Headless LMS for In App Training
Use Mini Course Generator’s headless LMS to deliver frictionless in app training. By utilizing our widgets and secure in-app authentication, present your customer academy directly inside your web application for seamless embedded learning.
Meet your users where they are for product knowledge training, instead of sending them to external portals.
No credit card required
No credit card required
In app training, simplified.
Deliver courses and certificates within your product’s dashboard for seamless product training. Activate your customer academy within a few seconds without any coding.
Plug & Play Implementation
Just add a simple .js code snippet to your application; no additional deployment time required. Our headless LMS architecture handles all user integration, ensuring no re-login and instant user-based analytics. LMS integration can not be easier.
Easiest E-learning Authoring
No instructional design experience? No problem. We simplify creating elearning content with an intuitive drag & drop block editor, AI Course Creator, AI Interaction Builder, and other amazing features.
Micro-credentialing
Recognize user achievements by issuing certificates. Encourage users to share their certificates on social media, boosting your brand visibility while driving higher product engagement.
Seamless Customer Education
No Re-Login Required (SSO)
Recognize logged-in users instantly. Our solution for LMS integration authenticates users in the background, so they never have to enter credentials twice to access learning content.
Contextual Training
Personalized Learning
Embedded Learning That Matches Your UI
Sidebar Widget
Modal Widget
A focused pop-up window, perfect for delivering critical product knowledge
Embed link Widget
Trigger training content from any existing button or link within your navigation menu
Direct link Widget
Open specific courses or collections directly via a URL structure that respects your in-app authentication
Suitable for Mobile Apps and Custom Integrations
Do you need a customer academy inside a native mobile app or a complex custom environment? As a flexible headless LMS, we cover that, too.
While widgets are no-code, our robust API allows for advanced integration scenarios. With backend coding, you can fully customize how customer education software interacts with your specific web and mobile application.
Special solution for Intercom customers
Intercom App for Customer Education
Install the Mini Course Generator app from the Intercom App Store to provide a customer academy directly inside the Intercom Messenger. It is the only Intercom App entirely focused on customer education that can be named as “LMS in Intercom Messenger”.
Frequently Asked Questions About Headless LMS and In App Training
What is a Headless LMS?
Headless LMS is a learning technology that decouples the backend (where content is managed) from the frontend (where content is consumed). Unlike traditional LMSs that force users to a specific destination, a headless approach allows you to serve training content directly within your own application via API or widgets. Mini Course Generator powers this LMS integration and in-app training experience through:
- Embedded Widgets: Display courses natively within your UI.
- In-App Authentication: Open to using in native mobile applications and custom integrations
Why is customer education important?
Customer education is the primary driver of retention and churn reduction for SaaS products. By providing accessible product knowledge training, you empower users to realize value faster (Time-to-Value). Effective education strategies turn confused users into power users, significantly lowering support ticket volume and increasing customer lifetime value (LTV).
How to increase product adoption?
To increase product adoption, you must remove the friction between the user and the learning material. SaaS training best practices suggest that learning should happen “in the flow of work.” By utilizing embedded learning tools like Mini Course Generator, you place the training exactly where the user is struggling, ensuring they master features without leaving the application.
Is headless LMS the right fit for your learning strategy?
A headless LMS is the ideal choice if your goal is to provide a seamless user experience (UX) without building an education platform from scratch. It is best suited for companies that want to host a customer academy inside their product, mobile app, or custom web portal, rather than sending users to a generic, external 3rd party URL.
Headless LMS vs. Traditional LMS: What is the difference?
A traditional LMS is a “destination”—users must leave your app, log in to a separate portal, and consume content there. A headless LMS is an “integration”—it pushes the content into the environment the user is already in. For SaaS customer training, the headless approach is superior because it maintains the user’s focus on your product.
