User Guide

This is MOTOCOM theme Learning MAnagement System Niche documentation, containing helpful information, features and detailed instructions about how to use the niche.

1. General Information & Installation

1.1 Introduction

Enhance your academic endeavors and other skills with MOTOCOM's niche Learning Management System , a contemporary online courses website that offers you online cooking courses, Foreign language courses, App Development, History, Astrology, and everyone else looking for an easy yet professional way to create an online learning platform! It’s also 100% responsive that’s why it will work nicely on all smart devices(smartphones, tablets, PCs, and desktops). It provides so many features for your website to turn it into an online course website, create courses, sell your course. You can sell your courses by course, or by monthly subscription. It’s also well documented and clean coded that’s why anyone can change it easily. By using this website anyone can build his own website “No coding skill required”.

1.2 How To Set Up Learning Management System

This section contains the description of the plugin installation and breif description of the plugins used in Learning Management System niche.

1.2.1 Plugin Installation

After getting succesfully authenticated and downloading the theme the next important step is to install the plugins of the required niche.

Follow the below mentioned steps for the plugin installation.

  • Navigate > > Dashboard > > Settings.
  • Navigate > > Plugin Screen.
  • On plugin screen install the plugin of the niche Learning Management System niche.
1.2.2 Plugin Description

The MOTOCOM's niche Learning Management System includes the LearnPress, LearnPress - Course Review and LearnPress - Course Wishlist plugins which enables you to easily transform your website to online courses system.

  • LearnPress - LearnPress is a WordPress complete solution for creating a Learning Management System (LMS). It can help you to create courses, lessons and quizzes.
  • To know about the features and more information of the plugin Click here

  • LearnPress - Course Review - Adding review for course..
  • LearnPress - Course Wishlist - LearnPress Wishlist bring wishlist feature for LearnPress. It allows you to add your favorite course to a list to take later.

2. LearnPress

LearnPress Panel comes with the LearnPress plugin which have so many settings that enables you manage courses, quizzes, lessons for your online learning website.

In this section you will the detailed description of each setting.

Navigate to Dashboard >> LearnPress

2.1 Courses

In this setting you can see all the courses and you can also create a new course by clicking on the button Add New.

2.1.1 Add New Course
  • Add Title - Enter the title of the course.
  • Description - Add the description of the course.
  • Course Curriculum - You will setup all the lessons, quizzes to the course in this part.
  • Course Settings - You can set pricing, course information like duration, number of allowed students, how course results will be assessed, etc.
  • Course category - Select the category of the course.
  • Course Tags - Select the tags of the course.
  • Course featured image - Upload the featured image of the course.
2.1.2 Categories
  • Name - Please enter the name of the category. The name is how it appears on your site.
  • Slug - The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens.
  • Parent Category - Select the parent category from here. It will assign a parent term to create a hierarchy. The term Jazz, for example, would be the parent of Bebop and Big Band.
  • Description - Enter the description of the category.It is not prominent by default; however, some themes may show it.
  • Image - User can upload the image of the category and can also remove it.
  • Add New Course Category - Hit the button to create a new category.
2.1.3 Tags
  • Name - Please enter the name of the tag. The name is how it appears on your site.
  • Slug - The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens.
  • Description - Enter the description of the tag.It is not prominent by default; however, some themes may show it.
  • Add New Course Tag - Hit the button to create a new course tag.

Note - To get the detailed knowledge of adding courses Click Here

2.2 Lessons

In this setting you can see all the lessons and you can also create a new lesson by clicking on the button Add New.

Add New Lesson

  • Add Title - Enter the title of the lesson.
  • Add Description - Enter the description of the lesson.

Lesson Settings

  • Lesson Duration - Select the duration of the lesson. Set 0 to disable.
  • Preview Lesson - If lesson is a preview lesson, then student can view this lesson content without taking the course. To enable this setting please select the checkbox.

Note - To know more about the lessons setting Click Here

2.3 Quizzes

Using this setting you can see all the quizzes and can also add new quiz.

Add New Quiz

  • Add Title - Enter the title of the quiz.
  • Description - Enter the description of the quiz.
  • Questions - You can add new question from here. Also you can select the type of the question as True or False, Single Choice or Multi Choice and you will get settings accordingly.

