Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are finding new opportunities to profit from areas like providing e-training courses and elearning.
Electronic training (e-Training) is based on the concept of distance learning, where students do not interact face-to-face with the teacher or trainer.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
e-Training sites like Udemy show that the e-Learning industry is growing at an astronomical rate year on year.
Udemy.com offers over 30,000 ecourses covering all topics, from internet marketing and career development, to happiness and hobbies, etc …
(Udemy provides over 30,000 courses online covering all topics!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for individuals that have unique and valuable information that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Training – Benefits And Drawbacks
Some of the drawbacks of planning, developing and implementing effective training courses online include:
- Working out the best training content delivery methods,
- Employing familiar tools and technologies that don’t require spending additional time learning,
- Ensuring consistent methods are applied throughout content design, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning performance,
- Grading scores,
- Creating reports, completion certificates
You also need to take into account important factors such as lack of human contact, boredom, distractions, etc.
Online Learning – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are a product creator, creating an e-training product that teaches others new skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list and monetize your website. Product creation is, after all, one of the best ways to build a loyal customer base, establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Anything can be turned into an e-learning course.
(Got knowledge, skills or an interest in fashion photography, horticulture or copywriting? Turn it into an online training product!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch is very time-consuming. If you have been online for a while, however, you probably already have the building blocks of great training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new online training product.
If you’re searching for a cost-effective way to create an online training course and your site is built using WordPress, there’s a powerful WordPress solution that can help you.
Introducing …
WP Courseware – Online Course Creation Plugin For WordPress
Product Description
WPCourseware is a leading learning management system courseware plugin for WordPress.
(WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
The WP Courseware plugin is currently being used by over 7,000 businesses online and makes creating elearning courses in WordPress simple.
In WPCourseware, e-Courses consist of modules and modules contain units, quizzes, etc.
WP Courseware can be fully integrated with WordPress. Once installed, the plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create a new training course, edit modules and units, edit quiz questions, edit plugin, import/export your training content, edit certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, allowing users to view their own progress …
(WPCourseware Widget)
Courses can be entirely customized and configured.
For example, you can choose if students need to have completed a course section before they are allowed to progress through to the next unit …
(Configure course settings to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of your course details inside your dashboard and perform a number of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View course information inside your admin dashboard)
If you are already familiar with WordPress, you can create training courses quickly and easily using familiar WP interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize user messages and notifications, issue certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing drop-down menu options, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Plugin options screen)
Adding training modules and units is as simple as creating and editing WordPress posts. You can include text, images, videos, 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 have finished adding content to your unit, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a list of all course units in the “Course Units” area …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WP Courseware lets you insert course and module information into pages using a range of shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcodes)
Shortcodes let you display training course content on your pages and manage all of your course options from your dashboard …
(Create training courses with WP Courseware)
After your training course has been published, your registered users can access the content …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
Learn more about this plugin here: WPCourseware
Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using WPCourseware to create professional courses online on your web site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Set Up. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
WPCourseware is very easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your WP admin account and activate.
Very Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with the way WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar interfaces and functionality.
Just create a new course, training module, or course unit with content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to arrange the course and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Expansion Capability
The WPCourseware plugin lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and course participants.
Add Any Type Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add anything you would typically insert into WordPress pages or posts besides text, like audio, video, graphic elements, hyperlinks, file downloads, etc.
(Use different types of content in your training courses)
Additional benefits include:
- Works on all WordPress themes: The plugin works with all WordPress themes.
- Use on all devices: The plugin deliver content that can be viewed on all devices.
Features
WPCourseware provides site owners with a number of great features. Here are just some of these features:
Course Outline & Progress Page
You can create a course outline and course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses your students are enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also view their course progress using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll New Participants Automatically
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course participants.
Certificates Of Completion
At the end of a course, you can issue students with course completion certificates. You can add a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Customized certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export functionality lets you set up a course on a new WordPress site.
Email Notifications
WP Courseware allows you to create custom user notifications to congratulate course participants after completing modules or courses and to communicate other administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated after successfully completing course quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out mass emails trainees with their final grade with just one click …
(Email Messages – WP Courseware)
Surveys And Quizzes
Add a quiz or survey to your course content …
(Surveys & Quizzes)
- Add course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on how you choose 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 you track how well your students are doing …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WP Courseware)
Membership And eCommerce Integration
WPCourseware integrates with leading e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Works With Membership & eCommerce Sites)
Feedback From Users
Here are some of the testimonials and comments that plugin customers have published about the WP Courseware 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, Author, Speaker, and E-Learning Expert
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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 probably already have content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a training product.
WP Courseware allows you to convert any any WordPress page or post into a course unit, so if there are a number of great educational articles and step-by-step tutorials have already posted on your website or blog, you probably already have a partially-created product …
(Convert any post or page into a course unit)
You can use the import/export feature to create and sell training courses to other WordPress site owners.
Apart from using the plugin to create sellable courses, you can also use WPCourseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourcing business tasks.
WP Courseware Support
The plugin is very well-supported and backed by a no-risk, thirty 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 a list of the shortcodes …
(Plugin Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete set of ”how-to” video tutorials …
(WP Courseware Documentation – How-To Video Tutorials)
Software Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This license option enables you to install WPCourseware on a single domain. Price includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site Licensing – This enables you to configure WPCourseware on ten WordPress sites. It includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site License Edition – This lets you configure WP Courseware on twenty-five sites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase WPCourseware depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the product is selling for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the plugin seller when you visit the plugin 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 ”how to” videos showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Get This Plugin
If you want to create an online training product, WPCourseware is an inexpensive and professional plugin that you need to know about.
To learn more, visit the plugin website:
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