imagitec

Add me as another person requesting this feature. I’ve purchased LearnDash, but I’m in the 30-day refund period and have started evaluating LifterLMS. The backend experience of LifterLMS is far superior than LearnDash, but the front end student experience of LearnDash is superior to LifterLMS. The widget implementation is one example of LearnDash’s superior student experience.

If I had to choose (and I will in about 20 days), I’d choose my users over myself. The multiple-course hack you suggest would detract even more from the user experience. I plan to sell my courses for $500-$1000 each, so the user experience needs to be optimum.

In addition to this sidebar issue, LifterLMS does not scale as well on small screens. In particular, the lesson listing on the main course page becomes illegible.

And treating topics as only dividers with no opportunity for an overview of the area to be covered and how it will tie together is a serious detriment. At the moment, in LifterLMS, I have to do this:

TOPIC: What is Precision Machine Design?
Lesson 1: What is Precision Machine Design?
Lesson 2: Defining Performance and Accuracy in Precision Machines
Lesson 3: Accuracy, Repeatability, Resolution…
…

It looks silly and amateurish and detracts from the user experience, especially in the sidebar.

I want to be able to use the old presentation maxim:

– Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ’em
– Tell ’em
– Tell ’em what you told ’em

At the course level AND the topic level. Without being able to add content to the Topic, I have to use the hack I described above.

Beautifully implemented back end on LifterLMS, though. And fantastic support (especially the LifterLMS demo, which is essentially a getting started with Lifter course). I’ll keep testing Lifter.

Thanks,
Rob