Thanks to the internet and digital technologies, thousands of entrepreneurial companies and individuals are finding new niches to profit from in areas like online training and education.
eLearning is is the technological equivalent of distance learning, where students have no direct face-to-face contact with the teacher or trainer.
The eTraining Industry Is Growing
e-Training marketplaces like Udemy show that the eTraining industry is growing at an astounding rate.
Udemy.com provides over 30,000 e-courses covering all topics, from marketing and personal development, to courses about stress management and photography, etc …
(Udemy offers over 30,000 courses online covering every topic imaginable!)
The fact that the e-Learning industry is growing is not only great for people looking to gain useful skills, but also for businesses that have unique educational content that can help transform the lives of others.
eLearning – Benefits And Drawbacks
The internet provides tools and technologies for creating online training courses, but there are also many drawbacks.:
- Working out the,
- Employing popular tools and technologies that course students can immediately use to access the content,
- Ensuring consistent methods are used throughout content design, course branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Assessing student scores,
- Creating useful reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include the lack of face-to-face interaction, learner boredom, distractions that cause loss of focus, etc.
eTraining – A World Of Possibilities
If you are an internet marketer, creating ecourses that teach practical skills to others is a great way to grow a list and monetize your website. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to build a customer base, as well as establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Just about anything can be turned into an e-learning product.
(Got a passion or interest in commercial photography, horticulture or writing sales copy? Turn it into an elearning course!)
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, you probably already have plenty of great training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
If you’re searching for an inexpensive way to create and sell an online training product and your website is built with WordPress, then here’s a great plugin that can help you.
Our Featured WordPress Plugin Is …
WP Courseware – Online Course Management System Plugin For WordPress
Description
WP Courseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets you set up professional training courses and build e-learning products fast with WordPress.
(WP Courseware – Online Course Creation Software)
Thousands of websites use WPCourseware. WPCourseware makes creating courses in WordPress very simple.
In WP Courseware, training courses comprise of training modules and modules include course units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware integrates fully with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds a new section to your main menu that lets you create a new training course, add or edit existing modules and units, add quiz questions, edit plugin, import/export your data, create custom certificates of completion, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, allowing users to view their course progress …
(WPCourseware Sidebar Widget)
You can fully customize and configure all of your courses.
For example, you decide if course participants need to complete a training unit before they can advance through to the next unit …
(Course settings can be fully customized to suit your needs)
You can see an overview of your course information inside the admin dashboard and perform a number of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View details about all training courses inside your dashboard)
If you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create training courses fast using familiar WordPress 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 switching tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting drop-down menu options, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(”Edit Course” screen)
Adding modules and units is as simple as creating and editing WordPress posts. You can include text, images, embedded media, and any other kind of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorder your training content by dragging and dropping units inside training modules inside the Ordering screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units section)
When you are done creating your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
Your course units will be listed in a table in the “Course Units” section …
(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 the plugin’s built-in shortcodes …
(WPCourseware shortcode)
After publishing your page, your course will display to users with all the options and settings you have configured …
(Training course created with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-learning course, authorized users can access the content …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
Go here to learn more about this plugin: WPCourseware
Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the many benefits and advantages of using WP Courseware to create professional courses online on your web site:
Fast And Easy To Install And Set Up. Ready To Go To Work In Minutes.
WP Courseware is really easy to install. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Create Courses In Minutes
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand the way WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functionality.
Just create a course, training 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 Capacity
The plugin allows you to create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of participants to courses.
Use Different Content Formats
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add any type of content you would normally add to a WordPress page or postWordPress posts or pages besides text, like audio files, video, images, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you want in your training courses)
Additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Use on all themes: WPCourseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WP Courseware works on all devices.
Features
WPCourseware provides WordPress users with many features. Here are some of those features:
Course Outline
You can create a course outline and course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students have enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also view their course progress with a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As a course 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.
Customized Training Certificates
Students can receive certificates. Certificates can be personalized with a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Certificates of completion)
Export/Import Functionality
The import/export functionality allows you to set up a course on another WP website.
Custom Email Notifications And Messages
WP Courseware lets you create custom email messages to congratulate trainees after completing modules and courses and communicating on related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails to congratulate students who complete course quizzes. You can also send out a mass email trainees with their final grades with a single click …
(Custom Email Notifications And Messages – WPCourseware)
Add Quizzes & Surveys
Add a quiz or survey to your course content …
(Quizzes & Surveys)
- Use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on your needs.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- Results can be downloaded in PDF format. The survey feature allows you to download CSV files with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps track how your students are progressing in a course …
(WP Courseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Section)
Works With WordPress Membership & eCommerce Sites
WPCourseware can be used with many leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With WordPress e-Commerce & Membership Sites)
Feedback From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials that users have published about WPCourseware:
“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 Plugin – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you probably already have loads of useful content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new product.
WP Courseware allows you to convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if there are a number of instructional content like step-by-step tutorials already published on your website or blog, you could already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any WordPress post or page into a course unit)
You can use the import/export feature to create and sell completed training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourcing tasks.
WPCourseware Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty 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 options and settings menu provides a list of the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to over 15 plugin training video tutorials …
(WP Courseware Documentation – How-To Video Tutorials)
Product Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License – This license option lets you use WPCourseware on a single WordPress website. Cost includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This option allows you to run WP Courseware on ten domains. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This lets you configure WPCourseware on 25 WordPress sites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The pricing shown above was correct when this content was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the product developer when you visit the product site and you may be shown 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 in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
We Highly Recommend This
WP Courseware will help you create courses fast. This is a powerful plugin you should definitely add to your site.
For more details, visit the plugin website here:
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