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We are excited to announce the release of Batu LMS v1.0.3. It’s our biggest update so far, focused on helping you teach live, keep learners talking, hear back from them, and see exactly how everyone is doing.
This release introduces Live Classes, Webinars and Meetings with a Calendar, Announcements and Email, Discussions and Reviews, learner progress views, Surveys, certificate expiry with renewals, and each person’s own language and time zone. We have also made a number of smaller changes to make Batu LMS easier to run.
Batu LMS v1.0.3 Changelog
Before getting into the details, here is a quick look at what is included in this update. We have added new features, fixes and tweaks. And there’s more development running. Oh, if you forgot to check, then see the Batu LMS v1.0.1 and Batu LMS v1.0.2 release blog here.
Added: Live Class, Webinar, Meeting, and Calendar add-ons (off by default). Each feature, and the Live Sessions menu, appears only once its addon is on.
Added: Live Sessions screen in wp-admin and a Live Sessions view on the Company, Author, Employee, and Student dashboards.
Added: Create, edit, and delete live classes, webinars, and meetings, with date, time, course, host, seats, and online or in-person location.
Added: Repeating sessions (daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly) with “only this session” or “this and all later sessions” for editing and deleting.
Added: Meeting link options for Zoom, Google Meet, and other services.
Added: Invite people individually, by course, or by company, with Accept and Decline, seat limits, and in-app and email notices for new, changed, and cancelled sessions.
Added: Visibility for every session: Public, Private, Invite only, or Draft, with a public page for public sessions.
Added: Join button that opens shortly before the start and records who joined.
Added: Automatic “starts tomorrow” and “starting soon” reminders.
Added: Calendar and Upcoming views, plus the [batuedu_calendar], [batuedu_upcoming_sessions], [batuedu_webinars], and [batuedu_session] shortcodes.
Added: Author access. Company owners choose which kinds of sessions all authors, or specific authors, can create.
Added: “Enable all addons” switch on the Addons screen.
Added: Announcements & Email composer in Batu LMS > Notifications, and a Communications view on the Company and Author dashboards.
Added: Announcements to everyone, students, employees, authors, a course, or specific people, sent now or scheduled for later.
Added: Email composer with per-person placeholders, preview, test email, and a branded email layout.
Added: Email queue that sends in small batches, retries failures, and logs every email.
Added: Message history with delivery counts, view, edit, duplicate, cancel, and delete.
Added: Notification preferences and one-click unsubscribe links in emails.
Added: Notifications inbox on the Student and Employee dashboards with unread filter and an auto-refreshing bell count.
Added: Automatic daily deadline reminders for assignments due soon.
Added: Discussions in the Course Player and on every dashboard, with replies, accepted answers, threaded replies, and helpful votes.
Added: Course reviews with 1 to 5 star ratings, Verified student tag, instructor replies, and a Most helpful sort.
Added: Star ratings on course cards and rating data for search engines on the course page.
Added: Settings to choose who can reply, turn discussions or reviews on or off, and set an edit window, for all courses or per course.
Added: View Learner Progress with overall progress, every course, lesson, quiz, and assignment, live-session attendance, and CSV download.
Added: A My progress button on the Student and Employee dashboards.
Added: Certificate expiry with an Expired Certifications view, filters, search, CSV download, and renewal by new certificate or progress reset.
Added: Surveys addon (off by default) with a Surveys screen in wp-admin and a Surveys view on every dashboard.
Added: Assign a survey to everyone, a group, a course, or specific people with an optional due date.
Added: Survey responses with completion rate, a summary per question, who has not answered, and a CSV download.
Added: Export Survey Results (CSV) in Settings > Export & Import.
Added: Exam availability. Open a quiz or exam always, until a date, on one date, or between two dates.
Added: Each person’s own timezone now applies to live sessions, the calendar, and scheduled announcements.
Added: Each person’s own language now applies to their pages when that language is installed on the site.
Updated: A profile that was never changed keeps the site’s language and timezone.
Updated: Quizzes and exams outside their availability window can’t be started.
Fix: Audio lessons now play in the Course Player.
Fix: Global announcements now reach people who are not in a company.
