Stedica LMS

Stedica LMS turns a WordPress site into a full training platform, with no external service required. Getting started The dashboard creates the catalog and course-player pages for you, and can install a complete sample course on request: three lessons, a graded quiz and a certificate. Moving from LearnDash? Its courses can be imported straight from the same site, with no export file; nothing is written to LearnDash, and anything left out is reported. For learners Course catalog and self-enrolment, a course player with resume, progress tracking and drip-released lessons, eight quiz types, a discussion area per course, certificates with a verifiable number, leaderboards and achievements. For instructors A drag-and-drop course builder (lessons and topics: text, video, audio, document, SCORM, H5P, quiz, assignment) with a featured image per course, a reusable question bank, a grading queue with a visual rubric grid, a weighted gradebook, and per-learner and per-course progress with CSV export. The builder warns about problems a learner would hit later, such as a question with no answer key, without ever blocking a save. For administrators Roles and capabilities, white-label branding, editable categories and levels, and an audit log covering 27 action types. Groups grant course access to their members and take it back when someone leaves. Access can be limited to a number of days per course, and four automatic emails can each be switched on or off: grade posted, learner inactive, access expiring, and work waiting to be graded. Every admin screen has a Manual button explaining how it works. Languages English and Spanish (es_ES and es_MX) ship with the plugin, including the admin screens. Selling courses Link a WooCommerce product to a course: the buyer is enrolled on payment and access is revoked on refund. No external service and no subscription required. Standards SCORM 1.2 and 2004 import and runtime, with resume and HTTP Range media streaming. Scores from SCORM content count in the gradebook, weighted like quizzes and assignments.

1. Upload the plugin through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, or extract into wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate. Tables, roles and upload directories are created automatically.
3. On the Stedica LMS dashboard, press Create the pages for me. It creates the catalog and course-player pages that links and emails point to. You can instead put [stedica_catalog] and [stedica_course_player] on pages of your own.
4. To sell courses, set Stedica LMS → Settings → Commerce provider to WooCommerce and install WooCommerce if it is not already there. It defaults to None, and until it is set the course-to-product field does not appear on a product and no order grants access. Courses can of course be free, or enrolled by an administrator, with no provider set at all.

Certificates are rendered as PDF by dompdf, which ships inside this plugin. There is nothing to install and no external service involved. If the library cannot be loaded — a source checkout with no dependencies installed, for instance — certificates fall back to printable HTML and every other feature is unaffected.

This history begins at 2.7.1, the release both packages are built from. changelog.txt, which ships inside the plugin, carries the same releases in full: WordPress.org truncates this section, so when it has to be shortened that file is where the detail stays. 2.7.22

• The featured image now says what it needs, and keeps more of it. The course's image field gives the shape cards crop to — 16:9 — a minimum of 640 × 360 px, and 1280 × 720 px for a high-resolution screen. It also stores a larger copy than it did in 2.7.21: cards were being handed a 300 px-wide version and stretching it, so an image that met the stated minimum would still have looked soft on the catalog.

2.7.21

• A course can now be deleted. Administrators get a Delete button beside each course on the Courses screen. It names the course and asks before doing anything, and it refuses any course a learner has ever been enrolled in — archive one of those instead, so nobody's record goes with it. Instructors do not see the button: writing a course and destroying one are not the same job.
• A course can now have a featured image. Choose it in the course's own Settings tab and it appears on that course's card in the catalog and on the learner's dashboard. A course without one is the same size as the rest, so a catalog can mix the two.
• Fixed: buttons with nothing between them. The lesson and topic buttons down the side of a course ran together into one striped block. The buttons under a lesson, and the bottom row of catalog cards, sat flush against whatever the theme puts below them — usually the footer. All of them have room to breathe now.

2.7.20

• Fixed: a course built from a SCORM package reloaded endlessly. Opening one as a learner showed the content refreshing over and over, never settling long enough to use. Each time the package reported where the learner had got to, the player rebuilt it from the start — which made it report again. The package now keeps playing, and the learner keeps their place in it, while the lesson list and the completion ticks still update.

2.7.19

• Fixed: messages that said "1 lessons". Sixteen places paired a number with a plural word that never changed, so anything with exactly one of something read wrongly — "1 lessons", "1 members", "1 questions", "Time limit: 1 minutes". All of them now read correctly at every count, in English and in Spanish.

2.7.18

• Fixed: the paid add-on's SCORM Import screen refused every package. It read the file, listed the modules inside it, and then answered "That package does not belong to this course" — for every package, in every install. The check that keeps one course's packages away from another had been written out by hand and did not match the names this plugin actually gives the files it stores. There is now one rule, in one place, next to the code that names them.