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No external service and no subscription required.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Standards<\/strong>\nSCORM 1.2 and 2004 import and runtime, with resume and HTTP Range media streaming.<\/p>\n\n<h3>License<\/h3>\n\n<p>Stedica LMS is distributed under the GNU General Public License. The plugin's own code is\nGPL-3.0-or-later.<\/p>\n\n<p>It bundles third-party components under their own compatible licences, and two of them are\nworth naming because they are stricter than the plugin's own: the Freemius SDK in\n    vendor\/freemius\/ is GPL-3.0-only, and dompdf's rendering library in <code>vendor\/dompdf\/<\/code> is\nLGPL-2.1. Taken as a whole, therefore, this distribution is effectively GPL-3.0 without the\n\"or later\" option, because one of its components does not offer it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Both <code>LICENSE<\/code> (GPLv3, the licence this plugin is under) and <code>LICENSE-GPL-2.0.txt<\/code> (included\nbecause WordPress itself is GPLv2-or-later and the directory asks for a compatible licence)\nship in the package. GPLv3 is compatible with that requirement.<\/p>\n\n<h3>External services<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin connects to one external service, and only for licensing.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Freemius<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Freemius handles licensing, the free trial and update delivery for the optional paid\nadd-on, Stedica LMS Premium. The licensing SDK is bundled in this plugin.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.<\/em> On a fresh install the plugin runs in\nanonymous mode: no request is made to Freemius and no data leaves your site. Requests\nbegin only when you opt in to Freemius' service, start the free trial, or activate a\nlicence key \u2014 each of which is an explicit action you take.<\/p>\n\n<p>Once you have opted in, the following is sent to Freemius:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>when you opt in, start a trial or activate a licence: your site URL, the email address\nand name of the WordPress user performing the action, and the WordPress, PHP and plugin\nversions<\/li>\n<li>when checking for updates to the paid add-on, and when validating a licence: your site\nURL and the installed plugin version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>No learner data, course content, grades or quiz results are ever sent.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you never opt in, the plugin remains fully functional and contacts nothing. The paid\nadd-on is the only thing that requires it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Service provided by Freemius, Inc.\nTerms of Service: https:\/\/freemius.com\/terms\/\nPrivacy Policy: https:\/\/freemius.com\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n<h3>Security<\/h3>\n\n<p>Authorization is enforced server-side on every REST route and every admin screen \u2014\nhiding a menu item is never treated as access control. Learner-owned resources are\nownership-checked to prevent enumeration by id. Quiz answer keys never leave the\nserver. Protected files (SCORM assets, submissions, certificates) are served through a\nPHP proxy that derives authorization from the request path, because a SCORM package's\nrelative sub-resource requests cannot carry a token. Grades are clamped server-side.\nSecrets are masked in every API response, and are encrypted at rest when the PHP\nOpenSSL extension is available (it is on virtually all hosts; without it they are stored\nunencrypted and only the masking applies).<\/p>\n\n<h3>Shortcodes<\/h3>\n\n<p>For learners: <code>[stedica_my_courses]<\/code>, <code>[stedica_catalog]<\/code>, <code>[stedica_course_player]<\/code>,\n    [stedica_leaderboard], <code>[stedica_certificates]<\/code>, <code>[stedica_discussions]<\/code>,\n    [stedica_achievements]<\/p>\n\n<p>Stedica LMS Premium, a separate add-on, adds <code>[stedica_live_sessions]<\/code>,\n    [stedica_my_skills], <code>[stedica_learning_paths]<\/code> and <code>[stedica_membership]<\/code>. They are\nlisted here so you know what exists, not offered by this plugin \u2014 this package does not\ncontain them and does not register them.<\/p>\n\n<p>For staff: <code>[stedica_my_group]<\/code> shows a group leader their members' progress, and\n    [stedica_instructor] gives an instructor their grading queue. Both are safe to put on an\nordinary page \u2014 each shows only what the person viewing it is entitled to see, and a\nvisitor with no such role sees a plain explanation rather than an error.<\/p>\n\n<p>Every surface is also a <strong>block<\/strong> \u2014 search \"Stedica\" in the inserter \u2014 and an <strong>Elementor\nwidget<\/strong>, found under a Stedica LMS category with a dropdown for which surface to show.\nAll three render through the same code, so they behave identically.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the plugin through Plugins \u2192 Add New \u2192 Upload Plugin, or extract into\n   wp-content\/plugins\/.<\/li>\n<li>Activate. Tables, roles and upload directories are created automatically.<\/li>\n<li>Create a page containing <code>[stedica_catalog]<\/code> and another containing\n   [stedica_course_player], then point Stedica LMS \u2192 Settings at both so links and\nemails resolve.<\/li>\n<li>To sell courses, set Stedica LMS \u2192 Settings \u2192 Commerce provider to WooCommerce and\ninstall WooCommerce if it is not already there. It defaults to None, and until it is\nset the course-to-product field does not appear on a product and no order grants\naccess. Courses can of course be free, or enrolled by an administrator, with no\nprovider set at all.