Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by MantraBrain. With a rating of 5.0★ from 1 reviews.
Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning is a WordPress app. It holds a 5.0★ average from 1 review on WordPress.
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Sikshya LMS — WordPress learning management plugin for online courses, quizzes, Stripe/PayPal checkout, certificates, and learner dashboards on your domain.
Sikshya LMS is a WordPress LMS (learning management system) for educators and creators who want students to enroll, learn, and pay without leaving the site. It installs like other WordPress plugins: you control hosting, data, and branding. The free core lets you launch a real course catalog, sell when you are ready, and upgrade to Sikshya Pro when you need automation and advanced add-ons.
At a glance
Sell — Free or paid online courses with Stripe and PayPal, coupons, and orders via native checkout in the free core.
Teach — Visual course builder, structured curriculum, video & text lessons, quizzes & auto-grading, assignments, and course certificates.
Support learners — Dashboards, progress, wishlist, and role-aware flows for instructors and staff.
Quick links
👉 Documentation
👉 Try Sikshya LMS Free
👉 Try Sikshya LMS Pro
👉 Sikshya LMS — product & pricing
👉 Sikshya Pro
👉 Sikshya LMS Facebook Community
👉 Compare Sikshya with LearnDash, Tutor LMS, LifterLMS, LearnPress, MemberPress
Join the community for release notes, setup tips, and peer discussion with other WordPress course creators.
Why choose Sikshya?
Creator-first workflow — A fast admin experience (React-powered shell) so you spend time teaching, not hunting through scattered WordPress screens.
Commerce that belongs in the free core — Paid courses, coupons, orders, and mainstream gateways are part of the baseline story—not an afterthought locked behind “contact sales.”
Sensible defaults — Fewer knobs on day one; advanced automation, marketplace, and reporting unlock with Sikshya Pro when you are ready to scale.
WordPress-native — Courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions follow familiar custom post types and capabilities, with REST-oriented services where documented—so agencies and developers can extend predictably.
Compatible with your stack — Works with the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg), Classic Editor, and popular page builders such as Elementor and Divi alongside your existing theme.
Self-hosted WordPress LMS — curriculum, quizzes, checkout, and certificates
Install Sikshya on your WordPress site to keep ownership of course content, learner records, and payments—without renting a separate SaaS LMS just to deliver training.
In plain English: you create courses in the WordPress admin; learners open your course pages on the front of your site, track progress in their account, and complete quizzes or assignments you publish.
Use Sikshya for coaching, professional training, customer education, internal onboarding, or the start of a course marketplace—with full control of content, branding, and revenue.
New to WordPress LMS plugins?
No code required to publish lessons and quizzes—you work inside Sikshya’s admin screens like other WordPress plugins.
Your theme controls fonts and many layout basics; Sikshya adds course templates and learner views so selling and learning stay consistent.
Start small: create one course, one short lesson, and one quiz; invite a test student account before you invite paying customers.
Payments are optional: offer free courses first, then connect Stripe or PayPal when you sell.
Who is Sikshya for?
Coaches, consultants, and creators shipping paid programs without hiring a platform team.
Training companies & academies replacing spreadsheets with enrollments, progress, and assessments.
Teams doing internal training who need completion tracking and light certification.
Agencies standardizing one dependable LMS layer across client sites (including multisite when configured carefully).
Extended use cases
Blended learning — Self-paced lessons plus scheduled touchpoints (extended live tooling ships in Pro where applicable).
Customer education — Product training and onboarding academies tied to your brand site.
Community & cohort programs — Clear curriculum and progress signals; pair with your favorite community plugins as needed.
Top features (free core)
Each headline below links to its dedicated feature page on the Sikshya site.
Course Builder — curriculum + chapters
Unlimited courses, lessons, and quizzes (within your hosting limits).
Structured curriculum with sections/chapters and drag-and-drop style ordering.
Free courses, paid courses, and manual enrollment by staff.
Stripe and PayPal as first-class payment paths in settings.
