I would like to have an option for students to take notes while they watch the lesson video. They would then be able to submit those notes as part of their coursework. Since I do regular notebook checks anyway I think this could streamline things some. Ideally, these notes would auto-backup to the database so they'd be restored if a user's browser crashed and they needed to return to the lesson. I've seen these note-taking features before on other websites, but I'm not sure how to add them to my site. You can print, email, or save the notes to your computer.

I love the idea to have a place for students to ask instructors questions. What I would like to see is a "Q/A" section for each module or lesson (depending on how you want to do your Q/A).

This QA section would allow students to post questions and vote up questions if they have similar questions. The students should be able to post test, images (upload), videos (vimeo, youtube), .pdf, .doc, .pages, or whatever you want to allow them to upload.

There should be an option to allow students to answer other student questions or only allow instructors to answer questions.

Instructors should be able to answer the question with text, image (upload), video (youtube, vimeo), or webcam capture direct from the browser.

Of course they should still have the ability to ask private questions if the instructor wishes for them to have that ability.

Many of our courses have multiple instructors or one instructor and then others who are in charge of answering questions (co-instructors). You should be able to assign instructor(s) to each course. This should not be a WP role as I need to assign different roles for different reasons other than Sensei capabilities.

So I would like a better grade book so that way I can get rid of my current grading system. I need to be able to easily type in grades where there would be classes, each class has students, and then there would be sort of like an excel sheet enter in the grades that aren't done in sensei. I still have normal graded assignments that I need to put in. I don't want to create lessons either to just type in a grade. Attendance would be pretty nice too, but lets take this one step at a time I guess.

Now that we have Buddypress integration (yay!), the final step is to kick-start those empty forums with the discussion already posted by students to existing Sensei lessons.

I've tried a plugin called "bbPress Post Topics" which works beautifully for blog posts. It creates a new "topic" for any post in a forum of your choice, then converts all post comments to "replies" in that forum topic.

It even allows for the appropriate topic to replace the default WP comments system at the end of each post.

The trouble is, it doesn't appear to work with Sensei lessons, I'm guessing because they're an unsupported post type (?).

Some way to accomplish this would be grand. As I alluded to above, the downside of launching new forums is that they start off so... empty. Leveraging existing discussions to "fill out" the new forum system would make a better first impression on new students.

Bumping this idea. We should have the ability to sell individual lessons for a cheaper price point. Original:

"We are looking for a solution where we can sell independent lessons inside a course where the course outline is divided into lessons and students can buy any lesson they want.
We have a huge course where we will divide the course into lessons, and inside these lessons there will be the topics (it's three levels - Course -> Lesson -> Topics) sensei only has two levels (Course ->Lessons).
We only need to show a course, and the lessons under that course, and offer the students the ability to either buy the whole course or the individual lessons inside the course.
For example, a course has four lessons, we need to have the opportunity to either sell the whole course for $80 or the individual lesson for $20. Users can choose. "