CourseGlade Start with the full foundation
Build, sell, and manage courses with a genuinely useful free core—not a trial that forces an upgrade.
The WordPress LMS for growing academies
Build and grow your online academy with WordPress
Launch courses, manage instructors, collect payments, and grow your student community from one WordPress LMS — with no per-student fees and no cut of your sales.
- Works with any theme
- Unlimited students
- 0% revenue share
yoursite.com/wp-admin — CourseGlade
Why CourseGlade
The LMS your academy can grow into
Start with a complete foundation, solve today’s operational problems, and add the tools you need as your academy becomes more ambitious.
Stop running instructors in spreadsheets
Manage commissions, earnings, withdrawals, and student activity from one academy workflow.
Keep more of what you earn
Use your own gateway account, keep your student data, and pay no CourseGlade share on sales.
Scale without starting over
Add certificates, subscriptions, reports, AI Studio, and live classes as your academy grows.
What's included
A whole LMS, not a starter kit
Payments, instructors, assessment, and the student experience are all part of the core plugin — not a checklist of addons to assemble.
Multi-instructor with payouts
Revenue share per course, an earnings ledger, and a withdrawal approval queue.
Four payment gateways
Stripe, WooCommerce, Manual payment, and zero-price enrolment, with coupons and discounts built in.
Reviews, discussions, wishlist
Course conversation and social proof without three extra plugins to configure.
Course builder with drag-and-drop curriculum
Sections, lessons, video, and quizzes in one screen, with free preview lessons and drag-to-reorder.
Quiz builder with eight question types
Passing grade, time limit, attempt limits, randomised order, and instructor grading for written answers.
Reports without an analytics addon
Revenue and enrolment over time, completion rate, and which courses actually carry the catalogue.
Any theme, any block
Frontend templates ship with the plugin and override cleanly from your theme folder. Shortcodes for every page.
[courseglade_course_grid][courseglade_dashboard][courseglade_checkout][courseglade_quiz][courseglade_auth] Build
Build and organize courses with a flexible curriculum
Create structured courses with sections, lessons, assessments, pricing, access rules, and instructor assignments—all from one course-building workflow.
Drag the structure into shape
Add a section, drop lessons inside, reorder either level by dragging. Attach a quiz anywhere in the flow.
- Video, text, and audio as lesson types
- Free preview lessons so buyers can sample first
- Drag to reorder sections and lessons in seconds
Assessment you can actually trust
Set the passing grade, the time limit, and how many attempts a student gets. Randomise question order per student and choose whether results show immediately.
- Per-quiz settings, not one global rule
- Lock after failure when a retake needs approval
- Grading queue for short answer and essay
Assessment
Create flexible assessments with eight question types
Six auto-grade the moment a student submits. Two land in an instructor queue, because writing needs a reader.
#Question typeGradingPlan
01 Multiple choice Automatic Core
02 Single choice Automatic Core
03 True / false Automatic Core
04 Fill in the blank Automatic Core
05 Matching Automatic Core
06 Ordering Automatic Core
07 Short answer Instructor Core
08 Essay Instructor Core
Sell
Take the money, keep the money
Payments run through your own gateway account. CourseGlade records the order, splits instructor commission, and never touches the funds.
Price it however the course sells best
One-time price, sale price with an end date, coupon codes, or free enrolment with no gateway involved at all.
- Stripe and WooCommerce for cards and existing stores
- Manual payment for invoices and bank transfer
- Coupons and discounts for launches and cohorts
Instructors get paid without a spreadsheet
Invite instructors, set each one's revenue share per course, and approve withdrawal requests from a single queue. Every sale is attributed automatically.
- Revenue share per course for each instructor
- Earnings ledger by course and by order
- Withdrawal queue with running balances
For students
The side your learners actually see
Catalogue, course page, checkout, and dashboard all ship with the plugin — searchable, filterable, and styled to your theme.
A catalogue that behaves like a real school
Students search the catalogue, sort by newest or title, and page through the whole library — with no extra search plugin. Course cards carry the details that help buyers choose.
