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Raven LMS Release Notes

Raven LMS continues to evolve as a secure learning, examination, certification, and learner-management platform for professional training providers, certification organizations, schools, consultants, agencies, and enterprise learning teams.

The current production package is Raven LMS 1.20.69. This release expands administrator visibility, certificate management, learner support, and credential presentation while carrying forward the broader Raven LMS improvements for secure course delivery, protected examinations, certificate automation, reporting, SCORM 1.2, AI-assisted authoring, and enterprise learning workflows.

Raven LMS - Flagship v1.20.69
Raven AI Course Publisher (Standalone Plugin) v1.6.9
Raven Anti-Cheat (Standalone Plugin) v1.1.6
Raven Certificate Builder (Standalone Plugin) v1.4.0
Raven Messaging (Standalone Plugin) v1.0.9

Latest Commercial Release

Raven LMS 1.20.69 focuses on faster day-to-day administration, stronger certificate workflows, improved learner support, and clearer operational visibility without adding unnecessary complexity to the WordPress administration experience.

Commercial Release v1.20.69 Current production release

Administrator Quick View and Learner Support

Administrators can now understand course and certificate activity directly from the WordPress list screens. Raven LMS adds compact course assignment and completion information, certificate-earned counts, and a secure Sign In As User workflow for authorized administrators who need to troubleshoot or review a learner experience.

  • Assigned learner count directly from Courses
  • Completed learner count directly from Courses
  • Certificate-earned count in Certificate Builder
  • Compact Quick View presentation
  • Administrator Sign In As User capability
  • Secure Return to Administrator workflow
  • No learner password disclosure required
  • Protected administrator capability checks
  • Existing course progress remains unchanged
  • Existing certificate records remain preserved

Certificate Builder and Credential Experience

Certificate workflows continue to move toward a unified professional credential experience, combining visual certificate design, reusable templates, course assignment, automated awarding, verification, sharing, and quick administrator reporting.

Certificate Templates

Reusable Professional Designs

Administrators can create reusable certificate designs and use the Template Library to establish consistent credential branding across courses and certification programs.

QR Verification

QR Codes on Certificates

Certificate designs can include QR-based verification so recipients, employers, customers, and credential reviewers can quickly reach the appropriate certificate verification experience.

Course Assignment

Certificate Builder Priority

When a Certificate Builder design is assigned to a course, Raven LMS treats that Builder certificate as the primary course credential while retaining compatible fallback behavior for established certificate configurations.

Automatic Awarding

Completion-Time Certificate Issuance

Eligible learners can automatically receive the assigned course certificate when Raven LMS confirms completion requirements, keeping certificate issuance connected to the authoritative course-completion workflow.

Quick View

Certificate Earned Counts

The Certificate Builder list now provides a compact Earned count so administrators can see how many users have received a particular certificate without opening multiple reporting screens.

Credential Identity

Verification and Sharing

Certificate workflows support learner-facing certificate access, verification links, professional presentation, print-friendly output, and credential sharing while preserving Raven certificate records and course relationships.

Administrator and Learner Management

The latest Raven LMS administration improvements reduce the number of screens administrators need to open while providing safer tools for learner support and operational review.

Course Administration Quick View Assignments and completion

Course Activity at a Glance

The Courses screen now provides immediate visibility into how many learners are assigned to each course and how many have completed it. The information is intentionally compact so it supports administration without turning the course list into a reporting dashboard.

  • Assigned learner total
  • Completed learner total
  • Course-specific calculation
  • Uses Raven completion logic
  • No duplicate progress system
  • Minimal administration clutter
Learner Support Sign In As User Administrator troubleshooting

Secure Learner Experience Review

Authorized Raven LMS administrators can securely enter an eligible learner account from the WordPress Users screen to investigate dashboard access, course assignments, certificates, exams, or learner-facing presentation issues without requesting or resetting the learner's password.

