Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are discovering new opportunities to profit from areas like providing e-training courses and e-learning management systems.
Electronic learning, or “elearning,” is is the digital equivalent of distance learning, where students do not have face-to-face interaction with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Training Industry Is Growing
e-Learning sites like Udemy.com show that the eLearning industry is growing at a tremendous rate each year.
Udemy.com currently offers over 30,000 courses online covering all topics, from IT & software and personal brand building, to courses about building healthy relationships and making better lifestyle choices, etc …
(Udemy offers 30,000+ online courses covering all topics!)
The fact that the e-Learning industry is growing is not only great for people looking to learn, but also for businesses that have valuable knowledge that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Courses – Benefits & Drawbacks
The digital medium provides loads of opportunities and technologies for creating training courses online, but there are also many challenges and drawbacks.:
- Working out methods of delivery,
- Employing familiar tools that do not require taking on an additional learning curve,
- Ensuring consistency of standards in content design, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning outcomes,
- Grading scores,
- Creating reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include lack of face-to-face interaction, boredom, potential lack of focus, etc.
eLearning – A World Of Possibilities
If you are trying to expand your business online, creating ecourses that teach new skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list or develop an online stream of revenue. Product creation is one of the best ways to attract new customers, 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 e-training course.
(Got skills, knowledge or a passion for commercial photography, gardening or copywriting? Turn it into an e-course!)
The problem is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. If you have been marketing your business online for a while, however, you probably already have content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
If your site is powered by WordPress and you’re searching for a cost-effective way to create e-learning products then here is a powerful courseware plugin that can help you.
Our WordPress Plugin …
WP Courseware – Online Course Management System Plugin For WordPress
Description Of Product
WP Courseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets you set up e-courses and build e-learning products fast with WordPress.
(WPCourseware – Online Course Management System Plugin For WordPress)
Over 7,000 sites have the WPCourseware plugin installed. WPCourseware makes creating e-training courses in WordPress very simple.
In WP Courseware, eCourses comprise of training modules and training modules are built from course units, surveys, etc.
WPCourseware fully integrates with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create new courses, add or edit modules and units, add quizzes, edit settings, import/export course information, create training certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in the sidebar, allowing you to further customize your course options …
(WP Courseware Widget)
You can completely configure and customize your courses.
For example, you can specify if course participants must complete a training section before they can progress through to the next unit …
(Configure your course settings to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of your training course information inside your dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. reorder modules, course units and quizzes) …
(View details about all courses inside your admin dashboard)
If you already understand how WordPress works, you can create training courses very quickly 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 notifications, create certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting options from drop-down menus, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(”Edit Course” screen)
Adding modules and units is as easy as adding 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 rearrange the order of your training content by dragging and dropping units inside training modules inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” settings area …
(Order Course Modules & Units settings area)
When you are done adding content to your module, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing your course units in the “Course Units” area …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. You can use shortcodes to insert courses and module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcodes)
With shortcodes, you can add training course content to your pages and manage all of your course options from a central location …
(Creating training courses with WPCourseware)
After publishing your training course, members must be logged in and have permission to view your training content …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
For more details, visit the plugin site here: WPCourseware
Product Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits of using WPCourseware to add professional training courses to your website on your website:
Be Up And Running In Minutes
WP Courseware is very easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your admin user account and activate.
Very Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Simply create a new course, training module, or course 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 Expandability
The plugin lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and users.
Use Different Content Formats
Course units use WordPress custom types, which allow you to add anything you would normally add to WordPress posts or pages besides text, like audio files, video, images, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different content types to create your training courses)
Some additional benefits include:
- Compatible with all WP themes: WPCourseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: WPCourseware works on all devices.
Plugin Features
WP Courseware provides a number of features to WordPress users. Below we have listed some:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline and course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays all the courses students have enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Course Progress
Students can also navigate through their course using a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll Participants Automatically
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Customized Training Course Certificates
Students can receive a certificate of completion. Certificates of completion can be customized with a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Customized training certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The import/export functionality allows you to set up training courses on a different WordPress site.
Email Notifications
WPCourseware lets you set up custom user notifications to congratulate trainees upon module or course completion and to communicate related administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email to congratulate students who pass training quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email to your students with their final grades with a single click …
(WP Courseware – Email Messages)
Add Surveys And Quizzes
Add a quiz or survey to course content …
(Add Quizzes & Surveys)
- Use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on how you decide to build your course.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- Results can be downloaded in PDF format. You can also download a CSV file with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps track your student’s progress …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WP Courseware)
Membership Site & e-Commerce Plugin Integration
WP Courseware can be used with many e-commerce and membership plugins …
(eCommerce And Membership Site Integration)
Feedback From Users
Here are a few of the testimonials that customers have provided for 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
Plugin Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you probably already have training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
WPCourseware lets you easily convert any any WordPress page or post into a course unit, so if there are some educational articles and step-by-step tutorials have already posted on your site, you probably already have a product partially created …
(Convert any WordPress post or page into a course unit)
Additionally, 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 e-courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourcing business tasks.
WPCourseware Plugin Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a no-risk, 30 day, full refund guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and one year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” screen inside the plugin’s settings menu explains how to use the shortcodes …
(Plugin Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete library of ”how-to” videos …
(Plugin Documentation – Plugin Tutorials)
Plugin Pricing
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Licensing – This license lets you use WPCourseware on a single website. Cost includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site License Edition – This lets you activate WP Courseware on 10 WordPress web sites. Pricing includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This lets you configure WP Courseware on 25 WordPress websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase the WP Courseware software depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The price above was current when this article was written. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the software author when you visit the site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing:
Additional Plugin Information
For ”how to” videos of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
Install This Plugin
If you plan to create an online training product, WPCourseware is an inexpensive and professional courseware plugin that you may want to consider adding to your site.
For full details, check out the plugin here:
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