Front End Faculty
Instructors who never see the WordPress admin.
Faculty create and manage courses, review learner progress, and pull their own reports, all from the front end of your platform under your design.
The learning lifecycle
Design
>
Sequence
>
Practice
>
Prove
The admin backend is where good instructors give up
Available now as custom development.
What faculty can do
Everything available to you.
Scoped by permission level. You decide how much each role gets.
Content
Build
- Create and edit their own courses, lessons, and topics
- Upload video, documents, and assets
- Build quizzes and pull from quiz banks
- Set their own prerequisites within a course they own
Learners
Teach
- See who is enrolled and how far along they are
- View quiz results and where people are getting stuck
- Message learners individually or as a cohort
- Sign off on steps that require faculty approval
Reporting
Measure
- Progress and completion reports for their own cohorts
- Engagement data pulled from RPM
- Export for coaching conversations and reviews
Who gets what
Permission levels
- Owner: everything
- Faculty: their own courses and their own learners
- Coach: learners only, no content creation
- Assistant: view and message, no editing
Deliberately
What they never touch
- The WordPress admin
- Plugin settings, themes, or site configuration
- Other instructors' courses
- Billing, membership tiers, or platform-wide access rules
Worked example
Onboarding a new coach
Fifteen minutes, no admin login issued, no training on WordPress.
New faculty member
Day one
Design
You assign the Faculty role
A CRM tag does it. No user role editing, no plugin configuration.
Design
She logs in and sees a faculty area, not wp-admin
Same design as the rest of your platform, because it is the rest of your platform.
Design
She builds her first course from the front end
Modules, lessons, and a quiz drawn from an existing bank.
Sequence
Her cohort is assigned by tag
She sees her twenty learners and nobody else.
Prove
Week two: she spots three learners stalled on the same lesson
Which is a content problem she can fix herself, today, without filing a ticket.
Recipes
Three you could build this afternoon.
Give coaches learners without giving them content
When
Only if
Then
Let faculty fix their own content
When
Only if
Then
Scope reporting to their own cohort
When
Only if
Then
Before you build
Three things worth knowing.
Note
Decide permission levels before you invite anybody. Widening access later is easy, narrowing it after someone has been using it is not.
Note
Faculty need to see where learners get stuck, not just who completed. Completion rates hide the lesson that is broken.
Note
This is the feature that makes a platform scale past one teacher. Until instructors can work without you, you are the bottleneck.
The rest of LMS
Front End Faculty is one of 5 parts.
Learner Journey
Advanced Access
Front End Faculty
Quiz Banks
Flash Cards
Put Front End Faculty to work.
Tell us what you are trying to get members to do, and we will show you the Flow that does it.