- Built-in search and sorting — newest, oldest, or A–Z
- Course cards with price, rating, difficulty, instructor, and enrolment count
- Wishlist for courses they're not ready to buy
A course page that sells the course
The full curriculum, the instructor, ratings, and price on one page — with free preview lessons so buyers can sample before they enrol.
- Full curriculum with free preview lessons
- Instructor card with course rating
- Student reviews and ratings on the page
Checkout that just works
Cards and wallets through Stripe, your existing WooCommerce store, manual payment, or one-click free enrolment — with coupons applied at checkout.
- Card and wallet payments via Stripe
- Coupon codes applied at checkout
- Free enrolment in a single click
One dashboard for the whole journey
Enrolled courses, progress, orders, and wishlist in one place — and certificates and grades when Pro is on.
- Enrolled courses with progress
- Order history and wishlist
- Certificates and grades (Pro)
Accounts & email
Sign-ups and notifications, without a membership plugin
Students register, verify, and reset passwords on your site. Every enrolment, order, and completion sends the email it should.
Student and instructor accounts
Registration, login, password reset, and email verification all run through plugin templates on your own domain.
- Registration and login pagesShortcodes you drop on any page, styled by your theme.
- Email verification gateHold course access until a new account confirms its address.
- Forgot and reset passwordSelf-service recovery, so password emails never reach your inbox.
- Become an instructorA front-end application form, so teachers can join without an admin creating accounts by hand.
- Roles assigned on enrolmentStudents get the right capabilities the moment they enrol.
Transactional email built in
Enrolment, order, course, and instructor emails send automatically from a shared template — no email addon to buy first.
- Enrolment emailsWelcome and access details the moment someone joins a course.
- Order emailsReceipts and payment confirmations for every gateway.
- Course and completion emailsTriggered when a student finishes a course.
- Instructor emailsNew enrolment, and application received, approved, or rejected.
- Your sender identitySet the from name and address, or switch notifications off entirely.
Compare
How CourseGlade compares
The columns describe common tier structures rather than any single named product. Check current pricing before you decide.
| Capability | CourseGlade core | Typical LMS plugin | Hosted platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited students | Yes | Yes | Per-seat pricing |
| Quiz question types | 8 | 2–4 | 3–5 |
| Multi-instructor commissions | Included | Paid addon | Higher tier |
| Withdrawal approval queue | Included | Paid addon | Not available |
| Payment gateways included | 4 | 1 | 1, theirs |
| Coupons and discounts | Included | Paid addon | Yes |
| Reviews, discussions, wishlist | Included | Partial | Partial |
| Revenue share on your sales | 0% | 0% | 2–10% |
| You own the student data | Yes | Yes | Export only |
| Certificates with verification | Pro addon | Paid addon | Higher tier |
| Assignments with grading | Pro addon | Paid addon | Higher tier |
| Leaderboard | Pro addon | Not available | Not available |
Everything in Pro
Take your academy further with Pro
Pro includes 15 toggleable addons plus two core Pro features: AI Studio and Import & Export. Enable only the tools you need as your academy grows.
New
AI Studio
Draft courses, lessons, quizzes, assignments, and thumbnails with your own API key.
Pro feature
New
Import & Export
Move supported course content, settings, bundles, plans, and media between CourseGlade sites.
Pro feature
New
Subscriptions & Memberships
Sell recurring access to a course, a category, or the whole catalogue — with trials, renewals, and cancellations.
Course
New
Social Login
Let students register and sign in with an existing Google or Facebook account.
Integration
New
Enrollment
Enrol students in bulk, or import a CSV of people who do not have accounts yet.
Admin
Assignments
Written and file-upload assignments with instructor grading and submission tracking.
Course
Content Drip
Release lessons on a schedule — relative to enrolment or on fixed calendar dates.
Course
Course Bundle
Group several courses into a bundle and sell them at one combined price.
