There is a lot of difference :
1. It is a whole package, 1 theme and 7 inbuilt plugins, which work in tandem for the complete LMS experience.
2. Power of top plugins : BuddyPress, BBPress, WooCommerce. Each of these plugins has powerful inbuilt features and has tremendous ability to transform your site experience.
3. You get access to all supporting plugins for BuddyPress, BBPress, WooCommerce. The number is uncountable, name any feature and you can get it.
4. Vibe LMS Module : It is a combination of two plugins, which are deep integrated with BuddyPress and WooCommerce. Binding them into the LMS solution.
5. Active support: And I am not just saying for the sake of saying. We’re serious about our product and we take regular feedback and feature requests to improve it.
Lastly, worth considering we are providing you the whole website A-Z with no loose ends, not just a tool for your website.

Message to the Instructor? Is there a way? Software Training has 2 instructors, one is listed on the course page and one is actually in the course, How does a student message the instructor about a question on the course?

When you log in using the login panel in the header, it shows various important links, like courses, groups, forums. You can access the subscribed courses using it.
Also, When you view the course directory, there is a tab called “My courses” , clicking it shows the courses you’re subscribed to.

A Course can be connected to a BBPress Forum. Single units can also be connected to their own forums. At the bottom of each unit, the connected forum link is shown. So, a student can ask her queries using the connected course/unit forums.

Thank you for all the answers – 110% on the customer service and this theme is very sweet!

Hi,
Yes, you can not answer two consecutive questions within 5 seconds difference.
You can click on submit quiz button to finish the quiz at any point of time.

I would guess the 5 seconds could be changed ??

Since, all the responses for questions are saved as comments. This time limit 5s is something hard coded in the WordPress. {this can however be over rided with a hack}
We chose to use the inbuilt wordpress architecture because native WP queries are safer, faster and optimized.

wc_print_notices is a function introduced in the latest woocommerce version 2.1+.

Please upgrade WooCommerce to latest version.

The latest version of the theme has been modified to work with the latest WooCommerce version, so it will have issues with the older woocommerce versions.

hi,
1. Would require some more information on this, Is it a custom solution ? or a WP based LMS ?
2. Yes, Buddypress has lots of plugins for integrating with social media platforms. We’re making provisions to include the Facebook, twitter login buttons in the login panel in the next update.
3. There are lots of Live chat plugins available for BuddyPress, you can try them out.plugin list

Hi

1 – its WP based LMS

2 – I am not finding social login in your latest update

one more question.. Certificate looks good, but once we are printing it, its coming as plain text. Can we have some predefined certificate template and should be exactly same in printed version as in UI.

Thanks

Hi,
1. Yes. then it may be possible to import all the courses and lessons with help of some plugins or some keyword replacements.
2. We have made provisions to customize the Certificate. I am yet to write a tutorial on on this.

Hi,
Follow the below process:
1. Sign up with a genuine email id the link is in the header
2. Activate account.
3. Purchase a course using Paypal sandbox details given in the Themeforest front page.
4. Take the course, complete the course.
5. Finish the couse.

I can see the notification but I can’t update the plugin. Still Forbidden. What to do?

ok, send me an email from my profile page, with your WP Admin credentials. It will help me in resolving the issue.

Thanks, it’s done.

HI VibeThemes,

I have few more queries which will help in buying this theme and implement the same within our company.

1. For sending mails in bulk, can we use external SMTP configuration? 2. Can we create groups and then assign courses to them specific to them? 3. Can we assign X hours( from my earlier query) for each click on ‘mark complete’ button for a particular entire group? 4. What is the MIS view? 4a. I will need group wise course progress report separately( downloadable excel file with details of each user within that group- how many courses completed by each user) 4b. I will need certification report for every group separately( downloadable excel file with details of each user within that group) 5. Can we have multiple levels of a course and on each level completion assign badges and a final certificate for completing the whole course?

Hi,

You can now login as instructor in a new demo site and test it out yourself. BuddyPress has its own private messaging system and it does not rely on SMTP, an Instructor can send bulk messages to all or selected course students using the Bulk Message option in the Admin panel of the Course: refer screenshot: http://goo.gl/0xidSC

2. Yes. You can create a private group and attach to the course. Now when a student takes the courses she also gets added to the private group, similarly a private group can have a private forum which is accessible to group members only. So, its all connected to course students making it an exclusive club.

3. This is not inbuilt in the theme, but I will add a action hook in the next version which will make this possible with small code addition.

4a. To see student wise stats go to Course -> Admin -> Members screen . To see stats for each user like the units completed, quiz marks etc.. click on the stats icon besides the student. Screenshot
Course/Unit/Quiz creation at backend and All management (evaluation) from the front end.

4b.The download stats feature will be available in next to next version.

5. You can have Pre-Required courses for each course and assign the badge when the last course in your group has been finished. The course evaluation part is manual, and is done from Course -> Admin -> Submissions -> Course Submissions.