  • Available from WordPress Users
  • Administrator-only capability protection
  • No password exposure
  • No learner password modification
  • Protected session switching
  • Return to Administrator control
Certificate Administration Earned Credential Quick View

Certificate Adoption Visibility

Certificate Builder now shows how many users have earned each certificate directly from the certificate administration list, making it easier to review credential usage and course-to-certificate activity at a glance.

  • Per-certificate earned count
  • Compact list-table presentation
  • Connected to certificate records
  • Works with assigned courses
  • No additional reporting screen required
  • Designed for quick operational review

Current Administrator Experience

Raven LMS provides a structured WordPress administration environment for managing learners, courses, lessons, exams, certificates, reporting, communication, security, licensing, and optional enterprise modules.

Enterprise Overview

Clear Daily Administration

The Raven LMS overview emphasizes Quick Actions, Attention Required, and Recent Activity so administrators can move directly into priority tasks and current operational events.

Administrator Quick Tour

Guided Introduction

New administrators can use the Raven Quick Tour for focused navigation guidance, workflow orientation, and faster onboarding to essential LMS administration functions.

Help and Documentation

Support Without Menu Clutter

Help, troubleshooting information, system guidance, and Raven support routes remain available while keeping the primary LMS administration menu focused.

Settings and Modules

Organized Configuration

Settings are organized into practical administrative areas, while optional Raven modules can be controlled without removing core learning content or destructive database operations.

Professional Hubs

Grouped Administration Areas

Related Raven administration tools are grouped logically while maintaining compatible WordPress page registrations, permissions, bookmarks, and direct access.

Audit and Security

Controlled Administrative Actions

Sensitive administrative operations use capability controls, request validation, audit-aware workflows, and conservative defaults designed for professional learning environments.

Learning and Authoring Improvements

The current Raven LMS release line combines structured course delivery, lesson hierarchy, protected content, standards support, secure examination workflows, AI-assisted authoring, and controlled learner operations.

Course Workflow Exam Readiness Course-owned requirements

Lesson Requirements Before Exams

Lesson prerequisites for linked exams can be managed from the Course editor so the course remains the source of truth for learner readiness and exam availability.

  • Multiple lesson-requirement modes
  • Per-exam lesson selection
  • Learner-facing requirement messages
  • Required-lesson navigation
  • Dashboard prerequisite guidance
  • Migration-aware compatibility
Content Structure Sub-Lessons Nested learning content

Structured Sub-Lessons and Continuation

Lessons can contain Raven sub-lessons with parent relationships, ordering, completion tracking, required-completion rules, and continuation into the next incomplete learning item.

  • Native sub-lesson content
  • Course and lesson relationships
  • Required completion support
  • Complete and Continue navigation
  • Legacy outline conversion
  • Import and export support
Media Delivery Protected Video Lessons and sub-lessons

Privacy-Aware Video Support

Lessons and sub-lessons can use privacy-enhanced video embedding or validated self-hosted media delivered through Raven protected storage rather than exposing original private-media locations.

  • Privacy-enhanced video embedding
  • Responsive presentation
  • Controlled video formats
  • File signature validation
  • Protected private-file delivery
  • No forced autoplay
Standards Support SCORM 1.2 Optional controlled module

Secure SCORM Import, Runtime, and Reporting

Raven LMS provides optional SCORM 1.2 support with guarded package inspection, protected extraction, controlled runtime delivery, Raven completion mapping, reporting, attempt management, diagnostics, and learner recovery workflows.

  • SCORM 1.2 manifest validation
  • Archive security controls
  • Signed launch authorization
  • Controlled runtime presentation
  • Protected file delivery
  • Reporting and diagnostics
AI Authoring Raven AI Structured course creation

Course, Lesson, and Assessment Authoring

Raven AI Course Publisher supports structured drafting and controlled creation of Raven course content, including course hierarchies, lessons, sub-lessons, and assessment-support workflows with administrator review.