General Settings

  • Pagination Questions - Show list of questions while doing quiz as ordered numbers (1, 2, 3, etc), if selected.
  • Review Questions - If selected, it will allow re-viewing questions after completing the quiz.
  • Show Correct Answer - Show correct answers when reviewing questions.
  • Duration - You can set the duration of the quiz with this setting. Set 0 to disable.
  • Minus Points - You can set how many points minus for each wrong question in quiz.
  • Minus For Skip - To enable the minus points for skipped questions select the checkbox.
  • Passing Grade (%) - Select the points which are required to pass the quiz.
  • Re-Take - How many times the user can re-take this quiz. Set to 0 to disable re-taking.
  • Archive History - Archive quiz results for each time.
  • Show Check Answer - It will show button to check answer while doing quiz ( 0 = Disabled, -1 = Unlimited, N = Number of check ).
  • Show Hint - Show button to hint answer while doing quiz ( 0 = Disabled, -1 = Unlimited, N = Number of check ).

Note - To get detailed knowledge of this setting Click Here

2.4 Questions

With this setting you can see the questions and can add new question also.

Add New Question

  • Add Title - Enter the title of the lesson.
  • Description - Enter the description of the lesson.
  • Question Answers - You can add answers to the questions.
  • Mark For This Question - Mark for choosing the right answer.
  • Question Explanation - Enter the explanation of the question that why an option is true and another is false.
  • Question Hint - Instruction for user to select the right answer. The text will be shown when users click the 'Hint' button.
  • Question Tag - Select the question tag and can also new tag. Separate tags with commas.

2.5 Orders

With this setting you can add the orders or you can also add new order.

Add New Order

  • Order Details - Select the date and time from here.
  • Status - Select the payment status.
  • Customer - You can add multi users here.
  • Order Items - You can see the cost, quantity, and amount of the ordered items.
  • Order Actions - You can select the suitable actions.
  • Order Exports - You can export the order invoice in PDF format when clicked on the PDF Invoice button.
  • Custom Fields - You can add new custom field from here. Custom fields can be used to add extra metadata to a post that you can use in your theme.

2.6 Settings

The settings tab of the LearnPress contains sub-tabs which contains additional settings related to the courses, profiles, pages, email and many more.

2.6.1 General Settings

General Settings

  • Logout Redirect - Select the page where user will be redirected to after logging out. You can also create new page.

Currency Settings

  • Currency - Select the currency according to the need.
  • Currency Position - Select the currency position.
  • Thousands Separator - Select the appropriate thousands separator.
  • Decimals Separator - Select the appropriate decimals separator.
  • Number Of Decimals - Select the number of the decimals.
2.6.2 Courses Settings

General Settings

  • Review Course Before Publishing - The course needs to be reviewed by admin before it can be published.
  • Enable Editing Published Course - Allow instructors to edit the course which were published without review. If this option is disabled, the course status will be changed to Pending Review when the instructor update course.
  • Enable Popup Confirm Finish Course, Complete Item - Show popup confirm before finish course or complete item.

Archive Settings

  • Courses Page - Select the courses page. You can also create new page.
  • Courses Per Page - Enter the number of courses displayed per page.

Single Course Settings

  • Course Category Base - Enter the course category base.
  • Course Tag Base - Enter the course tag base.
  • Single Course Permalink - Select the permalink according the need.
  • Lesson - Enter the suitable keyword for the permalink of the lesson page.
  • Quiz - Enter the suitable keyword for the permalink of the quiz page.
  • Enrolled Students Number - Displays a fake numbers of enrolled students. Disable to show the real value.

Course thumbnails Settings

  • Archive Course - Turn on/off courses extra thumbnail.
  • Thumbnail Dimensions - Enter the thumbnail dimension. The dimensions will be in pixels
2.6.3 Profile Settings

General Settings

  • Profile Page - Select the profile page. You can also create new page.
  • Add Link To Admin Bar - Select the checkbox to add link to the Admin Bar.
  • Text Link - Enter the name of the page used for profile.
  • Target Link - Select an option to open the link either in a new window or in the same window.
  • Courses Per Page - Enter the number of courses displayed per page in the profile.
  • Enable Login Form - Enable login from profile if the user is not logged in.
  • Enable Register Form - Enable register from profile if the user is not logged in.

Sub Tab Slugs Settings

  • Dashboard - Enter the slug of the dashboard tab.
  • Courses - Enter the slug of the courses tab.
  • Quizzes - Enter the slug of the quizzes tab.
  • Orders - Enter the slug of the orders tab.
  • Order Details - Enter the slug of the order-details tab.

Settings Tab Settings

  • Slug - Enter the slug of the settings tab.
  • Basic Information - Enter the slug of the basic information tab.
  • Avatar - Enter the slug of the avatar tab.
  • Change Password - Enter the slug of the change password tab.

Avatar Settings

  • Enable Custom Avatar - To enable custom avatar select the checkbox.
  • Size - You can adjust the height and width of the avatar. The height and width should be equal.