Hi,

Vibethmes thanks for you response. For me point 2 and 4 are ultra critical without which I cannot implement the LMS. My team has to share the reports to management, for which download stats is very important. Due to unavailability of point 2 we are moving out from current LMS.

Can you give me some solution for both?

thank you

I am setting up another demo to try out WPLMS as an instructor.

We have plans for adding a plugin for events, which will neatly integrate in WPLMS. If you’d like to give us some pointers, it would be really helpful you can email me at vibethemes@gmail.com

Yes I’ll post a screenshot sometime tomorrow

Yes. A WooCommerce product can be of One time purchase or Subscription type and you can connect a WooCommerce product with a single course or a bunch of courses. So, you can create two products for a course, one could be a one time purchase and the other can be of subscription type for a course.
But, only one product can be connect to a course, which means that when user clicks on “take this course” button, it will be taken to a single product.
You can use WooCommerces related products feature to show other products for the same course as well.

Hi,
1. The responsiveness fixes were fixed in version 1.1, released yesterday.
2. I am creating a separate WPLMS setup for instructor access. Just send me an email if you need access to it.
3. Currently No, but I have added this to feature requests, so it will be added in next update.
4. Yes, demo content is included.
5. Yes, we have a course category section where you can create your custom course category. refer: http://goo.gl/YbYqaj
6. That is very much possible as it is a WordPress feature, you can set your custom permalinks from WP Admin- >Settings->Permalinks. You’ll be able to use the permalink ”% course-cat %” for your course category.

Update on point 6. No, single courses slug can not be changed because BuddyPress globals are set using these slugs. The the single courses will appear as with /course/my-course

Hi there my email address is jordanboon0@gmail.com please can you send the wp dashboard login to there please.

Have you seen the Academy theme, if you would like to have a look at it please do not hesitate to om me and i can show you the dashboard, although probably pritty similar.

Hi,
I. Thanks for explaining the scenarios. Out of the 4 scenarios, we already have 3 scenarios inbuilt in the theme.
1. Open Access and Free : Inbuilt in the theme with Free Course switch in version 1.1
2. Open access and paid : For this you can make all your units free and keep your course connected to a product
3. closed access and free : WooCommerce coupons or the Admin adhoc settings panel. We have a admin panel for LMS where the admin can set/reset change any field for any user. So, not only can admin add/remove members from a course, she can change marks, grant certificates, badges etc etc.. using this panel.
4. closed access and paid : This is inbuilt in the theme.

II. Gap fill and selection boxes are already inbuilt in the theme. Sorting is a nice suggestion. Adding to feature requests.

III. There is a separate mobile menu for Mobile screens : Screenshot1 and Screenshot 2

OK, I’ll need to play with the demo a bit more

Re the mobile menu: It may of course just be a problem on my mobile devices or browser (Android, Chrome) but if the menu is too long to fit on the screen it doesn’t scroll, so half the entries are inaccessible.

And if I might be allowed to make just a couple more feature suggestions I think would be a great addition:

1. Printable course units (optional), i.e. a clean print version 2. Glossary integration 3. Quiz questions using audio or video as input (possibly a function to optionally prevent it from being paused)

Thank you!

Hi,
1. Thanks for notifying this. We’ll make the menu scrollable in next update.
2. Nice suggestion.
3. This is inbuilt. There is a multi media quiz in the demo , which you can try for this. We do have an overall quiz timer, so pause button may/may not be necessary.

Hi,
1. Yes, the course slug can be changed with little code modification.
2. Yes, you can create units that do not belong to any course. However, this unit can only be viewed by Instructors and not by students unless it has been marked as a free unit.
3. Yes.

Hi,
1. Currently, No but if I get requests from our buyers then I would be happy to add a widget like this.
2. Yes, it is built using Page Builder. The possibilities are endless, you can add Fullscreen Stripes, Full width, 1/2,2/3,1/4,3/4 blocks in pages. We have a post grid section , filterable section, custom carousel section, WordPress editor section, Layerslider section, flexslider section, parallax layers.. in the page builder. The page builder supports custom thumbnail styles, so we have a thumbnail style for course, posts etc…Shortcodes usage is minimal. Page builder supports saving custom layouts, importing/exporting layouts and if you’re comfortable with CSS it allows you to add custom CSS within each block.
3. Details of each course can be seen in the Course -> Curriculum section. Each course can have Free units which can be viewed simply by clicking in the curriculum.
4. Yes.
5. We have added custom filters to modify the display, so this can be added with little code change.

Refer this Tip for Coauthor plus.

I did it, but it did not work.

Ok!

Yes, this can be done with a little code change. You can use any popular ecommerce plugin of your choice and we’ll tell you how to configure it with WPLMS. Woocommerce is our personal preference as it is really flexible and gives you a lot of options and add on plugins like adding new payment gateways or stripe payment modes …

Hi, The feature ( present the buyer with a checkout page immediately upon clicking the Take This Course button ) has been implemented. Check out taking the course here on our test demo version. http://vibethemes.com/demo/wplms/course/software-training/

thanks

Yes, .po and .mo files are included in the bundle.