  • Structured course drafting
  • Course hierarchy generation
  • Lessons and sub-lessons
  • Assessment authoring support
  • Controlled generation limits
  • Administrator review workflow
Update Security Verified Delivery Commercial package protection

Secure Licensed Update Delivery

Licensed Raven LMS updates use protected package delivery, site activation state, approved HTTPS locations, and package verification controls before supported updates are installed.

  • Protected download authorization
  • HTTPS delivery requirements
  • Package checksum verification
  • Safe integrity comparison
  • Product identity checks
  • Controlled licensing workflow

Release Line Milestones

These milestones summarize major capabilities carried forward by the current Raven LMS package.

v1.20.48–v1.20.62

Certificates, Quick Views, and Learner Support

Expanded Certificate Builder integration, reusable certificate templates, QR-enabled credentials, certificate-earned visibility, course assignment and completion Quick View, secure Sign In As User support, certificate priority handling, and completion-time credential workflows.

v1.20.24–v1.20.47

Administration, Content Hierarchy, and Runtime Expansion

Expanded administrator guidance, optional modules, course-owned exam prerequisites, sub-lessons, smart continuation, protected video, SCORM 1.2, safe preview, secure updates, and AI-generated course hierarchies.

v1.20.20–v1.20.23

Course, Dashboard, and Certificate Refinement

Improved certificate precedence, safe exam linking, learner dashboards, associated-exam presentation, site-aware course labels, credential sharing, dashboard icons, and exam-status presentation.

v1.20.17–v1.20.19

AI Authoring and Migration Controls

Expanded Raven assessment authoring, strict CSV validation, simplified AI-provider settings, structured help, separate export modes, migration tools, dry-run reporting, and reversible import workflows.

v1.20.0–v1.20.16

Certificate Lifecycle and Portable Learning Content

Established completion-time certificate records, public certificate verification, enrolment types, secure import and export, native question types, migration support, and improved examination workflows.

Earlier Raven Releases

Core LMS and Learner Experience Foundation

Established Raven courses, lessons, exams, assignments, learner dashboards, transcripts, reporting, notifications, reviews, payments, certificates, registration, permissions, governance, protected content, and administration capabilities.

Current Raven Add-ons

Raven LMS can be extended with commercially supported Raven products for certificate design, AI-assisted content creation, examination protection, communication, and professional presentation.

Raven LMS Theme

Professional LMS Presentation

Provides Raven-focused layouts, responsive learner interfaces, course presentation, dashboard styling, branding controls, and visual enhancements while keeping core LMS functionality independent from the theme.

Raven AI Course Publisher v1.6.9

AI-Assisted Raven Authoring

Supports structured course creation, learning hierarchies, lessons, sub-lessons, assessment support, controlled publishing, provider configuration, secure credentials, and administrator review.

Raven Certificate Builder v1.1.8

Professional Certificate Design

Supports reusable certificate templates, visual credential design, course assignment, automatic certificate workflows, QR verification, real-learner previews, downloadable output, verification, sharing, and certificate-earned Quick View.

Raven Messaging

Private Learner Communication

Provides private learner and instructor communication, course-related messaging, privacy-aware data controls, and configurable management of stored conversations.

Current product direction

Raven LMS is being developed as a secure, commercially supported learning, examination, and certification platform for organizations that need structured learning content, learner management, controlled assessments, verified professional credentials, certificate automation, reporting, protected learning materials, standards-based content, privacy controls, commercial add-ons, and customer-managed payment integrations inside WordPress.

Future releases will continue to focus on administrator efficiency, certificate and credential capabilities, secure update delivery, performance, accessibility, enterprise deployment controls, reporting, learning-content portability, operational resilience, licensing reliability, and practical improvements requested by Raven LMS customers.

Requires WordPress 6.0 or later
Requires PHP 7.4 or later
Platform WordPress
Current Release Raven LMS 1.20.69