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Guide

Getting Started with EduX LMS

A complete walkthrough of every feature in your learning management system.

Contents

1 Dashboard Overview 2 Creating Courses 3 Adding Content 4 Assessments & Quizzes 5 Managing Users 6 Learning Paths 7 Gamification 8 Reports & Analytics 9 AI Tools 10 E-Commerce & Pricing 11 Automations 12 Platform Settings
1

Dashboard Overview

Your dashboard at /portal/lms is the command center for your LMS. Here you'll find:

👥
Total Learners
Count of all registered learners across your tenant
📊
Active Enrollments
Currently active course enrollments
✅
Completed
Total completed enrollments
📈
Avg Completion
Average completion rate across all courses

Quick action buttons let you jump to New Course, Enrol Learner, Manage Users, or View Reports with one click.

2

Creating Courses

Navigate to Courses in the sidebar and click "+ Create Course".

Course settings you'll configure:

  • • Title & Description — What learners see when browsing courses
  • • Category & Difficulty — Organise and filter courses
  • • Pass Mark — Minimum percentage to pass assessments
  • • Completion Rule — All lessons, pass quiz, or both
  • • Prerequisites — Require another course be completed first
  • • Time Limit — Optional countdown for timed courses

After creation, you'll enter the Course Builder — a split-panel editor with a content tree on the left and editing area on the right.

3

Adding Content

The "+ Add" button opens a cascading menu with three categories:

📄 Standard Content

  • Rich text content
  • Web content / URLs
  • Video (YouTube, Vimeo, upload)
  • Audio files & podcasts
  • Presentations & documents
  • iFrame embeds

🎯 Learning Activities

  • Tests / quizzes
  • Surveys
  • Assessments
  • Instructor-led training (ILT)
  • SCORM / xAPI / cmi5 packages

⊞ More

  • Add new section (module)
  • Clone from another course
  • Link from another course

Drip scheduling: Set a drip_days value on any lesson to delay access until X days after enrolment.

4

Assessments & Quizzes

EduX supports 10 question types with partial credit and manual grading:

MCQ Single
MCQ Multi
True/False
Fill Blank
Ordering
Matching
Drag & Drop
Likert Scale
Free Text
Essay

Configure question banks with random draw, time limits, retry attempts, and pass/fail thresholds. Essay and free-text questions support manual grading with feedback.

5

Managing Users

Add learners individually or via CSV bulk import. Manage enrollments, groups, and roles from the Users page.

User Roles

  • Super Admin — Full platform control across all tenants
  • RTO Admin — Manages courses, users, and settings for their organisation
  • Learner — Takes courses, views certificates, tracks progress
  • Viewer — Read-only access to reports and content
6

Learning Paths

Go to Learning → Learning Paths to create structured multi-course journeys.

  • • Sequential — Courses must be completed in order
  • • Parallel — Any order, all must be completed
  • • Add prerequisites, reorder courses, and issue certificates on path completion
7

Gamification

Navigate to Analytics → Gamification to configure points, badges, and leaderboards.

Configure points per activity (login, lesson complete, course complete, quiz pass, etc.), create custom badges, and toggle the learner-facing leaderboard.

8

Reports & Analytics

The Analytics → Reports section provides standard reports (learner progress, course completions, quiz results, certificates) plus a Custom Report Builder where you can select columns, apply filters, and schedule email delivery (daily/weekly/monthly).

All reports export to CSV/Excel and are AVETMISS-compatible for Australian VET compliance.

9

AI Tools

Go to Platform → AI Tools for admin AI features:

Course Outline Generator
Enter a topic, audience, and duration — AI generates a complete course structure with modules and lessons.
Quiz Generator
Generate multiple-choice questions from any topic or course content.
Content Summariser
Paste lesson text and get a concise summary for learner reference.
Skills Suggester
AI suggests relevant skills to tag on your courses.

Learner AI Assistant: Learners get a floating chat panel on the course player with Explain, Summarise, and Quiz Me modes — all scoped to the current lesson content.

10

E-Commerce & Pricing

Under E-Commerce you'll find tools to monetise your courses:

  • • Pricing — Set per-course pricing with seat-based licensing
  • • Coupons — Create discount codes with usage limits and expiry dates
  • • Bundles — Package multiple courses together at a discounted price
11

Automations

Under Analytics → Automations, create event-driven workflows with 11 trigger types and 10 action types:

Triggers
Course completed, Quiz passed/failed, Certificate issued, Points reached, Enrolment created, and more
Actions
Send notification, Enrol in course, Award badge/points, Add to group, Issue certificate, Send email, Trigger webhook
12

Platform Settings

Under the Platform dropdown you'll find advanced configuration:

  • • Branches — Multi-tenant sub-portals with per-branch branding
  • • Webhooks — Push events to external systems
  • • API Keys — Manage REST API access tokens
  • • Translations — Multi-language content management
  • • Import/Export — Bulk CSV import users, export users & courses
  • • Settings — Branding, gamification config, and general platform settings

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