Build richer online courses with Sensei Pro
Sensei Pro extends Sensei LMS, a WordPress learning management plugin from Automattic for creating online courses, lessons, and quizzes. It is intended for educators, organisations, and course creators who need more control over access, learning schedules, assessment, and course presentation. The Sensei Agency plan permits activation of Sensei Pro, so the two paid names can be treated as editions or plans within the same Sensei Pro offering.
Sell courses with WooCommerce
Sensei Pro integrates with WooCommerce so course creators can set a price and sell courses in a few clicks. It also integrates with WooCommerce Subscriptions, Payments, Memberships, and Affiliates extensions. This makes the plugin suitable for sites that want to combine learning content with WooCommerce-based course sales and related store functionality.
Control when students learn
Scheduled content drip lets administrators control lesson pacing. Content can become available at fixed intervals after a student starts a course or on a particular date. Course access periods add further control by allowing a start date, end date, or defined amount of time during which a course remains accessible.
Conditional content can personalise the learning journey by showing or hiding lessons and other content according to groups, enrollment status, and date. Groups and cohorts help organise students, manage access, and customise learning experiences for different audiences.
Make lessons more interactive
Interactive blocks can add engaging material to lessons, pages, or posts. Available options include videos, flashcards, image hotspots, and task lists. Flashcards can contain text, videos, images, embeds, and more on both sides of the flashcard block. These tools support varied lesson formats without limiting interactive material to a single course area.
Expand quizzes and collaboration
Sensei LMS supports question types such as multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, true or false, free response, and file uploads. Sensei Pro adds quiz timers and ordering questions. Individual quiz questions can also be placed in WordPress content outside standard quizzes, allowing assessment elements to appear in lessons, pages, or posts.
Co-teachers can share course ownership and edit course settings, lessons, and quizzes. This is useful when more than one instructor contributes to course development or delivery.
Courses in WordPress
Sensei LMS works with WordPress themes and can be customised to match a site’s branding and style. Courses can be created with the WordPress Block Editor, while the free Course Theme supports course presentation. Learning Mode provides an immersive, distraction-free learning experience. Course lists can be displayed on pages or posts with the Course List block.
Installation
Install Sensei LMS and the Sensei Pro edition on the WordPress site, then create courses, lessons, and quizzes with the Block Editor. Configure WooCommerce course sales, access periods, schedules, groups, interactive blocks, and quiz settings according to the learning model. Sensei Pro includes dedicated priority support from its engineering team.
