Academy Elementor Addons is a free plugin that connects Academy LMS with Elementor Page Builder. It adds a set of course widgets so you can design your course pages, course archive page, and any other page (dashboard, registration, login) visually, without writing code.
Note: This is a separate, free plugin (not part of Academy LMS core). It needs both Elementor Page Builder and Academy LMS active to work.
Step 1: Install and activate the addon
Go to Plugins → Add New, search for “Academy Elementor Addons”, then click Install Now and Activate. Once active, it appears in your admin menu as Academy EA, alongside Elementor in the sidebar.
Step 2: Open the Template Builder
Click Academy EA → Template Builder in the admin menu. This opens a list of your course design templates.
On activation, the plugin creates 3 ready-made templates for the course single page: Course Single Demo One, Course Single Demo Two, and Course Single Demo Three. The list shows a Type column (Course Single or Course Archive) and a Default column with a Yes/No switch for each template.
Step 3: Create a template
Click Add New Template. In the popup, fill in:
Click Save Settings, then Edit With Elementor to open the template in the Elementor editor.
Step 4: Design with Academy Widgets
From Academy Elementor Addon click on Edit with elementor.
A Course Single template provides 21 widgets to build your course page:
Drag any widget onto the canvas to place it, then use the panel on the left to style it.
A Course Archive template uses 2 dedicated widgets: Course Grid (the list of course cards) and Course Filters (search and filter controls for the list). Drag the Course Grid widget onto the canvas and it immediately shows your published courses; the settings panel lets you set the number of columns and pagination, and the Course Query section lets you narrow which courses appear.
Click Publish when you’re done, or the widgets you placed won’t appear on the live site.
Step 5: Set a template as default
Back on the Template Builder list, use the Default column’s Yes/No switch on any template to make it the active one for its type (Course Single or Course Archive). Only one template per type can be default at a time.
Step 6: Add widgets to any other page
The widgets in the Academy Widgets category aren’t limited to course templates. Open any page with Edit with Elementor (for example, Pages → Dashboard) and drag in: User Dashboard, Student/Instructor Registration, Course Grid, Course Filters, Course Carousel, Login Form, Course Enroll Form, Curriculum Topbar, Curriculum Sidebar, or Course Search.
How it looks on the frontend
A published Course Single template renders on every course’s page, using your site’s real course data (title, price, description, curriculum and more).
A published Course Archive template renders on the course archive, showing your courses as cards through the Course Grid widget.
Troubleshooting
If you set a Course Archive template as default but don’t see it on your site’s course listing page, check whether a static Courses page already exists at the same URL. Academy LMS creates a “Courses” page by default during setup, and on WordPress a Page takes priority over a post type’s archive URL when both would resolve to the same address. In that case, either remove or rename the static Courses page, or link to the course archive URL directly.