Thanks to the internet, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are discovering new opportunities to profit from in areas like providing online training and elearning.
Electronic training, or “etraining,” is based on the concept of distance learning, where learners have no face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The eTraining Industry Is Growing
Online education sites like Udemy.com show that the e-Learning industry is growing.
Udemy.com provides 30,000+ online courses covering all topics, from web design and leadership, to creativity and improving your lifestyle, etc …
(Udemy.com provides 30,000+ courses online covering all topics!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new skills, but also for businesses that have unique and valuable information to teach others.
e-Learning – Benefits & Drawbacks
Some of the challenges of planning, developing and implementing elearning courses include:
- Working out the best training content delivery method,
- Using easy-to-use tools and technologies that don’t require investing additional effort, money or time in a new learning curve,
- Ensuring consistency of standards in content design, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Assessing student scores,
- Generating reports, certificates of completion
Additionally, you need to take into account important factors such as the lack of human contact, boredom, loss of focus, etc.
eLearning – A World Of Possibilities
If you plan to develop and sell products online, creating an e-learning product that helps people acquire practical skills is a great way to attract new subscribers and develop a new stream of revenue. Creating products is one of the best ways to attract new customers, as well as establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as a leader in your niche.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Every imaginable subject can be turned into an online training product.
(Got skills, knowledge or business interest in commercial photography, gardening or writing sales copy? Turn it into an online training product!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch tends to be very time-consuming. Chances are, however, you already have the building blocks of great training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
If you are searching for a cost-effective way to create and sell an online training course and your website is built with WordPress, then here is a powerful plugin that you may want to download.
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WPCourseware – Online Course Management Plugin For WordPress
Description
WP Courseware is a leading WordPress course creation plugin.
(WPCourseware – Online Course Creation WordPress Plugin)
The WPCourseware plugin is used by thousands of businesses online and makes creating courses in WordPress very simple.
A course in WPCourseware includes modules and training modules are built using units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware fully integrates with WordPress. The plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you add a new course, edit existing modules and units, edit quizzes, edit plugin, import/export your data, modify training certificates, access training documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WPCourseware also lets you add a widget in your sidebar, allowing users to view their course progress …
(WP Courseware Widget)
Courses can be entirely customized and configured.
For example, you can decide whether students must complete a training unit before they can progress through to the next unit …
(Courses can be customized to suit your needs)
You can view course information “at a glance” and perform a range of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View details about your courses inside the WP dashboard)
If you have a basic understanding of the way WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar WP interfaces and functions.
For example, you can easily add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize user messages and notifications, provide certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing drop-down menu options, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Easily edit your course settings)
Adding training modules and course units is as easy as adding and editing a WordPress post. You can easily include text, images, embedded media, and any other type of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorder your training content by dragging and dropping units inside training modules inside the ”Order Course” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done adding content to your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing all course units in the “Course Units” screen …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware allows you to insert courses and training module information into pages using a range of shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
After publishing your page, your course will display to users with all the options you have added …
(Creating professional-looking training courses with WPCourseware)
After your training product has been published, users must be logged in and have permission to view your training content …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
To learn more about this plugin go here: WPCourseware
Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits of using WP Courseware to add professional training courses to your website on your WordPress website:
Quick And Simple To Install And Use. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
WPCourseware installs just like any regular WP plugin. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Really Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functionality.
Just create a new course, module, or course unit with course content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to organize the course and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Expandability
WPCourseware allows you to add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and users.
Use Different Content Formats
Course units use WordPress custom types, which enable you to add any type of content you would typically add to a WordPress page or postWordPress pages or posts besides text, such as audio files, videos, graphic elements, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you like to create your training courses)
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Use with all WordPress themes: WPCourseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WP Courseware allows you to deliver content across multiple devices.
Features
WPCourseware offers web site owners with many features. Here are some of these:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline and course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays the courses students have enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also navigate through their course using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll New Participants Automatically
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Training Certificates
Students can receive a course certificate. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to course certificates …
(Customized certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The export/import functionality lets you set up training courses on a new website.
User Messaging
WPCourseware allows you to create custom email messages for students after completing modules and courses and for communicating course-related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated after passing course quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email to your students with their final course grade with just one click …
(WPCourseware – Email Notifications)
Add Surveys And Quizzes
You can add a quiz or survey to course content …
(Add Surveys & Quizzes)
- Use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on your needs.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- Quiz results can be downloaded in PDF format. You can also download CSV files with survey results.
- The course grade book helps track your student’s progress …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Section – WPCourseware)
Integrates With eCommerce & Membership Site Plugins
WP Courseware works with many leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(e-Commerce And Membership Site Plugin Integration)
User Feedback
Here are a few of the testimonials plugin users have published about WPCourseware:
“No e-learning solution for WordPress compares to the ease and speed that WP Courseware offers people when setting up online courses.” Chris Lema, Author, Speaker, and E-Learning Expert
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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
Product Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you already have training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a digital product.
WP Courseware lets you convert any any WordPress post or page into a course unit, so if there are some “how to” articles and step-by-step tutorials have already posted on your website or blog, you could already have a product partially created …
(Convert any WordPress 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 elearning courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourced tasks in your business.
Product Support
WP Courseware is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, full money-back guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and 1 year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” screen inside the plugin’s options and settings menu explains how to use the shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete library of ”how-to” videos …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Plugin Video Tutorials)
Product Licensing Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Licensing – This option enables you to configure WPCourseware on one WordPress site only. It includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This lets you install WPCourseware on ten WordPress web sites. It includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This allows you to run WP Courseware on 25 WordPress sites. It includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price above was current at the time this review was written. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software author when you visit the product website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
Our Recommendation
WPCourseware will help you develop e-courses quickly and easily. This is a powerful plugin you should definitely look into.
For full details, check out the plugin here:
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