Title: CourseVerify – Student Identity Checkpoints Author: Saqib K. Published: October 1, 2026 Last modified: October 1, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints. svg) # CourseVerify – Student Identity Checkpoints By [Saqib K.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saqibabbasi/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints.1.0.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/) ## Description CourseVerify lets a course administrator require students to periodically verify their identity as they progress through a LearnDash course — at course start, at configurable time-based checkpoints (e.g. every 5 tracked hours), and before a designated final exam. At each checkpoint, the student answers a previously configured personal security question. Course access is blocked server-side until verification succeeds. CourseVerify provides a configurable identity-verification mechanism that educational providers can use to implement their own institutional policies — it does not itself guarantee compliance with any government or regulatory requirement. **Core features** * Student-configured security questions, answers stored as one-way hashes (never plaintext, never shown to administrators) * Configurable, per-course checkpoint schedule based on tracked course time * Configurable maximum verification attempts, with automatic lock-out and administrator unlock * Optional final-exam verification, gated on an administrator-selected quiz * Full audit log of verification and administrative events * Works with any theme; assets are only loaded on protected course pages * No telemetry, no tracking, no external requests, no advertising **Supported integrations** * LearnDash (course/lesson/topic/quiz access, enrollment, final exam) * Uncanny Toolkit Pro — Simple Course Timer (`[uo_time]`) as the course-time source CourseVerify is an independent plugin and is not affiliated with LearnDash, Uncanny Owl, or any regulatory agency. ### Configuration Per-course settings (on each course’s edit screen): * Enable CourseVerify * Number of security questions required at setup * Checkpoint schedule, in hours of tracked course time * Maximum verification attempts before locking * Whether to lock on max failures * Final-exam verification, and which quiz it applies to Global settings (CourseVerify Settings) provide defaults used when a course hasn’t been individually configured, plus the uninstall data-deletion preference. ### Privacy CourseVerify stores, per student per course: configured security-question text and a one-way hash of the answer (never the plaintext answer), checkpoint verification status and timestamps, verification attempt outcomes (never the submitted answer text), and an administrative audit trail of setup/verification/lock/unlock events. No data is sent to any external server. Administrators can review stored data via the Students and Logs screens, and students’ data is included in WordPress’s built- in personal-data export and erasure tools (audit-log rows are retained by default as an administrative record; site owners can change this via the `courseverify_privacy_erase_audit` filter). ### Limitations * The bundled Uncanny Toolkit Pro time-provider adapter reads course time via the`[ uo_time]` shortcode’s own rendering rather than a documented per-user API, and can currently only read the _active, logged-in_ student’s own time (not an arbitrary student looked up by an administrator). See the compatibility note in `includes/ Integrations/Uncanny/class-uncanny-timer.php`. * Course-content gating is enforced via the `the_content` filter on singular LearnDash content; a fully version-proof hard block on LearnDash’s own AJAX quiz-submission endpoint has not yet been verified against a specific LearnDash version. ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin to `/wp-content/plugins/` or install it through the WordPress plugins screen. 2. Activate the plugin. LearnDash and Uncanny Toolkit Pro (with the Simple Course Timer module) should be active for full functionality; the plugin will show a notice if either is missing rather than fatal-erroring. 3. Open a LearnDash course’s edit screen and use the “CourseVerify — Identity Checkpoints” box to enable CourseVerify for that course and configure its checkpoint schedule, attempt limit, and (optionally) its final exam quiz. 4. Review global defaults under CourseVerify Settings. ## FAQ ### Does this guarantee compliance with my state’s or institution’s identity-verification requirements? No. CourseVerify provides a configurable mechanism your institution can use as part of meeting its own requirements. Whether a given configuration satisfies a particular regulatory or institutional policy is a determination for your school or the applicable authority — not a claim this plugin makes. ### What happens if Uncanny Toolkit Pro or LearnDash isn’t active? CourseVerify shows an admin notice and does not enforce checkpoints until the dependency is active. It never causes a fatal error. ### What happens to a student’s data if I uninstall the plugin? By default, nothing is deleted on uninstall. An administrator can opt in to full data deletion under Settings; only then are CourseVerify’s own tables and options removed. ### Are security answers recoverable? No — answers are stored using the same one-way password hashing WordPress uses for user passwords. They cannot be displayed or exported in their original form, by anyone, including administrators. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “CourseVerify – Student Identity Checkpoints” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Saqib K. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saqibabbasi/) [Translate “CourseVerify – Student Identity Checkpoints” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.1 * Fixed: text domain now matches the plugin’s actual WordPress.org slug (courseverify- student-identity-checkpoints). * Security: security-question text submitted from the pool-based setup form is now re-validated server-side against the configured pool, so it can no longer be substituted via a browser dev-tools edit of the hidden field. * Fixed: the per-course “Lock on Failure” setting is now actually consulted — when disabled, students are never locked out after repeated wrong answers (the counter resets so they can keep retrying), and failure messages no longer threaten a lockout that was never going to happen. * Fixed: the security question shown at a checkpoint is now assigned once per attempt and consistently re-served on reload/poll, and a submitted answer is validated against that specific assigned question rather than any of the student’s configured questions. * Fixed: a redundant unslash of already-sanitized setup input that could, in rare cases, alter a literal backslash character in a submitted answer. * Removed dev-only test scaffolding from the distributed plugin package. #### 1.0.0 * Initial release: security-question setup, time-based checkpoints, final-exam verification, admin dashboard/students/logs/settings, LearnDash and Uncanny Toolkit Pro integration, privacy exporter/eraser. ## Meta * Version **1.0.1** * Last updated **15 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.2** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [Identity Verification](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/identity-verification/) [learndash](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/learndash/)[quiz](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/quiz/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/courseverify-student-identity-checkpoints/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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