo Deal please go to the next section.

After purchasing the plugin you will get an email from Freemius with the link to the plugin zip package, your license code, and instructions on how to set up the LMS PRO.

Once you get the package, follow the Dashboard > Plugins > Add New path. Click on the Upload Plugin button(1), upload the plugin from the Freemus(2), click the Install Now button(3), and wait for the installation to finish.

When the plugin is installed you need to Activate it.

After clicking on Activate Plugin, you will be redirected to another page to activate your license. Use the License Key you received with your email and enter it in the field provided.

Click Agree & Activate License to confirm the activation.

After the activation, you will see the notification about successfully activating the PRO Plus version.

The LMS Pages section will help you to configure settings to create LMS system pages on your website.

You may receive a notification like this when Pages are not set:

Click the Open Settings button. It will redirect you to the LMS Pages settings. Or you can follow there directly: MS LMS > Settings > LMS Pages.

Click the Generate Pages button. Pages will be generated automatically. Re-save permalinks after the operation.

The Courses tab allows you to have fine-grained control over how your courses are displayed and how they appear on your website.

Here's an overview of the settings you can manage under the Courses tab:

• Import demo courses - When you click Start Import, all demo courses, questions, quizzes and lessons will be uploaded to the site.

• Courses Page - Choose the main page where all courses will be displayed.

• Courses Page Layout - Choose the layout for the courses page: Grid or List.

• Courses per page - Set the number of courses to display on one page.

• Сourses per row - Set the number of courses to show per row.

Compare the look for Grid and List views of the courses page:

Grid:

List:

Course Card

• Course Card Style - Select the display style for the course card.

• Course Card Info - Specify where to place the course card info: right or center.

• Courses Image Size - Enter the size for the course image.

Let's compare Course Card Styles:

• Lazy loading - Enable this if you want to load certain parts of a webpage, such as images until users need them. This can speed up page load times.

• Category slug - Put a unique slug to show in the URL before the category, e.g. example.com/blog/course-category/templates(course-category - slug, templates- category).

• Load more type - Enable this if you want to load certain parts of a webpage, such as images until users need them. This can speed up page load times.

• Show featured courses on top of the list page - This option displays featured courses on the top of the course list page.

• Number of featured courses on the Archive page - Specify the number of featured courses to display on the Archive Page.

• Enable filters on the Archive page - Enable courses filtering by categories, there are 6 filters available that you can enable according to your needs: category, rating, subcategory, status, levels, and price.

With this option, users can use the sidebar on the course listing page and filter the browsing depending on the chosen category. Every time they apply the filter they do not need to reload the page, every change displays instantly.

The coursesMasterStudy LMS Plugin includes ready widgets for popular page builders Elementor, WPBakery, and Divi. Using widgets instead of shortcodes allows you visually check the changes while building a website.

Courses 4 in 1 (Elementor)

The Courses 4-in-1 Widget is exclusively available for elementor and combines four widgets Courses Grid, Course Carousel, Featured Teacher blocks, and Courses Archive page.

Earlier the following LMS widgets were available separately:

• Course Carousel: The Course Carousel widget engages with a stunning carousel of the best courses available.

• Courses Grid: This widget allows you or your instructors to showcase the full course catalog in an easy-to-navigate grid layout.

• Featured Teacher: This widget allows you to highlight a teacher and their courses.

• Courses archive: This is a page that displays all the courses available on your website.

The Courses 4 in 1 combines the widgets listed above into one widget and offers the following styles for course cards.

• Style 1 - Classic

• Style 2 - Price Accent

• Style 3 - Price Button

• Style 4 - Full-Size Image

• Style 5 - Centered

• Style 6 - Info Accent

Course Carousel

The Carousel type of Courses widget displays courses from selected categories on the website in carousel view.

Courses Grid

The Grid type of Courses widget displays a number of courses from selected categories on the website in grid view.

Featured Teacher

The "Featured Teacher" type of Courses widget showcases an instructor with courses available.

Courses archive

The Archive type of Courses widget displays all available courses on the site. Search results, load more buttons of the Course Grid, and course carousel widgets will be redirected to this page.

In the Courses Widget settings, you have the option to modify the filter's position or disable it entirely.

Instructors Carousel (Elementor)

Instructors Carousel widget is available for only Elementor Page builder and displays the users with Instructor user roles on the Website with their social links, number of courses, reviews, and overall ratings in Slider view. The widget has the following presets and they can be easily customized:

• Style 1 - Profile Picture Rounded

• Style 2 - Profile Picture Rounded Dark

• Style 3 - Bordered Card

• Style 4 - Squared Profile Picture

• Style 5 - Bordered Squared

• Style 6 - Profile Picture Above Container

In carousel settings, AutoPay and Loop can be enabled:

Authorization Form (Elementor)

You can add a customizable Sign Up or Login form to your site with the Authorization Form widget for Elementor.

Here you can choose the type of form to add:

• General Form: For all users.

• For Instructors Only: Tailored to instructors.

And also set the starting form to be Sign up or Login.

Testimonials (Elementor)

The Testimonials widget is used to display customer testimonial information. It is useful to show prospective customers what other people are saying about your teaching platform.

Site Authorization Links (Elementor)

The Site Authorization Links widget is used to add a login/register button to the custom header that is created with Elementor Header & Footer builder plugin:

This widget performs two tasks for Logged in and Guest users differently:

Featured Teacher

The featured Teacher widget highlights one of the users with Instructor user roles on the website with the courses.

Instructors Carousel

Instructors Carousel widget displays the users with Instructor user roles on the Website with their social links in slider view.

The widget has two style presets:

• Profile Picture Rounded

• Profile Picture Square

The instructors can be sorted by their ratings or registration date.

Single Course Carousel

The single Course Carousel widget displays the available courses in the slider. Each slide of the carousel includes single course information including price, category, level, and curse duration.

The courses on the carousel can be sorted by:

• Course Popularity

• Free Courses

• Courses Rating

Courses Search box

The courses Search box widget can be used to search Courses within a website by keywords. The Search results will be displayed on the Courses archive page.

The widget has two style presets and includes search suggestions:

• Search box wide

• Search box with a button

Courses Carousel

Courses Carousel widget displays courses on the website in carousel view.

The widget has two style presets and courses can be sorted by Course Popularity, Free Courses, and Courses Rating:

• Carousel with Course categories

• Carousel without Course categories

Courses Categories

Courses Categories widget is used to display the categories and sort courses by them. The widget has six styles presets:

• Style 1 - Category cards with the label below

• Style 2 - Category cards with label inside

• Style 3 - Category buttons

• Style 4 - Category colorful cards

• Style 5 - Category cards with images

• Style 6 - Category colorful cards wide

Courses Grid

The Courses Grid widget is used to display the available courses in Grid View. In widget settings, the Sort filter and Load more buttons can be disabled:

Recent Courses

The Recent Courses widget displays the latest created courses with their categories. The widget has the following style presets:

• Style 1 - Recent courses with Show More button

• Style 2 - Recent courses without Show More button

• Style 3 - Course Categories with transparent buttons

Certificate Checker (Pro version)

The Certificate Checker widget is used to validate certificates with Student's code which can be copied in the User account > Certificates section:

If the certificate is valid the following message appears:

Course Bundles (Pro version)

Course Bundles widget displays bundled courses of the Instructors:

Google Classrooms (Pro version)

The Google Classrooms widget displays courses that were imported from Google using Google Classroom API.

Course Player settings will set up how students will see and learn courses on LMS. It has the following settings:

• Course Player View - Users can switch to the old Course player with this setting.

• Lesson page default theme - Users can choose the Light or Dark default theme for the Lesson Page.

• Show brand icon in navigation - Enable this if you want to add your brand image to the navigation panel on the header part

• Upload an image for navigation - After enabling the brand icon, users can upload an image of their brand for the navigation panel.

