Overview
Learning Mode is Sensei’s approach to providing a distraction-free experience to students and allowing course creators to choose a modern layout for their courses. Sensei LMS, together with Sensei Pro, includes four different layouts to choose from. Moreover, course creators can customize each layout or build their own from scratch.
WordPress’ Site Editor allows designing the whole site using blocks, not just the post content. Learning Mode builds upon the Site Editor to allow course creators to leverage its advantages without requiring a block theme to be installed. Site editing features are available for lessons only without affecting the rest of the site.
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how you can customize the Learning Mode templates, what Sensei already provides for you, and even how you can create your own templates.
How to Enable Learning Mode
There are two ways to enable Learning Mode, enable it on a per-course basis, or you can enable it for all courses. Learning Mode is enabled by default for all courses on new Sensei installations.
Per-course
To enable it for a single course, simply visit the course. In the Settings Sidebar to the right, select the ‘Course’ settings and open the ‘Learning Mode’ panel. You can preview how the lessons will look by clicking ‘Preview’. To enable Learning Mode, click the toggle and then ‘Update’. This will update the layout for all the course’s lessons. The course layout will be unaffected.
Site-wide
Alternatively, you can enable Learning Mode for all courses by visiting Sensei LMS > Settings > Appearance tab > Appearance section, Learning Mode checkbox “Enable for all courses”.
Note that when you enable it for all courses, it will be enabled regardless of what you selected for a specific course, but if you uncheck the setting, it will work based on the course settings.
You can also choose which Learning Mode layout to use in the Appearance tab. Clicking on ‘Preview’ will bring up a pop-up with a detailed layout image. Sensei LMS Free includes only one layout, with more options available in Sensei Pro.
Customizing Learning Mode
You can change the way your course content displays by customizing Learning Mode templates.