Quick Start Guide to Launch Your Course

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What you need to know to set up your course content in the LaunchKit.

Create a Thumbnail Image:

  • Choose the design tool of your choice.
  • Set the dimensions to 400×400 px to accommodate the requirements of both LearnDash and WooCommerce.
  • Download and upload to “Media Library,” found in the admin menu, or to Bunny.net.
  • Learn more about bunny.net – why and how to use it.

Set Up Your Course:

  • Find and hover over “LearnDash LMS” in the admin menu.
  • Click on “Courses”
  • Click on the “Add New” blue button in the upper right-hand corner.
  • Type in the title of your course in the section “Add Course title.”
  • Click on “Settings” in the top menu and then select the radio button “Closed.”
  • Click “Save.”

Set Up Lessons:

  • Navigate to the admin menu to find and hover over LearnDash LMS.
  • Click on “Lessons”
  • If your first time adding a lesson, click on “Add Your First Lesson”
  • Type in the title of the lesson in the section “Add Lesson Title.”
  • Add your lesson content to the lesson page.
  • Click on “Settings” in the top menu.
  • Scroll to “Lesson Access Settings”
  • In the “Associated Course” section, search for the course and select it to assign the lesson.
  • Click “Publish.”
  • Repeat this process for all lessons in this course.

Set Up Course Tag in CRM:

  • Navigate to the admin menu to find and hover over FluentCRM.
  • Click on “Tags”
  • Click on the “Create Tag” blue button in the upper right-hand corner.
  • Type in the title of your new tag using an action verb and noun, for example, “purchased course one.”
  • The slug will be auto-generated from the tag title.
  • May add an internal subtitle – this is optional.
  • Click “Create” to save the tag.

Set Up Product in WooCommerce:

  1. Navigate to the admin menu to find and hover over “Products.”
  2. Click on “Add New.”
  3. Type in the product name in the “Product Name” section.
  4. Select “Course” in the “Product data” section.
  5. Click the “Virtual” radio button.
  6. Add the course price in the “Regular price” section.
  7. Select the course in the “LearnDash Courses” section.
  8. Copy and paste the URL for the first lesson of the course in the “Product short description”
  9. In the right-hand sidebar, scroll to “Featured Image” to add an image from the Media Library or scroll to “Featured Image URL” to add the image URL from bunny.net.
  10. In the left-hand menu, click on “LaunchFlows” and in the “Select Next Step Page” section, add the “Checkout.”
  11. In the “Select Post Checkout Page” add “Thank You.”
  12. Select the “Instant Clean Sales Page.”
  13. In the left-hand menu, click on “WP Fusion.”
  14. In the “Apply tags when purchased” section, add the tag you created in FluentCRM
  15. Click the “Update” blue button in the upper right-hand corner to complete the process.