There are light and dark themes in the Course player. Your students can pick the one that suits their mood or surroundings with a simple click.

Securing Video Lessons in MasterStudy LMS: Removing YouTube and Vimeo Icons

When adding video lessons from YouTube or Vimeo to your courses in MasterStudy LMS, the default settings include clickable icons that link to the original video sources. Removing these icons helps keep the video within the educational context of the course and discourages content sharing.

Video Lesson View (YouTube Source)

Video Lesson View (Vimeo Source)

For more information, you may find How to add video to the lesson page

The Course tab provides you with options to customize the appearance and functionality of your courses and lessons, as well as manage certain instructor activities on your e-learning platform.

Here's an overview of the settings available under the Course tab:

Course Page Styles

As the course page is a key element that attracts students to enroll in your course, MasterStudy offers several beautiful styles for the course page to enhance its visual appeal.

Show Emoji in Quiz and Assignments results

There is an availability to enable displaying emojis once students fail or pass the quiz and assignments.

• Quiz/Assignment Passed Emoji - select an emoji from the list and it will be displayed once students pass the assignment or quiz.

• Quiz/Assignment Failed Emoji - select an emoji from the list and it will be displayed once students fail the assignment or quiz.

Course Tabs and Course Levels

• Course tabs - enable the tabs that need to be displayed on the course page

• Course levels - set the level of the course. Be more precise, and instead of common Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, indicate the exact level of your course. Just enter Level ID and Label, and add as many levels as you need.

Instructor and Student permissions, Preferred Video Source

• Allow instructors to create new categories - instructors can add new categories for courses (e.g. Art, Computer Science, 3D design).

• Allow Presto Player Source for Instructors -instructors will be able to select videos from Presto Payer Media Hub.

• Auto-enrollment for Free Courses - students will automatically enroll in free courses when they preview them.

• Allow Adding Basic Info Section - enables to add basic info section on the course page. Can be used to provide very basic info about the course.

• Allow Adding Course Requirements Section - enables to add course requirements section on the course page. Can be used to share course requirements with students before enrolling in the course.

• Allow adding Intended Audience Section - enables to add Intended Audience section on the course page. Can be used to describe who the course is designed for, any prerequisites or background knowledge required, and other relevant details to help potential students determine if the course aligns with their needs and goals.

• Preferred Video Source - select the video sources that will be used in the courses.

Bottom Sticky Panel

The bottom sticky panel is a panel that contains a bunch of course settings and will be stuck to the bottom of the course page. It's very useful to get data easily while scrolling through the long course descriptions.

• Enable Bottom Sticky Panel - allow the display of the sticky bottom panel and select what to display there.

When enabled, on the course preview page you can see the bottom panel with the relevant info about the course such as - title, price, teacher, and category. You decide what to display on the panel by enabling available options.

Related Courses and Default Image for Course Completion

• Enable related courses - allow to show related courses on the page and select the display option: by category, author, or level.

• Disable default image for course completion notification - you can disable the display of the default image that is used for notifications about course completion and upload your own file for both notifications about failed courses and passed courses.

This add-on allows you to manage all payments and track affiliated statistics for the sold courses, such as Total Profit, Total Payments, get statistics for a specific period, etc. Also, you can proceed with payments for course authors manually or automatically.

You can enable the Statistics & Payouts addon in the STM LMS > LMS Settings > Addons section of the WordPress dashboard menu.

Sale Statistics For Instructors

Take control of sales by viewing the statistics. Analyze what courses are selling the least and improve overall income.

Instructors can track sales and earning statistics from the profile menu - Payout section.

The Statistics page consists of Earnings graph and Sales pie chart.

Also, instructors can review total earnings and individual sales for each course.

Sale Statistics For Admins

Website administrators can see statistics of user's purchase histories, course authors' earnings, and proceed payments for course authors.

Navigate to MS LMS > Statistics to load a sales history. On this page, administrators can see order statistics and sort data with a different option.

In the "Payment Methods" section, you can configure various payment gateways for your online platform. These payment methods allow you to accept payments from users for courses, products, or services.

Here's an overview of the available payment options and how to set them up. In Payment Methods, you can set up different payment gateways. Among the options available are:

• Offline payment

• Wire transfer

• Paypal

• Stripe

To enable the needed option simply check the box. When enabling a certain payment method you will see the additional settings that are different for each option.

Offline Payment

Specify the option label, for example: Pay in our office.

Wire Transfer

In Wire transfer, you need to enter some information like account number, holder name, bank name, swift code, and specify the option label.

PayPal

Enter PayPal email, select the currency, set up email mode, and write payment method description.

Stripe

Enter publish key and secret key, specify the payment description and Stripe currency code.

We constantly improve our products and release regular updates. All updates are available for free.

To update the MasterStudy LMS Plugin, go to the Dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins page. The warning notification bar will be appearing at the bottom of the plugin informing that the new version is available.

Click on the update now link to update the plugin.

The General Settings tab is where you can set up different general settings for your website. These settings affect the overall appearance and functionality of your site.

Here's an overview of the options available in the General tab:

• Main color - Set the core website color.

• Secondary color - Set the secondary color for the site.

• Accent - Choose the color that will be applied to the buttons, quiz info and chosen options, progress bar, notice background, links and Trial course badge in the Course Player.

• Danger - Choose the color that will be applied to the fields when they are required and not filled, the wrong options chosen in quizzes and the notification for the failed quizzes and assignments.

• Success - Choose the color that will be applied to the wrong options chosen in quizzes and the notification for the passed quizzes and assignments.

• Currency symbol - Specify the symbol sign for the currency used on the site.

• Currency position - Set the currency position against the price.

• Thousands separator - Choose what symbol you want to use to separate integer and fractional numbers with the “Thousands Separator”.

• Decimals separator - Enter the symbol that you want to use as a decimal separator.

• Number of fractional numbers allowed - Define the number of fractional numbers allowed after the decimal symbol, e.g. 2 for 7.49.

• Enable WooCommerce checkout - Enable the checkout option using WooCommerce. Please note you need to install the WooCommerce plugin and set Cart and Checkout Pages.

• Enable Guest Checkout - When this option is enabled users can place orders without logged-in accounts, and it is required to create an account on the checkout page.

• Instructor earnings (%) - Put the percentage instructors will get from sales of the courses.

• Number of featured courses - Set how many courses will be shown as a featured product.

• Restrict instructors from accessing the admin panel - Enable this to restrict access for instructors to the admin panel. They will be redirected to their account pages.

• Loading animation - Adds loading animation for LMS pages and sections:

In the Authorization settings of the Profiles section, you can set up the following options:

• Enable Email Confirmation;

• Shortcode For Authorization Form;

• Instructor Registration;

• Instructor Pre-moderation;

• Show Instructor Registration Form On Separate Page

• Instructor Registration Page;

• Show a Link to a Separate Page in the Form

• Shortcode For The Instructor Registration Form

Let’s take a closer look at each option available in the Profiles section.

Enable Email Confirmation

All new registrations will get an e-mail with account verification. When users proceed with the registration on your website, they will get a confirmation email to complete the registration process and verify the email. Once registered users will be notified that instructions were sent to their emails:

Example of the activation email

Shortcode For Authorization Form

From this field, you can copy the shortcode for the authorization page. Add type="login" or type="register" to the shortcode to select the starting form, and then paste it into any page of your choice.

Example shortcodes:

• For login: [masterstudy_authorization_form type="login"]

• For registration: [masterstudy_authorization_form type="register"]

Instructor Registration

When this option is turned on – the checkbox “Register as an instructor” is shown in the registration form:

Instructor Pre-Moderation

When this option is enabled the user role “instructor” is set automatically, otherwise, you need to do it manually by changing the user

Show Instructor Registration Form On Separate Page

Enabling "Show Instructor Registration Form On Separate Page" directs new instructors to a dedicated sign-up page.

