Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning

Self-hosted WordPress LMS — curriculum, quizzes, checkout, and certificates

Install Sikshya on your WordPress site to keep ownership of course content, learner records, and payments—without renting a separate SaaS LMS just to deliver training.

In plain English: you create courses in the WordPress admin; learners open your course pages on the front of your site, track progress in their account, and complete quizzes or assignments you publish.

Use Sikshya for coaching, professional training, customer education, internal onboarding, or the start of a course marketplace—with full control of content, branding, and revenue.

New to WordPress LMS plugins?

• No code required to publish lessons and quizzes—you work inside Sikshya’s admin screens like other WordPress plugins.
• Your theme controls fonts and many layout basics; Sikshya adds course templates and learner views so selling and learning stay consistent.
• Start small: create one course, one short lesson, and one quiz; invite a test student account before you invite paying customers.
• Payments are optional: offer free courses first, then connect Stripe or PayPal when you sell.

Who is Sikshya for?

• Coaches, consultants, and creators shipping paid programs without hiring a platform team.
• Training companies & academies replacing spreadsheets with enrollments, progress, and assessments.
• Teams doing internal training who need completion tracking and light certification.
• Agencies standardizing one dependable LMS layer across client sites (including multisite when configured carefully).

Extended use cases

• Blended learning — Self-paced lessons plus scheduled touchpoints (extended live tooling ships in Pro where applicable).
• Customer education — Product training and onboarding academies tied to your brand site.
• Community & cohort programs — Clear curriculum and progress signals; pair with your favorite community plugins as needed.

Top features (free core)

Each headline below links to its dedicated feature page on the Sikshya site.

Course Builder — curriculum + chapters

• Unlimited courses, lessons, and quizzes (within your hosting limits).
• Structured curriculum with sections/chapters and drag-and-drop style ordering.
• Course landing content: descriptions, FAQs, announcements, preview lessons.
• Course archive with search and filters aligned to your theme.

Video & Text Lessons — multi-format content

• Lesson types: text, video via URL/embed-style delivery, downloadable materials.
• Optional transcript field (downloadable URL + paste-in text) for accessibility and SEO.
• Graceful media fallback when an embed or source can’t load.

Quizzes & Auto-grading — assessment that actually scales

• Quiz builder: multiple choice, true/false, short answer, essay, fill-in-the-blank, ordering, matching.
• Passing marks, attempts, and timer-oriented assessment controls.
• Sequential progression and chapter-style gating where configured.
• Mid-attempt auto-save so a refresh doesn’t wipe in-progress answers.
• Per-type score breakdown + optional per-question explanations on review.
• Assignments with submission and manual grading for real-world evaluation.

Course Certificates — issued on completion

• Two ready-to-use certificate templates (Heritage + Vertex) ship in the free core, marked default so they survive updates.
• PDF download from the learner profile when a course is completed.
• QR-based external verification ships in the Pro Advanced certificates addon.

Learners

• Student dashboard: enrollments, progress, resume learning.
• Downloadable lesson attachments and course resources, protected per learner.
• Role-aware flows for administrators and instructors.

Native checkout — checkout & monetization (free baseline)

• Free courses, paid courses, and manual enrollment by staff.
• Stripe and PayPal as first-class payment paths in settings.
• Coupons: percentage or fixed discounts, redemption limits, optional date windows.
• Order management: visibility, notes, and administrative refund-style workflows as implemented per release.

Reliability & operations

• Capability checks, nonces, and disciplined REST patterns aligned with WordPress security expectations.
• Transactional email hooks for enrollment, purchase, and completion journeys (templates evolve by release).
• Translation-ready ( sikshya text domain); RTL-friendly layouts are a continuous improvement target—report theme-specific gaps via support.

Native commerce & checkout

Sell access without duct-taping five plugins together for a basic launch: configure gateways, test in sandbox or test mode when available, publish your course page, and route buyers through a checkout experience designed for digital education—not generic cart prose bolted onto an LMS.

