Getting Started With Notes

The LifterLMS Notes add-on allows students to take private notes directly within their courses. This guide explains how to enable the feature, change the location of the note-taking button, and manage saved notes.

Follow these steps to enable LifterLMS Notes:

1. First, navigate to LifterLMS > Add-ons & More in your WordPress dashboard, then search for LifterLMS Notes and ensure it is installed and activated.

2. After that, navigate to LifterLMS > Settings > Integrations > Notes.
3. Locate Enable / Disable.
4. Check the box to enable the integration.
5. Click the Save Changes button.

You can choose where the “Take notes” button appears on your pages.

1. Navigate to LifterLMS > Settings > Integrations > Notes.
2. Locate the Note Button Position setting.
3. Select your preferred option: Floating bottom, Floating top, Floating top and bottom, or None (use [ llms_take_notes ] shortcode).
4. Click the Save Changes button.

If you prefer to place the Take Notes button in a specific location within your content, you can use the [llms_take_notes] shortcode.

Edit the course or lesson where you want the button to appear, add a Shortcode block at the required location, enter [llms_take_notes], then save or update the page.

If you want to use the inline button without displaying a floating Take Notes button, go to LifterLMS > Settings > Integrations > Notes, select None under Note Button Position, and click Save Changes.

Students can take notes on any of the following pages:

• Course pages
• Lesson pages
• Quiz pages
• Question pages (during a quiz)
• Quiz results pages
• Assignment pages
• Assignment submission pages

Please note that the “Take notes” button does not appear on membership pages, regular blog posts, or standard WordPress pages. Each note is automatically associated with the specific course the student is viewing when they create the note.

To take a note, students click the Take Notes button. This opens a private note-taking modal where they can enter and format their notes.

The note-taking modal includes a text editor with formatting options such as bold, italics, bulleted and numbered lists, and text alignment. Once students have finished writing and formatting their notes, they can click Save at the bottom of the modal.

Students can access, edit, delete, or search their notes via the student dashboard.

Viewing Notes

Students should navigate to the student dashboard and open the “My Notes” section.

Editing Notes

1. In the “My Notes” section, identify the note you wish to change.
2. Click the pencil icon to open the note-taking pop-up.
3. Edit your content and click the Save button.

Deleting Notes

1. In the “My Notes” section, find the note you want to remove.
2. Click the trash icon next to the note.
3. To delete multiple notes, select the checkboxes next to the notes and click the Delete Selected Notes button at the bottom of the page.

Searching Notes

1. Locate the “Search for notes…” field in the “My Notes” section.
2. Type the text you want to find.
3. Click the Search button to filter your notes.

Students’ notes are private. They are not visible within the WordPress administration dashboard. Instructors and administrators cannot view these notes unless they use a tool like the User Switching plugin to log in as the student.

If you have the LifterLMS PDFs add-on active, students can download their notes.

1. Ensure the LifterLMS PDFs add-on is installed and activated.
2. Navigate to the “My Notes” section of the student dashboard.
3. Click the download icon next to the note you wish to save.

Want to see LifterLMS Notes in action? The videos below range from a quick overview to a more detailed walkthrough of how students can take and manage notes within their courses.

Quick Overview: Allow Student Note Taking with the Notes Plugin for LifterLMS

This short overview demonstrates the core Notes experience, including how students can take and save notes while working through a course, access their notes from the student dashboard, and how site owners can choose where the Take Notes button appears.

In-Depth Demo: New LMS Student Note-Taking Demo – Notes by LifterLMS

For a more detailed look at LifterLMS Notes, this walkthrough explores the add-on as a digital notebook for each course. It demonstrates the note-taking interface, formatting options, note management from the student dashboard, button positioning, search and deletion, and answers several common questions about how Notes works.

Feature Friday: How to Use Notes

This Feature Friday demonstration provides another practical walkthrough of the student experience. It shows how notes remain associated with each course, how students can add and format notes from courses and lessons, manage them from My Notes in the dashboard, and how administrators can configure the position of the Take Notes button.