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Certificates are rendered as PDF by dompdf, which ships inside this plugin. There is\nnothing to install and no external service involved. If the library cannot be loaded \u2014\na source checkout with no dependencies installed, for instance \u2014 certificates fall back\nto printable HTML and every other feature is unaffected.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"does%20uninstalling%20delete%20my%20courses%3F\"><h3>Does uninstalling delete my courses?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. Data is preserved unless you explicitly tick \"Remove all data on uninstall\" in\nSettings before removing the plugin.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"do%20i%20need%20woocommerce%3F\"><h3>Do I need WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Only to sell courses. Edit a WooCommerce product and pick the course it grants from\nthe Stedica LMS panel; enrolment happens when the order completes, and entitlement is\nalways checked server-side. Refunds and cancellations revoke that access again.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20is%20not%20included%3F\"><h3>What is not included?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>LTI and xAPI are not implemented and are not planned. The LTI topic type is retired in\nthe course builder, and a course still holding one is flagged as needing replacement. H5P\nis supported as an embed rather than a bundled runtime. Selling runs\nthrough WooCommerce; there is no native card checkout in this plugin. There is no PWA\nsupport. The plugin ships a translation template (languages\/stedica-lms.pot) but no\ntranslations.<\/p>\n\n<p>These features are not in this plugin and are not disabled versions of anything here \u2014\nAI assistance, instructor-led sessions with seats and waitlists, competency frameworks,\nmulti-course learning paths, native Stripe checkout with subscriptions and coupons,\noutbound webhooks, cohort analytics with at-risk scoring, and the append-only completion\nregister with recertification and CEU credits. They are a separate paid add-on, and the\ncode for them is absent from this download rather than switched off.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>2.5.7<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A SCORM package now stays as the file you uploaded<\/strong>, read directly rather than\nunpacked into hundreds of files on the server. The same modules play and resume, audio\nand video still seek, and a 12MB course now takes 12MB instead of 24MB. Existing\npackages keep working.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The certificate design moved into its own stylesheet<\/strong>, <code>certificate.css<\/code>, so a theme\noverride can restyle it without touching PHP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Three course-lookup queries were rewritten<\/strong> so their use of placeholders is evident at\nthe call site. No behaviour changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.5.6<\/h4>\n\n<p><strong>SCORM courses and certificate downloads were broken for everyone, plus a package of security fixes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SCORM courses and certificate downloads did not work at all.<\/strong> Every protected file\nwas served through an address that refused the browser's own request, so learners saw\nan empty course player and a download button that did nothing. Fixed, with a test that\nfails if it returns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SCORM packages now load their own images, audio and scripts.<\/strong> On sites using Plain\npermalinks the first page appeared and everything it referenced was missing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A malformed SCORM package could fill the disk.<\/strong> The size limit trusted figures the\npackage declared about itself, which can be forged. It is now enforced against what\nactually lands on disk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A SCORM package could smuggle in server-executable or server-configuration files.<\/strong>\nEvery part of every path is now checked, and legitimate multi-language filenames are\nstill accepted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A failed import no longer leaves the package behind<\/strong>, and uploads are no longer\nstaged in a publicly readable folder under the uploader's own filename.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duplicating a course no longer produces a dead SCORM topic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The plugin stopped writing inside its own folder<\/strong>, where WordPress deletes files on\nevery update and plugins are not permitted to write.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certificates are no longer written as web pages when no PDF renderer is present<\/strong>,\nand files left by older versions are removed on update.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admin notices are confined to this plugin's own screens<\/strong>, dismissed per person, and\nstay dismissed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The uploads folder is now named for the plugin.<\/strong> Files were kept in\n  wp-content\/uploads\/stedica\/; they are now in <code>wp-content\/uploads\/stedica-lms\/<\/code>, which\nis what the WordPress.org guidelines require. Existing certificates, submissions and\nSCORM packages are moved automatically on update and keep working. Course artwork is\ncopied rather than moved, so any image address already published elsewhere \u2014 in a page,\nan email, another system \u2014 keeps resolving from the old location.<\/li>\n<li><strong>An instructor could import a SCORM package into another instructor's course.<\/strong>\nUploading a package checked only that you may manage courses, not that the course was\nyours, and the course id decides who is allowed to play the package. 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