The BadgeOS LearnDash Add-on is a WordPress plugin that connects your LearnDash-based course platform with the powerful achievement and recognition system of BadgeOS. It is designed for online course creators, virtual academies, and trainers who want to motivate their students through badges, points, and automatic achievements directly linked to activity within the LMS.
This add-on allows students to earn badges and achievements from virtually any activity within LearnDash: completing courses, lessons, or specific topics, passing quizzes, reaching a minimum score percentage, submitting assignments, receiving assignment approvals, purchasing courses, or enrolling in groups. Administrators will see a new "LearnDash Activity" menu in the BadgeOS "Required Steps" manager, making it easy to configure reward rules without writing code.
One of its great advantages is the flexibility to combine BadgeOS steps with LearnDash actions when defining achievements. You can create mixed conditions that require both general site activities and specific actions within courses, adapting the reward system to the pedagogical needs of your training program.
The plugin also integrates the issuance of badges compatible with the Mozilla Open Badge standard and their automatic submission to Credly, the free web service for storing, managing, and sharing lifelong credentials. Students can showcase their achievements on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, or on their own websites and blogs, which not only recognizes their effort but also organically promotes your courses.
To function, it requires the free BadgeOS plugin (version 1.2 or higher) and the LearnDash plugin (version 1.4 or higher). It is an ideal solution for those looking to increase student retention, encourage continuous participation, and offer tangible, portable recognition of academic progress beyond traditional final certificates.