Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial organizations and individuals are now finding new niches and opportunities to profit from in areas like providing online courses and elearning.
e-Learning is based on the concept of distance learning, where students do not have direct face-to-face contact with the teacher or trainer.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
Online course sites like Udemy are indicative of the explosive growth of the e-Learning industry.
Udemy offers over 30,000 online courses covery every subject imaginable, from office productivity and developing influence, to courses about stress management and making better lifestyle choices, etc …
(Udemy.com provides 30,000+ e-courses on every subject imaginable!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for individuals that have unique educational content that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Courses – Opportunities & Challenges
Some of the drawbacks of planning, developing and implementing ecourses include:
- Working out training content delivery methods,
- Employing popular tools that students can use instinctively to get trained,
- Ensuring consistent standards are used throughout content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Assessing student scores,
- Creating useful reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include the lack of human contact, learner boredom, lack of focus, etc.
e-Courses – A World Of Possibilities
If you are a product creator, creating e-courses that help people acquire practical skills is a great way to grow a list and develop a new stream of revenue. Creating products is one of the best ways to build a loyal customer base, establish authority and credibility and position yourself as a leader in your niche.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be turned into a learning product.
(Got an interest or passion for fashion photography, horticulture or copywriting? Turn it into an training product!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch tends to be very time-consuming. If you have been marketing your business online for a while, however, you probably 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 website is built using WordPress and you would like to create and sell ecourses, there’s a cost-effective and professional WP solution you need to know about.
Announcing …
WP Courseware – Online Course Creation Software
Description
WP Courseware is a leading WordPress course creation plugin.
(WP Courseware – Online Learning Management Plugin For WordPress)
The WP Courseware plugin is used by 7,000+ businesses online and makes creating e-training courses in WordPress very simple.
In WP Courseware, eCourses include modules and modules contain units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create new courses, edit existing modules and units, edit quizzes and surveys, edit settings, import/export your training content, modify training certificates, view training documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, giving users access to information about how they are progressing in the course …
(WPCourseware Sidebar Widget)
Your courses can be fully customized and configured.
For example, you can choose whether course students need to have completed a training unit before they can advance through to the next unit …
(Courses can be configured to suit your needs)
You can view information about your courses “at a glance” and perform a number of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View details about all training courses inside your admin dashboard)
If you are already familiar with WordPress, you can quickly create training courses using familiar WP interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize messages and notifications, issue course completion certificates and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting drop-down menu options, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Easily edit your course settings)
Adding modules and course units is as easy as adding and editing WordPress posts. You can easily include text, images, videos, and any other form 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 Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done creating your module, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing your course units in the “Course Units” section …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware allows you to insert course and module information into pages using a range of shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcodes)
After publishing your page, your training course will display to users with all the content you have configured …
(Creating training courses is easy with WP Courseware)
Once your e-course is published, the content can be viewed by members with exclusive permission to access the information …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
For more details go here: WP Courseware
Benefits Of Using WPCourseware
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using WP Courseware to create professional training courses online on your WordPress website:
Quick And Easy To Install And Configure. Ready To Go To Work In No Time.
WPCourseware installs just like any WP plugin. Just upload a zip folder containing the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Create Training Courses Quickly And Easily
As mentioned earlier, if you have a basic understanding of how WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar interfaces and functions.
Just create a new course, training module, or 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
WPCourseware lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and students.
Add Any Kind Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add anything you would normally insert into WordPress posts or pages besides text, like audio files, videos, graphic elements, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different types of content to create your training courses)
Some additional benefits of this plugin include the following:
- Compatible with all themes: WPCourseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WPCourseware deliver content accross all devices.
Features
WP Courseware provides many unique features to WP users. Below we have listed a few of these:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline or course progress page via 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 your courses using a custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track student progress inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Automatically Enroll Participants
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new participants.
Course Certificate Distribution
At the end of a course, you can provide course participants with customized course certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to certificates …
(Customized course certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The export/import option allows you to transfer courses to other websites.
Custom Notifications
WPCourseware allows you to create custom user notifications to congratulate students after completing modules and courses and to communicate other administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email to congratulate students who successfully complete course quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out mass emails to your students with their final course grade with a single click …
(WP Courseware – Custom Email Notifications And User Messages)
Add Quizzes & Surveys
You can add quizzes and surveys to your course content …
(Quizzes & Surveys)
- Depending on how you decide to structure 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.
- Quiz results can be downloaded in PDF format. You can also download a CSV file with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps you track how your students are progressing …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Section – WPCourseware)
Membership Site And eCommerce Integration
WP Courseware integrates with many leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Works With e-Commerce & Membership Sites)
Feedback From Customers
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback that plugin users have written about the WP Courseware 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
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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 – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you probably already have loads of great content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
WP Courseware allows you to easily convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if showing outsourced workers how to perform certain tasks.
Plugin Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, 30 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 settings area explains how to use the available shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to 15+ video step-by-step tutorials …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Video Tutorials)
Software Pricing
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License – This license option enables you to configure WPCourseware on one WordPress web site only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This lets you install WP Courseware on ten WordPress websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This edition allows you to configure WP Courseware on 25 WordPress websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Note: The cost to purchase the WP Courseware plugin depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the pricing when this review was published. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the product author when you visit the website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Product Information
For ”how to” videos of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Our Recommendation
If you plan to develop ecourses, WPCourseware is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use courseware plugin you may want to consider using.
To learn more, check out the plugin here:
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