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Getting Started with LearnWorlds

We’re rolling out a major upgrade! If you started your trial on or after June 2, 2025, you’ll notice some exciting new features as part of our latest release. Some articles already reflect the new experience, while others are being updated.

Looking to minimize the time required to create your school? Look no further! This comprehensive guide contains the essential steps for efficiently getting started with your LearnWorlds school. 


More specifically, you will learn how to:

  • Start a free trial

  • Manage your account and schools

  • Use the dashboard

  • Customize your website

  • Create courses

  • Set up payment gateways

  • Integrate with third-party tools


Start a Trial

You can start a free 30-day trial in LearnWorlds here (no credit card required) to create your online school! 


Once the trial period is over - or sooner if you feel ready to go live - you can activate a plan. Check out the available LearnWorlds plans here and compare all features here.LearnWorlds get started page to create a trial school


Manage your Account

Click on My Account to create a new LearnWorlds school or manage any existing ones. From your account, you can:


  • Oversee account and billing details
  • Receive platform news and updates
  • Get help from support
  • Switch between dark and light mode
  • Log out of your account



Multiple LearnWorlds Schools Dashboard

LearnWorlds allows you to create and manage multiple schools under a single login.


How It Works:

  • Use one email and centralized login credentials to access all your schools.

  • Use the same dashboard to view and manage schools (available to all plans if accessed through the LearnWorlds platform or from “Manage Schools” under the three dots in your current school dashboard).

If you don’t already have a school, the first time you create a trial school, an organization is automatically created for you. As the Organization Owner, you can:


For additional details on how to create multiple LearnWorlds schools, click here.



Admin Dashboard

Once you create a school via the Organization Owner dashboard, you will get access to your School Dashboard. The dashboard provides key metrics such as:

  • New student sign-ups

  • Revenue reports

  • Product sales

  • Number of active learners


You can find more information in our relevant support article.


Theme Explorer

In the Theme Explorer settings, you can configure your page’s colors, typography, buttons & inputs, and layout. To access the theme explorer:


1. Go to Website  Theme Explorer.

2. Go to Website  Design  Edit in Theme Explorer.

3. Go to Website  Design  Edit website and navigate to Design  Theme Explorer.

For more detailed instructions, check out our relevant article


Create and Customize Pages

After choosing your brand settings (e.g., color and fonts) in Theme Explorer, it’s time to build your website pages. Go to Website → Design → Edit Website. Your selected or default Home page will appear. To customize a specific system page:

  • Use the Search for a page bar or

  • Visit the Pages Manager

  • To create a new page, click on Add new page as described here.


You can find out more information about the pages' creation and management here.


Course Creation

Once you have created and customized your pages, you can start building your courses. Courses can be created in 3 steps: 


1. Create the course.

2. Organize the sections.

3. Add learning activities.


For more detailed information, check out our overview for course creation


Payment Gateways

To start receiving payments for your courses, you need to connect your LearnWorlds site with a payment gateway.


1. Go to Settings  Financial  Payment Gateway.

2. Select and connect the Payment Gateway of your choice. Check out all the needed information here.


Sandbox is used for testing purposes. A test environment before launching your school is ideal.


Integrations

Enhance your LearnWorlds school by seamlessly integrating with top-tier marketing, affiliate, and analytics tools to amplify your sales! Explore our array of built-in integrations here.


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