
Overview
Maya School is an online education provider that needed a complete LMS platform built from scratch: payment-gated enrollment, hierarchical course delivery (course → lesson → topic → quiz), automated progress tracking, certificate generation on completion, and subscription access control for recurring course tracks.
No existing digital delivery infrastructure. Required a full LMS with payment-gated enrollment, structured course delivery, automated progress tracking, and certificate generation.
Complete online school platform — course structure, payment setup, student dashboards, automatic certificate delivery, and subscription access management.
Challenge
No existing digital delivery infrastructure. Course content required strict payment gating — no access without verified purchase. Multiple pricing models including one-time payments and recurring subscriptions. Certificate generation needed full automation on completion. Progress tracking required lesson-level and quiz-level accuracy across sessions.
- Course content required strict enrollment and payment gating — no access without verified purchase
- Multiple course formats with different pricing models: one-time payments and recurring subscriptions
- Certification logic needed full automation on course completion — no manual instructor handling
- Student progress tracking required accuracy at the lesson, quiz, and module level across sessions
Solution
LearnDash LMS with hierarchical course structure, WooCommerce as the payment and enrollment access layer, automated certificate generation triggered by LearnDash completion events, WooCommerce Subscriptions for recurring access pricing, and a custom student dashboard showing enrollment status, lesson completion, and certificate access — all without manual instructor handling.
LearnDash LMS core with hierarchical course → lesson → topic → quiz structure. WooCommerce as the payment layer for enrollment access control. Automated certificate generation triggered by LearnDash course completion events.
- Custom student dashboard showing enrollment status, lesson completion, and certificate access
- WooCommerce Subscriptions for recurring access pricing on ongoing course tracks
- Payment-gated content enforcement at the lesson and module level
- WooCommerce + LearnDash enrollment bridge for payment-to-access automation
- WooCommerce Subscriptions for recurring membership models
- ACF for structured course metadata and instructor profiles
Impact
Students enroll, pay, and access course content with zero instructor manual handling. Automated certificate generation eliminated administrative overhead for completion processing. Reliable progress tracking reduced student support queries about access and completion status. Subscription model enabled a recurring revenue stream without additional platform infrastructure.
- Students enroll, pay, and access course content with zero instructor manual handling
- Automated certificate generation eliminated admin overhead for completion processing
- Reliable progress tracking reduced student support queries about access and completion status
- Subscription model enabled a recurring revenue stream without additional platform infrastructure
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“The platform handles everything automatically — enrollment, payments, certificates. Our instructors focus on teaching, not admin.”