Overview

Description

Turn your community into a learning platform.

Academy is a full learning management system for Invision Community v5. Create, sell, and deliver online courses directly inside your community, complete with quizzes, certificates, progress tracking, Commerce integration, and a front-end course builder for trusted creators.

The Learning Hub

• “Pick up where you left off” panel that takes members straight to their next lesson

• Category navigation with course counts

• Smart course cards: visitors see price and rating, enrolled members see progress and a Continue button, and graduates see their certificate badge

• Configurable courses per page with full pagination

• SEO-friendly URLs and IPS Search integration

Course Pages

Each course gets a proper landing page designed to inform, convert, and guide members.

• Cover image with instructor info and enrolled member avatars

• Full course outline with sections, lesson excerpts, and quiz indicators

• Free preview lessons so visitors can try before they enroll

• Completion ticks for enrolled members so they always know where they stand

• Star ratings with a per-star review breakdown

• Follow, share, and reactions built in

Selling Courses

Free, paid, or group-restricted. You decide per course.

• Free courses enroll with one click

• Paid courses run through IPS Commerce using the full invoice flow

• Refunds automatically revoke enrollment

• EU digital withdrawal waiver support for compliant checkout

• Restrict courses to specific member groups when needed

The Learning Experience

Academy gives members a clean, focused way to move through a course from start to finish.

• Clean lesson viewer with previous and next navigation

• Optional sequential unlocking so members complete lessons in order

• Progress tracked automatically per lesson

• Quizzes with attempt limits and pass marks

• Passing the final quiz can complete the course automatically

Certificates

Completed courses issues a certificate automatically. The moment a member finishes every lesson and passes every quiz, Academy stamps their enrollment and generates a certificate with its own unique verification code. No admin action needed.

Every certificate is verifiable. Members can share their certificate link anywhere, and anyone can check the code on a public verification page, no account required. An employer, a client, or another community can confirm in seconds that a certificate is real and was issued by you.

Because certificates are generated live from actual enrollment records, they can't be forged and never go out of date. If an enrollment is ever revoked, its certificate stops verifying with it.

This makes completions genuinely meaningful, especially for staff training, onboarding, professional communities, and certification programs.

My Learning Dashboard

Members get one place to see all their learning activity.

They can resume courses in progress, jump straight to the next uncompleted lesson, and view completed courses together with their certificates.

Creator Studio

Let trusted members build courses without touching the Admin Control Panel.

• Front-end course builder for the groups you choose

• Create courses, sections, lessons, and quizzes from the front end

• Optional submit-for-review flow before publication

• Creators can see the status of every course at a glance

Reviews & Notifications

• Star reviews from enrolled members only, so ratings come from people who actually took the course

• Helpful votes, author exclusion, and full moderation support

• Notifications for course completions, new lessons, submissions, approvals, and published courses

Admin Control Panel

Academy gives administrators full control over courses, enrollments, permissions, and reviews.

• Full course builder with up/down arrow section and lesson management

• Quiz builder with per-question answers and pass marks

• Enrollments manager to see who is enrolled where and manually enroll members

• Category system with permissions per group

• Approval settings, review toggles, and per-page controls

Widgets

• Featured Courses: show featured, latest, or most popular courses with a configurable count

• Continue Learning: shows each member their in-progress courses and lets them resume instantly

Perfect For

• Communities selling premium courses

• Staff and moderator training

• Onboarding new members

• Developer and creator ecosystems teaching their own tools

• Certification programs

• Membership perks that keep people coming back

Academy 1.0 is just the start. Have a feature you need? Let me know.