LearnDash Instructor Role lets a multi-author programme assign courses to specific instructors. The role grants admin access to the courses an instructor owns and hides the rest of the catalogue. Operationally, an instructor in this role authors courses, runs assessments and reviews learner progress, but the platform produces no visual summary of how their corner of the catalogue performs against the rest.

The data is already in WordPress. Course ownership lives on sfwd-courses as post_author, joined to wp_users for the instructor name. Learner activity lives in learndash_user_activity with a course_id that resolves back to the same authored course. The join is two columns wide. Surfacing it as a chart is a configuration question, not a development one.

SleekView Charts reads both sides directly. A Number card counts active courses per instructor by filtering sfwd-courses on post_author. A Pie splits enrolment volume across instructors. A Bar ranks instructors by completion count. An Area trends enrolments per instructor over time. The programme owner sees in seconds which instructor carries the catalogue, which one is quietly growing and which one is sitting on dormant courses without a single completion this quarter.

A multi-author LearnDash programme rapidly grows past the point where a single course admin holds the operational picture in their head. Instructor Role solves the access question by gating each author to their own courses, but it leaves the comparison question unanswered. Which author drives the catalogue.

Whose courses produce the most completions per enrolment. Whose backlog is shrinking and whose is silently growing without producing learner activity. Putting the post_author join on a dashboard collapses the spreadsheet a programme owner used to maintain into a four-card view that updates against live data.

The instructors see their own slice and feel ownership of the numbers, the programme owner sees the comparative view and can plan content investment from real volume rather than from memory. Same WordPress users and the same LearnDash activity rows, two new operational habits.