Description
Create beautiful and engaging online courses, lessons, and quizzes.
Sensei LMS is a powerful learning management plugin from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack. At Automattic, we use Sensei LMS to power all our employee training courses.
Share your knowledge and teach freely with Sensei LMS!
Powerful LMS Features
- Seamlessly integrate Sensei LMS into your WordPress site. Sensei LMS looks great with any theme and can be customized to match your branding and style.
- Create engaging courses with the WordPress Block Editor, fully utilized by Sensei’s free Course Theme.
- Enable Learning Mode for an immersive distraction-free learning experience.
- Track student progress and performance with detailed reports.
- Embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and VideoPress for video-based courses.
- Add the Course List block to any page or post to display available courses.
Create effective quizzes
Quizzes are a powerful way to improve your students’ understanding of key concepts and track their progress. Select from various quiz question types and settings, such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, free response, file uploads, and more.
Showcase your courses
Submit your course to Sensei LMS’ public course showcase at https://senseilms.com/showcase/. Sensei LMS’ course showcase allows you to reach new audiences to expand your course’s visibility.
Discover the power of Sensei Pro
Realize the full potential of your courses with Sensei Pro.
WooCommerce Integration: Effortlessly set a price and sell courses in just a few clicks. Sensei Pro seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce Subscriptions, Payments, Memberships, and Affiliates extensions.
Scheduled Content Drip: Control the pacing of lessons in your courses by specifying when students can access lesson content at fixed intervals after starting the course or on a particular date.
Immersive Interactive Blocks: Enrich your lessons, pages, or posts with engaging videos, flashcards, image hotspots, and task lists.
Enhanced Quiz Features: Set a quiz timer and incorporate an ordering quiz question type. With Sensei LMS Pro, you can include individual quiz questions in any WordPress content, not just quizzes.
Easy Groups & Cohorts: Organize students into groups and cohorts to manage access and customize learning experiences.
Course Access Periods: Define a start date, end date, or a set amount of time that courses will remain accessible to students.
Conditional Content: Personalize the learning journey by hiding or showing lessons and content based on groups, enrollment status, and date.
Dedicated Priority Support: Our team of expert and friendly engineers is always available to provide assistance and ensure your success!
Flashcards: Add text, videos, images, embeds, and more to both sides of the flashcard block type.
Co-Teachers: Share course ownership with co-teachers who can edit course settings, lessons, and quizzes.
Free Extensions
Certificates: Automatically generate beautiful downloadable PDF certificates for students when they complete a course.
Learn more about Sensei LMS Certificates.
Post To Course Creator: Create courses quickly by converting existing blog posts into course lessons in just a few clicks.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 14 blocks.
- Featured Video Add a featured video to your lesson to highlight the video and make use of our video templates.
- Conditional Content Content inside this block will be shown to the selected subgroup of users.
- Course Actions Enable a student to perform specific actions for a course.
- Course Results Show course results to students on the course completion page.
- Lesson Actions Enable a student to perform specific actions for a lesson.
- Student Courses Manage what students see on their dashboard. This block is only displayed to logged in students.
- Lesson Properties Add lesson properties such as length and difficulty.
- Course Outline Manage your Sensei LMS course outline.
- Course Title
- Course Theme Lesson Module
- Exit Course
- Category Question Pull questions from a question category.
- Module Group related lessons together.
- Lesson Where your course content lives.
Installation
Automatic installation
- Log into your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins > Add New.
- Enter “Sensei LMS” into the search field.
- Once you’ve located the plugin, click Install Now.
- Click Activate.
- Configure the settings by going to Sensei LMS > Settings.
Manual installation
- Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it.
- Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s
wp-content/plugins/directory on the server. - Log into your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin from the Plugins menu.
- Configure the settings by going to Sensei LMS > Settings.
FAQ
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Where can I get support for Sensei LMS?
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For the free plugin, please use the Support Forums for any questions that you may have. We monitor the forums regularly and will reply as soon as we can.
You can also check our Documentation on our website for guides, tutorials, and other helpful information.
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Where can I report bugs or contribute improvements to the plugin?
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Sensei is developed in public on Github. We welcome anyone to report a bug, submit a pull request, and follow along with our progress.
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Does Sensei work with membership plugins?
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Sensei LMS can be used in conjunction with Sensei Pro and WooCommerce Memberships to enable you to sell courses as part of a membership plan. See Selling Courses as a Membership for more details.
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How can I keep up to date with new releases and announcements for Sensei LMS?
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Please visit the Sensei Blog or sign up for our mailing list.
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How can I include my courses in the Sensei LMS showcase?
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To find out how to submit a course to the Sensei LMS showcase, and the requirements, please see our documentation on the Course Showcase.
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Does Sensei support live courses, Zoom integration, or webinars?
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Yes! You can add links to Zoom, Google Meet, or whatever platform you choose in a course lesson. In addition, Sensei includes a meeting lesson layout you can select when creating a new lesson to help make this even easier.
