Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are finding new opportunities to profit from areas like online training and education.
eLearning is based on the concept of distance learning, where students have no direct face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Training Industry Is Growing
eTraining marketplaces like Udemy show that the eLearning industry is growing at a massive rate each year.
Udemy provides over 30,000 e-courses covering all topics, from IT & software and growing your influence, to courses on parenting & relationships and improving memory & study skills, etc …
(Udemy offers 30,000+ online courses on every subject imaginable!)
The fact that the e-Training industry is growing and that anything can be taught online is not only great for people looking to acquire practical knowledge in useful areas, but also for businesses that have valuable educational content to teach others.
eCourses – Opportunities And Drawbacks
The digital medium provides many useful technologies and a great environment for developing courses online. Training tools and technologies include Learning Management Systems, online videos, audio training, web-conferencing apps, online forums, slide presentations, etc. There are, however, a number of drawbacks involved in planning online training courses.
Some of these include:
- Working out the,
- Using popular tools that students can intuitively use to access the training content,
- Ensuring consistency of standards used throughout the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring learning performance,
- Assessing student performance,
- Providing reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include the lack of face-to-face interaction, boredom, distractions that cause loss of focus, etc.
Online Courses – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are a digital product creator, creating an e-learning product that teaches others practical things is a great way to grow a list and monetize your website. Creating products is, after all, 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. Almost anything can be turned into an training product.
(Got an interest or business built around photography, gardening or technical writing? Turn it into an e-training product!)
The problem is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch is very time-consuming. If you have been online for a while, however, you probably already have training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
If your site is built using WordPress and you want to develop ecourses, there’s a cost-effective and professional courseware solution that can help you.
Presenting …
WPCourseware – Online Course Creation Plugin For WordPress
Product Description
WP Courseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets you set up training courses and build e-learning products fast with WordPress.
(WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
The WP Courseware plugin is currently being used in 7,000+ websites and makes creating learning courses in WordPress simple.
In WPCourseware, A course comprises of modules and modules can include course units, quizzes, etc.
WPCourseware integrates fully with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds a new section to your main menu that lets you create a new training course, add or edit course modules and units, edit quiz questions, edit settings, import/export your training content, create certificates of completion, access plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WPCourseware also lets you include a widget in your sidebar, allowing users to monitor their course progress …
(WP Courseware Widget)
You can fully customize and configure all courses.
For example, you can specify whether learners must complete a course section before they are allowed to progress to the next section …
(Course settings can be configured to suit your needs)
You can see an overview of your courses inside your dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View details about all training courses inside your dashboard)
If you have a basic understanding of how WordPress works, you can create training courses fast using familiar WP interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize user messages and user notifications, issue certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing options from drop-down menus, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Plugin options screen)
Adding modules and units is as easy as creating and editing a WordPress post. You can include text, images, videos, and any other type of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorder your units inside modules using drag and drop inside the Ordering 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.
All of your course units will be listed in a table in the “Course Units” area …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware lets you insert courses and module information into pages using a range of shortcodes …
(WPCourseware shortcodes)
With shortcodes, you can add course content to your pages and manage all of your course details from a central location …
(Creating training courses is easy with WPCourseware)
Once your training product has been published, you can restrict content access to registered students only …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
For more details go here: WPCourseware
Benefits
Below are just some of the benefits of using WPCourseware to add courses to your WordPress website or blog on your web site:
Quick And Simple To Install And Set Up. Ready To Go To Work In Very Little Time.
WPCourseware is really easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your admin login and activate.
Very Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create courses quickly and easily using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Simply create a new course, training 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 Capacity
WP Courseware lets you set up unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and add an unlimited number of participants to courses.
Use Different Types Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add any type of content you would normally add to a WordPress post or pageWordPress posts or pages besides text, like audio files, videos, graphic elements, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you want in your training courses)
Additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Compatible with all WP themes: WP Courseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Use on all devices: WP Courseware allows you to deliver your training content across multiple devices.
Features
WPCourseware offers website owners with many great features. Below we have listed some of those features:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline or course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses your 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 an administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside your dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll Course Members Automatically
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new participants.
Customized Course Certificates
At the end of a course, you can issue students with customized certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to training certificates …
(Customized certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export function allows you to move courses to other websites.
Email Notifications
WPCourseware lets you set up custom user notifications for trainees upon module or course completion and communicating on course-related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated upon passing course quizzes. You can also send out mass emails to students with their final course grade with a single click …
(Custom Email Notifications – WP Courseware)
Add Surveys & Quizzes
Add a quiz or survey to course content …
(Surveys And 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 will help track how well your students are doing …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WP Courseware)
Membership Site And e-Commerce Integration
WP Courseware works with many well-known WordPress e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Membership And e-Commerce Integration)
User Testimonials
Below are just a few of the testimonials and comments that plugin users have published about WP Courseware:
“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
WP Courseware – Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you already have content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
WP Courseware allows you to easily convert any any WordPress post or page into a course unit, so if there are some instructional content like step-by-step tutorials published on your website or blog, you probably already have a product partially created …
(Convert any page or post into a course unit)
Additionally, you can use the import/export feature to build and sell training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable training courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train staff inhouse, or document instructions for outsourced business tasks.
Product Support
WP Courseware is very well-supported and backed by a no-risk, thirty day, full money-back guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and one year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” screen inside the plugin’s options and settings area provides examples of the shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to dozens of ”how-to” video tutorials …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Plugin Video Tutorials)
Software Pricing
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Licensing – This enables you to use WP Courseware on one WordPress website only. Cost includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License Edition – This enables you to set up WP Courseware on 10 WordPress web sites. Cost includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This edition enables you to use WP Courseware on 25 WordPress websites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: The price of this product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the software retails for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual price set by the plugin developer when you visit the plugin site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the current price here:
Additional Info
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Get This Product
If you would like to create and sell ecourses, WP Courseware is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use courseware plugin that you need to know about.
To learn more, check out the plugin here:
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