How To Set Deadlines In LearnDash Assignments?

1. How To Set Deadlines In LearnDash Assignments? LearnDash is a top LMS. It’s known for being versatile and easy to use. Educators can quickly create, manage, and deliver engaging online courses. One key aspect to engagement and effectiveness is the strategic use of assignment deadlines. Today, we will discuss how to set deadlines for LearnDash assignments. We will be using the “Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash” plugin. Let’s get started! 1. How Deadlines Help in LearnDash Assignment Management Academic Success: Timely submission of LearnDash assignments is important for your academic

2. achievement. Deadlines make sure learners stay on track and complete tasks without procrastination. Meeting deadlines ensures that learners engage with course material consistently. This leads to better understanding of your course material. Stress Reduction: Proper deadline management reduces academic stress. When learners know their assignments are due, they can plan their time effectively and avoid last- minute rushes. Improved Time Management: Handling deadlines enhances time management skills. Learners learn to allocate resources wisely, balancing coursework with other responsibilities. Effective time management leads to better productivity and focus. Consistent Progress: Deadlines create a structured learning environment. Learners progress steadily through the course, completing LearnDash assignments at regular intervals. Quality Work: Having deadlines encourages learners to produce high-quality work. They invest effort in research, writing, and revisions, resulting in better outcomes. To improve your assignments even further, you can seek assistance from an experienced LearnDash developer. 2. Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash Setting up deadlines for your LearnDash students assignments is a crucial step in maintaining discipline in eLearning. LearnDash by default does not allow you to set deadlines for your courses or assignments. So how would you add deadlines to your LearnDash assignments? Managing your deadlines for all your LearnDash courses without proper software would be a headache. I introduce you to the “Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash” plugin. With this plugin, you can seamlessly manage your deadlines without worrying about them anymore. The Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash allows you to set restrictions to your deadlines. These assignments would stop accepting submissions after

3. the deadline has passed. By doing this, your students would be focused on completing their LearnDash assignments on time without procrastination. A cool feature of this plugin is that it can automatically start a countdown for an assignment deadline based on the student’s enrollment date. It even lets you set a deadline for an assignment or a course on a common date. A good example could be a class of students. Generally, a class would require a certain amount of time to complete a part of their syllabus. So you can set a deadline of let’s say 15 days. All the students in that class will have a deadline of 15 days to complete the course. The due date for these assignments could be months, weeks, or days. Wait, there’s more. Once the deadlines are set, you have the ability to extend them. And when you do that, an email notification will be sent to the student informing them about the deadline extension. Yes, you can customize each email to personalize for each student. 3. Working of the 'Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash' Previously, we understood what the Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash offers and how to works.

4. Now, we will discuss the practical implementation of the plugin. Be sure you follow through. First, download the plugin from here. You’ll need to upload the zip file in the ‘Add New Plugin’ section. 3.1- Create Courses and Lessons First, go to your LearnDash dashboard. Then go to Courses -> Add New. Then add your course description and click on save as draft. Let’s name the course name as ‘Maths’. In this course, we will create Lessons and add an Assignment for the same. For Lessons, go to your LearnDash dashboard -> Lessons -> Add New. Let’s name it ‘Algebra’. You can add your lesson content to the text editor and click save as draft. Now go to Courses. Here you’ll see the course that you created. Click on Builder. A page builder will open up. Here you can add the Lesson you had created to the course. You are done with your course and lesson creation. Now time to add deadlines to your LearnDash students assignments. 3.2- Set Assignment Deadlines To set an assignment deadline, you will first need to enable the option to accept assignments. So, go to the ‘Algebra’ lesson we created earlier. In the Settings, you will see the ‘Assignment Uploads’ option. Enable it.

5. You will then see the ‘Enable Assignment Deadline’ option below. Once you enable it, you will see the options for the deadlines. After you activate the ‘Assignment Deadlines Pro for WooCommerce’ plugin, Click on publish. It should look something like this.

6. Need help to set up Deadlines for your LearnDash Assignments? Contact our LearnDash Experts Today! 3.3- Automatic Assignment Deadline To make the assignment deadline activate on enrollment, switch the deadline type to ‘Automatic’. On the drop-down, you’ll see the option for days, weeks, and months. When you select ‘X days after enrollment’, you need to enter the number of days after which the assignment will be due in.

7. Once you do this, click on Update. 3.4- Restrict Submissions When you restrict submissions, your students will not be able to submit their assignments after the due date has passed. Enable the ‘Stop Submission After Deadline’ option.

8. This is how it would look like. 3.5- Extend the deadline As I mentioned earlier that you can extend your deadlines. To do this enable the ‘Extend deadline’ option. Now you can extend the deadline by hours or days and specify the number of hours and days.

9. 3.6- Customize Notifications You have to option to send email notifications to notify your students on the extension of deadlines. Simply enable the ‘Enable Extended deadline Email’ option. Fill in the Email details. You can make use of placeholders to specify the student, lesson, deadline, and extended deadline duration. Related Blogs from SaffireTech How to Set Up LearnDash with WooCommerce Memberships in Easy Steps How to Add a Survey Form to Your LearnDash Course How to sell courses on LearnDash LMS using WooCommerce

10. In a Nutshell In this blog, we understood how the ‘Assignment Deadlines Pro for LearnDash’ plugin works. We first created a course and a lesson and enabled the assignments option. We then saw how you can easily set deadlines for your assignments. You can do this manually or choose to do it automatically. With this plugin, you can enforce restrictions on submissions. You can extend your deadlines and even choose to notify your students about the deadline extension using emails. If you have any questions regarding the working of the plugin, feel free to contact us.