Thanks to the internet, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are now finding new niches to profit from in areas like online training and education.
Electronic learning, or “elearning,” is is the digital equivalent of distance learning, where learners do not interact face-to-face with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Training Industry Is Growing
eTraining course marketplaces like Udemy are strong indicators of the explosive growth of the e-Training industry.
Udemy currently offers 30,000+ ecourses covering all topics, from office productivity and leadership, to better parenting and motivation, etc …
(Udemy offers 30,000+ online courses on every subject imaginable!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new skills, but also for businesses that have unique content that can help transform the lives of others.
Online Learning – Benefits & Challenges
The digital medium provides many tools and a great environment for developing e-courses, but there are also many drawbacks and challenges.:
- Working out the best delivery method,
- Employing popular tools that don’t require a time-consuming learning curve,
- Ensuring consistent standards are applied throughout content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring learning performance,
- Grading student performance,
- Generating reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include the lack of human contact, potential lack of student motivation, distractions that cause loss of focus, etc.
eTraining – A World Of Possibilities
If you are a digital product creator, creating an e-course that helps people gain practical skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list and monetize your website. Creating products is one of the best ways to attract customers, as well as establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost every subject imaginable can be taught online.
(Got a business or passion for photography, landscaping or technical writing? Turn it into an e-course!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. If you have been online for a while, however, you already have the building blocks of great content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new digital training product.
If your website is built using WordPress and you’re searching for an inexpensive way to develop and sell an online training course here’s a powerful WordPress solution that you should know about.
Our Featured WordPress Plugin …
WP Courseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin
Description Of Product
WPCourseware 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 – Online Course Management Plugin For WordPress)
Thousands of WordPress websites have the WPCourseware plugin installed. WPCourseware makes creating learning courses in WordPress very simple.
Training courses in WP Courseware comprise of modules and training modules can include course units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware fully integrates with any WordPress site. The plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create new courses, edit existing course modules and units, edit quizzes and surveys, edit settings, import/export data, modify certificates of completion, view training documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a widget in the sidebar, giving you further customization options …
(WP Courseware Sidebar Widget)
Your courses can be completely configured and customized.
For example, you can specify whether students need to complete a course unit before they can advance through to the next section …
(Courses can be configured to suit your needs)
You can view training course information ”at a glance” inside your dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View details about your training courses inside the admin dashboard)
If you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create courses fast using familiar interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit the course title and description, set user access, customize messages and notifications, provide certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing drop-down menu options, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Plugin ”Edit Course” area)
Adding training modules and course units is as simple as creating and editing a WordPress post. You can include text, images, embedded media, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can rearrange the order of your units inside modules using drag and drop inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you have finished creating your module, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing all course units in the “Course Units” area …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. WP Courseware allows you to insert courses and training module information into pages using a range of built-in shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
After publishing your page, your training course will display to users with all the content you have configured …
(Create professional-looking training courses with WP Courseware)
After your training product has been published, it can be viewed by logged in your registered users …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
For more details go here: WP Courseware
Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the many benefits of using WPCourseware to add professional training courses to your website on your WordPress site:
Installation Is Easy And Simple
WPCourseware installs just like any regular WP plugin. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your admin area and activate.
Create Courses In Minutes
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functionality.
Simply create a course, module, or 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 Expandability
The WPCourseware plugin lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and course participants.
Use Different Types Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add any type of content you would typically add to WordPress pages or posts besides text, such as video, audio files, graphic elements, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different content types in your training courses)
Some additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Works with all themes: The plugin works with all WordPress themes.
- Works on all devices: WPCourseware deliver training content accross all devices.
Plugin Features
WP Courseware provides many features to WordPress users. Here are some:
Course Outline
You can create a course outline and course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays the courses your students have enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also navigate through your courses using a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside your dashboard …
(Track student progress)
Automatically Enroll Students
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new participants.
Training Course Certificates
At the end of a course, you can provide students with course completion certificates. You can add a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Course certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The export/import option lets you transfer your course to other sites.
User Messaging
WP Courseware allows you to set up custom user messages to congratulate trainees upon module and course completion and for communicating other administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails to congratulate students who successfully complete the quiz. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email trainees with their final course grades with a single click …
(User Messaging – WPCourseware)
Add Surveys And Quizzes
Add quizzes and surveys to your course content …
(Surveys And Quizzes)
- Depending on how you decide to structure your 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. You can also download CSV files with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book will help you track how your students are progressing in a course …
(WP Courseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Screen)
e-Commerce And Membership Plugin Integration
WP Courseware works with many WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With Membership & eCommerce Plugins)
Feedback From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback that plugin customers have provided for 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, 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
WPCourseware Plugin – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you already have the building blocks of great training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new product.
WP Courseware lets you easily convert any any WordPress page or post into a course unit, so if there are a number of great instructional content like step-by-step tutorials published on your website or blog, you probably already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any post or page into a course unit)
Additionally, you can use the export/import feature to build and sell training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable e-learning courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train staff inhouse, or document instructions for outsourced tasks in your business.
Product Support
The plugin is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, complete 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 menu explains how to use the shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to dozens of ”how-to” videos …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Plugin Video Tutorials)
Software Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License – This license option lets you install WP Courseware on a single web site. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This license enables you to use WPCourseware on 10 sites. Cost includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This allows you to configure WPCourseware on 25 WordPress web sites. It includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost of purchasing WPCourseware can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the pricing at the time this review was written. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software author when you visit the product website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For a demo video of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
The Bottom Line
If you are searching for a cost-effective way to create and sell an online training product The WPCourseware plugin is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use plugin that you may want to consider.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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