175: How Thomas Levy and Chris Badgett Solve Technology Problems for Course Builders

Thomas Patrick Levy from the core of the codeBOX team joins us on this episode of LMScast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. Chris and Thomas dive into the approach they take when developing LifterLMS and building products around it. Reducing the friction in the course creation process is a key vision for LifterLMS. Chris outlines how important it is to LifterLMS development to create the most efficient process for you as the course builder, but even more importantly for your students. WordPress is a great platform with many awesome functionality opportunities via different themes and plugins. It is important to have good hosting to cover the necessary functionality pieces that your WordPress site needs to have in order to run LifterLMS smoothly. Thomas get into some of the details as to why your hosting is important, and what specific things your host needs to do to ensure your site runs smoothly. The course builder is one of the really novel things about LifterLMS. The course builder is flexible so you can adjust your course layout to fit your teaching style, where you wouldn’t have as much wiggle room with a hosted course creation platform. Thomas and Chris really discuss the evolution and origins of the course builder from the start of LifterLMS. Thomas shares some of the different aspects of LifterLMS from a developer’s standpoint. He talks about why he makes some of the decisions he does with the platform for functionality, and what his approach is to modifying aspects of the platform. Chris and Thomas talk about all of this and more in this episode of LMScast. Head over to LifterLMS.com to learn about new updates and the add-ons that are available for LifterLMS.