[XB] Courses: Complete Learning Management System 2.3.0 Release Candidate 1

Build structured, interactive, and monetizable online courses (LMS) directly inside your XenForo community.

This add-on provides a complete learning platform for creating classrooms, lessons, quizzes, homework, video courses, grading workflows, progress tracking, and paid or private learning experiences.

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Features:​

Course Structure & Administration​

• Category Tree: Organize courses into hierarchical categories.
• Category-Specific Permissions: Control access and management permissions independently for each category.
• Classrooms & Lessons: Build structured courses with grouped and ordered lessons.
• Sticky Classrooms: Pin selected classrooms to the top of overview and category listings temporarily or permanently, with per-user limits and configurable styling.
• Category Discussion Forums: Assign discussion forums to course categories.
• Per-Lesson Discussion Forums: Give individual lessons their own automatically created forums and display their threads directly on the lesson page.
• Approval Options: Require approval for new classrooms or lessons in selected categories.
• Custom Fields: Add custom fields to classrooms, lessons, and course ratings.
• Classroom Limits: Configure limits for lessons and lesson groups within classrooms.

Lesson Types & Content​

• Content Lessons: Create structured written lessons with BB code, attachments, and embedded media.
• Video Lessons: Build ordered playlists using YouTube, XFMG videos, embedded media, and other supported XenForo media URLs.
• Lesson Thumbnails: Upload custom thumbnails or generate them automatically from YouTube and XFMG media.
• YouTube Metadata: Automatically retrieve YouTube video titles and durations when a Google API key is configured.
• Sortable Lessons: Arrange lessons and groups in a custom learning sequence.
• Forum Lessons: Create lessons centered around dedicated XenForo forums displayed directly on the lesson page.
• View Counters: Track classroom and lesson views.

Quizzes & Assessments​

• Quiz Lessons: Create timed quizzes with passing scores, required answers, randomized questions, retry delays, and configurable question layouts.
• Quiz Question Copying: Copy selected questions between quiz lessons using inline moderation.
• Quiz XML Import & Export: Transfer questions, answers, scoring, explanations, effects, sounds, and other quiz configuration using XML.
• Quiz Question Sections: Organize questions into named sections with independent random question limits and grading weights.
• Section Score Breakdown: Display results and completion statistics separately for each quiz section.
• Answer Effects: Configure visual feedback for quiz answers with built-in and custom animations.
• Answer Sounds: Configure correct and incorrect answer sounds globally or per question.

For a dedicated standalone quiz platform, see [XB] Quizzes.

Homework & Grading​

• Homework Lessons: Collect private written submissions and attachments from students.
• Revision Workflow: Request changes, accept resubmissions, and regrade completed homework.
• Teaching Assistants: Assign graders manually or automatically from a classroom TA pool.
• Automatic TA Distribution: Assign new students to the least-loaded available grader.
• Assigned Student Access: Restrict teaching assistants to students assigned to them.
• TA Welcome Conversations: Automatically start personalized conversations between assigned teaching assistants and newly enrolled students.
• Gradebook: Review completion, quiz scores, lesson weights, weighted grades, evaluated weight, final status, and activity trends.
• TA Grade Management: Grade students from a dedicated workspace with bulk grading, homework actions, comments, and named sub-grades.
• Weighted Grades: Configure lesson weights and require a complete 100% weighting before publishing final grades.
• Quiz Grade Sources: Use a manual score, latest attempt, best attempt, or first passing attempt for weighted quiz grades.
• My Grades: Give students a dedicated view of lesson grades, sub-grades, grader comments, pending items, and final results.

Course Progress & Requirements​

• Progress Tracking: Track completion across individual lessons and entire classrooms.
• Mark as Complete: Allow students to mark lessons and classrooms as completed.
• Course Map: Navigate lesson groups, completion states, group progress, and the next available lesson from a dedicated course map.
• Section Unlocking: Unlock sections immediately, after a previous section is completed, or after a selected earlier lesson is completed.
• Lesson Requirements: Gate lessons, sections, or entire courses behind multiple configurable requirements.
• Requirement Types: Require lesson or section completion, quiz results, grades, homework review, enrollment duration, or a fixed availability date.
• All or Any Matching: Require either all configured conditions or any matching condition.
• Hidden Locked Lessons: Optionally hide inaccessible lessons instead of displaying them as locked.
• Quick Lesson Navigation: Move directly to the next lesson.
• Full Course Outline: Display grouped lessons in collapsible sections on the classroom overview.
• Course Landing Page: Present courses using a responsive landing-page layout with an optional classic layout.
• Continue Learning: Resume an incomplete classroom from the last opened lesson and display recently viewed classrooms
• Inactivity Reminders: Send an optional alert or push notification after a configurable period without lesson activity

Enrollment & Access​

• Private Classrooms: Restrict courses to invited or selected members.
• Paid Classrooms: Sell classroom access using XenForo payment providers.
• User Upgrade Access: Grant access to multiple classrooms through XenForo User Upgrades.
• Timed Access: Configure individual classroom access durations and cumulative extensions.
• Enrollment Tracking: Display enrolled and completed students for classrooms and lessons.
• Enrolled Classes: Let students monitor active and completed enrollments.

