As a platform cooperative, our teachers exercise group self governance and we are planning an “Exit to Community.” We use LearnDash (LMS) and BuddyBoss, which is a hard fork of BuddyPress, for community management (groups and members).
Here is some background info about the LearnDash/BuddyBoss integration:
About
BuddyBoss is a powerful collection of additional tools and features to engage your learning community and grow your audience. Create virtual classrooms, add a private social network, enhance the student dashboard, and more.
Add-On Features
Student Dashboard
Give your students the information they need at a glance including:
- Student Profiles
- Upcoming Classes, Events & Schedules
- Points, Rewards & Badges
- Course Progression
- Recent Activity Feeds
Live Classes
Create virtual classrooms with the Zoom/BuddyBoss integration!
- Create groups for classes, teams & projects
- Set up one-time or recurring meetings
- Restrict access to private, hidden or public classes
- Automatically sync new class details, schedules and updates
- Share your screen, webcam or content with one-click
- Live chat, polling, annotations and reactions
- Digital whiteboarding
- Trigger real-time site notifications
Community
Bring students together inside your private social network.
- Profiles
- Followers
- Direct Messages
- Comments, Likes & Mentions
- Posts, photos & video sharing
- Activity Feeds
- Notifications
- Public & Private Groups
- Member Directory