Rooster LMS

On Rooster LMS → Home, choose “Add the demo course”. It creates a short course with every question type (each as plain form fields and as an interactive H5P version), an interactive lesson, a one-question-at-a-time quiz and a survey, in your site’s language. Nothing is created until you ask, and “Remove the demo course” deletes everything it made. On the command line: wp rooster-lms demo install and wp rooster-lms demo remove .

Yes. Organisations are optional: without any, Rooster LMS is a complete LMS for one school, company or course creator, with courses, quizzes, exams, certificates and reports. Add organisations whenever you start training others.

Yes. Each organisation is a tree of units with levels you name (Group, Hotel, Department; School, Grade, Class; or your own), built in its Structure tab or from a template (Rooster LMS Pro: hotel group, school, university, company). A manager, instructor or reporter of a unit sees only that unit and the ones below it, in the same manager portal. Units can have seat pools, and staff sheets place people at their units and give unit roles. An organisation that never chooses its levels keeps “Organisation” and “Location”, as before.

An offering is one run of a course for a cohort or a part of an organisation, such as this year’s class. A repeated year starts a new attempt in a new offering while the earlier one, with its results and certificate, stays in the history; a closed offering stays readable for its learners (“Ended, read only”). A cohort is a course intake (one course and its class period) or a programme cohort (a class that follows a study programme over several courses and years).

Yes. With WPML or Polylang, each translation of a course, lesson or quiz shares one course, one enrolment, one progress record, one certificate and one report. The names of organisations, their units and levels, job roles, audiences, live sessions and course sections, and the organisation branding, are translated in WPML String Translation or Polylang’s strings. E-mails, certificates and organisation branding follow each learner’s language.

SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 and cmi5 packages with a built-in player, SCORM to cmi5 conversion, an xAPI learning record store and engagement reports; selling course parts and single live or recorded lessons, plans as products with WooCommerce Subscriptions, organisation sign-up through admission flows, revenue reports, Zoom attendance import, and scheduled and automatic invitations. Try it free for 14 days with AI credits included, then from $99 per year for one site, $199 for up to 10 sites or $399 for unlimited sites. See Rooster LMS Pro

No. Rooster LMS is a complete LMS on its own.

Nothing: deleting the plugin keeps its tables and settings, so a reinstall finds everything. Data removal is opt-in: to remove every Rooster LMS table, option, post and scheduled action when the plugin is deleted, tick “Delete all Rooster LMS data when the plugin is deleted” under Rooster LMS > Settings first, or set the option with WP-CLI:

wp option patch update rooster_lms_settings delete_data_on_uninstall 1

Courses, lessons and categories that an import adopted from another LMS are given back to that LMS (their original post types and taxonomy) before the data is removed, never deleted; users who only had the Rooster learner, organisation staff or LMS editor role get the site’s default role.

Only the ones you switch on in Rooster LMS > Notifications , the notification centre: every e-mail to learners and to staff has its own switch, its text in each language (WPML or Polylang String Translation), its timing and a “Send a test” button. The e-mails to members are off by default; reminders and changes of booked live lessons are on, and each learner can switch them off. E-mails are queued and sent in the background, in each recipient’s language. Importers never send any.

Yes. The site has two reminders (a day and an hour before); add any number of your own in the notification centre, in a course’s “Reminders” box or on a live lesson’s page, to learners or to trainers, before, after or at a time of day, and switch inherited ones off for one course. A moved lesson’s reminders follow the new time, and nobody gets the same reminder twice.

