AcademyPress structures online learning as courses, lessons and learner enrolments on top of WordPress. Course content lives in custom post types, learner progress is stored as usermeta keyed by user_id with lesson and course completion flags, and enrolment records connect users to courses with date stamps. The plugin surfaces this through per-course screens and per-learner profiles, which is right for editing a course and wrong for understanding the academy as a whole.

SleekView Charts reads the AcademyPress posts and usermeta and renders the result as chart cards. A Number card counts active learners across the academy. A Pie shows the completion-status mix (in progress, completed, lapsed) so academy operators see whether the cohort is moving. A Bar ranks courses by enrolment count for the catalogue review. An Area trends enrolments per day so launch campaigns or new-course rollouts become visible.

Because the cards read the data AcademyPress already writes, no separate analytics tool is bolted on. Filters on the table view (date ranges, course, completion status) carry across to the chart view, so a single-course or last-30-days dashboard narrows every card in one click.

AcademyPress already captures the data an academy operator needs: who enrolled, in which course, on what date and how far they got. The default surface places that data inside per-course and per-learner screens, which is right for editing a syllabus and unhelpful for almost everything operators do at the cohort level. A KPI for active learners anchors monthly reports, a top-courses Bar produces real catalogue decisions, a completion-status Pie surfaces whether the cohort is converting and an Area on enrolment_date tells the team whether a launch actually moved the curve.

Same enrolment rows, same status flags, completely different decision posture. The charts render the academy the plugin already runs as a dashboard, which is the difference between knowing courses exist and knowing how the academy is doing this quarter.