About this plugin
AccessNow LMS turns WordPress into a small, practical learning platform. You build a course from units and lessons, add a quiz to any lesson, and students work through it at their own pace while the plugin keeps track of where they are up to.
It is designed to stay simple to run: no page builder, no extra services, and everything is stored in your own WordPress database. Course pages, lessons and quizzes use tidy addresses such as /courses/your-course/unit-1/first-lesson/.
Features
- Courses made of units, lessons and quizzes, with drag-and-drop unit ordering.
- Text or YouTube video lessons, downloadable attachments, and private notes for each student.
- Quizzes with multiple choice, true/false and fill-in-the-blank questions, a pass mark, retry limits, an optional time limit, randomised order, and explanations with the correct answers when you choose.
- Header images for courses, units and lessons, shown as a banner, a compact strip or not at all. Lessons use their unit’s or course’s unless they have their own.
- Sequential or free progression, a progress bar, and optional re-completion when a lesson or quiz changes.
- Self-enrolment, admin-assigned enrolment or both, with log-in and registration right on the course page.
- Certificates with a shareable link, points and badges, and a student dashboard.
- Enrolment management with a student search, course and student reports with CSV export, email notifications, course export/import (.zip) and one-click course cloning.
Blocks and shortcodes
Add the Course Catalogue, My Courses and Student Dashboard blocks in the block editor (search for “LMS”), or use the shortcodes:
- [accessnow_slms_course_catalog]: the course catalogue. Optional per_page="12" and lang="ja".
- [accessnow_slms_my_courses]: the logged-in student’s courses with progress.
- [accessnow_slms_student_dashboard]: courses, certificates, points, badges and recent quiz results.
The older [slms_course_catalog], [slms_my_courses] and [slms_student_dashboard] shortcodes still work.
Languages
Each course can be marked English or Japanese. org when the site has it installed, and the catalogue can be filtered by language.
Developers
AccessNow LMS has actions and filters for payments, drip content, prerequisites, CRM sync and custom emails. php. All IDs are integers.
Actions
- accessnow_slms_enrolled( $user_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id, $enrolled_by ): a new enrolment. $enrolled_by is 0 for self-enrolment, or the administrator’s user ID.
- accessnow_slms_unenrolled( $user_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id, $dropped_by, $old_status ): an enrolment was dropped.
- accessnow_slms_lesson_completed( $user_id, $lesson_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id ): a lesson became complete, including a lesson redone after a content change.
- accessnow_slms_quiz_submitted( $user_id, $quiz_id, $result, $attempt_number, $enrollment_id, $course_id ): a quiz attempt was stored. $result has score, total, percentage, passed, results and timed_out.
- accessnow_slms_course_completed( $user_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id, $first_completion, $certificate ): a course was completed. $first_completion is false when an enrolment reopened by a course change is completed again.
- accessnow_slms_certificate_issued( $certificate, $user_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id ): a certificate was issued.
- accessnow_slms_enrollment_reopened( $user_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id ): a completed enrolment went back to active because a lesson was added or changed.
Filters
- accessnow_slms_can_enroll( $allowed, $user_id, $course_id ): return false or a WP_Error (its message is shown to the student) to stop self-enrolment, for example until the course is paid for. Administrator enrolments are not filtered.
- accessnow_slms_can_access_lesson( $can_access, $user_id, $lesson_id, $course_id, $enrollment_id ): lock or unlock a lesson, for example for drip content.
- accessnow_slms_grade_result( $result, $quiz_id, $answers ): change a quiz result before it is stored.
- accessnow_slms_show_answers( $show, $quiz_id, $passed, $can_retry ): whether a quiz result shows the correct answers and explanations.
- accessnow_slms_page_header( $header, $post_id ): the header at the top of a course, lesson or quiz page. $header has image_id (0 for none) and style ( banner, compact or none ).
- accessnow_slms_catalogue_languages( $codes ): the languages the catalogue’s filter offers; the filter shows when there are two or more. Defaults to the languages of published courses.
- accessnow_slms_points( $points, $action, $user_id, $reference_id, $enrollment_id ): change the points for lesson_complete, quiz_pass or course_complete. Return 0 to award none.
- accessnow_slms_email_{type}( $email, $context ): change or cancel an email. Types: enrollment, completion, quiz_result, admin_enrollment. $email has to, subject, message and headers. Return false to not send it.
Styling
The plugin’s colours are CSS custom properties, so a theme can match them without overriding rules. Set any of these (each falls back to the plugin’s own colour): --slms-accent, --slms-accent-hover, --slms-on-accent (buttons and active tabs), --slms-link, --slms-success, --slms-progress, --slms-track, --slms-surface, --slms-surface-alt, --slms-border, --slms-text, --slms-text-muted, --slms-option-hover, --slms-option-selected. For example: body { --slms-accent: var(--wp--preset--color--accent); }.
Example: only let customers enrol.
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This plugin does not send data anywhere by itself. If you add a YouTube address to a lesson or quiz question, WordPress uses its built-in oEmbed feature to show the video: your site asks YouTube for the embed code, and the visitor’s browser then loads the video player from YouTube. This only happens on lessons and questions that have a YouTube address.
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