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Hi @pallavi, @tomchedd,

Thanks for your kind words.

I completely agree. The priority right now must be to get Social Learner a bit more stable and make sure the design issues will be fixed. Sooner – rather than later.

I will provide a bit more feedback here related to my previous 2.0 wishlist:

Front-end Dashboard
A clever way of implementing a Dashboard (from the code/technical point of view) would be to link the dashboard to BuddyPress Member Type: https://www.buddyboss.com/product/buddypress-member-types/

Why?

It will allow more flexibility in the longer run. I will come with a few user cases here:

Member: Student. Want’s to have a dashboard where he/she can see course progress, assignments, badges, community discussions.
Member: Instructor. Want’s to see how many courses he/she sold over the past week, month, year. The number of students enrolled, feedback/questions from Group Leaders or students.
Member: Group Leader. Want’s to see students progress, review assignments, quiz results.

Question: Why is a Group Leader different from Instructor?

Answer: Because an Instructor designs the courses. The Instructor may not want to review assignments from students because he sells the course to companies or schools. The company or school will assign a local Teacher (Group Leader) who will want to review the students progress.

Btw: Here is an example of a recent plugin that allows group enrolment:
https://wisdmlabs.com/group-registration-for-learndash/

So things are certainly moving in that direction.

Dedicated ‘Courses’ Page
Again from a technical / design point of view, it would be clever to replace the standard ‘Courses’ page:
http://demo.buddyboss.com/social-learner-learndash/courses/

with an improved version of:

http://demo.buddyboss.com/social-learner-learndash/all-courses/ (as explained above)

Why?

Reason 1: Because many Social Learner users are not coders. I often see the same question posted again and again. “How can I make the course page look like the one on the demo site?”. Now of course, for a developer, it’s pretty easy. You just insert a bit of shortcode on a WP page and tweak the CSS a bit to make it nice but for someone not familiar with code it can be like climbing Mount Everest.

Reason 2: Technical optimization. If done right, it could potentially solve some issues in the current Boss / SL code. For instance, as it is now when a user clicks on a course “Category” from a Course page he is referred back to “Course/Custom Post Type” with that Category. When the same user clicks on a course “Category” from a Group page he is referred back to “WordPress Standard Post Type”. I.e. referred away from courses pages. See video for clarification:
https://youtu.be/lYpJF2bWh18

Reason 3: User Experience. When you finally realise how to set up the beautiful Course Overview page (http://demo.buddyboss.com/social-learner-learndash/all-courses/) it would be nice to return to something that looks like that page and not a standard WordPress Blog Layout page like the one shown in the video.

I have a few more ideas but I will keep those for Social Learner 3.0 🙂

I hope this clarified feedback is useful.

Best regards,
Michael