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Does Sensei work in WordPress Multisite?
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Sensei LMS works great in WordPress Multisite. Although a Sensei Pro license covers only one site, the Sensei Agency plan permits the activation of Sensei Pro on up to 20 sites. If you use or plan to use Sensei Pro on a Multisite with more than 20 sites, please get in touch for custom pricing.
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How can I sell courses as part of a membership?
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Sensei LMS is compatible with Sensei Pro and WooCommerce Memberships, enabling you to sell courses as part of a membership plan.
See Selling Courses as a Membership for more details.
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Does Sensei work in my language?
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Community members have translated the free Sensei LMS plugin into 18 languages, while Sensei Pro has been professionally translated into 16 languages. We welcome contributions to improve even more.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning” has been translated into 27 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
4.26.0 – 2026-06-10
Security
- Fix missing esc_url() on add_query_arg() calls in analysis nav breadcrumb links. #7989 👏 @thisismyurl
Added
- Add aggregation service pattern for grading queries. #7915
- Add High-Performance Progress Storage (HPPS) support to the lesson, course, and per-student course listing tables on the Reports pages. #7932
- Add object caching to HPPS repositories #7904
- Allow filtering courses, lessons, and questions by specific items when exporting. #7968
- Integrate HPPS in grading backend. #7923
- Integrate HPPS in Lessons report. #7920
- Register Sensei with the WordPress Abilities API. #7952
- Enable the block editor Notes feature for courses and lessons. #7998
Changed
- Add grading stats service for HPPS integration. #7931
- Migrate admin React entry points to createRoot() for React 19 compatibility. #7992
- Speed up admin pages by replacing the Grading menu badge query with a cheaper dedicated ungraded count. #7977
Deprecated
- Deprecate
Sensei_Utils::comment_total_sum_meta_value_filter(). #7961
Fixed
- Fix a fatal memory error on the admin Courses screen for sites with many enrolled students by skipping learner term cache priming on the course list. #7986
- Fix average grade calculation on Reports Courses Lessons overview broken on WP 6.4+. #7961
- Fix Course Reports Last Activity showing an arbitrary date instead of the most recent activity date across all lessons. #7920
- Fix Days to Completion calculation in Reports to exclude lessons with ungraded or failed quizzes, which do not have a valid completion date. #7920
- Fix a fatal TypeError in
lesson_quiz_questions()when a lesson has no quiz. #8000 - Fix grade averages being dragged down by spurious grade=0 meta written on lesson start. #7931
- Fix Grading menu badge counting ungraded quizzes from other teachers’ courses. #7977
- Fix Grading page status tab counts not updating when filtering by a specific lesson. #7923
- Fix HPPS data migration to work on restricted hosting environments by replacing set_time_limit with time-budgeted batch processing and adding retry logic for failed migrations. #7899
- Fix module order reset and module disassociation when a non-admin user (e.g. Editor) saves a lesson in a course with modules owned by another user. #7910
- Fix off-by-one in last activity date formatting by using the injected clock for the time diff. #7963
- Fix PHP warning when calculating the average grade for courses with no graded quizzes. #7945
- Fix quiz grading detail page showing incorrect grade when auto-graded questions are answered incorrectly. #7976
- Fix teachers not seeing all grading rows for their courses due to post-filter pagination mismatch. #7923
- Grading and Reports: Only count progress on published and private lessons in listings and counts. #7979
- Use quiz submission repository on grading detail page for HPPS compatibility. #7928
- Fix student progress dates being stored in inconsistent timezones when HPPS is enabled. #8003
4.25.2 – 2025-12-16
Security
- Fix XSS vulnerability in the Contact Teacher block
Removed
- Remove “new” badge from Appearance settings tab #7874
Fixed
- Allow multiple choice quiz questions with no wrong answers #7872
- Fix Course List pattern not working with newest Gutenberg #7876
- Fix error when activating MailPoet #7864
- Fix lesson comments being visible to unregistered users in some cases #7848
- Fix reports screen times out on larger sites #7859
- Fix the course structure API exposing the lesson AI generated bootstrap text #7869
- Prevent duplicate queries from happening on every block render #7860
Development
- Add CLI command for recalculating course enrolment #7877
4.25.1 – 2025-09-18
Security
- Add authorization check when updating the lesson course relation
- Add authorization check when updating a lesson in the course structure
Added
- Add support for changing text color of Course Overview block #7826
Changed
Fixed
- Fix “Calling get_class() without arguments is deprecated” PHP notice #7815
- Invalid property notice for messages #7814
- Non course-list patterns showing up in the Course List block’s pattern picker #7797
- PHP fatal when calling array_rand on empty array #7828
- Squished radio buttons / checkboxes for multi-line quiz answers #7820
- Update button cursor on hover for improved accessibility #7843