Platform notes

• Themes — Built to cooperate with well-coded WordPress themes; use a default theme briefly if you need to isolate CSS conflicts.
• Multisite — Network-enabled; validate roles, capabilities, and data boundaries per site before production.
• Developers — Hooks and filters around enrollments, lesson completion, and quiz outcomes; REST coverage is summarized on the product site and expanded in Sikshya documentation .

Upgrade to Sikshya Pro

Unlock advanced content drip and prerequisites , multi-instructor collaboration, subscriptions , deeper analytics and gradebook workflows, course bundles , white-label options, and broader integrations. Free stays generous; Pro unlocks scale.

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👉 Sikshya pricing & plans

Sikshya Pro add-on catalog

Below is the full commercial add-on line-up from the Sikshya feature registry. Each title links to pricing so you can compare plans. Availability varies by plan tier (Starter, Growth / Pro band, Scale); see the pricing page for the current matrix.

Starter-band add-ons

• Content drip & scheduled unlock — Release lessons over time (“day 3 after signup”, dates, cohort pace) instead of opening the full catalog on day one. Best for paced programs and term-style delivery; disable for purely self‑paced libraries.
• Course reviews & ratings — Collect star ratings and written reviews on course pages with moderation before they go live. Builds social proof in the catalog; turn off when public reviews don’t fit your model.
• Prerequisites (lessons & courses) — Require completion of chosen lessons or whole courses before the next step unlocks—ideal for sequencing, compliance, or leveled paths. Leave off when every course stands alone.
• Instructor dashboard — Gives each teacher a concise snapshot (e.g. enrollments on their courses) without sharing the whole admin site. Useful when instructors should see their numbers only.
• Drip & automation emails — Optional transactional emails when drip rules unlock lessons or schedules (templates in Email templates). Pair with Content drip when you want “lesson unlocked” style notices.
• Calendar — Shows learners a dated schedule—enrollments, upcoming drip unlocks, assignment due dates—on My account plus REST data for custom UIs. Handy when deadlines and releases should appear in one place.

Growth-band add-ons

• Professional email delivery & branded templates — Route Sikshya emails through a proper ESP (SendGrid-style setup) and wrap messages with your branding. Improve deliverability versus generic PHP mail.
• Course discussions & Q&A — In-course discussions and Q&A with instructor moderation for cohort-led learning. Skip when comments are handled entirely outside Sikshya.
• Multi-instructor & co-authors — Assign multiple instructors per course with optional revenue splits for shared authoring and payouts. Keeps ledger-style splits disciplined at checkout.
• Advanced analytics & exports — Download enrollment-style and progress-ready data for Excel/Sheets and offline planning. Bridges dashboard charts and spreadsheets when stakeholders need files.
• Gradebook — Consolidates quizzes and graded assignments into a per‑learner, per‑course scores view plus export workflows. Targets real

Attributes:

• redirect_to — Absolute or relative URL after successful login. Validated with wp_validate_redirect . If empty, the handler falls back to the HTTP referer, then the site home URL.

Examples

[sikshya_login] [sikshya_login redirect_to="/my-account/"] [sikshya_login redirect_to="https://example.com/checkout/"]

[sikshya_registration]

What it does: Renders a registration form (display name optional, email, password). Creates a WordPress user with the Sikshya student role, then triggers the same new-user email notifications WordPress sends after core registration ( wp_send_new_user_notifications , admin + user). Intended for checkout (“Create account”) and custom landing pages.

Attributes:

• type — student or instructor . Default student . instructor does not assign the instructor role: the account is a student and a pending instructor application is recorded (same meta as the account “Apply to teach” flow). An administrator approves applications in the dashboard; only then is the sikshya_instructor role added.
• redirect_to — Same behavior as [sikshya_login] after successful registration.

Developers: Filter sikshya_send_new_user_notifications (bool, user ID) to disable core emails if you replace them with your own.

Examples

[sikshya_registration] [sikshya_registration type="student"] [sikshya_registration type="instructor" redirect_to="/courses/"]