Learning Goals For LearnDash add-on allows students to set their own weekly study goals. Every minute learners spend watching lessons and topic videos on LearnDash courses are tracked and count towards their weekly goal.
Installation #
- Install and activate the LearnDash plugin.
- Install and activate the Learning Goals For LearnDash Add-on.
- A New Goals menu will be added to the LearnDash menu.
License Option #
You can configure your add-on’s license key from the license tab. Enter a valid license key in the corresponding field to receive automatic updates for this product.
Goal Settings #
Enable Goal Video Progression on Courses, Lessons or Topics #
Navigate to the settings of any specific LearnDash course, lesson, or topic. There you will see following two options and only one can be enabled at a time.
- LearnDash Goals Reading and Video Progression
Enabling this toggle will include both, reading and video watch time in the LearnDash Goals. - LearnDash Goals Video Progression
Enabling this toggle will include only the video watch time. This works only when you place your videos in the LearnDash Goals shortcodes.
General Settings #
User Progress Circle Color #
Select the color you want the progress circle to be on the front end.
Backend
Frontend
Time Lapse in hours #
Enabling this checkbox will add hours instead of minutes in lapse.
Backend
Frontend
Set Goal Options #
Select the time goals (in minutes or in hours), you want to offer your students to count their progress.
Backend
Frontend
Global Goal Time Tracking #
By enabling this checkbox, you can enable and track all courses, lessons and topics reading progression.
When Global Goal Time Tracking is enabled then within the settings of courses, lessons and topics, the toggles related to Learning Goals For LearnDash will be not usable.
Encouragement Notes #
You can customize various messages as encouragement notes that are displayed on the frontend with the progress circle.
Default message
This message will be displayed if the user hasn’t set up any goals yet.
Backend
Frontend
Get started note #
This message will be displayed if the user just started or resets/edits his/her goal.
Backend
Frontend
Resume progress note #
This message will be displayed if the user has already started his goal but has not achieved his/her goal yet.
Backend
Frontend
Congratulations note #
This message will be displayed if the user has achieved his/her goal.
Backend
Frontend
Email Templates #
From this tab, you can customize the email templates which will be sent to the students in the following scenarios:
- Get Started Email
This email will be sent to the user when the user just starts or resets/edits his/her goal from the frontend.
- Congratulations Email
This email will be sent to the user when the user achieves his/her goal.
Customisable Options:
From Name: If not provided, It will use the default system email name.
From Email: If not provided, It will use the admin’s email.
Subject
Message: HTML is supported if you enable the “Allow HTML” option below.
Shortcodes #
This tab displays the relevant information about the available shortcodes this add-on has to offer.
Available Shortcodes
[ld_goals_user_weekly_goal]
This shortcode displays the user’s weekly progress on any page or post from where he/she can start, edit or remove his/her weekly goals.
[ld_goals_video url=" insert valid URL here" video_type="specify video location here"]Goals Video[/ld_goals_video]
[ld_goals_video url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMzIvxBSi4&ab_channel=BenMarquezTX" video_type="youtube"]Goals Video[/ld_goals_video]
This shortcode displays the goal settings video on any page or post. The time for the weekly goal will be recorded when the above-embedded video will be played.
Available Parameters and accepted values:
- url=”Valid Video Url”
- video_type = “vimeo”, “youtube”, “local”, “bunny_cdn_hls”
You can also insert video lessons by clicking on the “Goal Setting Video” button that appears on a lesson’s edit page when using the Classic Editor.
This button enables you to directly enter the video name, video URL, select the video type into corresponding fields to automatically generate the shortcode and insert it on the lesson’s page.
LearnDash Goals Widget #
The LearnDash Goals Widget allows you to display the user’s weekly progress on any page or post. Using the widget, students can start, edit or delete their study goals.
To add the LearnDash Goals Widget, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Appearance from the WordPress admin Dashboard.
- Drag the LearnDash Goals widget from the Available Widgets, and drag and drop it to the desired location.
- Enter a title for the widget area.
- Click Save and Done.
How can students set or edit their weekly goal? #
- Navigate to the page or post where the [ld_goals_user_weekly_goal] shortcode or the LearnDash Goals widget is displayed.
Shortcode
Widget
- Click on the ”Set your goal” or “Edit Goal” button to set, edit or remove the weekly goals.
- The following popup will be displayed from which the user can edit the weekly goals.
- Click anywhere on the number line to set the time lap for your weekly goal.
- Click on the “Set goal” button to confirm the configured time lap.
- Click on the “Remove goal” button if you want to remove the previously set time lap.
Here’s a video showing the goal setting process #
Here’s what the process will look like when deleting a goal #
FAQ’s #
How is the time spent watching video lessons recorded?
Time can be recorded when you embed a lesson’s video with the following shortcode.
[ld_goals_video url=” insert valid URL here” video_type=“specify video location here”]Goals Video[/ld_goals_video]
Can the same video be used in multiple courses at the same site?
Yes, you can embed the video’s URL using the add-on’s shortcode on any page or post you want.
Should the time options available for goal setting be configured in hours or minutes?
The time goal options should be configured in minutes.
What video sources are supported by this add-on?
The add-on supports videos from YouTube and Vimeo and videos uploaded locally on your website.
How can I select the week for which the weekly activity towards the goal is recorded?
The add-on automatically selects the current week from the Gregorian calendar and marks the activity for that week.
Why are emails sent with the site’s default name after I’ve configured a name in the “From Name” field on the email template?
Please make sure that the plugin you are using to configure your mail’s SMTP on the site doesn’t have the “force from name” option enabled and configured.
Changelogs #
1.0.7
- New: Added an option to set time lapse in hours.
1.0.6
- New: Added global reading progression goals option to start time tracking on all courses, lessons and topics.
1.0.5
- New: Added course, lesson and topic reading progression goals option.
- Fix: UI/UX fixes for Learning Goals For LearnDash Progress.
1.0.4
- New: Added support for HLS video format.
- Fix: Warnings on the LearnDash goal widget.
- Fix: Made add-on compatible with the latest version of PHP, WordPress, and LearnDash.
1.0.3
- Fix: License API issues.
- Fix: Rating notice visibility issues.
- Fix: Made add-on compatible with the latest version of PHP, WordPress, and LearnDash.
1.0.2
- New: Multilanguage support added.
- Fix: Made add-on compatible with the latest version of PHP, WordPress, and LearnDash.
1.0.1
- New: UI/UX changed for Learning Goals For LearnDash Progress.
- New: Now LearnDash goals can be added a widget.
- New: Buddyboss compatible style is added for shortcode/widgets.
- Fix: [ld_goals_user_goal_progress] shortcode is removed and merged into [ld_goals_user_weekly_goal] shortcode.
- Fix: Minor code fixes.
- Fix: Compatibility issues with latest WordPress and LearnDash version.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
