Activities vs Xtreme Courses

Activities is a free, light-weight plugin for managing activities. It provides an easy to use interface to manage your sites activities and who is participating. This plugin supports multisite installations. Each site has their own activities, locations, activity archive and plugin settings. The heart of the plugin is the Activity Report. When using the Activity Report it is easy to manage different recurring activities like yoga courses, football training and a lot of similar group oriented activities. The plugin integrates beautifully with WooCommerce Products. For example, when a customer is buying participation on a yoga retreat the customer are at the same time assigned the Activity list for this particular retreat. Activities Activities has name, start/end dates and two description of different sizes. They can also be assigned a location, they are created separately for easy reuse. If you have plans for the activity, they can be created separately and be reused on unlimited activities. The plans can be viewed on the activity report page. In addition each activity can have a responsible user who can be granted access to view and/or edit their assigned activities. Activities can be archived to get a ‘history’ and reduce the amount of activities on the ‘main’ list. Activity Report This plugin comes with a report page where you can get an overview of the activity and its participants. The report is a static structure, but has a lot of customization options for its content. In addition to specific report settings, the ‘Activities > Options > Activity Report’ page you can set a generic setting for all reports. Export and Participant Communication The export page allows you to copy participant information from an activity. It currently supports exporting email, phone and names. For example it can be used to send emails to all participants by copying the email list it provides and pasting it into a email program or webpage. Shortcodes A simple shortcode is provided to display activity information in blog-posts, products or other types of posts. Also comes with an option to display a join/unjoin button/link/image on posts. And status image to display different text/image whether user is participating or not. Check the FAQ on how to use it. Responsible Users Usually users would be granted permission to use a plugin based on their role. With this plugin you can grant users permission to only view and/or edit their assigned activities. This will naturally not restrict access for other users who have higher permissions based on role. WooCommerce Activities has a good integration with WooCommerce. Products can be assigned with any number of activities, when a user buys the product and the order is set to Completed they will be added to the activities assigned to products bought. Guets customers who buy any product can be converted into a WordPress user and then be assigned to activities. Importing Activities comes with a simple import feature. The import system only takes CSV files and expect them to be semicolon separated. Both activities and participants can be imported.

Xtreme Courses is a complete learning management system (LMS) plugin for WordPress. Build structured online courses in a React drag-and-drop builder, sell them through WooCommerce, schedule drip content, run auto-graded quizzes, issue verifiable PDF certificates, and keep students engaged with XP, badges, and leaderboards — all from your own WordPress site. No upsells. No locked features. There is no “Pro” version of Xtreme Courses — every feature listed on this page ships in the free download and is fully functional out of the box. No upgrade nags, no feature gates, no artificial limits on courses, students, or enrollments. Plugin homepage · Documentation · Support Why Xtreme Courses? If you’ve evaluated the established LMS plugins (LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, LearnPress, Sensei) you already know the pattern: the features you actually need to run a paid course business — certificates, drip scheduling, quizzes, e-commerce checkout, reporting — are spread across paid tiers and per-feature add-ons. Xtreme Courses is built differently: The whole stack is free. Course builder, WooCommerce selling, drip content, quiz engine, PDF certificates, gamification, live lessons, reviews, analytics — nothing is held back for a paid tier. Commerce-ready from day one. Native WooCommerce integration: one-time purchases, free enrollments, subscription-gated content, bundles, bulk enrollment coupons, and gift enrollment. Modern WordPress stack. PHP 8.2+ with strict types, a React drag-and-drop course builder, custom REST API, Action Scheduler background jobs, and full uninstall cleanup. Self-hosted and private by default. No telemetry, no external service calls unless you explicitly configure live Zoom lessons (disclosed below). Your course content and student data stay on your server. WordPress.org-compliant. Fully GPL, no obfuscated code, every external-service touchpoint disclosed on this page. A free alternative to LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, LearnPress, and Sensei for course creators who want the complete LMS feature set without per-feature pricing. Core Features (Free): React Drag-and-Drop Course Builder — Build structured courses with sections, lessons (video, text, PDF, audio), and quizzes using a visual drag-and-drop interface. WooCommerce Integration — Sell courses as one-time purchases, free enrollments, or subscription-gated content. Supports bulk enrollment coupons and gift enrollment. Drip Content Scheduling — Release lessons on a fixed date, X days after enrollment, or after completing the previous lesson. Visual Gantt-style drip timeline. Quiz Engine — Multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank questions with timed mode, pass thresholds, retake limits, and auto-grading. PDF Certificate Generator — Auto-generate personalized certificates on course completion with a public verification URL. Student Dashboard — Tabbed dashboard showing enrolled courses, progress rings, certificates, achievements, and order history. Instructor Role & Dashboard — Dedicated xc_instructor role with scoped access to own courses, student roster, and earnings. Gamification — XP points, badges with trigger conditions, and a leaderboard Gutenberg block/shortcode. Live Lessons — Zoom SDK embed and Google Meet pre-join cards with calendar reminder emails (.ics attachment). Analytics Dashboard — Chart.js-powered admin panel with enrollment trends, lesson funnel, quiz performance, revenue, active students, and certificate issuance rate. Course Reviews & Ratings — Star ratings and written reviews with moderation, instructor replies, and aggregate display. Course Bundles & Prerequisites — Bundle multiple courses into a single WooCommerce product and enforce prerequisite completion. Mobile Lesson Player — Distraction-free, full-viewport lesson player with progress persistence. Technical Highlights: PHP 8.2+ with strict types Custom REST API namespace /xtreme-courses/v1/ Custom database tables with proper indexes Action Scheduler for all background jobs Transient-based caching for leaderboard and progress queries Full nonce verification on all AJAX/REST write endpoints Input sanitization and output escaping throughout Complete uninstall routine (tables, options, uploaded files) Bundled libraries This plugin bundles Chart.js v4.5.1 (MIT, Copyright 2014-2025 Chart.js Contributors) for the Analytics admin panel. The script is served from the plugin folder at assets/js/vendor/chart.umd.min.js — no third-party CDN is contacted. External services This plugin can connect to one third-party service. It is opt-in — it is only contacted when an admin or instructor explicitly creates a live lesson and a student attends it. The default install of the plugin does not contact any external service. Zoom Meeting SDK (optional, used for live lessons) If an admin or instructor creates a live lesson and pastes a Zoom meeting URL into the lesson, then when a student opens that lesson the plugin will: Render an embedded Zoom client by enqueueing the Zoom Meeting SDK JavaScript directly from https://source.zoom.us/zoom-meeting-3.1.2.min.js on that lesson page only. The Zoom SDK then connects to Zoom’s own infrastructure to join the meeting. The plugin itself does not send any data to Zoom from your server — all communication happens between the student’s browser and Zoom. If you do not use the live-lesson feature (no live lesson with a Zoom URL is ever created), the Zoom SDK is never loaded and Zoom is never contacted. Service provider: Zoom Communications, Inc. Terms of Service · Privacy Statement License Xtreme Courses is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Xtreme Courses is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Xtreme Courses. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.