Release Archives - Sensei LMS

Sensei Content Drip 2.0.1

Sensei Content Drip 2.0.1 has been released and includes the following changes:

The verbiage used in the email that is sent when a new lesson(s) is available has been updated. Lessons will now be “available” instead of being referred to as “dripping”.
If multiple lessons become available, the email will now list those lessons in the proper order.
Comments on a lesson will no longer be visible until the lesson becomes available.

To install this update on your site, head on over to Dashboard → Updates now!

WooCommerce Paid Courses 1.2.3

We’ve deployed a patch release for WooCommerce Paid Courses that resolves the following issues:

We fixed an error that could occur for subscriptions that contained deleted products.
We fixed a conflict with the WooCommerce Blocks plugin that caused the Sensei LMS icon to not be displayed for courses in the WordPress dashboard.

Course Progress 2.0.1 and WooCommerce Paid Courses 1.2.2

We’ve just deployed new releases for the Course Progress and WooCommerce Paid Courses extensions.

Course Progress

Here’s what’s new in Course Progress 2.0.1:

WooCommerce Paid Courses

Here’s what’s new in WooCommerce Paid Courses 1.2.2:

We’ve fixed the possibility of a “technical difficulties” error appearing on the Courses page of some sites.

Please note: While we have thoroughly tested these releases, it’s always possible that we’ve missed something. We recommend that you test the update on a staging site before updating your live site.

WC Paid Courses 1.2.1

We’ve deployed a patch release to fix a couple of issues that were reported when courses are sold using product bundles:

We fixed an error that was displayed on the My Courses page when a student was taking a course that was sold using a product bundle.
We fixed the single course page sometimes displaying partial content when the course was sold using a product bundle.

If you use Product Bundles with Sensei LMS, we recommend that you update to Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses 2.2.1.1.2.1.

Closing Gaps in the WC Memberships Integration

We’ve just released Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses 2.2.1.1.2.0, which focuses on closing some gaps in the WooCommerce Memberships integration.

(As a reminder, Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses is a bundle of Sensei LMS and WooCommerce Paid Courses.)

Skip to “What’s new in Sensei LMS”.

What’s New in WooCommerce Paid Courses

We have to admit that Sensei LMS’s integration with WooCommerce Memberships has not gotten the attention it deserves. The integration is somewhat shallow, and there are gaps in functionality that need to be addressed.

We’re going to change that, starting today.

We’ve begun by focusing on achieving feature parity between course memberships and products attached directly to a course. In particular, courses that are part of a membership are now included in:

The purchase confirmation notice that a user sees after purchasing a course.
The order confirmation email that is sent to a user after purchasing a course.
The Course Component widget.
The Paid and Free filters on the course archive page.

You can learn more about the other membership improvements we’ve made in this release by reading the beta release post or visiting the change log.

The next release of WooCommerce Paid Courses will focus on deepening the integration with WooCommerce Memberships, enabling you to take better advantage of existing memberships functionality.

Would you like to be a beta tester for WooCommerce Paid Courses and get the new release ahead of everyone else? If you’re interested, and you have a valid license, please fill out the beta tester signup form using the same email address you used to purchase your license.

What’s New in Sensei LMS

Here are the highlights of the Sensei LMS 2.2.1 release:

You can now add HTML to question titles.
Loading the Courses page is faster.
We’ve fixed an issue that could cause formatting issues on some themes. If your existing theme didn’t look quite right on Sensei LMS pages, we’d encourage you to give it another try with Sensei LMS 2.2.1.

You can learn what else is included in this release by reading the beta release post or visiting the change log.

Update Now

Head over to Dashboard → Updates to update your versions of Sensei LMS and Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses from within WordPress now!

Please note: While we have thoroughly tested this release, it’s always possible that we’ve missed something. We recommend that you test the update on a staging site before updating your live site.

Sell Online Courses Any Way You Choose

We’ve just released new versions of Sensei LMS and Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses.

(As a reminder, Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses is a bundle of Sensei LMS and WooCommerce Paid Courses.)

Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses

We heard from the community that being able to attach only a single WooCommerce product to a course limits the ways in which you are able to sell your courses.

That’s why we’ve added the ability to attach multiple WooCommerce products to a course.

Here’s how it works.