Yes, with WooCommerce (a plugin on your own site; Rooster LMS calls no outside service for selling). Set the course’s enrolment to “Purchase”, then in its Sell box create a product or link an existing one (a simple or variable product, or one variation), with access for a number of days or without end. WooCommerce keeps prices, taxes, payments, invoices and stock; Rooster LMS gives the course when the order is Processing or Completed, ends it on a full refund or when the order is cancelled or fails after payment, and keeps the learner’s progress. A course with a capacity keeps its products’ stock equal to the places left. Buyers need an account; an order placed without one is attached only to an account that proved the e-mail address. Rooster LMS > Sales lists what each order line gave. Selling sections (instalments) or single live or recorded lessons, and plans with WooCommerce Subscriptions, need Rooster LMS Pro.

A plan is what an organisation or a person gets when they get more than one course. An organisation plan sets the organisation’s seats, adds a catalogue of courses and an access template, and runs for a term (account opening); an individual plan gives a person a set of courses and categories for a term. Assign them under Rooster LMS > Plans and in an organisation’s Plan tab. Managers get reminders 30, 7 and 1 days before the end; after a grace period (14 days by default) the plan’s courses are suspended, with progress and certificates kept, and renewing restores them. The plans grid block, shortcode and Elementor widget show the plans as price cards under the heading “Subscription plans” (editable), with a Contact or Learn more button; Apply (organisation sign-up with review) and Subscribe (checkout) need Rooster LMS Pro.

Yes. A live lesson is a lesson with a date: on Zoom, a meeting link, an embedded live stream, or in a room at a venue (Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings created for you: Rooster LMS Pro). Meetings an existing eRoom installation holds move into Rooster with the optional, one-way eRoom importer (Rooster LMS > Import), keeping their Zoom, Meet or Teams meetings; eRoom’s shortcodes keep working through Rooster once eRoom is deactivated. A course is its series: “Add next lesson” adds the next date with the same settings. The lesson page shows the countdown before, Join or the stream during (with the materials the trainer shares live), and the recording and every material after. Recordings are protected files on your server or links. A course has a delivery mode (self-paced, live online, in person, hybrid), a venue and a capacity; the course page shows “When and where” with a map link, and the catalogue filters by format, month and city.

Under Rooster LMS > Live sessions > Attendance, open a lesson’s roster and mark each learner present, late, absent or excused, or show a QR code that learners scan to check in (from 30 minutes before the start to 30 minutes after the end; late after 10 minutes). At in-person events, staff scan the attendees’ tickets at the door on their phones (guests without an account count too), and a class QR projected in the room opens the lesson and its materials on learners’ phones and marks them present. Rosters export to CSV, and organisation managers see their members’ rosters in the portal’s Sessions tab. With “Attendance is required to complete a live lesson” on, attending completes the lesson. Importing attendance from Zoom’s participant report needs Rooster LMS Pro.

Yes. On the live lesson’s page (or the course’s “Invitations and RSVP” box), make an invitation, add people from the earlier learners, an organisation, a part of it (a hotel, a department), a cohort, a list of the Newsletter plugin (on your own site) or a CSV file, check, and send. Each person gets personal “Yes, I will be there” / “No, I cannot attend” buttons; opening the link never answers by itself, so mail scanners cannot answer for anyone, and the answer page shows no name. You see the answers, export them as CSV, and a “yes” can offer an account, enrol the person or put them in a cohort (an answer set by staff never makes anyone a member of an organisation). Each invitation shows its funnel: invited, accepted, then attended, enrolled or joined, with the rates. Invitations respect consent, the weekly limit and the one-click unsubscribe.

Yes. “Tell earlier learners” (on the course and on a live lesson’s page) e-mails the learners of the earlier lessons and linked courses, only those who agreed, once per person and lesson, at most a few offer e-mails a week (2 by default), each in their own language. Consent comes from an unticked checkbox at the checkout or on the registration form, or the learner’s switch in Account > Notifications. Every e-mail has a one-click unsubscribe (also the List-Unsubscribe header of mail apps) that needs no login. A “soft opt-in for buyers” setting exists, off by default: turn it on only after legal advice. People who said no stay out, even after their data is erased.

Yes. Rooster LMS > Registration creates a registration page with the Registration form bloc