Lessonly Reviews in May 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Easy to use

What do you like best? It provides all that I need to publish my courses in a professional way. Also, the support given is great. What do you dislike? So far there is nothing I dislike. I would recommend more type of quizzes. Recommendations to others considering the product I can only recommend Learndash based on my experience. If you are an independent teacher, with few financial resources and still would like to produce a great looking course, then this LMS is for you. What business ...

Great Foundation for a In House LMS

What do you like best? Easy installation, amazing support, and great feature updates that happen on a regular base. LearnDash isn't only in the plugin business, but as an organization, they care about online learning, and that shows in their product roadmap, which is an amalgamation of user input and industry trends. What do you dislike? Lack of learning pathways. Right now, in order to achieve that functionality, I have to make 1 course with many modules/lessons. This messes up reporting ...

Perfect for those new to E-learning

What do you like best? Very simple structure and straightforward to use. Their support is excellent and they offer video tutorials which I would say are a MUST if you are new to LearnDash. They respect your time and get you on your way knowing what you are doing. What do you dislike? Many features are through partnerships with third party addons that you have to pay extra for. Considering the price, I don't mind paying for things like a visual customizer but I wish more was offered ...

Very feature rich and well developed Learning Management System

What do you like best? Out-of-the box this ships with more features than any other similar system, specifically advanced quiz types with question types for most situations; certificates, automatic grading. Reporting can be enhanced via their compatible ProPanel plug-in. Support response within 24 hours and then happy to respond when requesting status updates for bug fixes; friendly support team. What do you dislike? Group Leaders do not have user role management capabilities and group ...

A Great LMS Plugin

What do you like best? The thing I liked the best about LearnDash was the functionalities that the program has. What do you dislike? It was a little difficult setting up and getting Forums working. Recommendations to others considering the product Do you know a lot about WordPress? You may need to brush up a bit. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Creating an LMS that has user-generated reports with statistics. The reporting was ...

Works well

What do you like best? The organization system of LearnDash (course, lesson, topic is pretty straightforward and easy to learn. For most people looking to create an online course, this is a great option. What do you dislike? It has some quirks and bugs, and once you've made a few dozen courses, the static organization structure starts to feel a little cookie-cutter and repetitive. It would be nice to have more customizability. What business problems are you solving with the product? What ...

LearnDash does exactly what I need it to do, and more

What do you like best? What do I like best? The team - they are in-tune with the LMS landscape and are constantly improving already great software. I've set up lots of courses on it, and I love the ability to make them modular, help guide my students through the course, and much more. Their widgets and shortcodes have been a life-saver as far as adding course information to custom areas of my website. What do you dislike? I would like better reporting - I use ProPanel and that's ...

Not user friendly, very confusing

What do you like best? has a lot of features but you have to be familiar with wordpress and web master to manage it. What do you dislike? Not user friendly. you have to be familiar with wordpress and web master to manage it. A regular user can't use this system at all. Recommendations to others considering the product it is difficult top use, very complex admin. I recommend not using this and try to find another solution. What business problems are you solving with the product? What ...

Ease to use and flexible

What do you like best? Learn Dash is not a walled garden, you can change and customize it according to the specific needs of each client (front and backend, plus the Wordpress community is huge, so you can find an easy solution to almost every need, something you can't dream on doing using a proprietary LMS. What do you dislike? I only miss SCORM support, but SCORM is a legacy standard, so is not a deal breaker Recommendations to others considering the product Get a solid hosting partner ...

LearnDash made launching a course easy

What do you like best? One of the best things about LearnDash is how easy it is to start adding in your content. Yet it has all the options nicely laid out to configure the course just the way I wanted! Their support was also top notch to give help on their core features and direction on any customizations I wanted to add in. What do you dislike? Because I'm in Canada, I wasn't able to use the LearnDash payment integrations (PayPal or Stripe due to our tax requirements. But thankfully ...