Instructor Registration Page

Administrators can select a specific page for redirecting instructors after they sign up with the Instructor Registration Page option.

Show A Link To A Separate Page In The Form

Choose Show in this option to add a direct link to the Instructor Registration Page on the authorization form.

This is how it will look for your users:

Shortcode For The Instructor Registration Form

To add an instructor registration form to any part of your page, simply copy and paste the shortcode below:

[masterstudy_instructor_registration]

This shortcode will automatically input the instructor registration form wherever you place it on your site.

In the Google API settings, you can integrate Google's ReCaptcha API, specifically designed to enhance security and prevent spam on your website.

In Google API, you should insert your Google ReCaptcha API.

and on the screen below, there is an example of how to correctly fill the page.

In the "Profiles" section, you can configure various settings related to user profiles and registration on your website or platform.

In the General settings of the Profiles section, you can set up the following options:

• Enable course pre-moderation;

• Add students to own course;

• Instructors archive page;

• Cancel Subscription page;

• Side Profile Menu

Let’s take a closer look at each option available.

Enable course pre-moderation

The course will have Pending status until you (admin) approve(s) it.

Add students to own course

If this option is enabled, the instructor will have a tool in an account to add students by email to the course. Instructors will be able to add students to their courses right from the profile page. They need to use Add Student option from the menu:

All they need to do is specify the course they want to add a student to and enter the email of this student. After the information is entered, just click Add Students.

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Instructors archive page

This page will display all the site’s instructors (so they will be shown on one specific page)

Cancel subscription page

If you want to display a link to the Cancel Subscription page, choose a page and add to page content short-code [pmpro_cancel].

Side Profile Menu

When you switch on this toggle, you can operate with the following options:

• make the Profile menu visible or invisible for the guest users (this allows to display a log-in form inside the side profile menu.);

• move it to the left or the right side of your window;

• choose the background color;

• select the text color.

To help you better understand the LMS software, we came up with the idea to integrate the LMS Wizard. The Wizard will help you to configure the LMS settings depending on the decision to build a site for a single teacher or create a marketplace.

Right after activating the MasterStudy LMS plugin, you will be redirected to the Wizard. You can also access it through the Dashboard > Tools > LMS Wizard.

There are 7 simple steps that will take you through the primary setup of your website.

Step 1. Business

The first step - Business - here you can select the business type of your website. You have two options: create a website for individuals or launch a marketplace. Mark the needed option.

Step 2. Courses

In the Courses stage, it is required to generate an archive page to display all LMS courses. Then, the appearance of the Courses page can be customized by selecting the layout, specifying the number of courses per page row, and so on.

Step 3. Single Course

The Single Course settings allow you to enable the Redirect to checkout option and select necessary course tabs.

Step 4. Curriculum

The Curriculum makes it possible to select the quiz style.

Step 5. Profiles

In the Profile's setup Instructor registration can be disabled and you can show the registration form for instructors on a separate page.

• When Instructor Registration is enabled, the checkbox "Register as an instructor" will appear on the registration form.

• You can enable showing the instructor registration form on a separate page and generate a page for the form automatically.

Step 6. Finish

The Profile menu reordering is an awesome feature that gives you full control of menu items order.

First, choose your role: Instructor or Student.

Instructor has the Main section where you can manage dashboard, announcements, bundles, assignments, memberships etc.

Student tab has the Learning area, which is responsible for all the learning stuff, such as favorite courses, groups, certificates, my orders, and others.

Now you can decide in what sequence your profile menu items appear. All what you need is to drag the one and drop it to the right place. Furthermore, you can disable the items you don't want to be in the menu.

The Quiz tab allows you to choose how your quizzes are presented to users on your e-learning platform.

Select the style of quiz display: One page or Pagination. Divide your quizzes into pages or show all quiz questions and tasks on one page.

GDPR allows you to add the checkbox “I agree with the storage and heading of my data by this website” this text set by default but you can change it. Not having this checkbox on your website when users sign in is considered as breaking the law. The checkbox should appear when the users are signing up to your website.

In the settings, in the field “GDPR Privacy Policy Page”, you can choose a web page where the GDPR checkbox will appear.

You can use some elements from MasterStudy LMS with other themes simply by using shortcodes on any page and post.

There is a list of special shortcodes that you can use to paste some elements and options into your website such as courses carousel, course categories, featured instructors, and much more.

Below you can find the list of shortcodes with all available parameters and examples.

1.Search box: shows courses search box: [stm_courses_searchbox]

Parameters available: style - style_1/style_2

Example:

[stm_courses_searchbox style="style_1"]

2. Courses Carousel: shows the courses carousel: [stm_lms_courses_carousel]

Settings available:

• title (enter the module title)

• title_color (change the color of the title, example #fafafa)

• query (sorting options - none/popular/free/rating; set by default as "none")

• prev_next (enable/disable Previous/Next buttons; set by default as “enable”)

• remove_border (enable/disable border removing; set by default "disable")

• show_categories (enable/disable display of categories; set by default as "disable")

• pagination (disable or enable paginations, set by default as "disable")

• per_row (specify the number of courses per row; by default — 6)

• taxonomy (term ID of stm_lms_course_taxonomy taxonomy, only if show_categories is "enable". example "233,255,321")

Example:

[stm_lms_courses_carousel title="Sample Title" title_color="#000000 
query="free" prev_next="disable" remove_border="enable" pagination="enable"]

3. Courses Categories: shows the courses categories [stm_lms_courses_categories]

Settings available: style - style_1/style_2/style_3/style_4

• taxonomy (term ID of stm_lms_course_taxonomy — taxonomy; example "233,255,321")

Example:

[stm_lms_courses_categories style="style_1" taxonomy=”23,56”]

4. Courses Grid: show the courses grid: [stm_lms_courses_grid]

Settings available:

• hide_top_bar (shows the top bar - hidden/showing; by default — "showing")

• title (module title)

• hide_load_more (hide/show the button Load More - hidden/showing, by default — "showing")

• hide_sort (hide/show sorting option - hidden/showing; by default — "showing")

• per_row (the number of Courses Per Row; by default 6)

• image_size (sets the image size - thumbnail/medium/large)

• posts_per_page (number of courses to show on the page)

Example:

[stm_lms_courses_grid title="Sample Title" hide_top_bar="hidden" 
hide_load_more="showing" per_row="3" posts_per_page="6" hide_sort="hidden" image_size="medium]

Follow to Settings > Media from your dashboard panel to set the sizes for thumbnail/medium/large.

5. Featured Teacher: shows Featured Teacher: [stm_lms_featured_teacher]

Settings available:

• instructor (Instructor ID)

• position (Instructor Position)

• bio (Instructor Bio)

• image (enter image ID)

Example:

[stm_lms_featured_teacher instructor="5" position=“Sample Position” 
bio="Sample Bio" image="1150"]

6. Instructors Carousel: shows the Instructors carousel: [stm_lms_instructors_carousel]

Settings available:

• title (module title)

• title_color (changes the color of the title)

• per_row (number of Instructors per row; by default 6)

• per_row_md (number of Instructors per row on Notebook; by default 4)

• per_row_sm (number of Instructors per row on Tablet; by default 2)

• per_row_xs (number of Instructors per row on Mobile; by default 1)

• style (change the display style - style_1/style_2; by default "style_1")

• sort (shows the option Sort By - default/rating)

• prev_next (Enable/Disable Previous and Next Buttons; by default "enable")

• pagination (Enable/Disable Previous and Next Buttons, by default "disable")

Example:

[stm_lms_instructors_carousel title="Sample Title" title_color="#000000" 
style="style_1" sort="rating" per_row_md="3" per_row_sm="1" pagination="enable"]

7. Recent Courses: shows Recent courses: [stm_lms_recent_courses]

Settings available:

• posts_per_page (Number of courses to show on the page)

