Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are finding new niches and opportunities to profit from in areas like online training and education.
Electronic training (e-Training) is is the modern equivalent of distance learning, where students have no direct face-to-face interaction with the teacher or trainer.
The eTraining Industry Is Growing
eTraining sites like Udemy.com show that the eTraining industry is growing at an impressive rate.
Udemy offers 30,000+ courses online covery every subject imaginable, from design and building self-esteem, to courses about health and fitness and photography, etc …
(Udemy.com currently offers 30,000+ courses online covering every topic imaginable!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new things, but also for individuals that have unique and valuable content that can help transform the lives of others.
eTraining – Benefits And Challenges
Some of the drawbacks of planning and developing effective e-courses include:
- Working out the best way to deliver content,
- Using familiar tools and technologies that learners can use immediately to access the training content,
- Ensuring consistent standards are applied throughout the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring outcomes,
- Assessing student scores,
- Providing reports, certificates of completion
Additionally, you need to take into account factors such as the lack of face-to-face contact, learner boredom, distracting environments, etc.
e-Learning – Unlimited Possibilities
If you are a digital product creator, creating an ecourse that helps people gain useful skills is a great way to attract new subscribers and develop a new stream of revenue. Product creation is one of the best ways to build a loyal customer base, establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as a leader in your industry.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost every subject imaginable can be turned into an training course.
(Got a business built around fashion photography, landscaping or technical writing? Turn it into an elearning course!)
The problem is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch can be very time-consuming. Chances are, however, you probably already have the building blocks of great content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
If your site is powered by WordPress and you’re searching for an inexpensive way to create and sell an online training product then there is a powerful WordPress solution that you need to know about.
Announcing …
WP Courseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin
Description Of Product
WPCourseware is a leading WordPress course management system plugin.
(WPCourseware – Online Learning Management System Plugin For WordPress)
WPCourseware is used by thousands of businesses online and makes creating e-courses in WordPress simple.
A course in WPCourseware contains training modules and training modules can contain course units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware integrates fully with any WordPress site. The plugin adds its own menu section that lets you add a new course, edit existing course modules and units, add quizzes, edit settings, import/export your training content, modify certificates, access plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a sidebar widget, giving users access to information about how they are progressing in the course …
(WPCourseware Widget)
Courses can be completely customized and configured.
For example, you can decide whether course students need to have completed a training unit before they can progress to the next unit …
(Customize your course settings to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of all courses inside your admin dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. reorder modules, units and quizzes) …
(View training course information inside the admin dashboard)
If you have a basic understanding of the way WordPress works, you can create training courses quickly and easily using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
For example, you can easily add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize messages and user notifications, create certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing options from drop-down menus, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Edit your course details easily)
Adding training modules and course units is as easy 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 rearrange the order of your content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the Ordering screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done creating 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” section …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware lets you use a range of shortcodes to insert courses and training module information into pages …
(WPCourseware shortcode)
With shortcodes, you can display training course information on your pages and manage all of your course options from your dashboard …
(Training course created with WPCourseware)
After your training course has been published, it can be viewed by logged in your registered members …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
Learn more here: WP Courseware
Benefits Of Using WP Courseware
Here are just some of the benefits of using WPCourseware to add training courses to your website on your web site:
Quick Installation
WPCourseware installs like any WordPress plugin. Simply upload a zip folder containing the plugin to your Plugins folder via your admin login and activate.
Create Training Courses In Minutes
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can create training courses in minutes using familiar interfaces and functionality.
Simply create a course, training module, or course unit with course content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to organize the course and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Expansion Capacity
WP Courseware lets you add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and course participants.
Add Any Type Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add anything you would normally add to a WordPress post or pageWordPress posts or pages besides text, such as video, audio, images, links, file downloads, etc.
(Use different types of content in your training courses)
Additional plugin benefits include:
- Works with all themes: The plugin integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: The plugin allows you to deliver your content across multiple devices.
WP Courseware Features
WP Courseware offers site owners with a number of great features. Below we have listed some of these features:
Course Outline
You can create course outlines and course progress pages via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students have enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through their courses with a custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track students as they progress through courses inside the dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll Students Automatically
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Customized Training Course Certificates
Issue students with certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to course completion certificates …
(Training course certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The export/import functionality allows you to set up training courses on a new WordPress site.
Email Notifications
WPCourseware lets you set up custom user messages to congratulate students upon module or course completion and communicating on course-related administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email to congratulate students who pass a quiz. Additionally, you can also send out mass emails trainees with their final course grade with a single click …
(User Messaging – WP Courseware)
Quizzes & Surveys
You can add quizzes and surveys to course content …
(Add Quizzes & Surveys)
- Use 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. You can also download a CSV file with the survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps track how students are progressing …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WPCourseware)
eCommerce & Membership Site Plugin Integration
WPCourseware works with many well-known WordPress ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Works With WordPress e-Commerce & Membership Sites)
Feedback From Plugin Users
Here are some of the testimonials that users have provided for 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
WPCourseware – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you already have training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
WPCourseware allows you to convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if there are a number of great educational articles and tutorials have already posted on your website, you probably have a partially-created product …
(Convert any post or page 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 courses, you can also use WPCourseware to train staff inhouse, or document instructions for outsourcing tasks.
Support
WPCourseware is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, thirty day, full money-back guarantee. Users get free access to all integrations and one year of support and upgrades with their purchase.
The plugin’s “Documentation” section inside the plugin’s settings area provides a list of the shortcodes …
(WP Courseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete library of ”how-to” videos …
(Plugin Documentation – Plugin Tutorials)
Plugin Cost
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site License Edition – This edition enables you to run WP Courseware on one WordPress site only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site Edition – This enables you to activate WPCourseware on ten domains. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site Edition – This license option enables you to use WPCourseware on 25 WordPress websites. Pricing includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase the WP Courseware product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The pricing shown above was current when this content was published. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the product seller when you visit the plugin 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 plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
Download The Plugin
WP Courseware helps you create an e-training course quickly and easily. This is a great courseware plugin that you should definitely download.
For more information, check out the plugin here:
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