Thanks to the internet, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are discovering new niches and opportunities to profit from in areas like providing teaching and training courses online and elearning.
eLearning is is the modern equivalent of distance learning, where students have no direct face-to-face interaction with the teacher or trainer.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
e-Learning marketplaces like Udemy show that the e-Training industry is growing at an impressive rate.
Udemy.com offers 30,000+ ecourses covery every topic imaginable, from office productivity and personal brand building, to courses on better parenting and improving memory & study skills, etc …
(Udemy offers 30,000+ online courses covering all topics!)
The fact that the e-Training industry is growing is not only great for people looking to gain practical knowledge, but also for individuals that have valuable educational content that can help transform the lives of others.
eTraining – Opportunities & Drawbacks
Some of the challenges of developing e-courses include:
- Working out training delivery methods,
- Employing familiar tools that course students can instinctively use to access the content,
- Ensuring consistent methods are applied throughout content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Grading student performance,
- Creating reports, certificates of completion
You also need to take into account factors such as the lack of human contact, student boredom, distracting environments, etc.
Online Courses – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are trying to expand your web presence, creating an e-course that teaches people practical skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list or develop another stream of revenue. Product creation is, after all, one of the best ways to attract new customers, as well as establish authority and credibility and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be taught online.
(Got an interest or passion for photography, gardening or technical writing? Turn it into an e-learning product!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch is very time-consuming. If you have been online for a while, however, you probably already have training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
If your site is built with WordPress and you want to develop and sell etraining products, there’s a cost-effective and professional courseware solution that you may want to consider adding to your site.
Introducing …
WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Description
WPCourseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets you set up professional training courses and build e-learning products quickly and easily with WordPress.
(WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
7,000+ sites use the WPCourseware plugin. The software makes creating learning courses in WordPress simple.
A course in WP Courseware contains training modules and training modules contain course units, quizzes, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. The plugin adds its own menu section that lets you add new training courses, edit existing modules and units, add quiz questions, edit plugin, import/export your data, create custom certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a sidebar widget, giving users access to information about how they are progressing in the course …
(WP Courseware Widget)
You can fully configure and customize your courses.
For example, you can specify whether participants need to have completed a course unit before they can advance through to the next unit …
(Configure course settings to suit your needs)
You can view course information “at a glance” and perform various types of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View details about your training courses inside your dashboard)
If you are already familiar with WordPress, you can quickly create training courses using familiar interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize user messages and notifications, create certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing options from drop-down menus, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(”Edit Course” screen)
Adding modules and course units is as simple as adding and editing a WordPress post. You can easily include text, images, videos, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorganize the order of your units inside modules using drag and drop inside the Ordering settings area …
(Order Course Modules & Units settings area)
When you are done creating your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
All of your course units display in a table in the “Course Units” screen …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. You can use shortcodes to insert course and training module information into pages …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
Shortcodes let you display course information on your pages and manage all of your course options from a central location …
(Create training courses easily with WPCourseware)
After publishing your training course, your registered members can access it …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
More info: WPCourseware
Plugin Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using WPCourseware to create training courses online on your website:
Quick And Simple To Install And Implement. Be Up And Running In No Time.
WP Courseware installs like any other WP plugin. Simply upload a zip file containing the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar interfaces and functions.
Just create a new course, training module, or unit with course content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to organize the course and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Capacity
The plugin lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and enrollees.
Add Any Kind Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add any type of content you would normally add to a WordPress page or postWordPress pages or posts besides text, such as audio files, video, graphic elements, links, file downloads, etc.
(Use different content types to create your training courses)
Additional benefits and advantages include:
- Works with all themes: The plugin integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WPCourseware allows you to deliver training content across multiple devices.
WPCourseware Features
WPCourseware provides website owners with a number of features. Below we have listed just a few of these:
Course Outlines
You can create course outlines and course progress pages using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays the courses students are enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Course Progress
Students can also navigate through their course 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 students.
Training Course Certificates
Issue course participants with customized training course certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to certificates of completion …
(Customized training certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export function allows you to transfer courses to other websites.
Custom User Message
WP Courseware allows you to create custom user notifications for trainees 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 completing training quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email trainees with their final grades with just one click …
(Email Notifications – WP Courseware)
Add Surveys And Quizzes
You can add quizzes and surveys to your course content …
(Surveys & Quizzes)
- Depending on how you choose to build your course, 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. Surveys allow you to download a CSV file with survey results.
- The course grade book helps you track how your students are progressing …
(WPCourseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Section)
Membership & e-Commerce Integration
WPCourseware can be used with leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With e-Commerce & Membership Site Plugins)
Feedback From Customers
Here are a few of the testimonials and comments customers have published about 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
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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
Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you already have content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a digital product.
WP Courseware allows you to easily convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if you have already published lots of great instructional content like step-by-step tutorials.
WP Courseware Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a no-risk, 30 day, full money-back guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and one year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” screen inside the plugin’s options and settings menu provides a list of the available shortcodes …
(Plugin Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to complete “how-to” step-by-step tutorials …
(Plugin Documentation – Plugin Video Tutorials)
Software Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License – This lets you install WP Courseware on one WordPress site only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This license option allows you to install WPCourseware on ten websites. Price includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This license enables you to install WPCourseware on 25 WordPress sites. Pricing includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Note: Price details for WPCourseware can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the product retails for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual price charged 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 Info
For a demo video of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
Get This Plugin
WPCourseware helps you create and sell e-courses quickly and easily. This is a great plugin that you should definitely add to your site.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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