• image_size (sets the image size - thumbnail/large/medium)

• per_row (the number of courses per row)

• style (changes display style - style_1/style_2; by default "style_1")

Example:

[stm_lms_recent_courses posts_per_page="5" image_size="large" per_row="3" 
style="style_2]

8. Single Course Carousel: shows the carousel with a single course: [stm_lms_single_course_carousel]

Settings available:

• query (Sorting options - none/popular/free/rating, by default "none")

• prev_next (Enable/Disable Previous and Next Buttons; by default "enable")

• pagination (Enable/Disable pagination; by default "disable")

• taxonomy (term ID of stm_lms_course_taxonomy taxonomy, example "233,255,321")

Example:

[stm_lms_single_course_carousel query="free" taxonomy=”23,56” 
pagination="enable" prev_next="enable"]

For Pro version of the plugin

9. Certificate checker: enables the certificate checker: [stm_lms_certificate_checker]

Settings available:

• title (module title)

Example:

[stm_lms_certificate_checker title="Certificate Verification"]

10. Course Bundles: enables course bundles option: [stm_lms_course_bundles]

Settings available:

• title (module title)

• columns (number of columns - 2/3; by default 3)

• posts_per_page (number of posts per page)

Example:

[stm_lms_course_bundles title="My Bundles" columns="2" posts_per_page="2"]

11. Google Classrooms grid view: shows the grid view of Google classrooms: [stm_lms_google_classroom]

Settings available:

• title (module title)

• number (number of posts on the page)

Example:

[stm_lms_google_classroom title="Sample Title" number="6"]

Certificates in MasterStudy let you reward your students with personalized certificates upon course completion. With this feature, you can easily design custom certificates with the Certificate Builder tool and link them to specific courses or categories within their e-learning platform.

Example of the certificate:

Do you want to import courses from Udemy and display them on your website? You can enable the Udemy Course Importer addon in the STM LMS > LMS Settings > Addons section of the WordPress dashboard menu. You need to click on the "Enable Addon" and a gear icon appears over the image of the addon where you can set up Udemy Settings and import courses.

In the Credentials tab of the STM LMS Udemy Settings section, you need to add your client ID, Secret API keys, and Udemy Rakuten Affiliate script.

Udemy API Client

You need to click on the Udemy API link in order to get your Udemy credentials.

When your API Client request is approved, API credentials will be available in the API Clients section.

Udemy Rakuten Affiliate script

For the Udemy Rakuten Affiliate script, you need to register on the Rakuten Marketing website and generate a unique Rakuten Automate script.

Here you can read more about the Rakuten Automate tool - https://blog.rakutenmarketing.com/news/attention-publishers-announcing-automate-new-deep-linking-tool/.

Import and manage Udemy courses

After adding Udemy API credentials, you will be able to search and import Udemy courses in the Search tab.

The Imported Courses tab contains options for managing your imported courses.

Your customers will be able to get published courses on Udemy from your website.

The Pro version of the plugin includes premium additional elements that extend the functionality of LMS. You can review the full description of addons in the MasterStudy LMS Pro Addons section.

Trial Courses addon lets your potential learners try out your online courses for free. You can give trial access to specific lessons within your courses and attract more learners.

Allow your students to try some of the lessons for free with the Trial Courses feature.

How to set up the Trial Courses addon

To enable Trial courses, go to the Pro Addons and enable it.

Click on the Settings icon, which will appear on the dashboard after enabling the addon, and enter the number of free lessons you want to be in the course.

You can also allow everyone access to trial courses without login. For this, enable Guest access to trial courses by switching the toggle.

This is how users will see the free lessons with the guest access:

This is how users will see the free lessons without enabling the guest access:

When they click on the “Enroll course” button, there will be a popup that requires signing up or logging in:

Now, when you create a new or edit an existing course in the Access section under the Settings tab enable the Trial Course feature by dragging the slider to the right.

Saved settings (number of free lessons) will be applied automatically to the course. Students will be able to complete free lessons on the trial course without purchasing. The rest of the content will be accessible only after they buy the course.

Once the free trial lesson is completed, a student will be offered to buy the course to unlock the rest of the content.

This is how the trial course and preview will look on the Curriculum tab of the course page:

That's how it will look when the Accent color is changed:

Online Testing Addon allows you to paste any quizzes through the shortcode to any page.

You can enable the Online Testing addon in the STM LMS > LMS Settings > Addons section of the WordPress dashboard menu.

By clicking on the Gear icon or following STM LMS Settings > Online Testing from the dashboard, you will find a shortcode that you need to use in order to paste a quiz to any page.

Go to the Quizzes page and add a new Quiz (see this article to learn how to create and add quizzes)

On the Quiz editing page from your right, you can see the Online Testing with the ready-to-use shortcode in there. Just copy the shortcode and paste it to the page.

On this particular page, there will be a quiz you created that you can start and finish.

The Drip Content addon ensures a structured learning flow by enabling content release either on specified dates or in a set sequence.

Settings in Drip Content Addon

There are several options for how you can set the sequence for course content.

Lock lessons in order - Lessons will be locked in terms of the order and students will not be able to get access to the second lesson until they complete the first one.

Lock lesson till its start time - The lesson will be locked till its start time. You can define it when editing the lesson in the Course Builder.

The lesson will be unlocked at its start time (for example at 6:50 PM as in the screenshot), until then students will be able to track the countdown.

Unlock the lesson after a certain time after the purchase - The lesson will be available a certain number of days after the purchase:

As this lesson is not available, students can not complete it and the next lessons also will not be available to study:

Settings in the Course Builder

1. Go to the Drip tab of the course you want to add drip content.

1. Click "Create new dependency".

1. Drag and drop lessons, quizzes and assignments in the order you want your students to take.

1. This is how it will look when you create an order. Don't forget to save the changes.

Students will unlock the next lesson only after they complete the parent one. As soon as you set up the sequence of the lessons, lessons that are not available will be marked as locked.

This is how it will look on the Curriculum tab of the course page.

Prerequisites are the requirements students must complete before they are able to enroll in the next course of a higher level.

You can enable the Prerequisites addon in the STM LMS > LMS Settings > Addons section of the WordPress dashboard menu.

After, you need to edit a course and set up the prerequisites’ settings of a course in the Course Prerequisites section. There, you can add courses that should be completed before purchasing this course. Also, you can specify the passing rate (%) of a prerequisite course.

If students want to enroll in the course, they will see that it has a prerequisite, so they need to accomplish it first.

The Lesson Live Stream enables instructors to conduct online classes by utilizing third-party services, specifically the video platform YouTube. This feature allows you to engage with your students effectively by providing study materials, enabling them to contribute comments and questions through the Live Chat, and receiving immediate feedback.

You can also save the stream as the video lesson and add it to one of the lessons, so the students who missed Live Stream will be able to watch it later.

To activate live streams, go to MS LMS > Addons and enable the addon.

Once enabled, navigate to MS LMS => Courses => Add New Course. When adding the lesson type, select Stream.

Then you have 2 options for adding a Stream lesson:

Option 1: Copy the stream URL directly from other channels.

To do this, go to YouTube, select the live video, click on the share button => click on embed, and copy the link needed for the live stream lesson.

Make sure the iframe code where you need to copy just a part of it. The link should include the "embed" word. Copy the link as shown in the image above.

Use this link to add the video to the lesson page. Just paste it in the Stream URL field.

Once you've completed the lesson details, fill in the date, time, duration, description, and content fields. Finally, click the "Create" button and then "Publish" to make the lesson live and viewable by your students.

Upon publishing your course, students will see a countdown timer alongside detailed lesson information, as shown below

Option 2: Copying live video link from personal YouTube channel

Use YouTube to launch a live-stream lesson.

To embed a stream directly into the lesson, make sure the stream is unlisted on YouTube so that users with the link can access it.