Ratings & Analytics​

• Classroom Ratings: Allow students to rate classrooms with an overall score and optional detailed feedback.
• Classroom Analytics: Review enrollment, activity, completion, ratings, purchases, and 30-day trends.
• Course Duration Tracking: Display total classroom and individual lesson duration.

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XenForo Integration:​

• Drafts: Draft support for supported course content.
• Prefixes: Prefix support for classrooms.
• Custom Fields: Custom fields for classrooms, lessons, and ratings.
• Watching: Category and classroom watching and management.
• Attachments: Attachment support for classrooms and lessons.
• Reactions: Reactions for classrooms and lessons.
• Reports: Report classrooms, lessons, and ratings.
• Warnings: Warning support for classrooms, lessons, and ratings.
• Inline Moderation: Approve, unapprove, delete, undelete, move, reassign, prefix, stick, and unstick supported content.
• Tags: Tag classrooms.
• Moderator Log: Record classroom, lesson, and rating moderation actions.
• Spam Cleaner: Spam-cleaner support for classrooms, lessons, and ratings.
• News Feed: Activity from classrooms and lessons.
• Search: Search classrooms and lessons through XenForo.
• Bookmarks: Bookmark classrooms.
• Sitemap: Include course content in the XenForo sitemap.
• Advertising Positions: Dedicated advertising locations.
• Widget Positions: Dedicated widget locations throughout the course system.
• What's New: Display course content in What's new.
• Statistics: XenForo statistics integration.
• User Search: Additional course-related user sorting options.
• User Criteria: Course-related user criteria.
• Page Criteria: Page criteria integration.
• Member Statistics: Track most classrooms created, lessons added, and lessons completed.
• Share Block: Native sharing support.
• Embed Support: Embed supported course content.
• Batch Updates: ACP batch update tools.

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Widgets:​

• Lessons Statistics
• My Active Classrooms
• Featured Content

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Useful for:​

• Educators & Trainers: Deliver structured courses with lessons, quizzes, homework, grading, and discussions.
• Students & Learners: Track progress, complete assessments, submit homework, and review grades.
• Professional Communities: Host internal training, certification programs, or professional development.
• Educational Forums: Organize learning material into categories, classrooms, sections, and lessons.
• Course Analytics: Monitor enrollment, activity, completion, ratings, and student performance.
• Selling Courses: Monetize educational content through paid classrooms and XenForo User Upgrades.

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FAQ:​

• What types of classrooms can I create?
  Classrooms can be public, private, or paid. Private classrooms are available only to users who have been granted access, while paid classrooms use configured XenForo payment providers.
• What content can I use in a lesson?
  Lessons support written content, attachments, embedded media, video playlists, quizzes, homework, and dedicated forum discussions.
• Can I control who creates and manages courses?
  Yes. XenForo permissions and category-specific permissions control who can view, create, edit, approve, moderate, and purchase content. Classroom owners can also add team members and teaching assistants.
• How is student progress tracked?
  Students can complete lessons and classrooms, while the add-on tracks lesson progress, section progress, course completion, grades, and enrollment activity.
• Can students rate a classroom before completing it?
  Administrators can choose whether classroom completion is required before a rating can be submitted.
• Can lessons have discussion threads or forums?
  Yes. Lessons can use discussion threads or dedicated forums, allowing students and teachers to continue discussions using XenForo's forum tools.
• Can lessons include quizzes?
  Yes. Quiz lessons support questions, attempts, passing requirements, randomized selections, sections, grading, effects, sounds, and completion records. For a dedicated quiz platform, see [XB] Quizzes.
• Can I organize lessons into a specific order?
  Yes. Lessons can be grouped into sections and arranged in a custom sequence with requirements controlling when later content becomes available.
• Can students submit homework?
  Yes. Homework lessons support private text and attachment submissions, revisions, assigned graders, grading, regrading, comments, and sub-grades.
• Can I sell access to courses?
  Yes. Classrooms can be sold directly through XenForo payment providers or unlocked through XenForo User Upgrades.

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• [XB] Content Badges: Highlights valuable content with badges
• [XB] Scheduled Content: Schedules content publishing, including timed and recurring releases
• [XB] Auto Deleted Content: Automatically removes outdated or unwanted content
• [XB] Paid Content Featuring: Allows users to feature their content through paid placement
• [XB] Reported Content Quick Actions: Adds quick moderation actions to reported content
• [XB] Prefix Icon: Adds icons to prefixes for easier visual identification
• [XB] Content Title Control: Enforces title formatting and validation rules
• [XB] Custom Field Sorting: Enables sorting content by custom fields
• [XB] Prefix Sorting: Allows custom sorting of prefixes
• [XB] React as User: React on behalf of another user
• [XB] Reaction Control: Controls and restricts reaction usage
• [XB] Hide Reactions: Allows hiding and anonymizing reactions

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See More Add-ons Like This:​

• User Engagement Collection
• Forum Monetization Collection

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Screenshots:​

Course Discovery & Profiles​

Classroom Experience​

Lessons & Learning Flow​

Enrollment, Access & Teaching Teams​

Gradebook & Assessment​

Administration & Configuration​

Permissions​