Thanks to the internet, thousands of entrepreneurial organizations and individuals are now finding new niches to profit from in areas like providing e-training courses and e-learning.
Electronic training (e-Training) is based on the concept of distance learning, where learners have no face-to-face interaction with the trainer or teacher.
The eLearning Industry Is Growing
e-Learning marketplaces like Udemy.com are indicative of the tremendous growth of the e-Learning industry.
Udemy provides 30,000+ courses online covering all topics, from marketing and leadership, to religion & spirituality and language learning, etc …
(Udemy currently offers over 30,000 online courses 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 acquire practical knowledge and skills in useful subjects, but also for businesses that have valuable information that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Learning – Opportunities And Drawbacks
The internet provides many useful tools and a great environment for developing and selling etraining courses. e-Training tools and technologies include Learning Management Systems, videos, web-conferencing apps, audio training, online forums, downloadable reports, etc. There are, however, a number of drawbacks when it comes to planning, developing and implementing ecourses.
Some of these include:
- Working out the best training delivery method,
- Using popular tools that students can use immediately to ,
- Ensuring consistent methods are used throughout the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Grading student scores,
- Creating useful reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include lack of human contact, lack of student motivation, distractions that cause loss of focus, etc.
Online Training – Unlimited Possibilities
If you plan to develop and sell information-based products, creating a training product that helps people gain practical knowledge and skills is a great way to attract new subscribers or develop another stream of revenue. 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. Almost anything can be turned into an online training product.
(Got skills, knowledge or business interest in commercial photography, horticulture 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 content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
If your site is built with WordPress and you would like to create ecourses, there’s an inexpensive and powerful plugin that can help you.
Let’s Review …
WP Courseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin
Description Of Product
WPCourseware is a leading learning management system courseware plugin for WordPress.
(WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
Thousands of WordPress sites use the WP Courseware plugin. The plugin makes creating training courses in WordPress very simple.
In WPCourseware, A course includes training modules and training modules are built using units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware fully integrates with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds its own menu item that lets you create a new training course, edit modules and units, add quizzes, edit settings, import/export course information, modify certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a widget in the sidebar, giving users access to information about how they are progressing in the course …
(WP Courseware Widget)
Your courses can be entirely configured and customized.
For example, you can choose if students need to have completed a training unit before they can progress through to the next unit …
(Customize course settings to suit your needs)
You can view details about your training courses “at a glance” and perform various types of actions (e.g. reorder modules, units and quizzes) …
(View course information inside the WP dashboard)
If you are already familiar with WordPress, you can quickly create training courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize messages and user 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 and drop, etc …
(”Edit Course” section)
Adding modules and units is as easy 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 units inside modules using drag and drop inside the Ordering settings area …
(Order Course Modules & Units section)
When you are done adding content to your module, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing your course units in the “Course Units” section …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. You can use shortcodes to insert courses and module information into pages …
(WP Courseware shortcodes)
Shortcodes let you add course content to your pages and manage all of your course details from your dashboard …
(Creating professional-looking training courses is easy with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-course, you can restrict content access to registered users only …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
For more details go here: WPCourseware
Benefits Of Using WP Courseware
Below are just some of the benefits of using WPCourseware to create professional training courses online on your web site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Set Up. Ready To Go To Work In Minutes.
WP Courseware is quite easy to install. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Really Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can create courses quickly and easily 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 content and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Capacity
The WPCourseware plugin allows you to create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of enrollees to courses.
Add Different Content Formats
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which allows you to add anything you would typically insert into WordPress posts or pages besides text, like embedded media, graphic elements, hyperlinks, file downloads, etc.
(Use different content types in your training courses)
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Compatible with all WP themes: WPCourseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Use on all devices: WPCourseware works on all devices.
Plugin Features
WP Courseware provides site owners with many features. Here are just some:
Course Outline
You can create a course outline or course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays the courses your students have enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also view their course progress using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside your dashboard …
(Track course progress)
Automatically Enroll New Participants
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Customized Training Certificates
Students can be issued with certificates. You can add a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Course completion certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The import/export functionality allows you to set up a course on a different WP site.
Email Notifications
WP Courseware lets you set up custom user messages for course participants upon module or course completion and communicating on related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails to congratulate students who pass training quizzes. You can also send out mass emails to students with their final course grade with just one click …
(WPCourseware – User Messaging)
Quizzes & Surveys
You can add quizzes and surveys to your course content …
(Add Quizzes And Surveys)
- Depending on how you choose to build the course, you can use 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. The survey feature allows you to download a CSV file with survey results.
- The course grade book helps track how students are progressing in a course …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Section – WPCourseware)
Works With Membership & eCommerce Sites
WPCourseware can be used with leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Works With WordPress Membership & e-Commerce Sites)
Feedback From Users
Below are a couple of the testimonials that plugin customers 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 – Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you already have loads of great training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
WPCourseware allows you to convert any any WordPress post or page into a course unit, so if there are a number of instructional content like tutorials already published on your website, you could already have a product partially created …
(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-training courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourced tasks in your business.
Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, 100% refund guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and one year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” section inside the plugin’s options and settings area provides examples of the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to 15+ plugin “how to” step-by-step tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Plugin Video Tutorials)
Product Cost
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Licensing – This lets you set up WPCourseware on one domain only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This option lets you set up WPCourseware on 10 websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This lets you install WPCourseware on twenty-five WordPress web sites. Cost includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: Pricing details of WP Courseware depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the plugin is being retailed for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the plugin developer when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
Get This Product
If you are searching for a cost-effective way to develop and sell online training courses, WPCourseware is a powerful plugin you may want to look into.
To learn more, check out the plugin here:
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