To create an unlisted live video, you typically need to use a platform that supports live streaming (like YouTube) and offers the option to make your stream unlisted

Once your live stream is active, copy the stream's link.

As a next step, to securely copy the embed code, it is recommended to open a new incognito or private browsing tab. This helps isolate your browsing activity. Once the new tab is open, paste the link and locate the "share" and"embed" buttons, which an icon or a menu option might represent. Clicking on this button will typically display the embed code itself. Now, carefully highlight the entire code snippet. Right-click within the highlighted area and select "copy" from the context menu. With the embed code safely stored on your clipboard, you can return to your main browsing window and proceed to the platform where you want to embed the content.

Make sure you paste the code and update the settings as explained above.

Award students for their progress and activity by applying Point Reward System. Boost motivation, engagement, and attention Span with this feature and make courses more effective and fun.

To activate Points Reward System go to STM LMS > Addons. Find Points System addon and Enable it. Check the Settings section by clicking on the Gear icon or follow the Point System Settings menu from the dashboard.

Point System Settings

In the Point System Setting, there are 2 tabs - Interface and Pont Distribution.

In Interface, you need to:

• add a new image that will typify your points;

• enter a Point Label;

• specify the point rate - any number that you want to be equal to USD 1;

• enable the affiliate points - your users can share their affiliate link, and get points for the activity of users, they invited;

• affiliate points percent - set the number of percents, the user will receive from the affiliate;

In Points Distribution you can set the point amount for each activity on your site. For example, for registration on the website, a user gets 50 points.

Admins and students can check the number of gained points on the profile page. Just click on the Earning history to see the points you gained.

By clicking on How to get more? students can open the page with the Points Distribution and learn what activities can bring them more points.

The admin can access the Point Statistics from the dashboard.

On the Student Points page, you can check all students' points, and edit and delete if needed.

When a student wants to buy a new course there will be an additional option of buying it for points. Also, learners will be shown the exact amount they lack to purchase.

Affiliate Link

Affiliate Link is an additional feature in the Point Reward System. An amazing opportunity to add affiliate marketing and transform it into a game.

How to use Affiliate Points?

First of all, you need to activate the Affiliate Points. Go to STM LMS > Point System Settings and Enable Affiliate Points. Then, set the amount of percents students will receive from the affiliate.

After this, students will be able to copy and share the link which will be available on the profile page. It allows them to earn points for the activities of users they invited via that link.

You can collect statistics of your student's progress with the Gradebook feature. To activate Gradebook Feature, click STM LMS > Addons. Enable Gradebook add-on.

Instructors can get access to the Gradebook from their profile pages.

By clicking on Gradebook you will open a new page with the list of your courses. Select the course you need to load statistics. You can see overall information like the number of students enrolled, and load the statistic for one student and see his or her progress.

Email template manager — LMS addon that will help you to adjust your email messages and make them look good and clear.

To enable the addon, go to MS LMS > Addons. Find their Email manager addon and Enable it.

After enabling the addon, you can see the Email manager settings menu on the dashboard under the MS LMS section.

Email Branding

All outgoing Emails of the MasterStudy LMS will be sent using default Email template:

Header & Footer

By uploading a custom logo, and background images for the header & footer you can customize the template to match general styles of the installed theme and your brand:

• Header & Footer - enables or disables header and footer part of the email.

• Logo - appears at the top center of the Email header and recommended size is 200x35 pixels, max height: 40px. File Support: jpg, .jpeg or .png.

• Header Background - Background image for the header part of the email. The .jpg, .jpeg or .png files are supported and recommended size is 700x95 pixels and max height: 100px.

• Footer Background - Background image for the footer part of the email. The .jpg, .jpeg or .png files are supported and recommended size is 700x155 pixels and max height: 160px.

• Entire Background Color - Background overlay color.

When Header & Footer is disabled Emails will be sent without Branding:

Copyrights

In Copyrights section you can edit content that displays footer part of the email:

Email Templates

On the settings page, you can find all the email templates you have on your website. By expanding them you will find some settings to adjust. You can specify the Subject and Message of the email. The templates include messages for instructors, messages regarding lessons, accounts, enterprises, orders, assignments, courses. Switch the tabs to set up the required template.

By clicking <> button on WISWIG Editor you can add HTML template of the email:

The source code from above screenshot, generates following content:

User will receive exact same email with custom template:

This add-on will make sure you send literate, good-looking messages to your users.

This is a part of the Statistics and Payout add-on and it works only when that add-on is active. This add-on allows you to manage all payments and track affiliated statistics for the sold courses, such as Total Profit, Total Payments, get statistics for a specific period, etc.

Follow the link below to correctly set up the Payout system on your website:

With Assignments, you can check your students' knowledge and level up their experience in LMS. It will help you to incorporate different types of tasks into your courses.

Addon Settings

You can set up the Assignments addon by clicking on the settings icon after enabling the addon.

Number of allowed attempts to pass assignment - Define the number of attempts students can take to pass the assignment.

Allow file attachment for assignments - Enable this to allow everyone to attach files for assignments.

Number of allowed attachments - Choose how many attachments students can make.

Max file size (Mb) - Define the maximum file size students can attach.

File extensions allowed to upload - Define the file extensions students can attach and use commas without spaces to separate.

Allow audio recording for assignments - Enable this if you want your students to upload audio recordings for assignments and instructors to upload audio recordings as a comment for the assignments.

Audio recording max size in MB - Define the maximum size for audio recordings.

Allow video recording for assignments - Enable this if you want your students to upload video recordings for assignments and instructors to upload video recordings as a comment for the assignments.

Video recording max size in MB - Define the maximum size for video recordings.

Assignments Addon Settings in Course Settings

Show Emoji in Quiz and Assignments results - Enable this if you want to show emojis when students pass or fail the quiz or assignment.

Quiz / Assignment Passed Emoji - Choose the emoji students will see when they pass the quiz or assignment.

Quiz / Assignment Failed Emoji - Choose the emoji students will see when they fail the quiz or assignment.

That is how it will look for students

Adding an Assignment to Your Course

1. Add a lesson in your desired course and choose the Assignment as a type of lesson.

1. Write a name for the assignment.

1. Enter the number of attempts students can take for this assignment. Or you can leave it empty so that students can take the assignment unlimited times to pass it.

1. Add your assignment content and format it up to your preferences. You can also add images and videos to the assignments.

1. Click the Save button to save all changes.

How Assignments will look on the student's page

When they open their assignment, they need to scroll down to start the assignment:

After clicking on the Start Assignment button, they will see this:

In the open window, they can see the Requirements section and Box to type the text. Students can also attach files and record audio and videos. After submitting the assignment, they will see this:

Adding audio and video recordings to the assignments as a student

Your students can add audio and video recordings to their assignments. That is extremely helpful in many cases, these are three of them:

• If you have language classes, for example, Arabic, and you want your students to pronounce the texts

• If you prepare your students for exams that have Speaking sections, for example, IELTS, HSK, TOEFL, TOPIK, etc, and want to have a real speaking mock exam.

• If you have a career coaching course and want your students to pass a real job interview. You can check your student's body language, their interaction and more.

Your students can record an audio for the assignment. For that, they need to click on the Record audio button:

That is how an audio will look after stopping recording:

Your students can record a video for the assignment. For that, they need to click on the Record video button:

That is how a video will look after stopping recording:

After recording audio and videos, students can submit their assignments for review.

Managing Assignments as an Admin

Assignments can be managed in the Assignments and Student Assignment sections of the plugin.

In the Assignments section, you can see all the assignments created on your platform. There will be assignments from different courses.

In the Assignments dashboard, you can see:

Assignment - The name of the assignment

Course - The name of the course where the assignment was created.

Total - The number of the students who clicked on Start Assignment button.

Passed - The number of students who passed the assignment.

Non passed - The number of students who failed the assignment.

Pending - The number of student assignments that need your checking.