Course
Certificates
Auto-issue branded completion certificates with built-in designs and public verification.
Engagement
Leaderboard & Gamification
Award points and badges for course activity, and display a live leaderboard.
Engagement
Zoom
Schedule live sessions on Zoom. Each instructor connects their own account.
Integration
Google Meet
Schedule live sessions on Meet. Each instructor connects their own Google account.
Integration
Google Classroom
Import Google Classroom rosters straight into CourseGlade enrollments.
Integration
Advance Email
Brand every system email: logo, colour palette, button styles, custom footer, live preview.
Integration
Gradebook
Centralised grade management with letter grades, GPA calculation, and CSV export.
Admin
Advanced Reports
Custom date-range reports, revenue breakdowns, and CSV export.
Admin
White Label
Replace all CourseGlade branding with your own logo, colours, and plugin name.
Admin
Every addon ships with Pro today. Enable the ones you need and leave the rest switched off.
Integrations
Connects to the tools you already pay for
Payments run through your own accounts. Live sessions arrive as Pro addons you switch on when you need them.
Stripe and WooCommerce ship today. Zoom, Google Meet, and Google Classroom are Pro addons. See the Pro addon list
Pricing
One price, no seat count
Pro adds 15 toggleable addons, AI Studio, and Import & Export on top of the free plugin — each addon loads only when you enable it.
CourseGlade
$0 /forever
WordPress.org · unlimited sites
- Unlimited courses, lessons, students
- 8 quiz question types with attempt limits
- Multi-instructor commissions and withdrawals
- Stripe, WooCommerce, Manual, Free enrolment
- Dashboard, wishlist, reviews, discussions
- Audio lessons and one player for every video source
- Coupons, maintenance mode, shortcodes
Most popular
CourseGlade Pro
$99 /year
One site · updates and priority support
or $299 once for a lifetime license
- Everything in the core plugin
- 15 addons in one plugin — toggle each on or off
- Certificates — designs and public verification
- Zoom & Google Meet live classes
- AI Studio — courses, lessons, quizzes, assignments and thumbnails
- Import & Export for supported course content
- Subscriptions, reports, gradebook, white label & more
- Requires the core plugin — it extends, not replaces
Reviews
Loved by course creators
★★★★★
“We moved 900 students off a hosted platform in a weekend. The per-seat fee we stopped paying was larger than our hosting bill.”
★★★★★
“Eight question types matter more than I expected. Half our assessments are short answer, which needs a person reading them.”
★★★★★
“Per-instructor commission and a withdrawal queue came with the core plugin. I had budgeted three months to build that ourselves.”
★★★★★
“Certificate verification closed our biggest support ticket category. Employers check the link themselves now.”
★★★★★
“The catalogue page worked with our theme on the first try. That has never happened with an LMS plugin before.”
★★★★☆
“Docs are thinner than the big names. The admin is clear enough that it hasn't slowed us down.”
FAQ
Questions before you install
Still unsure? The support forum answers within a business day.
Does it work with my theme?
Yes. CourseGlade ships its own frontend templates, so course pages render correctly on any theme — block themes included. Templates can be overridden from your theme folder.
Which payment gateways are included?
All four: Stripe, WooCommerce, Manual payment, and zero-price enrolment. None of them are gated behind Pro.
Do you take a percentage of my sales?
No. Payments go straight to your own gateway account. CourseGlade records the order and splits instructor commission inside your own database.
Do I need Pro for multiple instructors?
No. Instructor invitations, per-person commission rates, earnings, and withdrawal approvals are all in the core plugin.
Can I turn individual Pro addons off?
Yes. Each Pro addon toggles independently, and an addon that is off does not load its code.
Is it translation-ready?
Yes. All strings use the courseglade-lms text domain and a POT file ships in languages/.
What are the requirements?
WordPress 6.4 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer, tested up to the latest WordPress release.
Available on WordPress.org
Start teaching on your own site today
Install CourseGlade, publish your first course this afternoon, and add Pro when a student asks for a certificate.
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