LearnDash LMS: Generate Course Lessons with ChatGPT (Generative AI)

Want an easier way to generate LearnDash LMS course lessons with AI?

Creating course lessons takes time. You have to gather information, organize your thoughts, and write engaging content. But what if you could speed up the process without losing quality? By using WP Sheet Editor – AI, you can generate lesson content based on your course titles, helping you build structured, informative lessons in minutes.

WP Sheet Editor – AI lets you create lesson drafts quickly while keeping full control over the final content. You can use AI to generate ideas, structure your lessons, and refine the text to match your teaching style. This means you spend less time writing and more time enhancing the learning experience for your students.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to use AI within WP Sheet Editor to generate LearnDash LMS course lessons efficiently. You’ll learn how to create multiple lessons at once, edit them to fit your needs, and ensure they provide real value to your students.

Tools to generate LearnDash lessons with AI

Note: We understand you already have the LearnDash LMS plugin installed and activated on your WordPress site. So here’s what you need besides LearnDash:

1- WP Sheet Editor – Courses

This plugin allows you to view and manage courses from different LMS plugins (LearnPress, Tutor LMS, LearnDash, and others) using an intuitive spreadsheet with advanced search, bulk edit, export, and import tools. If you already have it, you can skip this.

2- WP Sheet Editor – AI

This is a WordPress AI assistant service that brings the power of generative AI to every WP Sheet Editor spreadsheet. You can connect with different AI providers and LLMs, and integrate the use of artificial intelligence in all spreadsheets of the WP Sheet Editor suite.

3- External API provider

The AI functionality in WP Sheet Editor relies on an external API like OpenAI, OpenRouter, etc. You’ll need an account with the provider and an API key to connect.

WP Sheet Editor – AI is compatible with these AI providers:

• OpenAI for text and images (more info here)
• OpenRouter (more info here)
• Any other provider and model that uses the same format as OpenAI.

Follow this guide to learn how to set up AI providers and models in WP Sheet Editor – AI.

Prompt for generating lessons with AI

Here’s a prompt you can use in order to generate lessons based on the lesson title and course name. Please note that you need to first create the empty lessons with clear title for this prompt to work correctly.

Generate a detailed lesson in clean HTML format, suitable for inserting into a TinyMCE editor. The lesson content shoul be based on the $Title$ and $Course$. The lesson should begin with an introductory paragraph (without any heading) that explains the importance of the topic. Then, provide step-by-step explanations using subheadings (<h2>, <h3>), relevant examples, and practical applications. Conclude with a summary or key takeaways. Use a clean HTML structure with <p>, <ul>, <ol>, <h2>, <h3>, and <strong> tags where necessary. No inline CSS, no unnecessary formatting, and do not add any Markdown code block markers. The lesson must start directly with the introductory paragraph, without any heading before it.

How to create a global prompt

WP Sheet Editor – AI allows you to save your prompts to reuse them quickly in WP Sheet Editor. This way, you don’t have to type the prompts every time you want to use them.

To create a global prompt:

• Go to WP Sheet Editor > AI > Settings > Prompts.
• Click on Add new.
• Enter a name that is easy to remember in the Name field.
• Enter the prompt text in the Prompt field. You can add the prompt we shared above.
• Click on Save.

After saving the prompt, you’ll see an auto generated slug, which you can use as a shortcut to this prompt in the LearnDash lessons spreadsheet. Just type ai:prompt-slug, replacing “prompt-slug” with the actual prompt slug.

Method 1: Generate course lessons in the spreadsheet

To generate content for your lessons with AI, start by opening the lessons spreadsheet. Go to WP Sheet Editor > Edit lessons. You’ll see all lessons displayed in the spreadsheet.

Now you can start generating lessons’ content based on the title and course name in spreadsheet cells. To do this, you have at least two options:

1. You can use a full prompt: Just type ai:prompt, replacing “prompt” with the actual full prompt.
2. You can use a global prompt: To use a global prompt that you have previously saved, you need to type ai:prompt-slug, replacing “prompt-slug” with the actual prompt slug. In this case, for example, since the slug of our global prompt is “lesson”, we need to type ai:lesson.

The AI will start processing your request and creating your lesson, so you will see a loading icon in the spreadsheet cell.

As you can see, we have generated a course lesson using AI. You can click in the Edit button in the cell to open the text editor as a popup.

Once you open the lesson content in a popup, you will be able to make all the changes you want in order to get the lesson ready to be published.

You can also generate multiple lessons by pasting the same prompt or prompt shortcut in multiple cells at once.

We have generated multiple lessons with AI, so we will save the changes by now. As you can see, generating content for LearnDash course lessons is quick and easy with WP Sheet Editor – AI. You can speed up the process of writing entire course curriculums and lessons.

Method 2: Generate course lessons in bulk

If you don’t want to create lessons one by one, use the Bulk Edit tool. It lets you edit any field in hundreds or thousands of lessons at once.

In this example, we will search for all lessons with empty content and by specific course. We will find all lessons that belong to the Fundamentals of SEO course and have empty lesson content.

Let’s start by opening the Search tool.

Now you need to select these values in the search tool:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox.
• Filter 1:
  • Field: Course (course_id)
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Enter the course ID here.
• Click on Add new to add a new filter.
• Filter 2:
  • Field: Content
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Leave this field empty.
• Click on Run search.

After filtering the lessons by course and with empty content, you need to open the Bulk Edit tool.

And once you’re in the Bulk Edit tool, you need to select these values to generate course lessons in bulk:

• Select the rows that you want to update: Edit all the rows from my current search
• What field do you want to edit: Content
• Select type of edit: Here you have two options:
  • First option: You can select a pre-saved global prompt. For example, we will select our lesson prompt, displayed as AI command: Lesson. This way, you don’t have to type the prompt.
  • Second option: You can select AI Prompt, and you can paste or type the full prompt.
• AI Provider: If you have configured multiple providers, you can select the one you want to use to complete this task. In this example, we will use the OpenRouter provider and the GPT 4o mini model.
• You can click on Show preview to see the result before saving the changes.
• Now you can click on Execute Now

Generating LearnDash LMS lessons with ChatGPT or other LLMs is easy with WP Sheet Editor – AI. Now we not only make it easy to edit courses, lessons and other post types in a spreadsheet (WP Sheet Editor – Courses), but you can integrate artificial intelligence with WP Sheet Editor – AI and completely simplify the creation and management of online courses.