Thanks to the internet and digital technologies, thousands of entrepreneurial companies and individuals are finding new niches and opportunities to profit from in areas like online education.
Electronic learning (eLearning) is is the technological equivalent of distance learning, where learners do not have face-to-face interaction with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Learning Industry Is Growing
Online education sites like Udemy are strong indicators of the massive growth of the e-Training industry.
Udemy provides 30,000+ ecourses covering all topics, from internet marketing and developing influence, to courses about religion & spirituality and making better lifestyle choices, etc …
(Udemy.com currently offers 30,000+ online courses covering all topics!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new skills, but also for businesses that have unique educational content to share.
eCourses – Benefits & Drawbacks
The internet provides many useful tools and a great environment for creating e-courses, but there are also a number of challenges.:
- Working out the best training delivery methods,
- Employing popular tools that course students can use intuitively to ,
- Ensuring consistency across the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring results,
- Grading student scores,
- Generating useful reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include lack of human contact, student boredom, distractions that cause loss of focus, etc.
e-Training – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are trying to expand your business online, creating a training product that helps people learn new skills is a great way to grow a subscriber list or monetize your website. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to build a loyal customer base, as well as establish authority and credibility and position yourself as a leader in your niche or industry.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost every topic imaginable can be turned into a “how-to” product.
(Got a business built around photography, gardening or creative writing? Turn it into an e-course!)
The problem is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch tends to be very time-consuming. If you have been marketing your business online for a while, however, you already have plenty of useful training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new digital training product.
If your website is powered by WordPress and you’re searching for a cost-effective way to create and sell e-training courses here’s a great courseware plugin that you may want to add to your site.
Announcing …
WP Courseware – WordPress Learning Management System Plugin
Description
WP Courseware is the leading learning management system courseware plugin for WordPress.
(WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress)
7,000+ WordPress sites use the WPCourseware plugin. The plugin makes creating elearning courses in WordPress very simple.
Training courses in WPCourseware contain training modules and training modules are built using course units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware integrates fully with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds its own menu section that lets you add new training courses, add or edit existing modules and units, add quiz questions, edit settings, import/export data, create certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in the sidebar, allowing you to further customize your course options …
(WP Courseware Sidebar Widget)
Your courses can be completely customized and configured.
For example, you decide whether course students need to have completed a course unit before they are allowed to progress to the next unit …
(Configure your course settings to suit your needs)
You can see an overview of all course information inside your admin dashboard and perform a number of actions (e.g. access the grade book) …
(View details about your courses inside your WP dashboard)
If you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create training courses very quickly using familiar WP 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, create course completion certificates and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting drop-down menu options, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(”Edit Course” area)
Adding training modules and course 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 arrange the order of your content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the ”Order Course” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you have finished adding content to your module, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
Your course units will be listed in a table in the “Course Units” screen …
(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 training module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcode)
Shortcodes let you display training course content on your pages and manage all of your course details from your dashboard …
(Create training courses easily with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-course, users must log in and have permission to access your training content …
(Members must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
For more details go here: WP Courseware
Benefits
Below we have listed just a few of the benefits of using WPCourseware to add professional courses to your WordPress site on your WordPress site:
Installation Is Easy, Simple & Fast
WP Courseware is really easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Create Courses In Minutes
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand the way WordPress works, you can quickly create courses using familiar interfaces and functions.
Simply create a new course, module, or course unit with course 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 WP Courseware plugin allows you to create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of students to courses.
Add Different Content Types
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add anything you would typically add to a WordPress page or postWordPress posts or pages besides text, like audio, videos, images, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you want to create your training courses)
Some additional benefits include:
- Works with all themes: The plugin integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Works with all devices: WP Courseware works on all devices.
Features
WPCourseware offers WP users with many unique features. Below we have listed just some of these:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline or course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students have enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also view their course progress with a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside your dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Automatic Enrollment
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course students.
Course Certificates
Provide course participants who successfully complete training courses with certificates of completion. Certificates of completion can be personalized with a custom background, logo, and signature …
(Certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export function lets you set up training courses on other websites.
Custom Email Notifications And User Messages
WPCourseware lets you set up custom email messages to congratulate students upon module and course completion and communicating on other administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails to congratulate students who pass the quiz. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email to students with their final course grades with one click …
(User Notifications – WP Courseware)
Quizzes And Surveys
Add a quiz or survey to your course content …
(Quizzes And Surveys)
- 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 a CSV file with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book will help you track your student’s progress …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WP Courseware)
e-Commerce & Membership Site Plugin Integration
WPCourseware can be used with leading e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With WordPress Membership & e-Commerce Sites)
User Testimonials
Here are just a few of the testimonials and comments that plugin users 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
WP Courseware Plugin – Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you probably already have training content on your website or blog 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 showing outsourced workers how to perform certain tasks.
Product Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, complete 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 area explains how to use the shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to complete plugin training video tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – How-To Videos)
Plugin Price
WPCourseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This allows you to run WP Courseware on 1 WordPress website only. It includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This license option allows you to activate WPCourseware on ten WordPress websites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License Edition – This enables you to activate WPCourseware on twenty-five WordPress web sites. It includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: Pricing details of the WPCourseware software depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The above reflects the pricing at the time this article was written. This may not be the actual price set by the product developer when you visit the product website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing details here:
Additional Information
For ”how to” videos of the plugin, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
In Conclusion
If you would like to develop and sell e-courses, the WPCourseware plugin is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use plugin that you may want to consider adding to your site.
For complete details, visit the plugin website:
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