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Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning

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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.

Learn more about Sensei Pro.

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.

Learn more about Sensei LMS Post To Course Creator.

Automatic installation

  1. Log into your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins > Add New.
  2. Enter “Sensei LMS” into the search field.
  3. Once you’ve located the plugin, click Install Now.
  4. Click Activate.
  5. Configure the settings by going to Sensei LMS > Settings.

Manual installation

  1. Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it.
  2. 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.
  3. Log into your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin from the Plugins menu.
  4. Configure the settings by going to Sensei LMS > Settings.
  1. Course Editor

    Course Editor

  2. Lesson Editor

    Lesson Editor

  3. Learning Mode

    Learning Mode

  4. Quiz Editor

    Quiz Editor

Where can I get support for Sensei LMS?

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.

Where can I report bugs or contribute improvements to the plugin?

Sensei is developed in public on Github. We welcome anyone to report a bug, submit a pull request, and follow along with our progress.

Visit Sensei LMS on Github.

Does Sensei work with membership plugins?

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.

How can I keep up to date with new releases and announcements for Sensei LMS?

Please visit the Sensei Blog or sign up for our mailing list.

How can I include my courses in the Sensei LMS showcase?

To find out how to submit a course to the Sensei LMS showcase, and the requirements, please see our documentation on the Course Showcase.

Does Sensei support live courses, Zoom integration, or webinars?

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.

Does Sensei work in WordPress Multisite?

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.

How can I sell courses as part of a membership?

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.

Does Sensei work in my language?

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.

Sleek and aesthetic

By Slim Karaaslan (slimx91) on June 18, 2025

I've used the premium version, been through struggles and hurdles and the support team was on the task. Happy and satisfied. I like how "stock" WordPress-iy it looks.

I must say though, i hateeeee the default font lol.

worth 1 star

By neadvantage on May 8, 2025

Not allowing to sell without paid woo commerce integration. Atleast allow basic stuff in free tier.

No puedo hacer uso de mi licencia pro

By carlota2912 on February 20, 2025

No tengo soporte por ningun lado y los enlaces de mi compra no me dejan hacer uso de la versión pro, necesito aayuda Assap

After paying, really bad service

By sergicaballero on January 22, 2025

The plugin doesn't work. I've tried to contact them several back and they just don't get back. They have a AI bot which doesn't help, I've asked for human support with 0 answer... avoid this plugin!

So much potential, so much ugliness

By nahualliart on January 14, 2025

To hard, complicated and almost impossible to edit styles, on Gutenberg everything is blocked, so no edition is allowed. With Elementor no way to edit anything, most of the containers don't display on Elementor.
The "Course displays" both options, the list and grid displays, look not ugly, horrible when using Elementor.
The fact that the only documentation available is equal to zero, don't make things easier.
If you like green and the default theme, all good.


UPDATE after hours I find the classes that have troubles with Elementor:

.alignfull and .alignwide I set the margin inline to 0 !important and now finally things look good. Also delete all sensei css classes on the Gutenberg editor. Still not able to make a loop container or even open Elementor editor if the element "Course list" is displayed on screen

So much potential but developers really slow to add features

By sadi007 on August 8, 2024

I love lots of things about Sensei LMS but there are some key features I think needs to be added to improve the UX and to add more for users. I really wish there was a more dedicated team to the project that can listen to the users and take on new features otherwise it will just be the case that people go to other LMS plugins.

So much potential here but I do wonder if anyone is bothered about making this the best LMS out there.

Nice, but tough

By persoonlijkvaardiger on April 7, 2024

Sensei can do a lot for you, but if you're no noob in building websites and really demand flexibility and free styling, it's not as easy as they pretend it to be. It's all possible, but you have to be a pitbull.

Does exactly what is says

By SJW (whitsey) on November 26, 2023

Flexible tool that allows full control over course management.

Nice plugin

By Uri Lazcano (urielink) on October 2, 2023

I'm testing Sensei for a client, the basic features are good for a beginner user.

Great plugin

By gmollbomsfi on September 28, 2023

I have used Sensei for almost a year now and I am very pleased with both their excellent support and the plugin itself, which fills my needs of an excellent LMS that can teach people in different ways.

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

  • Cleanup deprecated teacher role capabilities #7829
  • Remove teacher redirect on login #7821

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

4.25.0 – 2025-04-15

Added

  • Allow editing course archive page title from the block editor #7786
  • Autofocus the title input on the form render #7802
  • Clear text indicator to indicate disabled status of Emails #7752

Changed

  • Update the activation logic to always enable the setup wizard on first installation #7800
  • Update Sensei Pro upgrade URL to handle WordPress.com hosted sites correctly #7790

Deprecated

  • Deprecate Student Courses Block in favor of Course List block #7764

Fixed

  • Button alignment on Setup wizard notice #7779
  • Course outline: Fix focus issue on lesson/module add to inner blocks #7783
  • Course pattern layout: Fix Safari render issue #7789
  • Fix course ordering on wordpress.com #7799
  • Fix loading some translations too early #7780
  • Fix plugin configure link pointing to the wrong settings URL #7781
  • Fix required quiz score texts #7793
  • Fix undefined property notice on WP 6.8 #7773
  • Occasional error when submitting a quiz #7755
  • Pattern previews: Ensure consistent background color in pattern previews by using theme color variables and fixing iframe sizing issues #7796
  • Prevent storing enrolment data in memory on Students screen #7772
  • Students dropdown menu being offset in the admin panel #7695
  • Workflow: Update PR milestone validation supporting task re-run #7787
  • Newsletter wizard form: Handle server errors #7801

Development

  • Update NodeJS and NPM versions

4.24.5 – 2025-01-16

Security

  • Fix unprepared SQL
  • Remove feed content if the user doesn’t have access to the lesson

Added

  • Wrap question numbers in <span> tags #7738

Changed

  • Replace date with gmdate #7735
  • Replace unlink with wp_delete_file #7732
  • Replace wp_json_encode with json_encode #7730
  • Update the placeholder to use an internal image #7728
  • Replace strip_tags with wp_strip_all_tags #7731

Deprecated

  • Deprecate load_localisation and load_plugin_textdomain functions #7713

Removed

  • Remove manual loading of translations #7713
  • Remove fallback code for Sensei Pro update reminder #7729
  • Remove files that are already included in WordPress Core #7727
  • Remove obsolete code from Students area #7726

Fixed

  • Initialize Sensei blocks for posts #7736
  • Remove usage of deprecated parameters in WordPress Core functions #7724
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