Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are discovering new niches to profit from in areas like providing teaching and training courses online and elearning systems.
Electronic learning, or “elearning,” is is the technological equivalent of distance learning, where students have no direct face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
Online teaching marketplaces like Udemy show that the eLearning industry is growing.
Udemy.com provides 30,000+ online courses covering all topics, from IT & software and personal development, to courses about stress management and making better lifestyle choices, etc …
(Udemy.com provides over 30,000 online courses covering all topics!)
The fact that the e-Learning industry is growing and that any subject can be taught online is not only great for people looking to gain new skills, but also for individuals that have valuable information to teach others.
e-Courses – Opportunities And Drawbacks
The internet provides many great opportunities and technologies for developing and selling training courses online, but there are also significant challenges.:
- Working out the best training content delivery methods,
- Using easy-to-use tools and technologies that course students can use intuitively to access the content,
- Ensuring consistency across content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Assessing student performance,
- Generating useful reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include lack of face-to-face contact, lack of motivation (e.g. boredom), lack of focus, etc.
e-Learning – A World Of Possibilities
If you are trying to expand your business online, creating ecourses that help people gain new skills is a great way to grow a list and monetize your website. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to attract new customers, establish authority and credibility and position yourself as a leader in your industry.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Just about anything can be taught online.
(Got an interest or business built around fashion photography, landscaping or copywriting? Turn it into an elearning product!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch can take a lot of time. Chances are, however, that if you have been online for a while, you already have loads of great content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new online training product.
If you’re searching for an inexpensive way to develop and sell ecourses and your site is built using WordPress, then there is a great plugin that you may want to consider adding to your site.
Our WordPress Plugin Is …
WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Product Description
WPCourseware is a leading learning management system courseware plugin for WordPress.
(WP Courseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin)
7,000+ sites use WP Courseware. The software makes creating e-courses in WordPress very simple.
In WP Courseware, e-Courses include training modules and modules comprise of units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with WordPress. Once installed, the plugin adds a new section to your menu that lets you add new training courses, edit existing modules and units, add quiz questions, edit settings, import/export your course information, add certificates of completion, access training documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a widget in the sidebar, giving users access to information about their course progress …
(WP Courseware Sidebar Widget)
The courses you add can be entirely configured and customized.
For example, you decide whether course students need to have completed a training section before they are allowed to advance through to the next unit …
(Configure your course settings to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of all courses inside your dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View training course information 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 easily 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 switching tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing drop-down menu options, rearranging elements around screens using drag & drop, etc …
(Plugin options screen)
Adding training modules and course units is as simple as creating and editing WordPress posts. You can easily include text, images, embedded media, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorganize the order of your content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the Ordering screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you have finished adding content to your unit, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing all course units in the “Course Units” screen …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WP Courseware allows you to use a range of built-in shortcodes to insert courses and training module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcodes)
After publishing your page, your course will display to users with all the content you have added …
(Create professional-looking training courses easily with WP Courseware)
After publishing your training course, users must log in and have permission to access your training content …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
Go here to learn more about this plugin: WPCourseware
Plugin Benefits
Below are just a few of the benefits of using WP Courseware to create training courses online on your web site:
Ready To Use In Very Little Time
WP Courseware is really easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Really Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can create training courses very quickly using familiar interfaces and functionality.
Simply create a course, 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
The plugin lets you create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and add an unlimited number of users to courses.
Use Different Types Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add anything you would normally insert into a WordPress post or pageWordPress pages or posts besides text, such as video, audio, images, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different content types in your training courses)
Additional benefits of this plugin include the following:
- Works on all themes: The plugin works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WP Courseware deliver training content accross all devices.
Features
WPCourseware provides web site owners with a number of great features. Here are just some of these:
Course Outline
You can create course outlines and course progress pages using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students have enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through their course using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside the dashboard …
(Track course progress)
Enroll New Students Automatically
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Certificates Of Completion
At the end of a course, you can provide course participants with certificates. Certificates can be personalized with a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The import/export feature allows you to set up training courses on a new WP site.
Email Messages
WP Courseware allows you to create custom email notifications to congratulate course participants upon module and course completion and communicating on related administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated after completing training quizzes. You can also send out mass emails trainees with their final course grade with just one click …
(User Messaging – WPCourseware)
Add Quizzes & Surveys
Add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Surveys And Quizzes)
- Add course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on your needs.
- 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 survey results.
- The instructor grade book will help track your student’s progress …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Settings Area – WP Courseware)
Works With WordPress e-Commerce & Membership Sites
WPCourseware works with many well-known WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(e-Commerce And Membership Site Plugin Integration)
User Feedback
Here are a few of the testimonials that customers have submitted regarding 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
Plugin Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you probably already have plenty of great training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital product.
WPCourseware allows you to convert any any WordPress post or page into a course unit, so if showing outsourced workers how to complete certain tasks.
WP Courseware Plugin Support
WP Courseware is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty 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” section inside the plugin’s settings menu explains how to use the available shortcodes …
(Plugin Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete set of ”how-to” video tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Plugin Tutorials)
Plugin Price
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License Edition – This option lets you set up WP Courseware on a single web site. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site Edition – This allows you to configure WPCourseware on 10 WordPress websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site License Edition – This license allows you to install WP Courseware on twenty-five WordPress web sites. Pricing includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Please Note: The price of the WPCourseware product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the product retails for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software author when you visit the plugin site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing here:
Additional Plugin Information
For demo videos showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Get The Product
If you plan to develop ”how-to” products, WPCourseware is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use courseware plugin that you may want to consider.
For more information, visit the plugin website:
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