Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial organizations and individuals are discovering new opportunities to profit from areas like online education.
eLearning is is the modern equivalent of distance learning, where students don’t have face-to-face contact with the teacher or trainer.
The eLearning Industry Is Growing
Online learning marketplaces like Udemy show that the e-Learning industry is growing at an astronomical rate each year.
Udemy.com offers over 30,000 e-courses on every topic imaginable, from design and improving self esteem, to courses about parenting & relationships and hobbies, etc …
(Udemy.com provides 30,000+ courses online covering all topics!)
The fact that the eLearning industry is growing and that any subject can be taught online is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for businesses that have unique content to teach others.
e-Training – Opportunities & Challenges
Some of the challenges of developing e-learning courses include:
- Working out methods of delivering training,
- Using familiar tools that don’t require investing additional effort, money or time in a new learning curve,
- Ensuring consistency of methods in the content, branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Grading scores,
- Providing reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include lack of face-to-face contact, learner boredom, lack of focus, etc.
e-Training – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are a digital product creator, creating products that teach people new skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list and develop an online stream of revenue. Creating products is one of the best ways to attract new customers, as well as establish authority and credibility and position yourself as a leader in your industry or niche.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be turned into an e-course.
(Got skills, knowledge or an interest in fashion photography, landscaping or copywriting? Turn it into an ecourse!)
The problem is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch can take a lot of time. If you have been online for a while, however, you probably already have training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
If you’re searching for an inexpensive way to create e-courses and your site is built using WordPress, then there is a powerful solution you may want to keep in mind.
Announcing …
WPCourseware – Online Course Management Plugin For WordPress
Product Description
WPCourseware is the leading WordPress course management plugin.
(WPCourseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin)
Thousands of WordPress sites have the WP Courseware plugin installed. WPCourseware makes creating etraining courses in WordPress very simple.
Training courses in WPCourseware include training modules and modules can contain units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with WordPress. Once installed, the plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create new courses, add or edit existing modules and units, edit quizzes, edit plugin, import/export your training content, add certificates, access training documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in your sidebar, allowing users to view their own progress …
(WPCourseware Widget)
Courses can be fully configured and customized.
For example, you can decide if course students need to have completed a course unit before they can advance through to the next section …
(Courses can be fully configured to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of all training courses inside your admin dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View information about your training courses inside your admin dashboard)
If you have a basic understanding of WordPress, you can quickly create 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 drop-down menu options, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Easily edit course options)
Adding modules and units is as simple as creating and editing WordPress posts. You can easily include text, images, embedded media, and any other type of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can order your training content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the ”Order Course” settings area …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you have finished creating your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a list of all of your course units in the “Course Units” screen …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. You can use shortcodes to insert course and training module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcode)
With shortcodes, you can add training course content to your pages and manage all of your course options from your dashboard …
(Creating training courses with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-course, you can restrict access to the content to registered students only …
(Members must log in and have permission to view your training content)
To learn more about the plugin go here: WPCourseware
Benefits Of Using WPCourseware
Here we have listed just some of the many benefits of using WPCourseware to add professional training courses to your website on your WordPress website:
Quick And Easy To Install And Use. Ready To Start Using In No Time.
WPCourseware is quite easy to install. Just upload a zip file containing the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your WP administrator section and activate.
Create Courses Quickly
As mentioned earlier, if you have a basic understanding of the way WordPress works, you can create courses fast using familiar interfaces and functionality.
Just create a course, module, or unit with 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 Expansion Capacity
WPCourseware lets you set up unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and add an unlimited number of enrollees to courses.
Add Any Type Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which enables you to add any type of content you would normally add to a WordPress post or pageWordPress pages or posts besides text, like videos, audio, images, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different types of content in your training courses)
Some additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Use with all WP themes: WPCourseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WP Courseware deliver training content accross all devices.
Features
WP Courseware offers WP users with many great features. Below we have listed some of those:
Course Outline & Progress Page
You can create a course outline or course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students are enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Track Course Progress
Students can also view their course progress with a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Automatic Enrollment
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course participants.
Certificates Of Completion
At the end of a course, you can issue course participants with course completion certificates. Training certificates can be personalized with custom backgrounds, logos and signatures …
(Certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export function allows you to set up a course on other WordPress websites.
User Notifications
WPCourseware lets you create custom email notifications for course participants after completing modules or courses and to communicate course-related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated after completing course quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out mass emails trainees with their final course grades with one click …
(WP Courseware – User Messaging)
Add Quizzes & Surveys
Add quizzes and surveys to your 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 CSV files with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps you track how your students are progressing …
(WPCourseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Section)
Works With Membership & e-Commerce Sites
WP Courseware integrates with leading e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Membership Site And e-Commerce Plugin Integration)
User Feedback
Below are a couple of the testimonials and comments that plugin customers 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, 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
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 training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a training product.
WPCourseware lets you convert any any WordPress post or page into a course unit, so if there are some educational articles and tutorials published on your website, you could already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any page or post into a course unit)
Additionally, you can use the export/import 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 WP Courseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourced tasks in your business.
WPCourseware Support
WP Courseware is well-supported and backed by a no-risk, 30 day, 100% 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 area explains how to use the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete library of plugin training video tutorials …
(Plugin Documentation – How-To Videos)
Product Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License – This enables you to activate WPCourseware on one WordPress site only. Pricing includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License Edition – This lets you run WPCourseware on ten web sites. It includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License Edition – This lets you install WP Courseware on twenty-five WordPress web sites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: Pricing for the WPCourseware software can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the software retails for the pricing shown above. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the product seller when you visit the plugin site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Product Info
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Get The Product
WP Courseware helps you build products fast. This is a great plugin you should definitely look into.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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