Thanks to the internet, thousands of entrepreneurial companies and individuals are now finding new opportunities to profit from areas like online training and education.
Electronic training, or “etraining,” is based on the concept of distance learning, where learners have no direct face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
eTraining sites like Udemy show that the e-Learning industry is growing at an astounding rate.
Udemy.com provides over 30,000 e-courses covering all topics, from web development and personal finance, to courses about happiness and music, etc …
(Udemy.com offers 30,000+ courses online covering all topics!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn, but also for individuals that have unique educational content that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Learning – Opportunities And Challenges
Some of the drawbacks of planning, developing and implementing effective elearning courses include:
- Figuring out delivery methods,
- Using familiar tools that do not require spending extra time learning,
- Ensuring consistency of methods delivered across the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Assessing student scores,
- Providing reports, completion certificates
Additionally, you need to take into account factors such as the lack of face-to-face contact, learner boredom, distracting environments, etc.
e-Courses – A World Of Possibilities
If you are trying to grow your web presence, creating a course that helps people gain practical knowledge and skills in useful things is a great way to grow a list and develop an online stream of revenue. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to build a customer base, establish authority and credibility and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Just about anything can be turned into an etraining course.
(Got an interest or passion for commercial photography, horticulture or copywriting? Turn it into an ecourse!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. If you have been online for a while, however, you already have the building blocks of great training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
If your site is built with WordPress and you want to develop and sell e-courses, there’s a cost-effective and powerful courseware plugin you may want to consider using.
Let’s Review …
WPCourseware – WordPress Course Management System Plugin
Product Description
WP Courseware is a leading WordPress course creation plugin.
(WP Courseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
The WP Courseware plugin is used on 7,000+ WP websites and makes creating courses in WordPress simple.
In WP Courseware, A course consists of modules and modules can include course units, quizzes, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with WordPress. The plugin adds its own menu item that lets you create new training courses, add or edit existing modules and units, edit quiz questions, edit plugin, import/export training content, edit certificates of completion, access plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a widget in your sidebar, giving users access to information about their course progress …
(WPCourseware Sidebar Widget)
You can fully configure and customize your courses.
For example, you can specify if participants must complete a training section before they can advance to the next section …
(Courses can be fully customized to suit your needs)
You can see an overview of all training course details inside the WP dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View information about all training courses inside the admin dashboard)
If you are already familiar with the way WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can easily add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize user messages and user notifications, provide course completion certificates and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing options from drop-down menus, 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 form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorganize the order of your training content by dragging and dropping units inside training modules inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units settings area)
When you have finished adding content to your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
Your course units display in a table in the “Course Units” area …
(List of course units)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. You can use a range of built-in shortcodes to insert courses and module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcode)
After publishing your page, your training course will display to users with all of the options you have configured …
(Training course created with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-course, registered members can access the content …
(Members must log in and have permission to view your training content)
For more details go here: WP Courseware
Product Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits and advantages of using WPCourseware to add professional training courses to your site on your WordPress website:
Very Easy To Install
WP Courseware is very easy to install. Just upload a zip folder containing the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your WP admin user account and activate.
Really Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar interfaces and functionality.
Simply create a course, module, or unit with 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 Expansion Capacity
The WP Courseware plugin lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and course participants.
Use Different Content Types
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add any type of content you would typically insert into WordPress pages or posts besides text, like audio, video, images, hyperlinks, file downloads, etc.
(Use different types of content to create your training courses)
Some additional benefits of this plugin include the following:
- Use on all WordPress themes: WP Courseware integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WPCourseware allows you to deliver your training content across multiple devices.
WP Courseware Features
WPCourseware offers a number of great features to WordPress users. Below we have listed some of those:
Course Outline
You can create course outlines and course progress pages via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays the courses students are enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also navigate through your courses using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside your dashboard …
(Track course progress)
Enroll Course Members Automatically
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Customized Course Certificates
At the end of a course, you can issue course participants who successfully complete training courses with customized certificates of completion. Training course certificates can be customized with a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The export/import feature allows you to move your course to other websites.
Email Notifications
WPCourseware lets you create custom email messages for course participants after completing modules and courses and communicating on course-related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated upon completing training quizzes. You can also send out a mass email to your students with their final grades with a single click …
(WP Courseware – Email Notifications)
Quizzes & Surveys
Add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Quizzes And Surveys)
- Add course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on how you decide to build the course.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- Results can be downloaded in PDF format. Surveys allow you to download CSV files with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps track your student’s progress …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WP Courseware)
Membership Site & eCommerce Integration
WPCourseware can be used with many leading WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Membership Site & e-Commerce Integration)
Feedback From Product Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials and comments that customers have written 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
Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you already have loads of great content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
WPCourseware allows you to convert any any WordPress page or post into a course unit, so if there are some educational articles and step-by-step tutorials already published on your website or blog, you probably already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any WordPress page or post into a course unit)
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-courses, you can also use WPCourseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourcing tasks in your business.
WP Courseware Plugin Support
The plugin is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, 30 day, complete refund 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 settings menu provides a list of the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to complete ”how-to” video tutorials …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Video Tutorials)
Plugin Price
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This enables you to activate WPCourseware on a single website. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This enables you to set up WPCourseware on ten websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This enables you to use WPCourseware on twenty-five sites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Note: The price of the product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the price at the time this article was written. This may or may not be the actual price set by the plugin author when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Install The Product
If you want to create and sell e-learning products, WPCourseware is an inexpensive and professional plugin that you need to know about.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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