When you click on the More button, you will go to the Student Assignments section where you can review the assignments.

In the Student Assignments dashboard, you can see:

Student name - The name of students who started or submitted the assignment.

Course - The name of the course where the assignment was created.

Date - The date when students started or submitted the assignment.

Attempt - The number of attempts a student took for the assignment.

Status - The status of the assignment.

When you click on the Review button, you can check your student's assignment.

Managing Assignments as an Instructor

Instructors can manage assignments in the Assignments section of the plugin by clicking on three dots from their page:

Here is the Assignments dashboard an instructor will see this:

Assignment - The name of the assignment

Course - The name of the course where the assignment was created.

Total - The number of the students who clicked on Start Assignment button.

Passed - The number of students who passed the assignment.

Non passed - The number of students who failed the assignment.

Pending - The number of student assignments that need the instructor's checking.

When an instructor clicks on the View button, they will go to the Student Assignments section where they can review the assignments. An instructor can also make a search and filter the assignments by the course name or the assignment status.

In the Student Assignments dashboard, you can see:

Student name - The name of students who started or submitted the assignment.

Course - The name of the course where the assignment was created.

Date - The date when students started or submitted the assignment.

Attempt - The number of attempts a student took for the assignment.

Status - The status of the assignment.

When you click on the Review button, you can check your student's assignment.

Checking and leaving a comment on the assignment from the student as an admin

After clicking on the Review button, you will open the window to check your student's assignment.

When you scroll down, you can leave your reviews and comments in the Text box, attach files, record audios and videos. Choose the status for the assignment: failed and passed and click the Publish button.

That is what your students will see:

Checking and leaving a comment on the assignment from the student as an instructor

After clicking on the Review button, an instructor will open the window to check your student's assignment.

When they scroll down, an instructor can leave their reviews and comments in the Text box, attach files, and record audio and videos. They can choose the status for the assignment: failed and passed and click the Submit Review button.

That is what your students will see:

How to manage the emails students and instructors get about the assignments

You can manage the emails in the Assignment section of the Email Manager addon settings.

That's how it will look:

To use Zoom and implement the service in your work you need to enable Zoom Conference Addon. For this, from your dashboard panel go to STM LMS > Addons.

Find there Zoom Conference Addon and enable it. Click on the Settings icon in the top right corner to open the new page, where you will be offered to Install eRoom - Zoom Meetings & Webinar plugin.

Click on the Install Plugin button.

Once the plugin is installed you can open the Zoom settings. On your dashboard panel, you now can find the eRoom menu. Click on the Zoom Settings option to set it up (eRoom > Zoom Settings).

You will be required to enter some credentials: API Key and API Secret Key. You can collect these credentials on Zoom App Marketplace. Follow this link: https://marketplace.zoom.us/ to obtain your API Key/Secret.

How to Obtain APIs

You will be required to enter some credentials: JWT API and Meeting SDK APIs. You can collect these credentials on Zoom App Marketplace. To collect credentials, follow Zoom App Marketplace: https://marketplace.zoom.us/ and login into your existing Zoom account. If a Zoom account does not exist, it should be created using this link.

On the Zoom App Marketplace page click on the Develop button and from the dropdown menu select the option Build App.

On the opened page, the App type should be selected to generate credentials.

eRoom requires Server-to-Server OAuth and Meeting SDK APIs to connect with Zoom and use its functionalities.

SERVER-TO-SERVER OAUTH CREDENTIALS

Generating API Credentials:

Among available Apps select Server-to-Server OAuth type and click Create to generate APIs.

Then, in the Popup window add your app name:

As soon as App created API credentials will be generated automatically in the App Credentials section:

Then, it is required to add information for the app such as email, and description in the Information section. In the Information section, it is required to fill out the following fields:

• Company Name

• Developer Contact Name

• Developer Contact Email

It is required to select the correct scopes to make the plugin work. Open the scopes tab and click on the "Add Scopes" button:

The permissions listed below are required:

Meeting

• View and manage sub account’s user meetings (meeting:master).

• View all user meetings (meeting:read:admin).

• View and manage all user meetings (meeting:write:admin).

Webinar

• View and manage sub account’s user webinars (webinar:master).

• View all user Webinars (webinar:read:admin).

• View and manage all user Webinars (webinar:write:admin).

Recording

• View and manage sub account’s user recordings (recording:master).

• View all user recordings (recording:read:admin).

• View and manage all user recordings (recording:write:admin).

User

• View and manage sub account’s user information (user:master).

• View all user information (user:read:admin).

• View users information and manage users (user:write:admin).

After adding all listed Scopes, click on the Done button to close the window. Finally, activate the Server-to-Server App:

Copy the Account ID, Client ID, and Client Secret and paste them into the respective fields on the Zoom Settings page in your dashboard:

JWT (JSON WEB TOKEN) Credentials (deprecated)

Among available Apps select JWT type and click Create to generate APIs.

Then, in the Popup window set a name for App:

Then, it is required to add information for the app such as email, and description in the Information section. In the Information section it is required to fill out following fields:

1. Company Name

2. Developer Contact Name

3. Developer Contact Email

As soon as App created API credentials will be generated automatically in App Credentials section:

Copy the API Key and API Secret Key and paste them in the respective fields on the Zoom Settings page in your dashboard.

Meeting SDK Credentials

Among available Apps select Meeting SDK API type and click Create to generate APIs.

Then, in the Popup window set a name for App:

In the Information section, it is required to fill out the following fields:

1. App Name

2. Short description

3. Long description

4. Company Name

5. Developer Name

6. Developer Email address

As soon as the Required information is filled out, go to the Download section:

As soon Continue button is clicked, API credentials will be generated automatically in the App Credentials section:

Copy the API Key and API Secret Key and paste them into the respective fields on the Zoom Settings page in your dashboard.

Redirect URL for OAuth

Destination URL where Zoom will send the access token after the user completes the OAuth authentication. To get the "Redirect URL for OAuth" open Zoom Settings on your dashboard and copy the URL from the address bar:

Paste the URL to the Redirect URL for OAuth input:

Next, it is required to add the domain (example: https://your-domain.com) to the "OAuth allow list" to make the Metting SDK secure:

Next, go to the SDK Activation tab, and click on the "Add" button to complete the API generation progress.

On the opened window, click on the "Allow" button to give access permission:

How to use Zoom Meetings?

Zoom addon allows you to easily add new users. Those users can be added as Hosts, which means that they will be able to host and create their own meetings.

To add a new user, go to eRoom > Add User, and on the new page fill in the necessary information and save.

On the Users page, you can see all the users in your account.

How to Add Meetings

From the Meetings (eRoom > Meetings) menu, you can open the meeting page and create a new meeting or edit the existing one.

The plugin allows you to submit all the information about the meeting, such as title, meeting date and time, host and agenda, specifications about the timezone and meeting duration.

Instructors can add meetings via the frontend page builder. Go to Course Curriculum, find the needed lesson, go to Lesson Settings > Lesson Type and select Zoom Conference type from the options available in the dropdown menu.

You can specify the start date and time, and timezone and enable the following functions: Join before Host, Host join started.

There is also a shortcode that you can add to any page on your website.

Just copy the shortcode and paste it into the page.

In that case, on this particular page will appear a countdown for the planning meeting.

If the meeting has already started, instead of a countdown there will be meeting details provided on the page along with the Join Meeting buttons where users have two options, either to join the meeting in the browser or access the session via the Zoom app.

Zoom addon also lets you collect the Reports.

Go to eRoom > Reports menu and access the Reports page. Specify month and year for the data you want to see and you will get your meetings statistics such as the number of meetings, participants and new users.

Let’s have a look at the live meetings page. The image below showcases the meeting page of the Zoom App for macOS.

Please note there are different Zoom Clients/Extensions/Apps for different systems and platforms. You can download the needed client version browser extension here: https://zoom.us/download​

This is how it should look from the student's perspective.

