Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial organizations and individuals are finding new opportunities to profit from in areas like online education.
Electronic training, or “etraining,” is based on the concept of distance learning, where learners have no face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The eLearning Industry Is Growing
Online course marketplaces like Udemy show that the e-Learning industry is growing.
Udemy.com offers 30,000+ online courses covery every subject imaginable, from web design and improving self esteem, to courses about religion & spirituality and improving your lifestyle, etc …
(Udemy.com offers 30,000+ courses online on every subject imaginable!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for individuals that have unique information to teach.
eTraining – Opportunities & Challenges
The digital medium provides many tools and opportunities for developing and selling online courses. Learning-boosting tools include Learning Management Systems (LMS), video tutorials, audio courses, video-conferencing apps, forums, eBooks, etc. There are, however, some drawbacks involved in planning, developing and implementing effective online training courses.
Some of these include:
- Working out the,
- Using popular tools that course students can use to access the content,
- Ensuring consistency across content design, branding, etc.
- Measuring results,
- Assessing scores,
- Generating reports, certificates of completion
You also need to take into account important factors like lack of human contact, lack of motivation (e.g. boredom), distractions, etc.
eTraining – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are a digital product creator, creating an e-course that helps people learn practical things is a great way to grow a subscriber list or monetize your website. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to attract customers, as well as establish authority and credibility and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Every topic where there is a strong interest and demand to learn can be taught online.
(Got a passion for fashion photography, landscaping or creative writing? Turn it into an ecourse!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch can take a lot of time. If you have been marketing yourself online for a while, however, you probably already have the building blocks of great training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new product.
If your website is built using WordPress and you want to develop and sell ecourses, there’s a cost-effective and professional courseware solution you may want to consider using.
Let’s Review …
WPCourseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin
Description Of Product
WPCourseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets users set up training courses and build e-learning products quickly and easily with WordPress.
(WPCourseware – Online Course Creation Plugin For WordPress)
The WP Courseware plugin is used by 7,000+ businesses online and makes creating e-courses in WordPress very simple.
Courses in WP Courseware contain training modules and modules comprise of units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware integrates fully with any WordPress site. The plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create a new training course, add or edit course modules and units, edit quizzes and surveys, edit settings, import/export your data, add training certificates, view training documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware plugin menu)
WPCourseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, allowing users to view their course progress …
(WPCourseware Widget)
You can completely configure and customize your courses.
For example, you can specify if participants need to have completed a training section before they can advance through to the next section …
(Customize your course settings to suit your needs)
You can view training course details ”at a glance” inside your WP dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View information about all courses inside your admin dashboard)
If you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create training courses fast using familiar interfaces and functionality.
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 information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing drop-down menu options, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Easily edit your course details)
Adding training modules and units is as simple as adding and editing WordPress posts. You can easily 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 screen)
When you are done adding content to your module, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
Your course units will be listed in a table in the “Course Units” area …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware lets you use shortcodes to insert course and training module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcodes)
With shortcodes, you can add training course information to your pages and manage all of your course details from your dashboard …
(Training course created with WP Courseware)
After publishing your training product, the content can be viewed by users with permission to access the information …
(Users must log in and have permission to view your training content)
Go here to learn more about the plugin: WPCourseware
Plugin Benefits
Below we have listed just a few of the benefits of using WPCourseware to add professional training courses to your website or blog on your WordPress site:
Be Up And Running In Minutes
WP Courseware is very easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Very Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Just create a course, module, or course 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 lets you create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and add an unlimited number of participants to courses.
Add Any Kind Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add anything you would normally insert into a WordPress page or postWordPress pages or posts besides text, like video, audio, graphic elements, links, file downloads, etc.
(Add any type of content you like in your training courses)
Some additional benefits of this plugin include the following:
- Use on all themes: WP Courseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Works on all devices: WPCourseware allows you to deliver your training content across multiple devices.
Plugin Features
WP Courseware offers many great features to WordPress users. Here are some of those:
Course Outline
You can create course outlines and course progress pages using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays all the courses students are enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through your courses with a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track student progress inside your dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll Course Participants Automatically
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Customized Certificates
At the end of a course, you can provide students who successfully complete training courses with certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to certificates …
(Customized training course certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The import/export functionality lets you transfer your course to other websites.
Custom Email Message
WPCourseware lets you create custom user messages for students upon module or course completion and for communicating other administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated upon successfully completing the quiz. You can also send out mass emails trainees with their final grades with one click …
(WPCourseware – Custom Email Message)
Add Quizzes & Surveys
You can add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Surveys And Quizzes)
- Add course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on your needs.
- 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 CSV files with survey results.
- The instructor grade book will help you track your student’s progress …
(WPCourseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Settings Area)
eCommerce & Membership Plugin Integration
WPCourseware works with many leading WordPress e-commerce and membership plugins …
(eCommerce And Membership Site Plugin Integration)
User Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials and comments that plugin 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, Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Speaker
Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you already have content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a training product.
WP Courseware allows you to easily convert any any WordPress post or page into a course unit, so if you have published lots of instructional content like tutorials.
WP Courseware Plugin Support
The plugin is well-supported and backed by a no-risk, 30 day, complete money-back 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 options and settings area provides examples of the available shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to 15+ training step-by-step tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Plugin Tutorials)
Product Licensing Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This enables you to activate WPCourseware on one site only. Pricing includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site License Edition – This license allows you to configure WPCourseware on 10 WordPress sites. Cost includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This option allows you to use WPCourseware on 25 sites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: Current pricing for the product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price shown above was current when this content was written. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software author when you visit the site 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 showing how the software works, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
We Recommend
WPCourseware will help you build and sell a training course fast. This is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use courseware plugin you should definitely consider using on your site.
For more information, check out the plugin here:
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