Everything a WordPress LMS
should ship with
Courses, quizzes, memberships, certificates, instructor commissions, and a full REST API - one coherent product, one update stream, tested against itself.
All six capability groups included in Free. PRO marks Pro-only features below.
Six capability groups
Pick the part that matters to you
Course builder
Drag-and-drop sections, lessons, and topics. Eight content types including video, audio, PDF, live session, and protected media.
See details → AssessQuizzes and grading
Six question types and five player templates in Free. Auto-grading with partial credit and an essay grading inbox.
See details → CertifyCertificates
Canvas designer, auto-issue on completion, QR verification, and a public verification URL. Open Badges 3.0 in Pro.
See details → SellPayments and memberships
Built-in Stripe and PayPal - no WooCommerce required. Membership plans, coupons, and a full transaction ledger.
See details → PayInstructor payouts
Automatic commission splits, a withdrawal queue, and Stripe Connect direct payouts in Pro.
See details → AIAI authoring and agents
Draft a course or quiz from a short brief in Pro, and let assistants like ChatGPT and Claude run your academy through 34 permission-checked Abilities API actions.
See details → ExtendREST API and apps
166 endpoints under learnomy/v1 with JWT auth, a Batch API, and offline progress sync.
See details → MigrateImport from another LMS
Move courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions across from LearnDash, Tutor LMS, or LifterLMS with a guided wizard. An optional people step brings enrollments and progress.
See details →Build courses
- Unlimited courses, sections, lessons, and topics
- Eight lesson content types: video, audio, PDF, embed, download, live session, rich text, protected media
- Native Fediverse video: embed PeerTube and other Fediverse videos through SSRF-guarded oEmbed discovery, no per-domain allowlist to maintain
- Drag-and-drop Course Builder
- Instructor-scoped authoring - ownership gated at the API level
- Import courses from LearnDash, Tutor LMS, or LifterLMS with a guided wizard
- Optional sections: lessons and quizzes can sit directly under a course
- Custom account fields for registration and profiles, no code required
- Content Drip: release lessons on a date or days-after-enrollment schedule PRO
Sell and monetize
- Built-in Stripe and PayPal direct checkout - no WooCommerce required
- Closed course pricing: sell a course anywhere (your own checkout, Gumroad, a CRM) and grant access here by email, CSV upload, or a signed webhook, with auto-revoke on refund
- Solo Academy mode: one switch hides every instructor-marketplace surface for a single-instructor academy
- Membership plans with monthly and annual pricing
- Coupon codes with percentage or fixed-amount discounts and usage limits
- Full transaction ledger with CSV export
- WooCommerce as an optional third gateway if you already run a store
Assess and engage
- Six quiz question types in Free (true/false, single, multiple, short answer, fill-in-the-blank, essay)
- Eleven question types with Pro: adds matching, ordering, numeric, math, calculated, plus rubric grading PRO
- Five player templates: Focused, Classic, Sectioned, Conversational, Review Board
- Large-exam mode: a clickable question map, flag-for-review, per-answer autosave, and resume to the exact question and remaining time
- Subject grouping with a per-category score breakdown across all five layouts
- Rich question stems: a formatted passage, scenario, or code sample above the answers
- Quiz proctoring: track tab switches, flag them for graders, and optionally auto-submit after a set number
- Content standards with Pro: SCORM, xAPI, LTI 1.3, QTI, and H5P feed one Learnomy progress and grading pipeline PRO
- Auto-grading with partial credit; essays queue in a paginated grading inbox
- Reusable question bank with categories, tags, and CSV import
- Course reviews and threaded lesson comments
Certify
- Canvas-based Certificate Designer with three pre-built layouts
- Auto-issue on course completion with deduplication
- PDF download and permanent public verification URL at /verify/{uuid}
- QR code on every certificate links directly to the verification page
- Open Badges 3.0, Credly badges, and tamper-evident SHA-256 anchoring PRO
Pay instructors
- Automatic commission splits: 30% platform / 70% instructor by default, configurable anytime
- Per-course commission overrides without touching the global rate
- Per-instructor commission rules applying across all their courses PRO
- Instructor withdrawal request workflow with admin approve/reject queue
- Stripe Connect direct payouts to instructor Stripe accounts PRO
- Refund-safe earnings - refunds automatically mark commissions as reversed
Grow and report
- Commerce overview dashboard: real-time MRR, active subscribers, lifetime revenue
- Academy analytics: revenue trend, top courses, completion counts, CSV export PRO
- Membership analytics: MRR, ARR, 30-day churn, cohort retention grid PRO
- FULLTEXT course and lesson search via [learnomy_search] shortcode
- JSON-LD Course schema added automatically to every course page
Build and run with AI
- AI authoring: draft a full course curriculum from a one-line brief, refined in plain language PRO
- AI quiz generation: turn any topic into ready-to-grade questions inside the quiz editor PRO
- Every AI suggestion is saved as a draft you review and approve; nothing publishes on its own PRO
- Per-instructor limits and a site-wide cap keep AI usage costs predictable PRO
- AI-agent ready: 34 LMS actions across 6 categories registered with the WordPress Abilities API
- Assistants like ChatGPT and Claude discover and call actions with full permission checks
Have your first course live in five minutes.
Free is a complete LMS - a solo creator or small academy can run on it indefinitely. Pro adds cohorts, analytics, learning paths, and direct instructor payouts once you need them.