It will be great to have a better teacher on boarding on Sensei. Teachers are not expected to go through the same onboarding like students. But having them on the site is necessary, to be able to add them as co-teachers or even provide them with the ability to create courses. Are there any plans to improve the way teachers are managed on Sensei LMS?

Also, Sensei has a clear structure: Course->Modules->Lessons. It gets sometime messy, when you have many courses. Are there any plans to make the management of courses, modules and lessons more cleaner and intuitive?

Thank you for all the great work in 2022. Looking forward to 2023:-)

Really appreciate the extra context and ideas here, Andrew!

Thanks, Stuart! For the WC Paid Courses, if you reach out to our support team, we can help get you access to the version that doesn’t require WooCommerce, if you’d like 🙂

Some context. The courses I am looking to create will take a person through the knowledge they need to gain to be able to undertake certification in a software product. But it goes beyond this. You have people just starting out on their learning journey, and others who have been using the software for 20 years or more. An experienced software consultant may have no experience in some parts of the software product, they may be a beginner in the context of a lesson or even the majority of a course. Other times the experienced may not have touched a subject area for many years, and the course needs to act as a refresher. So I need to pitch content for beginner, intermediate and experienced, where a pupil who started out as a beginner can return at a later date and undertake the intermediate or experienced levels.

Schools -> Teachers -> Student relationship, built within Sensei that doesn’t require the installation of other, massive, plugins would be invaluable.

Also, as a lifetime owner of WC Paid courses, I would love to be able to not have WooCommerce installed on every Sensei enabled site. This is available via the standalone plugin on the Sensei website, but as a previous WC Paid Courses owner I don’t have access to that download, for whatever reason!

Appreciate the comment and feedback. It is true, certificates have been neglected a bit while we focused on other areas. The good news is most or all of what you mention should be much better in the first half of 2023.

I sincerely hope that “improved certificates” means somebody on your team will actually be actively developing that plugin. As it stands now, Sensei certificates currently has 20 security related pull requests that have gone unpatched in 2022. It also generates a tremendous amount of unneeded bulk on a database, because it generates data for courses that don’t have a certificate assigned to them. To make matters worse, there is no support for adding extra fields to the certificate.

The lack of support for Sensei Certificates has been an issue for the 5 years I’ve used Sensei, and it has overwhelmingly been the primary reason I’ve steered my other clients away from Sensei.

Thanks for these improvements and the opportunity of share our opinion.

In my point of view, will be very interesting a certificate that could include the hours of the course and the subjects in the reverse.

I don’t know if it is already possible to include the hours in the certificate, but I have not get it.

Regards