Title: Remove &#8211; Mark Lesson Complete
Last modified: November 26, 2016

---

# Remove – Mark Lesson Complete

 *  Resolved [alkanadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkanadi/)
 * (@alkanadi)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/)
 * How can I get rid of the “Mark Lesson as Complete” button? I assume the best 
   way is to add something to functions.php. Thanks

Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)

 *  [jurasjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jurasjo/)
 * (@jurasjo)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-8483136)
 * Maybe this helps:
 * `remove_action( 'lifterlms_single_lesson_after_summary', 'lifterlms_template_complete_lesson_link',
   10 )`
 *  [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
 * (@thomasplevy)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-8490550)
 * [@alkanadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkanadi/),
 * [@jurasjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jurasjo/)’s solution will work
   but please take note:
 * you will not see or be able to track any student progress
    you will not be able
   to trigger engagements based off or course, lesson, section, or track completion(
   emails, certificates, achievements) you will not be able to utilize prerequisites
   of any kind
 * Disable at your own risk!
 * You can add the code from [@jurasjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jurasjo/)’
   s post to your theme’s functions.php file or to a custom plugin.
 * Take care,
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/).
      Reason: where does the code go?
 *  Thread Starter [alkanadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkanadi/)
 * (@alkanadi)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-8496355)
 * [@thomasplevy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/) I want to keep
   engagements and student progress. I will be marking lessons as complete programmatically
   according to these instructions: [https://gist.github.com/thomasplevy/672487a618f7c8d92605ceb46ff86ecb](https://gist.github.com/thomasplevy/672487a618f7c8d92605ceb46ff86ecb)
 * When you say that engagements and student progress won’t work, is that assuming
   that lessons never get marked as complete? If so, is there a better solution 
   for getting rid of that button? For example, can I skrink it to the size of 1
   pixel? There must be a way.
 *  [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
 * (@thomasplevy)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-8504210)
 * [@alkanadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkanadi/),
 * As long as things are programmatically marked as complete you’re fine to remove
   the button.
 * The removal without the solution you’re planning is a bad idea, I just wanted
   to make sure that was clear.
 * Good luck!
 *  [yelto1966](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yelto1966/)
 * (@yelto1966)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-9117003)
 * However thomasplevy this is a pointless add to a otherwise very good app… I have
   a lot of corporate clients you want there staff to take this course.. Staff login
   click mark complete move on to test… The Company don’t get what they are paying
   for and we have no way of stopping staff doing it… Stops a lot of businesses 
   using my site I have to redirect them to something else.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [yelto1966](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yelto1966/).
 *  [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
 * (@thomasplevy)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-9119205)
 * [@yelto1966](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yelto1966/),
 * I disagree that having mark as complete functionality is pointless. It may not
   make sense for your particular needs but if I were to remove mark as complete
   functionality from the plugin I’d have a few thousand users screaming at me because
   they want and need to know what their student’s progress looks like.
 * If you want to remove it it’s very easy to do!
 *  Thread Starter [alkanadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkanadi/)
 * (@alkanadi)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-9119978)
 * [@thomasplevy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
    That is so 
   true. The only reason I am using this plugin is so students can keep track of
   their progress. That is the main point of a LMS.
 *  [yelto1966](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yelto1966/)
 * (@yelto1966)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-9120094)
 * Yes I agree we need to keep track of the learner but what are you tracking.. 
   that I came to the page clicked completed and received a certificate.. If the
   learner was forced by the system to complete the course, i.e. watch the video
   or do the tin can then you are tracking something i.e. that the learning took
   place.. If I was given a certificate for login to something I would be professor
   Hawkins equal…
 *  [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
 * (@thomasplevy)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-9135055)
 * [@yelto1966](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yelto1966/),
 * You’re correct that this isn’t perfect. We intend to build video and audio embed
   tracking with various providers but I haven’t been able to allocate any time 
   to do so yet. I still think that this isn’t a useless feature and as we’ve already
   noted you can disable it if you don’t find it useful for your particular needs.
 * If you have any other thoughts or feedback you can always submit feature request
   at [https://lifterlms.com/contact](https://lifterlms.com/contact)
 * Thanks,

Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)

The topic ‘Remove – Mark Lesson Complete’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/lifterlms/assets/icon.svg?rev=2034507)
 * [LifterLMS - WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lifterlms/reviews/)

 * 9 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-mark-lesson-complete/#post-9135055)
 * Status: resolved