During the session, you can enable screen viewing mode. When the meeting is over you will see the overall time spent on the video session and will be able to complete it.

Group Courses feature allows you to distribute courses to a group of people and sell them to enterprises, for example.

To activate Group Courses feature, click STM LMS > LMS Settings > Addons. Find Group Courses Addon and Enable it.

Click on the Gear icon or follow STM LMS > Enterprise Course Settings and specify the number of members allowed to participate in the course.

After you enabled the Group Course Addon you can find additional options in the Course Settings under the Course Price section. Set an Enterprise Price in a blank space provided.

Update your course info and sell classes not only for individuals but also for groups.

For users, it is really easy to add a group just by using the profile menu. There will be included a new tab called Groups. By opening it user can add a new group. There are two options for creating a group.

Either import multiple groups via CSV or add a new group by entering users’ emails manually.

How to import groups via CSV

First of all, you need to create a CSV with your group details.

After, click on the Import Groups button to upload your groups.

When the loading process ends the list of groups will appear in the left box.

Select a group to edit the name or add new members to that group.

How to add a group manually

Enter a group name and add the email addresses of members in the left box.

Also, you can add groups right from the course page. Open up the course and click on the Buy For Group button.

In a popup window, you will be asked to create a group. Enter the group name and add users by entering their emails.

Now you can purchase courses for your groups.

One course bundle includes multiple courses that can be sold at one price as a package.

To activate Course Bundles go to STM LMS > Addons and enable the addon.

Open the Settings page - STM LMS > Course Bundle Settings or click on the Gear icon.

Here you can:

• set the bundles’ quantity limit

• set limitations on the number of courses in one bundle (by default the limit is 5 courses).

You also can manage the page’s display settings. Go to Pages from the dashboard menu. Find there a Course Bundle Page, or create a new one.

Open WPBakery Page Builder and click on the Add new element button.

From the list of elements choose the STM Courses Bundle (or use the search).

In the popup, you will see several settings to adjust your page.

Here you can enter the title, choose the number of columns to display on the page (available options - 2 and 3), set the number of posts per page.

Instructors can access the bundle management page from their profile page (use frontend course builder). Find the Bundles in the menu.

On the Bundles page, you can create a new package by clicking on the Add new Bundle and open the page with settings.

Select and add courses to the bundles, enter the title and description, set the price, and upload an image.

To select the course, enter its name and choose the right item from the dropdown menu, click Add Course.

Created bundles will be accessible on the Bundles page, where you can publish them or save as draft, edit and remove. The edit button will return you to the settings where you can adjust anything you need.

From the students’ profiles, the bundles look like it’s shown below. Users can add bundles to the cart and purchase them.

Single bundle page

LMS Forms Editor Addon

The LMS Forms Editor Addon allows you to configure the plugin built-in forms such as Profile form (Registration), Become Instructor request form, and Enterprise form by adding the additional fields to the form.

To activate this option go to STM LMS > Addons.

Find there the LMS Forms Editor addon and enable it.

To get to the LMS Forms Editor page click the settings icon or refresh the page and navigate the STM LMS > Forms Editor menu. Welcome to the LMS Forms Editor page! Let's explore all the settings.

The LMS Forms Editor settings page contains two sections, let's conventionally name them the Top and Main parts.

On the Top section, you can select between the forms and Save/Cancel applied changes.

The Main section, which is the working space, composed of three parts. In the screenshot below, they are numbered in sequence:

In the First column, you can build the form by dragging and dropping your needed elements from the Third (Elements) column. Here, in the Third (Elements) column, located the elements that will be used as the form fields.

Once you have put your needed element in the First column, in the Second column the element's settings will be displayed.

Now, let's walk through the Elements settings on the example of the Become Instructor Form.

On the Elements' settings first comes the Field Name Option. This field text will not be used on the user interface. The field is provided for the admin, to define the element's name to display it on the Become Instructor request message. This message sends to the admin email. Let's say you've created a Become Instructor Form. Now go to STM LMS > Email Manager section (The Email Manager addon should be enabled).

The Field ID will displayed like this:

Put on the First column the Single Line Text element. On the Field Label section, enter the field title that will appear on the user interface:

Also, you can add a description for the field under the Field Description area:

Enter the placeholder text on the Placeholder section:

Enable the Required field option to make the field required to fill:

Remember to save your changes. On the above example, we have adjusted only one field the Become Instructor Form. Now, let's check it. Login under the student account, go to the user account page, and click the Become an Instructor button:

Let's move on! Now put the Email, Phone, and File Attachment elements. The settings are similar to the Single Line Text element:

Fill all the fields as you desire. Then, let's check what we built:

In the same way, you can customize the Enterprise form and Profile form.

Result:

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In the Profile form customization section, you can add fields for the Edit Profile section and Sign Up form. All the information entered from the Sign-Up form will appear and can be edited on the Edit Profile form.

In the Profile form, there are four default fields that are required. These are the Name, Surname, Position, and Bio fields. They can not be removed.

On the Profile form customization, to the settings of each element will be added additional options: Show on Registration form and Show in public profile.

• Show on Registration form - adds dragged elements fields to the Registration form.

• Show in the public profile - displays the inserted info in the field on the user's Public Profile.

Now let's start to build the form. Add your needed elements to the form section. In the example below, the Phone, Drop Down, Text Area and Radio Button elements are added:

Outcome:

The feature of Multi-instructors - provides an option for teachers to assign one more instructor to the course.

To activate this option go to STM LMS > Addons. Find there the Multi-instructors addon and enable it.

The option ‘Add Co-instructor’ will be accessible from the course page for admin and instructors. You can open any existed course or create one and a new option will be available on the course settings page.

Find the ‘Add Co-instructor’ between the Teacher and Category options on the course settings page.

When hovering over the Add co-instructor option you will be able to select instructors from the dropdown add one to the course.

Media File Manager allows you to easily manage your media files in various formats providing you with a convenient access to them.

To activate this feature, go to STM LMS > Addons and enable the Media File Manager add-on.

Settings

In the Media File Manager Settings, you can set the maximum upload file size and specify the file extensions that are allowed to be uploaded.

If you try to upload any file larger than the maximum size that you set in Settings, you will get the following error message:

If you try to upload a file with an extension that you did not specify as an allowed file format, you will get the following error message:

Media Gallery Overview

When you click on any media file upload button, the 'Media Gallery' window will appear. And there you can upload your preferred type of media files from your computer or choose to use any of your existing files which you uploaded earlier.

Upload any file from your computer by clicking the 'Browse File' button:

You can also delete the files which are no longer needed by clicking on the 'Trash Can' icon:

Click the 'OK' button on the Delete Confirmation Message to delete the selected file:

On the 'Media Gallery' window, there is a Search bar that allows you to make a search through your uploaded files.

With the help of two drop-down menus on the top right corner of the uploaded files, you can sort media files by their type, name, date, and size.

How It Works

You can benefit from this feature in a number of situations where file uploading is involved such as Uploading Course featured images:

While attaching course materials, the "Media Gallery" will be available:

Lessons

The 'Media Gallery' window will appear when you upload the Lesson Materials while editing the Lessons image:

You can also take advantage of this feature while uploading a "Video" and 'Video Poster' for video lesson type.

Quizzes

When you add a new question and prefer it to be an image, the Media Gallery window will be available right after clicking the 'Image' button:

It does not matter what type of question you want to add, this feature is available for all of them:

You can also add the answer to your question as an image with Media Gallery. To activate this feature, do not forget to click the 'Image' icon on the right:

Bundles

You can access the Media Gallery while creating a new Bundle by clicking the 'Upload Image' button:

Google Classroom addon is the additional feature that was created specifically to ease the process of structuring the classes and your workflow. With a new function, you can connect your Google Classroom account with your website and import the needed classes. The students will get a special code in order to enter the right class.

