Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are now finding new opportunities to profit from areas like providing teaching and training courses online and elearning.
eTraining is based on the concept of distance learning, where learners don’t have face-to-face contact with the trainer or teacher.
The eLearning Industry Is Growing
eLearning marketplaces like Udemy.com are strong indicators of the explosive growth of the e-Learning industry.
Udemy.com provides 30,000+ online courses covering all topics, from design and personal transformation, to creativity and improving your lifestyle, etc …
(Udemy currently offers 30,000+ ecourses covering every topic imaginable!)
The fact that the eLearning industry is growing and that anything can be taught online is not only great for people looking to learn new skills, but also for individuals that have unique content that can help transform the lives of others.
e-Courses – Opportunities And Challenges
The internet provides many tools and opportunities for creating and selling online courses. Training delivered via computers and increasingly mobile-based tools and technologies include Learning Management Systems (LMS), videos, web-conferencing apps, audio training, downloadable reports, online forums, etc. There are, however, some drawbacks when it comes to planning, developing and implementing online training courses.
Some of these include:
- Figuring out content delivery methods,
- Employing easy-to-use tools and technologies that course students can immediately use to access the training content,
- Ensuring consistency across the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring results,
- Assessing scores,
- Providing useful reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include the lack of human contact, boredom and lack of student motivation, distractions that cause loss of focus, etc.
e-Courses – Unlimited Possibilities
If you plan to create and sell products online, creating an e-learning course that teaches others useful things is a great way to grow a subscriber list and monetize your website. Creating products is one of the best ways to attract new customers, as well as establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as a leader in your industry.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be turned into an e-course.
(Got a business built around fashion photography, gardening or creative writing? Turn it into an online training product!)
The problem is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. Chances are, however, that if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you already have loads of great training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a new product.
If your site is built with WordPress and you would like to create an online training course, there’s a cost-effective and powerful courseware solution you may want to consider using on your site.
Announcing …
WPCourseware – WordPress Learning Management Plugin
Product Description
WPCourseware is a leading online course creation plugin for WordPress.
(WP Courseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin)
Thousands of websites use the WPCourseware plugin. WPCourseware makes creating courses in WordPress simple.
Training courses in WPCourseware include modules and modules can contain units, quizzes, etc.
WP Courseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. The plugin adds its own menu section that lets you create new courses, add or edit course modules and units, add quiz questions, edit settings, import/export data, edit certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware options menu)
WPCourseware also lets you add a widget in the sidebar, giving users access to information about their course progress …
(WPCourseware Sidebar Widget)
You can fully customize and configure all of your courses.
For example, you can choose if students need to have completed a training unit before they can advance to the next section …
(Customize course settings to suit your needs)
You can view information about your training courses ”at a glance” inside your dashboard and perform various types of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View training course information inside the WP dashboard)
If you are already familiar with how WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar interfaces and functionality.
For example, you can easily add and edit course titles and descriptions, 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 options from drop-down menus, dragging and dropping elements around screens, etc …
(Plugin ”Edit Course” area)
Adding training modules and course units is as simple as adding and editing a WordPress post. You can easily include text, images, videos, and any other kind of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorder your training content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the Ordering section …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done adding content to your module, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
You can view a table containing your course units in the “Course Units” section …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WP Courseware allows you to insert courses and training module information into pages using a range of built-in shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
With shortcodes, you can display training course content on your pages and manage all of your course options from your dashboard …
(Training course created with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-training course, the content can be viewed by registered users …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
For more details, visit the plugin site here: WPCourseware
Benefits
Here are just some of the benefits of using WP Courseware to add professional training courses to your WordPress website or blog on your site:
Fast And Simple To Install And Configure. Be Up And Running In No Time.
WPCourseware installs like every WP plugin. Just upload a zip file that contains the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your administrator section and activate.
Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand how WordPress works, you can create courses very quickly using familiar interfaces and functions.
Just 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 Capacity
The WP Courseware plugin allows you to create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of users to courses.
Add Any Type Of Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which enables you to add any type of content you would normally add to WordPress posts or pages besides text, such as embedded media, graphic elements, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different content types in your training courses)
Some additional benefits include:
- Use on all WordPress themes: WPCourseware works with all WordPress themes.
- Compatible with all devices: The plugin works on all devices.
Features
WP Courseware offers a number of great features to site owners. Below we have listed a few of these:
Course Outline & Progress Page
You can create course outlines and course progress pages using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses your students have enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through their courses with a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside your dashboard …
(Track course progress)
Automatic Enrollment
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course participants.
Certificates
Students who successfully complete your training courses can be issued with a certificate. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to training certificates …
(Customized course certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The export/import feature lets you set up training courses on other WP sites.
Custom Notifications
WPCourseware allows you to create custom email notifications to congratulate trainees upon module and course completion and for communicating course-related administrative matters. You can also customize quiz result emails so your students can be congratulated after completing training quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email to students with their final grades with a single click …
(User Notifications – WP Courseware)
Surveys & Quizzes
Add a quiz or survey to your course content …
(Surveys And Quizzes)
- Depending on how you decide to structure your course, you can use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- Results can be downloaded in PDF format. You can also download CSV files with the survey results.
- The course grade book will help you track your student’s progress …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Screen – WPCourseware)
Works With WordPress eCommerce & Membership Sites
WP Courseware integrates with many leading e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Membership Site & e-Commerce Plugin Integration)
Feedback From Users
Here are just a few of the testimonials and comments that customers have written about WP Courseware:
“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
Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself online for a while, you already have the building blocks of great training content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital training product.
WPCourseware allows you to easily convert any page or post on your site into a course unit, so if showing outsourced workers how to complete certain tasks.
Support
WP Courseware is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, 30 day, 100% 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 examples of the shortcodes …
(Plugin Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to dozens of plugin “how to” tutorials …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Plugin Tutorials)
Product Cost
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This lets you activate WPCourseware on 1 web site only. Price includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site License Edition – This allows you to configure WP Courseware on 10 WordPress websites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This edition enables you to use WP Courseware on twenty-five websites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Note: Price details for WP Courseware can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the software is selling for the pricing shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the software developer when you visit the site 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 demo videos showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
We Highly Recommend This
WPCourseware will help you create e-courses quickly and easily. This is a powerful, yet simple and easy to use courseware solution you should definitely download and add to your site.
To learn more, visit the plugin website here:
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