Tour the POM LMS interface
POM LMS adds one sidebar menu with two content types, two editor panels, two admin columns, and one settings screen.
The Courses menu
A single sidebar entry with lessons nested inside it:
| Entry | Purpose |
|---|---|
| All Courses | The course list |
| Add New Course | Create a course |
| Lessons | The lesson list, shown under Courses |
| Add New Lesson | Create a lesson |
Lessons deliberately live under Courses, because a lesson without a course has nowhere to appear.
The lesson list
The lesson list adds two columns after the title:
- Course — the course the lesson is attached to, as a link to that course.
- Section — the section it is assigned to, or a dash.
Lessons are listed in their order attribute sequence rather than by date, which means the admin list matches the order students see. That makes the list the fastest way to check a course's structure.
A lesson showing a dash in the Section column will not appear in the course outline.
The course editor
Below the content editor, a Course settings panel with three tabs:
Configuration
| Field | Purpose |
|---|---|
| To access this course, users must be logged in | The login gate |
| Preview lessons also require login | Whether previews are gated too |
| This is a paid course | Purchase-based access |
| Global permission rule | The rule that covers the course and its lessons |
| Add a login form on top | Shows a login form above the course |
| Content if no access | What a student without access reads |
Sections — the list of section names the outline is built from.
Lessons — the "Lesson not available" text and the "Go back to course" label used by this course's lessons.
The lesson editor
A Lesson settings panel with one tab:
| Field | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Attached course | Which course this lesson belongs to |
| Attached section | Which section it appears under |
| Lesson video type | YouTube, Vimeo, or leave empty for other sources |
| Lesson video URL | The video |
| Estimated time for the lesson | Shown in the outline |
| This lesson is a preview | Opens the lesson to everyone |
| Lesson permission rule | An override for this lesson only |
| "Lesson not available" text | An override of the course's message |
The Attached section list is built from the course you selected, so choose the course first.
Settings → POM LMS
One screen, four sections:
| Section | Contains |
|---|---|
| Course | Course single, and Course subheader |
| Lesson | Lesson single, and Lesson subheader |
| Account | My account settings, the login-form texts, and the completion mode |
| License | The subscription key |
Everything here is site-wide. Nothing on this screen changes one course.
What a student sees
A course page — the description, and a sidebar with the progress bar and the section accordion. Without access, the course's no-access message instead.
A lesson page — the video and the lesson content, the same sidebar, and a link back to the course intro.
My courses — inside the WooCommerce account, a table of the courses they can reach, with completion and the reason for access.
Where a change belongs
| You want to change… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Who can open a course | The course, Course settings → Configuration |
| The outline's structure | The course, Sections, and each lesson's Attached section |
| A lesson's position | The lesson's order attribute |
| A video | The lesson, Lesson video URL |
| What a blocked student reads | The course's Content if no access, or the lesson's override |
| Whether lessons auto-complete | Settings → POM LMS → Account |
| The course page layout | Settings → POM LMS → Course |
| The account area's wording | Settings → POM LMS → Account |
Now build something real: Create your first course.