Publicity Settings

  • My Dashboard - Public user profile content, if this option is turn off then other sections in profile also become invisible.
  • Courses - Allow user to turn on/off sharing profile courses option.
  • Quizzes - Allow user to turn on/off sharing profile quizzes option.
2.6.4 Payments Settings

General Settings

  • Checkout Page - Select the checkout page. You can also create new page.
  • Auto Enroll - Auto enroll a user after they buy a course.
  • Enable Guest Checkout - To enable user buy course as a Guest select the checkbox.
  • Enable Login In Checkout - To enable login form in checkout page select the checkbox.
  • Enable Registration In Checkout - To enable registration form in checkout page select the checkbox.
  • Terms & Conditions Page - Select the terms and condition page.

EndPoints Settings

  • Order Received - Enter unique slug in checkout page to displays order details.

Payments Settings

  • Payment Order - All available payments are listed here. Drag and drop the payments to re-order.

Paypal Settings -

  • Enable - To make payment via PayPal select the checkbox.
  • Paypal Email - Enter the email address od the Paypal.
  • Sandbox Mode - To enable sandbox select the checkbox.
  • Sandbox Email Address - Enter the sandbox email address.
2.6.5 Pages Settings

Pages Settings -

  • Become A Teacher Page - Select the become a teacher page. You can also create an new page.
  • Instructors Registration - Create option for instructors registration.
2.6.6 Emails Settings

Email options -

  • From Name - Enter the name from whom email was sent .
  • From Email - Enter the email address here.
  • Send Email In Background - Defer transaction email and runs in background.

Email template Settings

  • Default Email Content - Select the email content as Plain Text or HTML.
  • Header Image - Add an image that you want to display at the top of the email.
  • Footer Text - Enter the text that you want to display at the bottom of the email.
  • Emails - Enable to whom email sent on the new order, canceled order, completed an order and many more.

Note - You can customize the email settings for New order, Processing order, Completed order, Canceled order, Enrolled Order, Finished Order and Become An Instructor according to the need. These settings are so simple and self-explanatory.

2.6.7 Advanced Settings
  • Enable Custom Colors - Use color schema for main colors.
  • Color Schema - You can show/hide color schema.
  • Load Css - Load default stylesheet for LearnPress.
  • Debug Mode - Turn on/off debug mode for developer.

Hard cache Settings

  • Enable Hard Cache - Enable cache for static content such as content and settings of course, lesson, quiz. Advanced.

Others Settings

  • Enable Lesson Video - When this option is enabled, the first video embed in lesson content will be detected and move to the top.

Note - To get detailed knowledge of these settings Click Here

3.Online Courses Shortcodes

In these section you will learn and get information about the Shortcodes used for Learning Management System niche of MOTOCOM theme.

3.1 Online Courses Shortcode

This is a basic shortcode which comes with the theme

3.1.1 Course

This shortcode is used to display the courses.

General Settings

  • Number - Enter the number of the courses which you want to display.
  • Column - Select the number of the columns to display the courses.
  • Categories - Select the categories of the courses to be displayed.
  • Order By - You can set order by (ID, Date, Title, Random) of the courses. This setting will not work with the Top Rated and Best Selling product type.
  • Sort order - You can sort the the courses either in Ascending or Descending order.

Slider Settings

  • Slider - To display courses in a slider form select the checkbox.
  • Navigation - Using this option you can select the navigation type from the given five options (None, Arrows, Bullets, Fraction, and Progress Bar) and you will get the settings accordingly.
  • Autoplay - To enable the Autoplay option select the checkbox.
  • Autoplay Speed - You can adjust the speed of the autoplay. Speed will be in miliseconds like 1000 = 1s.
  • Loop - To enable the loop in the slider select the checkbox.
  • Active Bullet Color - You can add or change the active bullet color. You will get this setting when you select Bullets in the navoigation.
  • Inactive Bullet Color - You can add or change the inactive bullet color. You will get this setting when you select Bullets in the navoigation.

4. Widgets

The Learning Management System niche of MOTOCOM Theme includes several additional widgets.You can access all the widgets in the Widgets section of the wordPress admin.LearnPress plugin provides various types of widgets to display course info, popular courses, featured courses, etc.

Some additional widgets of the learning mangement are described below.

  • LearnPress Course Info - Display course info.
  • LearnPress Course Progress - Display course progress.
  • LearnPress Course Review - Display ratings and reviews of course.
  • LearnPress Featured Courses - Display featured courses.
  • LearnPress Popular Courses - Display popular courses.
  • LearnPress Recent Courses - Display recent courses.