Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial companies and individuals are finding new opportunities to profit from areas like providing online courses and e-learning.
e-Learning is based on the concept of distance learning, where students have no face-to-face interaction with the teacher or trainer.
The eTraining Industry Is Growing
e-Learning course sites like Udemy.com show that the e-Training industry is growing at a significant rate every year.
Udemy.com provides 30,000+ ecourses covery every subject imaginable, from office productivity and career development, to courses on better parenting and improving your lifestyle, etc …
(Udemy.com offers over 30,000 courses online on every topic imaginable!)
The fact that the eTraining industry is growing is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for businesses that have something valuable that can help transform the lives of others.
eTraining – Benefits And Challenges
The internet provides benefits and opportunities for creating online training courses, but there are also a number of challenges.:
- Working out delivery methods,
- Using familiar tools and technologies that learners can use immediately to get trained,
- Ensuring consistent standards are used throughout content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Grading student scores,
- Generating useful reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include the lack of human contact, boredom and potential lack of motivation, loss of focus, etc.
Online Learning – A World Of Possibilities
If you are a digital product creator, creating ecourses that help people learn commercial subjects in areas of strong interest is a great way to grow a list or develop an online stream of revenue. Creating products is one of the best ways to attract customers, as well as establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost every imaginable topic can be taught online.
(Got an interest or business built around commercial photography, gardening or writing sales copy? Turn it into an e-course!)
The problem is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. Chances are, however, that if you have been online for a while, you already have the building blocks of great content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
If you’re searching for an inexpensive way to create ecourses and your site is built using WordPress, then there’s a powerful plugin that can help you.
Presenting …
WPCourseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin
Plugin Description
WPCourseware is a leading WordPress course creation plugin.
(WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
Thousands of WordPress sites use WP Courseware. The plugin makes creating e-learning courses in WordPress very simple.
A training course in WPCourseware comprises of training modules and modules are built using course units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. The plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you add new training courses, edit modules and units, add quiz questions, edit settings, import/export course information, modify training certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WPCourseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, allowing users to view their own course progress …
(WPCourseware Widget)
You can completely configure and customize all courses.
For example, you can choose whether course participants must complete a course unit before they are allowed to progress to the next unit …
(Configure your course settings to suit your needs)
You can see an overview of all training courses inside the admin dashboard and perform a number of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View training course information inside the admin dashboard)
If you already understand how WordPress works, you can create training courses very quickly using familiar interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize user messages and notifications, issue certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting options from drop-down menus, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Easily edit your course options)
Adding training modules and units is as simple as adding and editing WordPress posts. You can include text, images, videos, and any other kind of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can order your content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” section …
(Order Course Modules & Units settings area)
When you have finished adding content to your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a list of your course units in the “Course Units” section …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. You can use shortcodes to insert course and module information into pages …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
Shortcodes let you add course information to your pages and manage all of your course details from your dashboard …
(Create professional training courses with WP Courseware)
After publishing your etraining product, users must log in and have permission to access your training content …
(Users must log in and have permission to view your training content)
To learn more about this plugin go here: WP Courseware
Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using WP Courseware to create professional courses online on your WordPress website:
Quick Installation
WPCourseware is really easy to install. Simply upload a zip file that contains the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your admin user login and activate.
Create Courses Quickly And Easily
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create training courses fast using familiar interfaces and functionality.
Just create a new course, module, or course unit with content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to arrange the course and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Expandability
The plugin lets you create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of users to courses.
Use Different Types Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which enable you to add any type of content you would typically insert into a WordPress post or pageWordPress posts or pages besides text, like embedded media, graphic elements, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you like to create your training courses)
Additional benefits and advantages include:
- Use with all WP themes: WP Courseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: The plugin works on all devices.
Product Features
WPCourseware offers WordPress users with many features. Here are just some of those features:
Course Outline And Progress Page
You can create a course outline or course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays all the courses your students are enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also navigate through your course with a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track student progress inside your dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Automatic Enrollment
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course students.
Training Course Certificates
Students can be issued with a certificate of completion. You can add a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Training certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The export/import option allows you to set up your course on other websites.
Email Messages
WP Courseware lets you create custom user notifications to congratulate course participants after completing modules or courses and for communicating course-related administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated after passing a quiz. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email trainees with their final grades with a single click …
(Custom Notifications – WPCourseware)
Add Surveys & Quizzes
You can add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Surveys And Quizzes)
- Depending on how you choose to build the course, you can use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- Results can be downloaded in PDF format. You can also download CSV files with survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps you track how your students are progressing …
(WP Courseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Section)
Works With WordPress Membership & eCommerce Plugins
WPCourseware integrates with many leading ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Membership Site & eCommerce Plugin Integration)
User Testimonials
Here are some of the testimonials plugin users have written about the WP Courseware plugin:
“No e-learning solution for WordPress compares to the ease and speed that WP Courseware offers people when setting up online courses.” Chris Lema
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“Nate contacted me about checking out WP Courseware. I did… and I was impressed. Today, I have WP Courseware integrated into the delivery side of Blog Marketing Academy itself.” David Risley, Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Speaker
Product Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you already have content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a training product.
WP Courseware allows you to convert any post or page on your site into a course unit, so if there are some instructional articles and step-by-step tutorials published on your site, you probably already have a product partially created …
(Convert any post or page into a course unit)
Additionally, you can use the import/export feature to build and sell completed training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable e-training courses, you can also use WPCourseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourcing business tasks.
Plugin Support
WP Courseware is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, 100% money-back guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and one year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” section inside the plugin’s options and settings area provides examples of the shortcodes …
(Plugin Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to over 15 “how-to” step-by-step tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – How-To Videos)
Plugin Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This allows you to activate WPCourseware on 1 web site only. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This lets you use WP Courseware on 10 WordPress sites. It includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License Edition – This lets you use WPCourseware on twenty-five websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Note: Price details for WPCourseware depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the price at the time this content was written. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the product author when you visit the product website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing:
Additional Plugin Information
For demo videos showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
Download This Plugin
If you’re searching for an inexpensive way to create e-courses The WP Courseware plugin is a powerful plugin that you may want to look into.
To learn more, visit the plugin website here:
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