How to Create a LearnDash Course Outline From a YouTube Playlist

Are you looking for a faster way to create your LearnDash course outlines? Using the LearnDash course creation wizard, you can easily build a course structure from your existing YouTube playlist. If you have a YouTube playlist and want to quickly create a LearnDash course outline with it, you can certainly do so.

Creating a course outline can be time taking especially if you’re doing it for the first time. But if you already have a course structure in your YouTube playlist, you can easily import that into LearnDash LMS. In today’s post, we’re going to learn how to create a LearnDash course outline from a YouTube playlist.

Why create a course outline from a YouTube playlist?

Creating an entire online course from scratch can be a daunting task. LearnDash provides you with some amazing features that make your course building process easier. But still, you have to put a lot of thought into creating your course. One of the most important things about your online course is the outline. It has to be clearly planned out and researched if you want to make your online course successful.

There are many course creators who publish their courses on YouTube. Now if you want to add some advanced lessons and sell your course, with LearnDash you can do it. There are some benefits of creating a LearnDash course from your existing YouTube playlist:

• Launch a course quickly
• Fast monetization of existing course 
• Having an existing audience

Many course instructors also have a similar course on their YouTube playlist. That means the course outline is already planned and created. You can import a course outline to your LearnDash site from your existing YouTube playlist. This saves you the trouble of creating the lessons one by one. Also saves you a lot of time!

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How to create LearnDash course outline from YouTube playlist

Before we start, it’s essential you already have an existing YouTube playlist of your course. You can also have a Vimeo Showcase or a Wistia project. But we’re only doing the YouTube playlist method in this article. The LearnDash course setup wizard will find the video titles and create lessons from the playlist. You still have to create content within the lessons.

If you don’t have a playlist for your YouTube videos then this method will not work. So select a progression of your videos and create a playlist. Make sure the videos are in the correct order. After you do this, keep the URL of the playlist open in a tab of your browser and log into your LearnDash site. Now follow the steps below to create a LearnDash course outline from your YouTube playlist.

Step 1: Open the LearnDash course creation wizard

After you log in to the backend dashboard of your WordPress site, go to LearnDash > Courses. Now from the top right corner, you’re going to see a button called “Create from Video Playlist”. Click on it to move on to the next step.

Step 2: Paste the URL of your YouTube playlist

In the next step, you’ll find an input field where you can place the URL. So copy your YouTube playlist URL and paste it into the input field. As soon as you paste the URL, the button right beside it will change to “Load data from YouTube”.

It will detect whether the playlist is from YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia. After you paste the URL, simply click on “Load data from YouTube”. Make sure you’re pasting the URL of the playlist and not a video.

Step 3: Select course access settings

Now the course title will be the same as your playlist title. The number of lessons will be the same as the number of videos on the playlist. 

Since this will create a completely new course, you’ll also have to select the access settings. Whether you want the course to be open, free, paid, recurring payment, etc. Select the option that you want and then move on.

You can also select if students can interact with the lesson content in “Linear form” or “Free form”. In the free form, the user can go through any lesson they want without following any order. In the Linear form, the users will have to progress through the course lessons sequentially.

So select the option that you think is best for the course and click on the “Create the course” button to create your course.

Step 4: Do final edits

Your course will now be created but won’t be public. After the course is created, you’ll be brought to your courses section. Find your new course and click on edit. You’ll find all the lessons with your video titles.

See if all the videos are in order. If you find the order isn’t right, you can drag and drop it into the correct order. The video description of each video will be presented in their respective lessons. Delete or edit those texts. Then add in your video URL or design the course the way you want.

Now you have the freedom to create a LearnDash course the way you want. So add more topics within the lessons (if required), add quizzes, videos, images, etc. Just design the course the way you want now.

After you make your final edits, click on the “Publish” button to publish your course.

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Conclusion

LearnDash is one of the most popular and oldest LMS plugins for WordPress today. It’s widely used by educators and various universities and training institutes. It helps you create a complete online education website and monetize your online courses.

One of the reasons why LearnDash is so popular is because it gives you amazing features. The ability to create a course outline from a YouTube playlist is one of them. You can also create a course from a Vimeo or Wistia playlist. This makes your course building workflow so much easier. 

So if you’re someone who wants to create a premium course, from a playlist, this feature is something that you should definitely use. It will not only save you time, but it will also allow you to quickly monetize your content!