How to get API Credentials

On the page, APIs & Services create a new project. Then go to the Credentials page and click on the Create Credentials button. From the dropdown menu select the option OAuth ID.

On the new page fill in the required data, select the type of application as a Web application.

Also, you need to enter the Authorized Redirect URL.

To get this link, follow your website admin panel. Go to STM LMS > Addons and enable the Google Classroom addon. From the dashboard, panel open the Classroom menu and find the link on the Import Classrooms section. Copy the link and paste it to the Authorized Redirect URL.

When you entered all the required information, create your OAuth Client ID.

After you created your OAuth ID, you can find all the credentials under the respective menu on the APIs & Services. Click on the created OAuth client, open the page with credentials.

Now, under the Authorized redirect URLs section, you need to add the Redirect URL.

The URL itself you can find on the Import Classroom page from your admin panel.

After that, you need to download a JSON file from your web page. Find the button Download JSON and get the file.

Download this file.

Now you need to enable API for the Google Classroom service. Find the Library menu on the APIs & Services page and search for Google Classroom and select the needed option.

On the new page enable the API.

Importing Google Classrooms

From your dashboard panel go to Classrooms > Import Classrooms and upload the downloaded file.

After this, you need to get an access token. Click on the Get Access Token button. You will be offered to select the needed profile in the popup window.

Sign in to move to your app and you will be redirected back to the Import Classrooms page. Now you can see all the classes available in your Google account. You can import all classes or select just several and publish them.

Once published, the classes will appear on your Classrooms page with codes accessible for students. They can copy it in order to enter the required class.

You also can set the page appearance. Go to Settings, where you can change the title of the relevant page and specify the number of posts to display.

Enabling Popup

Go to the Import Classrooms Page, scroll down to the Google Classroom Settings and Enable Popup.

When the popup is enabled you can set up its appearance.

The Certificate Builder addon lets you make and design your own certificates. These are given to students when they finish their course.

Certificate Builder

After clicking on the Settings Icon you will be redirected to the Certificate builder.

On the left side, you can see a dashboard of ready templates you can choose from:

On the right side, there is a sidebar with elements and backgrounds to be added. These elements are available in the Elements section:

• Text

• Image

• Certificate code

• Date (Current, Start, End)

• Course name

• Details

• Progress

• Student name

• Student code

• Instructor name

• Co-Instructor name

In the Certificate Builder, there is another tab Link Certificates, where you can assign your certificates to certain categories and courses.

Creating a Certificate

1. Go to the addon page and click on the Certificate addon settings.

1. You will open the Certificate Builder.

1. You can use a premade template, select one from the left side of the builder and customize it according to your branding requirements.

1. To create a new certificate, click on the + sign.

1. Then choose the certificate's orientation: horizontal or vertical.

1. You can add a background by clicking on "Select image".

1. In the open window, you can upload a background from your files.

1. After adding a background, go to the Elements section.

1. Click on the element and place these elements as desired within the Certificate builder.

1. You can further personalize the element by adjusting the font, size, color and alignment, and applying styling options like bold or italic.

1. Add other elements to create your desired certificate.

1. Name your template and click on the save button at the bottom of the page.

1. After saving, use the preview button to view your newly created certificate.

This is how it will look for your students after downloading the certificate:

Linking Certificates

To link a certificate to courses, go to the Link Certificate.

Next, you'll see three tabs where you can assign a default certificate, one to the categories or courses.

Linking a Default Certificate

To assign another default certificate, click Change.

Choose a template you want to make default and save the changes.

You have changed the default certificate. Your students will get this default certificate in courses where you didn't specify the certificate.

Linking a Certificate to Categories

In the Categories tab, click Set certificate on the category you want to set your own certificate.

From the certificate choose a template and save changes.

So, you have set a certificate to the specific course and it can be unlinked and changed.

Linking a Certificate to Courses

To link a certificate to a specific course, go to the Courses tab.

You'll be redirected to the page with courses.

Choose the course you want to add a certificate and click on Edit with Course Builder.

Go to the Settings in the Course Builder.

Head over to the Certificate section.

Choose a template from the list.

Save changes. Students of the course will get this certificate after completion

Question Media addon enhances quizzes by adding media such as images, audio, and videos to the quiz questions. This not only makes the quizzes more engaging and accessible but also caters to different learning styles. For example, images help in visualizing complex concepts, audio aids in listening comprehension, and videos provide in-depth explanations or demonstrations.

Adding media to quiz questions

1. Navigate to the Course Builder by clicking on Edit with Course Builder of the desired course from your course list on your WP dashboard.

1. Add a Lesson with a Quiz to your course. To do this, find and click the "Add Lesson" button,

1. Then select the quiz option.

1. Name Your Quiz by typing in a title for your quiz and click on "Create".

1. Add Quiz Questions by clicking on the "+ Question" button within your newly created quiz.

1. Choose the Quiz Type from the options provided (e.g., multiple choice, true/false, etc.).

1. Insert Media into a Quiz Question by locating the image and video icon next to the quiz question field.

1. Click on this icon to upload or link your desired image, video, or audio file to the quiz question.

You can upload images and audio from your computer. For videos, you can insert them from different sources.

To insert videos into your quiz question, select from the following source types:

• HTML (MP4): Upload an MP4 file directly from your computer and add a poster image to represent the video before it's played.

• YouTube: Insert videos hosted on YouTube by pasting the video URL.

• Vimeo: Use the Vimeo option to add videos hosted on Vimeo by providing the video link.

• External Link: Paste any direct video link from the web.

• Embed: Use the provided embed code from a video hosting service to insert the video.

• Shortcode: Use a shortcode to embed the video.

This is how the quiz will look with media added for your students:

With the Upcoming Course Status, you can create and promote courses that are not yet available for enrollment. This addon lets you give a preview of the upcoming courses and a countdown to the launch date.

Upcoming Course Status addon settings

Allow instructors to enable Upcoming course status - Enable this setting if you want instructors to set up the Upcoming course status.

Allow course preordering - Enable this setting if you want your students to buy the course but can’t start until the specified course launch date.

How to create a course with upcoming status

The status will help to announce courses and display them on the site under Coming Soon status. To set up this, go to the Settings tab in the Course builder, head over to the Access section and enable Upcoming Сourse Status.

After enabling the Upcoming course status addon, you will see these settings:

Notification text about upcoming courses - You can write the text for notification of this upcoming course.

Coming soon end date - Choose the date you want to publish the course.

Coming soon end time - Choose the time you want to publish the course. The countdown will disappear when the time for publishing your upcoming course comes.

Allow preordering - Your students can buy the course but can’t start until the specified course launch date. This will work only if you enable this feature in the Addon Settings.

Allow email notifications - Your students will get notified about the updates.

Show course author, category and rating - Enable this if you want to show course author, category and rating.

Show course price - The price of the upcoming course will be shown to students. But note that the price will be shown only if you enable preordering in the addon settings and the Course builder.

How it will look on

Managing courses with an upcoming course status

Admins can see the upcoming courses in the Courses section of their admin dashboard.

You can click on Manage Students to see the list of students signed up for the upcoming course.

Here you can also see students' names, email, status, progress and the date they subscribed for this upcoming course.

How to keep students updated about the upcoming courses

To do that, enable email notification in the Course builder. Students will see a bell on the screen and when they click on it, this will show up:

You can get their emails and send them updates. This is what they will see:

How to change the email notification texts students get

You can change the messages your students will get after subscribing to the upcoming course in the Upcoming section in the Email Manager addon settings.

You can enable three types of notifications for subscribers:

1. When the course becomes available to start learning:

1. When the course becomes available for presale:

1. When the course start date changes:

This is the email template example your students will get:

Course preordering

You can set up your course for pre-sale. To do that, you should enable course preordering in the Course Builder.

That is how your students will see the Course page when preordering is enabled: