Open edX Commerce vs Xtreme Courses

The “Open edX Commerce” package is a free and open-source WordPress plugin that allows you to integrate WooCommerce with your Open edX platform. What does this mean? You can create Open edX courses as products in WooCommerce, and when you perform purchase or refund operations for these products, your Open edX platform will reflect these changes. Here are some things you can do with this plugin: Create Open edX courses as products: When you create products using WooCommerce, you can designate them as Open edX courses. If you do, you can assign the course mode and course_id you registered in your Open edX platform. Add settings for the connection with Open edX: You’ll have a new option in your WordPress settings to store authentication-related information for your Open edX platform. Enrollment Manager: You’ll have a table that records all enrollment requests made through purchasing products that are Open edX courses. View the enrollment requests from the orders: When a person purchases WordPress, a WooCommerce order is generated. If an order includes a product that is an Open edX course, you can easily access the related enrollment request created with this plugin. Create enrollments in Open edX: When an order containing an Open edX course is processed, it automatically creates an enrollment request. You can also include the option to apply the “force” flag, disregarding the course’s enrollment end dates. Starting from version Quince of Open edX, you can use the option to create enrollment allowed for non-registered users on the platform. Create soft unenrollments from refunds: The enrollment record is maintained, but the “is_active” attribute of the enrollment is false. Deleting an “enrollment allowed” is also supported, but only from version Quince. Obtain enrollment information: This requests the Open edX APIs to retrieve the enrollment status of a user in a course. Obtain enrollment information: This requests the Open edX APIs to retrieve the enrollment status of a user in a course. Below are some links to help you get started with Open edX WooCommerce Plugin: Quick Start Guide How-to Guides Note This plugin calls the APIs from Open edX Platform. More information about the API connection can be found in Decisions: API connection. To learn more, you can visit the Open edX Terms of Service. This plugin is maintained by edunext. Quickstart Let’s start installing and configuring the Open edx Commerce plugin to connect your WordPress site with the enrollment APIs from your Open edX platform. Link to the Quickstart in the documentation.

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.