Fix: Reviews now show on the course page for courses that don’t belong to a company.
Teach Live With Classes, Webinars and Meetings
Learning is not only about recorded lessons. Sometimes you need to meet your learners face to face.
With Batu LMS v1.0.3, you can create live classes, webinars, and meetings right inside your LMS. Set the date, time, course, host, seats, and whether the session is online or in person. Paste a Zoom, Google Meet, or other link, and a Join button opens shortly before the start and records who came.
Sessions can repeat daily, weekly, every two weeks, or monthly. When you edit or delete one, you can choose to change only that session or this and all later ones.
You decide who can see each session: Public, Private, Invite only, or Draft. Public sessions get their own page, and people without an account can be invited by email and get access when they sign up. Automatic reminders go out the day before and shortly before the start.
Live Sessions is an addon that is off by default. A new Enable all addons switch on the Addons screen turns every addon on or off in one click.
See Everything in a Calendar
The new Calendar and Upcoming views bring your live classes, webinars, meetings, and assignment due dates into one place. Shortcodes let you place them on any page of your site. Batu LMS v1.0.3 focuses not only on courses but also on true learning.
Announcements and Email Without Leaving Your LMS
Reaching your learners is now much easier with the Batu LMS v1.0.3 update. The new Announcements and Email composer lets you write to everyone, students, employees, authors, a course, or specific people, and send it now or schedule it for later.
Emails support per-person placeholders, a preview, and a test send. A background queue sends in small batches, retries failures, and keeps a log of every email. Authors can message their own students, companies their own people, and the owner anyone.
Learners can choose how they want to be notified, and every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link.
Keep the Conversation Going With Discussions and Reviews
Learners can now ask questions right in the Course Player. Replies are threaded, helpful answers can be marked, and helpful votes push the best replies to the top.
Course reviews are here too, with 1 to 5 star ratings, a Verified student tag, instructor replies, and a Most helpful sort. Star ratings appear on course cards, and rating data is added to the course page for search engines.
You stay in control. Choose who can reply, whether reviews need approval, and how long people can edit their posts, for all courses or one course at a time.
Know How Every Learner Is Doing
The new Batu LMS v1.0.3 comes with a View progress button that shows overall progress, every course, lesson, quiz, and assignment, and live-session attendance. You can download it as a CSV file. Learners get a My progress button of their own. Authors see only the students in their own courses, and companies see only their own people.
Certificate Expiry and Renewals
Set how many months each course’s certificate stays valid. The new Expired Certifications view has Expired and Expiring in 30, 60, or 90 days filters, search, and CSV download. Renew by issuing a new certificate, or reset the learner’s progress so they retake the course.
Hear From Your Learners With Surveys
In the latest Batu LMS v1.0.3 update, we have the Surveys addon. The new Surveys addon lets you build a survey, assign it to everyone, a group, a course, or specific people with an optional due date, and collect answers from their dashboard.
Responses show the completion rate, a summary of every question, each person’s answers (hidden for anonymous surveys), and who has not answered yet. Download a single survey as CSV, or export every survey result from Settings > Export & Import. You can also let authors create surveys for their own students.
More Control Over Exams
Quizzes and exams can now be open always, until a date, on a single date, or between two dates. Learners can’t start one outside its window, and the Course Player tells them when it opens or closed.
Language and Timezone, Their Way
Learners now see the site in the language they chose in their profile, when that language is installed. Live sessions, the calendar, and scheduled announcements show and accept times in their own timezone. A profile that was never changed keeps your site’s language and timezone.
Small Improvements That Make a Difference
Audio lessons now play properly in the Course Player. Global announcements now reach people who are not in a company, and reviews show on the course page for courses without a company.
Wrapping Up
Batu LMS v1.0.3 is focused on bringing your learners together and giving you clearer insight into how they are doing.
From live classes and calendars to discussions, surveys, certificate renewals, and detailed learner progress, this update adds practical tools that help you run a more complete learning platform.
If you are already using Batu LMS, update to Batu LMS v1.0.3 and explore the new features. If you are just getting started, this release makes Batu LMS an even stronger foundation for building a professional WordPress LMS website.
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