A faster, more complete exam platform than LearnDash — everything already built in.
Turgor LMS is one complete system — courses, quizzes, timed competitive exams with negative marking, certificates, and a student dashboard, all native and included in one price. Import your existing courses in one click, or start fresh.
Verified migration from LearnDash
Courses, quizzes, questions, student enrollments, progress & certificates — imported and checked in one click.
Not ready to move off LearnDash yet? These three add-ons still work — but see why most people don't need to bother.
Negative marking
Per-topic, plus "evaluate first N answered" scoring
Fullscreen lockdown
Exits logged as violations, auto-submits after 3
Student analytics
One shortcode: scores, percentiles & Chart.js graphs
Bulk question import
Excel, Word, JSON, plus live Google Sheets sync
Live analytics
Chart.js dashboards — completion, scores, engagement
Lean & fast
A fraction of the DB footprint of legacy LMS plugins
Certificates, automatic
PDF certs generated and emailed on completion
One-click migration
Courses, quizzes & progress from LearnDash, verified before go-live
The screens your students actually use
Every screen below is native to Turgor LMS — progress tracking, courses, performance analytics, and the full timed-exam experience, all in one plugin.
Your score: -0.2% · Avg: -0.1%
| Test | Date | Score | Correct/Wrong | Skipped | Class avg | Percentile | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | -0.2% | 0 / 1 | 143 | -0.1% | 46th | TopicsReview |
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | -1% | 0 / 4 | 140 | -0.1% | 15th | TopicsReview |
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | 0% | 0 / 0 | 144 | -0.1% | 77th | TopicsReview |
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | 0.5% | 2 / 6 | 136 | -0.1% | 92nd | TopicsReview |
Everything a competitive-exam platform needs — none of which stock LearnDash has.
LearnDash is built for courses, not competitive exams — that's not a criticism, it's just not what its quiz engine was designed to do. Negative marking, fullscreen lockdown, a real student dashboard, and bulk question import don't exist in LearnDash on their own. In Turgor LMS, they're native.
| Turgor LMS | LearnDash | |
|---|---|---|
| Courses & lessons | Included | Included |
| Certificates | Included | Included |
| Setup time | Live in one afternoon, sensible defaults | 40+ settings pages before your first course |
| Speed & database footprint | Lean by design — minimal DB footprint | Legacy architecture — extra DB writes per quiz attempt |
| Negative marking | Native, per-topic | Not available |
| Fullscreen exam lockdown | Native, strike-based auto-submit | Not available |
| Student dashboard | Streaks, heatmap, weak-lesson detection | Not available |
| Admin analytics | Live Chart.js dashboards, built in | No built-in equivalent |
| Bulk question import | Excel, Word, live Google Sheets sync | Manual entry only |
| Exam engine | Purpose-built for timed competitive exams | General course-quiz engine |
| Migration from LearnDash | 100% verified, one-click import wizard | — (source platform) |
| Price | From $59 one-time, everything above included | Separate license; exam features not included |
Staying on LearnDash for now? Exam Mode, Student Dashboard, and Quiz Toolkit are three separate plugins built for it — sold individually, not part of Turgor LMS.
See the add-ons →The best-featured exam platform for WordPress, full stop.
Turgor LMS is a complete, standalone course platform — courses, quizzes, competitive exams, certificates, and everything the add-on plugins do, natively, in one system. Nothing to install alongside it, nothing sold separately. Migrate every course, quiz, and student's progress from LearnDash in one click, or start fresh with no LearnDash at all.
Every feature, one system
Negative marking, fullscreen lockdown, the student dashboard, bulk question import — all native. Nothing extra to buy, install, or keep updated.
Built exam-first, not retrofitted
LearnDash's quiz engine wasn't designed for competitive exams. Turgor LMS was designed for it, from the schema up.
100% working migration
Courses, lessons, quizzes, questions, enrollments, progress, and certificates — verified against the original data before you go live.
Pay once, from $59
First 100 customers get 2 years of updates included (1 year after); renewable anytime either way. The plugin never stops working.
Pay once. Use it for as long as you run the site.
Still running LearnDash and not moving off it yet?
These three plugins add the exam mechanics LearnDash's own quiz engine doesn't have. They work well on their own — they're also exactly what Turgor LMS builds in natively, faster, as one system, above.
Exam Mode
$19- Per-topic negative marking, plus "evaluate first N answered" scoring
- Fullscreen lockdown — exits logged, auto-submits after 3
Student Dashboard
$19- One shortcode: scores, percentiles & Chart.js graphs
- Automatic "weak lessons" callout — no manual tagging
Quiz Toolkit
$19- Import from Excel, Word or JSON — re-import updates, doesn't duplicate
- Live Google Sheets & Docs sync, scheduled or on-demand
Single Plugin
- Pick any 1 of the 3 add-ons
- For your existing LearnDash setup
- 2 years of updates* — see offer above
- 1 production site
All-Access Bundle
- Exam Mode + Dashboard + Toolkit
- 14% off buying separately
- 2 years of updates* — see offer above
- 1 production site
*Offer terms: the first 100 customers across Turgor LMS's one-time tiers (Single Site, Agency Starter), Single Plugin, and All-Access Bundle get 2 years of updates included; after that, 1 year (renewable anytime, same as today). Agency Unlimited isn't part of this offer — it's a $349/year subscription, not a one-time purchase with an included update window.
From spreadsheet to scorecard
Load your question bank
Import from Excel, Word, or a live Google Sheet, tagged by category as they come in — or point it at a shared doc and let scheduled sync keep it current.
Assemble the exam
Pull your quizzes together into one timed paper with topic tabs, set negative marking per topic, and turn on fullscreen lockdown.
Students see real results
Every attempt lands in a dashboard with percentile, streaks, an activity heatmap, and an automatic callout for lessons a student is falling behind on.
Built by people who ran exam platforms, too
These plugins started as fixes for our own mock-test site — down to the exact fullscreen-lockdown and negative-marking mechanics competitive exams actually use. That's still how we prioritize what gets built next.
Negative marking done properly
Set a different penalty per topic, exactly how SSC, banking, and UGC/CSIR NET papers actually score.
Real exam-day lockdown
Fullscreen enforcement with a strike-based auto-submit — not just a countdown timer bolted onto a normal quiz.
Support from the people who built it
No outsourced ticket queue — questions about sync schedules or negative-marking edge cases go straight to the developers.
Plays well with LearnDash itself
Exam results sync back into LearnDash's own completion data, so course progress, certificates, and points/badges add-ons keep working.
Trusted by coaching institutes running live mock tests
"Negative marking that actually matches the real exam format made our mock tests feel legitimate for the first time. Students stopped asking if the scores were 'real.'"
"We imported three years of banking and SSC question banks with Quiz Toolkit in an afternoon. That was a week of data entry before."
"The Student Dashboard alone changed how parents see us during admission counselling — it looks like a real exam portal, not a WordPress plugin."
Ready for the exam features LearnDash was never built to have?
Still need the LearnDash add-ons? Browse Exam Mode, Student Dashboard & Quiz Toolkit →