Thanks to the internet and digital technologies, thousands of entrepreneurial organizations and individuals are now finding new opportunities to profit from areas like providing online training and e-learning management systems.
Electronic training (eTraining) is is the digital equivalent of distance learning, where learners do not interact face-to-face with the trainer or teacher.
The eLearning Industry Is Growing
Online teaching sites like Udemy are strong indicators of the explosive growth of the e-Learning industry.
Udemy provides over 30,000 e-courses on every topic imaginable, from internet marketing and personal brand building, to courses on religion & spirituality and making better lifestyle choices, etc …
(Udemy.com currently offers over 30,000 e-courses covering all topics!)
This is not only great for people looking to gain the skills they need, but also for businesses that have unique information to teach others.
e-Courses – Opportunities & Challenges
The digital medium provides many useful technologies and a great environment for creating and selling e-learning courses, but there are also a number of drawbacks.:
- Working out the best way to deliver content,
- Using popular tools and technologies that learners can immediately use to access the content,
- Ensuring consistency across content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Assessing student scores,
- Providing useful reports, completion certificates
Additionally, you need to take into account important factors such as lack of face-to-face contact, lack of motivation (e.g. boredom), distracting environments, etc.
eTraining – A World Of Possibilities
If you are an internet marketer, creating e-courses that help people acquire practical knowledge and skills is a great way to grow a list or develop a new stream of revenue. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to attract new customers, as well as establish authority and credibility and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Anything can be turned into an ecourse.
(Got an interest or passion for commercial photography, horticulture or writing sales copy? Turn it into an ecourse!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. If you have been marketing your business online for a while, however, you already have training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
If you are searching for an inexpensive way to develop and sell e-training products and your website is built with WordPress, then let me introduce you to a powerful solution that you need to keep in mind.
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WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Description Of Product
WP Courseware is the leading WordPress course management system plugin.
(WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
WP Courseware is used by 7,000+ businesses online and makes creating e-courses in WordPress very simple.
Training courses in WPCourseware comprise of modules and training modules include units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware fully integrates with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds its own menu item that lets you add new courses, edit existing modules and units, add quizzes and surveys, edit plugin, import/export your training content, create custom training certificates, access training documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in your sidebar, giving users access to information about their course progress …
(WP Courseware Widget)
You can fully customize and configure your courses.
For example, you can decide whether students need to have completed a training unit before they are allowed to progress through to the next section …
(Customize course settings to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of all training course information inside your WP dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View information about all courses inside your admin dashboard)
If you have a basic understanding of WordPress, you can create training courses very quickly using familiar interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize messages and notifications, create certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing options from drop-down menus, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Easily edit course settings)
Adding training modules and units is as easy as creating and editing WordPress posts. You can easily include text, images, videos, and any other type of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can order your training content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the ”Order Course” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units settings area)
When you are done creating your module, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing all course units in the “Course Units” area …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. You can use a range of shortcodes to insert course and module information into pages …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
After publishing your page, your training course will display to users with all of the options you have configured …
(Creating training courses with WPCourseware)
After publishing your e-course, you can restrict content access to registered users only …
(Users must log in and have permission to view your training content)
Go here to learn more: WPCourseware
Benefits Of Using WP Courseware
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using WP Courseware to add training courses to your site on your web site:
Fast And Simple To Install And Set Up. Be Up And Running In No Time.
WPCourseware is very easy to install. Just upload a zip folder that contains the plugin to your Plugin folder via your admin user login and activate.
Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar interfaces and functions.
Just create a new course, module, or unit with course 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
WPCourseware allows you to create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of participants to courses.
Use Different Types Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add any type of content you would typically insert into a WordPress page or postWordPress posts or pages besides text, like video, audio, images, hyperlinks, file downloads, etc.
(Use different content types in your training courses)
Additional benefits of using this plugin include:
- Compatible with all themes: WPCourseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WPCourseware allows you to deliver your content across multiple devices.
WPCourseware Features
WP Courseware provides website owners with many great features. Here are a few of these:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline or course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays all the courses students have enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through their courses with a custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Automatically Enroll New Course Participants
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Course Certificates
Provide students who successfully complete courses with customized training certificates. You can add a custom background, logo, and signature to training course certificates …
(Certificates of completion)
Export/Import Functionality
The export/import function allows you to transfer your course to other sites.
Custom User Notifications
WPCourseware allows you to set up custom user notifications to congratulate students upon module or course completion and communicating on related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated upon successfully completing training quizzes. You can also send out mass emails to your students with their final grade with one click …
(WPCourseware – User Notifications)
Surveys And Quizzes
You can add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Quizzes And Surveys)
- Depending on how you choose to structure your course, you can use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes.
- 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 the survey results.
- The instructor grade book will help you track how well your students are doing …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WP Courseware)
Works With WordPress Membership & e-Commerce Plugins
WP Courseware integrates with many e-commerce and membership plugins …
(e-Commerce & Membership Site Plugin Integration)
Feedback From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials and comments that users have provided for the WPCourseware 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, 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, Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Speaker
Plugin Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you probably already have the building blocks of great content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
WPCourseware lets you easily convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if you already have some instructional articles and tutorials.
WPCourseware Plugin Support
WPCourseware is well-supported and backed by a no-risk, thirty day, complete 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 provides a list of the available shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to over 15 ”how-to” video tutorials …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Video Tutorials)
Software Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License – This allows you to set up WP Courseware on a single domain. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site Edition – This allows you to configure WPCourseware on ten domains. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site License Edition – This edition allows you to use WP Courseware on 25 domains. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Note: Price details for the product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the pricing at the time this review was written. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the plugin developer when you visit the site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
For demo videos showing how the plugin works, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Download The Plugin
If you’re searching for a cost-effective way to develop and sell ecourses WP Courseware is a great courseware solution you may want to look into.
For full details, visit the plugin website here:
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