Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are now finding new opportunities to profit from in areas like online education.
eTraining is is the digital equivalent of distance learning, where learners have no direct face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
eTraining sites like Udemy.com show that the eTraining industry is growing at a significant rate.
Udemy offers 30,000+ online courses on every topic imaginable, from IT & software and improving self esteem, to happiness and photography, etc …
(Udemy.com provides over 30,000 courses online covering 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 individuals that have something valuable that can help transform the lives of others.
Online Learning – Benefits & Drawbacks
The internet provides benefits and opportunities for creating e-courses. eTraining tools and technologies include Learning Management Systems, video tutorials, audio training, video-conferencing, online forums, reports, etc. There are, however, a number of drawbacks involved in planning e-learning courses.
Some of these include:
- Figuring out the best methods to deliver training content,
- Using familiar tools that do not require a time-consuming learning curve,
- Ensuring consistency across the content, branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Grading scores,
- Creating useful reports, completion certificates
Additionally, you need to take into account important factors such as the lack of human contact, lack of motivation, distracting environments, etc.
eLearning – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are an internet marketer, creating a product that helps people acquire the skills they need to advance further is a great way to grow a list and develop an online stream of revenue. Creating products is one of the best ways to attract customers, establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be taught online.
(Got a business built around fashion photography, horticulture or writing sales copy? Turn it into an online training course!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch can take a lot of time. If you have been marketing your business online for a while, however, you probably already have content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
If you’re searching for an inexpensive way to create and sell etraining products and your site is built with WordPress, then there is a great plugin that you should keep in mind.
Our Featured WordPress Plugin …
WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Product Description
WPCourseware is the leading WordPress course creation plugin.
(WPCourseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin)
Thousands of WordPress websites use the WP Courseware plugin. The software makes creating courses in WordPress simple.
A course in WP Courseware includes training modules and training modules are built from course units, quizzes, etc.
WPCourseware integrates fully with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create new courses, add or edit existing modules and units, add quizzes and surveys, edit plugin, import/export data, edit certificates of completion, view training documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware plugin menu)
WPCourseware also lets you add a sidebar widget, giving users access to information about how they are progressing in the course …
(WP Courseware Sidebar Widget)
You can completely customize and configure all courses.
For example, you can specify whether participants need to have completed a training section before they are allowed to advance to the next unit …
(Configure your course settings to suit your needs)
You can view details about all courses ”at a glance” inside your dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View course information inside your WP dashboard)
If you have a basic understanding of the way WordPress works, you can create training courses very quickly using familiar WP interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit the course title and description, set user access, customize messages and user notifications, create certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting drop-down menu options, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Plugin options area)
Adding training modules and units is as simple as adding and editing WordPress posts. You can include text, images, videos, 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 modules inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units section)
When you have finished creating your unit, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a list of all of your course units in the “Course Units” area …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WP Courseware lets you insert courses and training module information into pages using a range of built-in shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcodes)
With shortcodes, you can add course content to your pages and manage all of your course details from the plugin settings section …
(Training course created with WP Courseware)
After publishing your elearning product, users must log in and have permission to view your training content …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
More info: WPCourseware
Product Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using WPCourseware to create courses online on your WordPress site:
Installation Is Easy And Fast
WP Courseware is quite easy to install. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your WP admin user login and activate.
Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Simply create a course, training module, or course unit with content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to arrange the content and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Expansion Capability
WP Courseware allows you to add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and students.
Add Any Type Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add anything you would typically insert into a WordPress page or postWordPress pages or posts besides text, such as audio files, videos, graphic elements, links, file downloads, etc.
(Use different content types to create your training courses)
Additional plugin benefits include:
- Use with all themes: The plugin integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Use on all devices: WPCourseware deliver training content that can be viewed on all devices.
Features
WP Courseware offers many features to site owners. Here are just some of these:
Course Outline & Progress Page
You can create a course outline and course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays the courses your students are enrolled in while also 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 students as they progress through courses inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Automatic Enrollment
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Certificates
At the end of a course, you can issue students who successfully complete training courses with course certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures …
(Course certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export functionality allows you to set up your course on other WP websites.
Email Messages
WPCourseware lets you create custom email messages for course participants after completing modules and courses and communicating on course-related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated upon completing a quiz. You can also send out a mass email trainees with their final grades with just one click …
(User Messaging – WP Courseware)
Surveys & Quizzes
Add quizzes and surveys to your course content …
(Quizzes And Surveys)
- Depending on how you decide 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. Surveys allow you to download CSV files with the survey results.
- The course grade book helps you track how well your students are progressing …
(WP Courseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Section)
Integrates With WordPress eCommerce & Membership Site Plugins
WPCourseware works with leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With eCommerce & Membership Sites)
Feedback From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback plugin customers have provided for 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
WP Courseware Plugin – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you already have content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new digital training product.
WPCourseware lets you convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if there are some educational articles and tutorials already published on your website, you probably have a product partially created …
(Convert any WordPress page or post into a course unit)
Additionally, you can use the import/export feature to create and sell training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable training courses, you can also use WPCourseware to train staff inhouse, or document instructions for outsourced business tasks.
WP Courseware Support
The plugin is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, full refund guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and 1 year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” section inside the plugin’s settings menu explains how to use the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to complete plugin training video step-by-step tutorials …
(Plugin Documentation – Video Tutorials)
Plugin Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This license option lets you configure WP Courseware on one WordPress web site only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This enables you to configure WP Courseware on 10 WordPress websites. Pricing includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This option enables you to configure WP Courseware on twenty-five websites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Note: Pricing for WP Courseware depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The pricing above was correct when this article was published. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the product seller 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 Plugin Info
For demo videos of the plugin, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
In Conclusion
WP Courseware will help you develop and sell courses fast. This is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use WP solution that you should definitely download and add to your site.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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