Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are discovering new niches and opportunities to profit from in areas like online education.
eTraining is based on the concept of distance learning, where learners do not have face-to-face interaction with the teacher or trainer.
The eTraining Industry Is Growing
Online training marketplaces like Udemy.com show that the eTraining industry is growing at a tremendous rate every year.
Udemy.com currently offers 30,000+ e-courses on every topic imaginable, from business and personal productivity, to courses on happiness and improving your lifestyle, etc …
(Udemy provides over 30,000 courses online covering all topics!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new skills, but also for individuals that have unique and valuable information that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Learning – Opportunities And Challenges
The digital medium provides tools and technologies for creating and selling training courses online. e-Training computer-based tools and technologies include Learning Management Systems (LMS), videos, web-conferencing apps, audio courses, eBooks, online forums, etc. There are, however, a number of challenges involved in developing courses online.
Some of these include:
- Working out content delivery methods,
- Employing easy-to-use tools that learners can use intuitively to ,
- Ensuring consistency across the content, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Assessing scores,
- Generating reports, completion certificates
You also need to take into account important factors like lack of human contact, boredom, loss of focus, etc.
eLearning – A World Of Possibilities
If you are trying to expand your business online, creating training products that help people gain practical skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list or monetize your website. 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 a leader in your industry or niche.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost every topic where there is strong interest and a demand to learn can be turned into a training product.
(Got skills, knowledge or business interest in commercial photography, gardening or copywriting? Turn it into an ecourse!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch can take a lot of time. If you have been marketing yourself online for a while, however, you already have the building blocks of great training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
If your site is built with WordPress and you’re searching for an inexpensive way to develop ”how-to” products here’s a powerful solution that can help you.
Our Featured WordPress Plugin …
WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Description Of Plugin
WP Courseware is the leading learning management system courseware plugin for WordPress.
(WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
The WP Courseware plugin is used on 7,000+ WordPress sites and makes creating courses in WordPress simple.
A course in WP Courseware comprises of modules and modules are built using units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds a new section to your dashboard menu that lets you create new courses, edit modules and units, add quizzes and surveys, edit settings, import/export course information, create certificates, view training documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in the sidebar, allowing you to further customize your course options …
(WP Courseware Widget)
You can completely configure and customize your courses.
For example, you can choose if course participants must complete a training unit before they can advance to the next section …
(Courses can be configured to suit your needs)
You can view information about your training courses ”at a glance” inside the admin dashboard and perform a number of actions (e.g. reorder modules, course units and quizzes) …
(View course details inside the WP dashboard)
If you already understand the way WordPress works, you can create courses very quickly using familiar interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize messages and notifications, issue course completion certificates 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 …
(Edit your course settings easily)
Adding modules and course units is as simple as creating and editing a WordPress post. You can include text, images, embedded media, and any other type of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can order your units inside training modules using drag and drop inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you have finished creating your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
Your course units display in a table in the “Course Units” screen …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware lets you insert course and module information into pages using shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcodes)
Shortcodes let you add course content to your pages and manage all of your course details from a central location …
(Create professional training courses easily with WP Courseware)
Once your training product is published, the content can be accessed by logged in registered users …
(Members must log in and have permission to view your training content)
For more details, visit the plugin site here: WP Courseware
Benefits Of Using WPCourseware
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using WPCourseware to add training courses to your website or blog on your web site:
Be Up And Running In Minutes
WPCourseware is very easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Create Courses In Minutes
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create training courses quickly using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Just create a 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
The WP Courseware plugin lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and course participants.
Add Any Type Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which allow you to add anything you would typically insert into WordPress pages or posts besides text, such as audio, videos, images, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you like to create your training courses)
Additional benefits of this plugin include the following:
- Compatible with all themes: WP Courseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Use with all devices: The plugin works on all devices.
Plugin Features
WPCourseware provides many features to site owners. Below we have listed some of those:
Course Outline And Progress Page
You can create a course outline or course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students are enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through your courses using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside your dashboard …
(Track course progress)
Automatic Enrollment
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Training Certificates
Provide students who successfully complete your training courses with course certificates. Certificates can be personalized with a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Course certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The import/export functionality lets you set up training courses on other WP sites.
Custom Email Notifications And User Messages
WP Courseware allows you to set up custom user messages for course participants upon module and course completion and to communicate related administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated upon successfully completing a quiz. You can also send out mass emails to students with their final course grade with a single click …
(User Notifications – WPCourseware)
Add Quizzes & Surveys
Add a quiz or survey to course content …
(Add Quizzes And Surveys)
- Depending on your needs, 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. The survey feature allows you to download CSV files with survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps track how well your students are progressing in a course …
(WP Courseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Settings Area)
Membership & eCommerce Integration
WPCourseware can be used with leading e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With Membership & eCommerce Plugins)
Feedback From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback that plugin customers 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, 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
WP Courseware Plugin – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you probably already have loads of useful training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
WPCourseware lets you easily convert any post or page on your site into a course unit, so if there are a number of great “how to” articles and tutorials have already posted on your website or blog, you probably already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any WordPress post or page 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 courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train staff inhouse, or document instructions for outsourced tasks.
WP Courseware Support
The plugin is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, 100% refund 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 settings area provides a list of the available shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to 15+ ”how-to” video tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Video Tutorials)
Plugin Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Licensing – This edition lets you run WP Courseware on 1 website only. Price includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This allows you to set up WPCourseware on 10 websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This option enables you to set up WP Courseware on twenty-five domains. It includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost of purchasing this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price shown above was current when this review was written. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software developer when you visit the plugin website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Product Info
For demo videos showing how the software works, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
We Highly Recommend This
If you would like to develop and sell ecourses, WP Courseware is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use courseware plugin you need to know about.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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