Coupons: percentage or fixed discounts, redemption limits, optional date windows.
Order management: visibility, notes, and administrative refund-style workflows as implemented per release.
Reliability & operations
Capability checks, nonces, and disciplined REST patterns aligned with WordPress security expectations.
Transactional email hooks for enrollment, purchase, and completion journeys (templates evolve by release).
Translation-ready (sikshya text domain); RTL-friendly layouts are a continuous improvement target—report theme-specific gaps via support.
Native commerce & checkout
Sell access without duct-taping five plugins together for a basic launch: configure gateways, test in sandbox or test mode when available, publish your course page, and route buyers through a checkout experience designed for digital education—not generic cart prose bolted onto an LMS.
Platform notes
Themes — Built to cooperate with well-coded WordPress themes; use a default theme briefly if you need to isolate CSS conflicts.
Multisite — Network-enabled; validate roles, capabilities, and data boundaries per site before production.
Developers — Hooks and filters around enrollments, lesson completion, and quiz outcomes; REST coverage is summarized on the product site and expanded in Sikshya documentation.
Upgrade to Sikshya Pro
Unlock advanced content drip and prerequisites, multi-instructor collaboration, subscriptions, deeper analytics and gradebook workflows, course bundles, white-label options, and broader integrations. Free stays generous; Pro unlocks scale.
👉 Explore Sikshya Pro
👉 Sikshya pricing & plans
Sikshya Pro add-on catalog
Below is the full commercial add-on line-up from the Sikshya feature registry. Each title links to pricing so you can compare plans. Availability varies by plan tier (Starter, Growth / Pro band, Scale); see the pricing page for the current matrix.
Starter-band add-ons
Content drip & scheduled unlock — Release lessons over time (“day 3 after signup”, dates, cohort pace) instead of opening the full catalog on day one. Best for paced programs and term-style delivery; disable for purely self‑paced libraries.
Course reviews & ratings — Collect star ratings and written reviews on course pages with moderation before they go live. Builds social proof in the catalog; turn off when public reviews don’t fit your model.
Prerequisites (lessons & courses) — Require completion of chosen lessons or whole courses before the next step unlocks—ideal for sequencing, compliance, or leveled paths. Leave off when every course stands alone.
Instructor dashboard — Gives each teacher a concise snapshot (e.g. enrollments on their courses) without sharing the whole admin site. Useful when instructors should see their numbers only.
Drip & automation emails — Optional transactional emails when drip rules unlock lessons or schedules (templates in Email templates). Pair with Content drip when you want “lesson unlocked” style notices.
Calendar — Shows learners a dated schedule—enrollments, upcoming drip unlocks, assignment due dates—on My account plus REST data for custom UIs. Handy when deadlines and releases should appear in one place.
Growth-band add-ons
Professional email delivery & branded templates — Route Sikshya emails through a proper ESP (SendGrid-style setup) and wrap messages with your branding. Improve deliverability versus generic PHP mail.
Course discussions & Q&A — In-course discussions and Q&A with instructor moderation for cohort-led learning. Skip when comments are handled entirely outside Sikshya.
Multi-instructor & co-authors — Assign multiple instructors per course with optional revenue splits for shared authoring and payouts. Keeps ledger-style splits disciplined at checkout.
Advanced analytics & exports — Download enrollment-style and progress-ready data for Excel/Sheets and offline planning. Bridges dashboard charts and spreadsheets when stakeholders need files.
Gradebook — Consolidates quizzes and graded assignments into a per‑learner, per‑course scores view plus export workflows. Targets real grading—not “completion only.”
Student activity log — Timeline of milestones (enrollment, completions, quizzes, submissions, checkout) when you must answer what happened, when. Helpful support and dispute trail.
Advanced certificates (builder, QR, verification) — Verification links/pages, richer layouts, and optional QR tying to proofs beyond the basic PDF. Use when authenticity checks matter externally.
Subscriptions & memberships — Sell ongoing access via recurring billing models instead of strictly one-shot course sales. Fits memberships and renewals layered on gateways you configure.
