Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial organizations and individuals are discovering new opportunities to profit from in areas like online education.
Electronic learning (e-Learning) is is the technological equivalent of distance learning, where learners do not interact face-to-face with the teacher or trainer.
The eLearning Industry Is Growing
e-Training sites like Udemy are strong indicators of the growth of the e-Training industry.
Udemy provides 30,000+ ecourses covering all topics, from internet marketing and personal skills, to courses on stress management and music, etc …
(Udemy.com offers over 30,000 e-courses covering all topics!)
The fact that the eTraining industry is growing is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for businesses that have something to share with others.
Online Training – Opportunities And Drawbacks
The internet provides many tools and a great environment for creating e-courses, but there are also significant drawbacks and challenges.:
- Figuring out methods of delivering training,
- Employing familiar tools that do not require spending extra time learning,
- Ensuring consistency across the content, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Grading scores,
- Generating useful reports, completion certificates
You also need to take into account factors such as lack of face-to-face contact, boredom, lack of focus, etc.
eTraining – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are trying to expand your business online, creating a training course that teaches subjects in areas of high interest 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 customers, establish authority and credibility and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost every subject imaginable can be turned into an e-learning product.
(Got an interest or business built around photography, landscaping or writing sales copy? Turn it into an online training product!)
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 probably already have content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
If you are searching for an inexpensive way to create ecourses and your site is driven by WordPress, here’s a powerful WP plugin you should know about.
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WPCourseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin
Description
WP Courseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets users set up e-courses and build e-learning products quickly and easily with WordPress.
(WPCourseware – WordPress Learning Management Plugin)
The WP Courseware plugin is currently being used by thousands of businesses online and makes creating courses in WordPress simple.
A course in WPCourseware contains modules and training modules contain course units, quizzes, etc.
WP Courseware integrates fully with WordPress. The plugin adds its own menu item that lets you create a new course, edit existing modules and units, add quiz questions, edit settings, import/export your data, create training certificates, view training documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, allowing users to view their own progress …
(WPCourseware Sidebar Widget)
You can completely customize and configure your courses.
For example, you can decide if participants must complete a course section before they can advance to the next section …
(Configure your course settings to suit your needs)
You can view course information ”at a glance” inside your WP dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View course details inside the WP dashboard)
If you already understand WordPress, you can quickly create courses using familiar WP interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize messages and user notifications, provide course completion certificates and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting options from drop-down menus, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Plugin options section)
Adding modules and course units is as easy as adding and editing a WordPress post. You can easily include text, images, embedded media, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorder your units inside training modules using drag and drop inside the ”Order Course” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done adding content to your module, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing your course units in the “Course Units” area …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. WP Courseware uses a range of built-in shortcodes to insert course and module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcode)
With shortcodes, you can display training course information on your pages and manage all of your course options from your dashboard …
(Creating training courses is easy with WPCourseware)
After your e-learning product is published, the content can be viewed by authorized users …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
For more details go here: WPCourseware
Benefits
Below are just some of the many benefits of using WPCourseware to create professional courses online on your WordPress website:
Be Up And Running In Very Little Time
WPCourseware is very easy to install. Just upload a zip file that contains the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your WordPress administrator area and activate.
Create Courses Quickly
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Simply create a new course, training module, or course unit with course 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 Capacity
WPCourseware allows you to add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and course participants.
Add Any Kind Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which enable you to add anything you would normally add to a WordPress page or postWordPress pages or posts besides text, such as video, audio, images, links, file downloads, etc.
(Use different types of content to create your training courses)
Additional benefits include the following:
- Compatible with all WordPress themes: WP Courseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: The plugin allows you to deliver your training content across multiple devices.
Features
WP Courseware provides many features to WP users. Below we have listed just a few of these:
Course Outline & Progress Page
You can create course outlines or course progress pages via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays the courses students have enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also navigate through their courses with a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside your dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll Course Participants Automatically
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course students.
Certificates Of Completion
At the end of a course, you can provide students with customized certificates of completion. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to certificates of completion …
(Customized certificates of completion)
Export/Import Functionality
The export/import feature allows you to move courses to other websites.
Email Notifications
WPCourseware lets you create custom user notifications for trainees upon module and course completion and for communicating other administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email to congratulate students who pass a quiz. You can also send out mass emails to your students with their final grade with one click …
(Custom Email Message – WP Courseware)
Surveys And Quizzes
Add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Surveys And Quizzes)
- Depending on your needs, you can add 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 survey results.
- The course grade book will help you track how students are doing …
(WPCourseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Section)
Works With WordPress eCommerce & Membership Plugins
WPCourseware integrates with many e-commerce and membership plugins …
(e-Commerce And Membership Plugin Integration)
Feedback From Customers
Here are a few of the testimonials and comments 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
WPCourseware – Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you probably already have the building blocks of great content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new online training product.
WP Courseware allows you to convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if there are some educational content like step-by-step tutorials already published on your website or blog, you probably already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any WordPress page or post into a course unit)
You can use the import/export feature to build and sell completed training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable e-courses, you can also use WPCourseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourced tasks.
WPCourseware Plugin Support
WPCourseware 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” screen inside the plugin’s options and settings menu explains how to use the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to dozens of video step-by-step tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – How-To Video Tutorials)
Product Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License Edition – This allows you to set up WP Courseware on one web site only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This license enables you to install WP Courseware on ten domains. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This license option enables you to run WP Courseware on 25 web sites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Note: Pricing for the product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the plugin is selling for the pricing shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the plugin 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 Information
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
We Recommend
If you want to develop and sell elearning courses, WPCourseware is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use solution that you may want to consider adding to your site.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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