Sensei LMS Sidebar

For sites running WordPress 5.0+ and WooCommerce 3.6+, a Sensei LMS icon appears in the top right of the screen when adding or editing a course. Clicking the icon opens the sidebar. From here, you can select one or more products to attach to the course:

Products Metabox

Sites running older versions of WordPress or WooCommerce, or that have the Classic Editor plugin activated, will be able to select multiple products from the Products metabox:

Course Archive

On the course archive page, the products and their pricing details are displayed:

Single Course

On the single course page, product cards are displayed to highlight the available purchase options:

If a course is only attached to one product, then a single purchase button is displayed.

You can find out more about this release by reading the beta release post or by visiting the change log.

Sensei LMS

To learn about what’s in the Sensei LMS 2.2 release, please see the beta release post.

Head over to Dashboard → Updates to update from within WordPress now!

Small Patch Releases for Sensei LMS & Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses

We’ve just deployed a new patch release of Sensei LMS and Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses to fix an issue with not all modules displaying in the WordPress dashboard. We also fixed a separate issue with multiple correct answers not showing in the question editor of a lesson.

As always, you can see what else is in this release.

Head over to Dashboard → Updates to update from within WordPress.

Sensei LMS 2.1.1 & WooCommerce Paid Courses 1.0.2

We’ve just released new versions of Sensei LMS and Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses that address a few issues found in the last release.

The official minimum supported WordPress version has also been bumped to 4.9, although technically speaking both plugins should continue to function on older versions for now.

What’s in this Release?

We fixed an error that occurred when adding a shortcode using the shortcode block.
We fixed an error that occurred on sites running a version of WordPress older than 5.0.
The minimum supported WordPress version is now 4.9.

See what else is in this release.

Head over to Dashboard → Updates to update from within WordPress.

Sensei LMS 2.1.0 & WooCommerce Paid Courses 1.0.1

We’ve just released new versions of Sensei LMS and WooCommerce Paid Courses. This means Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses also gets an update, since it’s a bundle of Sensei LMS + WooCommerce Paid Courses.

What’s in this Release?

This is a smallish release on the heels of the 2.0 update.

We’ve added an Edit Course button to the Edit Lesson page to make it easier to navigate between the lesson and course:

For sites with a large number of learners, we’ve made some performance optimizations to the Analysis page that should improve page load time.

We added event logging to the WordPress dashboard. You should have already received an email about this if you are subscribed to the WooCommerce.com mailing list.

You can read more about what else is in this release here and here. Then, head over to Dashboard → Updates to update from within WordPress.

What’s Next?

For the next release of WooCommerce Paid Courses, we will be adding the ability to attach a course to more than one product. This will enable you to sell the same course in multiple ways, such as a standalone product and also as part of a subscription. Some prototypes and discussion of this feature can be found in this blog post.

Sensei is Now Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses

We’ve just released a new version of Sensei that changes the name of the plugin to Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses.

You may see a strange version number (2.0.1.1.0.0) when prompted to update. This is due to the fact that Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses is a bundle of the free version of Sensei LMS that exists on WordPress.org, and the WooCommerce Paid Courses extension that enables selling courses with WooCommerce.

After updating, you will see Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses listed on the Plugins page:

If you currently have a valid Sensei license for your site, nothing changes with the release of Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses. Your existing plugin will continue to function as before, and you’ll still receive updates and support.

You can read more about why we made this change here.

What’s in this Release?

Here are the highlights of the release:

The new minimum required version of PHP is 5.6. If you’re not sure which version of PHP your site is running, you may find the How to Check Your WordPress Site’s PHP Version section of this article helpful. You can also read more about updating PHP on WordPress.org.
The new minimum required version of WooCommerce is 3.0.
The Access Permissions setting now controls only lesson content, not lesson and course content. Always displaying the content on the single course page is an opportunity to further promote a course and encourage user enrolment.
When Sensei is first activated, a pop-up appears asking you to join our mailing list. This pop-up will only appear on sites that have never had Sensei installed before.
We added a new Sensei LMS extensions page available from the Sensei LMS > Extensions menu.

You can read more about what else is in this release, including template file changes and deprecations, here and here.

Head over to Dashboard → Updates to update Sensei from within WordPress.