Course bundles — Sell several courses together for one bundled price—“bootcamp packs” or value SKUs—with enrollment logic tied to the pack.
Advanced coupons & upsells — Coupon rules beyond a flat discount—minimum order, applicability to chosen courses—and checkout guardrails accordingly.
Dynamic checkout fields — Add configurable checkout questions (text, select, checkbox) with simple visibility rules. Store answers on orders or profiles when you need VAT, referrals, consent, etc.
Advanced assignments — Rubric-style grading guidance and uploads restricted by file types for stricter coursework hand-ins.
Advanced quiz types — Groups / pools of reusable questions when you assemble many quizzes without duplicating stems—think organized question banking.
Live classes (Zoom / Meet / Classroom) — Persist meeting links and platform labels directly on lessons so learners always hit the correct live URL from the syllabus.
Social login — Let learners sign in with Google-style providers when policy allows fewer passwords-only accounts.
SCORM / H5P — Embed packaged SCORM or H5P experiences inside Sikshya lessons—bridge vendor-built interactives inside your Sikshya path.
Scale-band add-ons
Multi-vendor marketplace — Track vendor ownership per course plus platform-vs-seller splits for many independent sellers sharing one storefront.
White label & branding — Tune Sikshya-facing labels and learner/admin chrome toward your agency or customer brand—including login accents where supported.
Webhooks — Deliver signed JSON to your HTTPS endpoints whenever major LMS lifecycle events occur for custom automation backends.
Zapier — First-class Zapier workflow entry points so Sikshya events can fan into thousands of Zap actions without bespoke code projects.
Email marketing (Mailchimp / MailerLite) — Keep marketing lists synced from enrollments/completions so campaigns react to Sikshya learning milestones.
Public API & API keys — Issue revocable secrets for bespoke apps/partners integrating over REST without sharing WordPress passwords.
Multisite & network license tools — Guidance surfaces for multisite admins mapping licenses across subsites on true WordPress networks.
Enterprise reporting — Automated weekly KPI-style email rollups aimed at inbox-friendly executive snapshots—pair with analytics exports when you need detail too.
Multilingual (WPML / Weglot) — Bridges Sikshya’s front-end/interface strings into popular translation stacks so multi‑language sites localize consistently beside your theme/content.
Sikshya LMS vs other WordPress LMS plugins
👉 LearnDash Vs Sikshya LMS — How LearnDash compares to Sikshya LMS on free tier, lifetime licensing, and total cost of ownership for WordPress course creators.
👉 Tutor LMS Vs Sikshya LMS — How Tutor LMS compares to Sikshya LMS on free-tier scope, OAuth 2 + PKCE API access, and pricing model.
👉 LifterLMS Vs Sikshya LMS — How LifterLMS compares to Sikshya LMS on flat-tier pricing vs a free core plus separately-versioned add-ons.
👉 LearnPress Vs Sikshya LMS — How LearnPress compares to Sikshya LMS on commerce, course builder UX, and the Pro feature ladder.
👉 MemberPress Vs Sikshya LMS — How MemberPress compares to Sikshya LMS as a course-first LMS vs a membership-first plugin.
Use of third-party services
Features you enable may connect to services you configure. Examples:
Stripe — Terms of service · Privacy
PayPal — User agreement · Privacy
Embedded or linked video — YouTube, Vimeo, or other hosts may apply their own embed terms, cookies, or analytics; see each provider’s policies.
Optional usage insights (opt-in): Sikshya may include optional, aggregated usage insights to help prioritize improvements. It stays off unless you enable it, is designed not to collect learner personally identifiable information, and is described in full (what is sent, where it goes, and how to disable) in the Sikshya documentation—privacy & usage.
Other optional connections added in future releases will be listed in the changelog and documented on Mantrabrain / Sikshya docs when applicable.
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What is Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning?
Sikshya LMS – LMS Course Builder, Online Courses & eLearning is a WordPress app by MantraBrain. It holds a 5.0-star average from 1 review on WordPress.
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