Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are now finding new opportunities to profit from areas like online training and education.
e-Learning is based on the concept of distance learning, where students have no face-to-face interaction with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Training Industry Is Growing
e-Training sites like Udemy.com are strong indicators of the tremendous growth of the e-Training industry.
Udemy provides over 30,000 e-courses covering all topics, from design and personal finance, to courses on parenting & relationships and photography, etc …
(Udemy.com offers over 30,000 ecourses 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 teach others.
e-Courses – Opportunities & Challenges
Some of the drawbacks of planning, developing and implementing effective online training courses include:
- Working out the,
- Using popular tools that do not require taking on an additional learning curve,
- Ensuring consistency of methods used in content design, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning performance,
- Assessing scores,
- Creating reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include the lack of human contact, boredom and potential lack of motivation, loss of focus, etc.
Online Courses – Unlimited Possibilities
If you plan to develop and sell products online, creating an e-course that helps people acquire useful skills and competency in subjects where there is a high level of need is a great way to grow a subscriber list or develop an online stream of revenue. Creating products is, after all, one of the best ways to build a loyal customer base, establish authority and credibility and position yourself as a leader in your niche or industry.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Just about anything can be taught online.
(Got a business built around photography, gardening or copywriting? Turn it into an ecourse!)
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 the building blocks of great content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a training product.
If you are searching for an inexpensive way to create and sell ecourses and your website is driven by WordPress, then there is a powerful solution you should check out.
Introducing …
WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Description Of Plugin
WPCourseware is a leading learning management system courseware plugin for WordPress.
(WPCourseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin)
The WP Courseware plugin is used on thousands of websites and makes creating training courses in WordPress simple.
A course in WPCourseware consists of modules and modules contain units, quizzes, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds its own menu section that lets you create new training courses, add or edit modules and units, edit quizzes, edit plugin, import/export course information, edit training certificates, access plugin documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in the sidebar, allowing users to view their own progress …
(WP Courseware Sidebar Widget)
Your courses can be entirely configured and customized.
For example, you can choose whether course students need to have completed a course section before they can advance to the next section …
(Customize course settings to suit your needs)
You can access an overview of all training course details inside your dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View details about your training courses inside your admin dashboard)
If you already understand WordPress, you can quickly create courses using familiar interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit course titles and descriptions, set user access, customize messages and notifications, issue 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 & drop, etc …
(”Edit Course” section)
Adding modules and course units is as simple as adding and editing WordPress posts. You can include text, images, embedded media, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can reorder your units inside modules using drag and drop inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done adding content to your unit, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
Your course units will be listed in a table in the “Course Units” area …
(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 shortcodes)
After publishing your page, your course will display to users with all the options and settings you have configured …
(Create training courses easily with WPCourseware)
Once your e-course has been published, the content can be viewed by logged in authorized members …
(Users must log in and have permission to access your training content)
Learn more about the plugin here: WP Courseware
Product Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits of using WPCourseware to create professional training courses online on your WordPress website:
Fast And Easy To Install And Configure. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
WP Courseware is quite easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your admin user area and activate.
Create Training Courses In Minutes
As mentioned earlier, if you already understand the way WordPress works, you can create training courses fast using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
Just create a new course, module, or unit with course content, and optional quiz or survey. Drag and drop to organize the content and create a course outline using the plugin’s shortcodes or widget.
Unlimited Expansion Capability
WPCourseware allows you to create unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and add an unlimited number of participants to courses.
Use Different Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which allows you to add any type of content you would typically insert into WordPress posts or pages besides text, like audio files, video, images, hyperlinks, downloadable files, etc.
(Add any type of content you want in your training courses)
Additional benefits include:
- Works with all WP themes: The plugin works with all WordPress themes.
- Works with all devices: WPCourseware allows you to deliver your content across multiple devices.
Product Features
WPCourseware offers WP users with a number of great features. Here are a few of these:
Course Outlines
You can create a course outline or course progress page via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays all the courses students are enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Track Student Progress
Students can also navigate through their courses using a custom sidebar widget.
As a course administrator, you can also track student progress inside your dashboard …
(Track student progress)
Automatic Enrollment
You can set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new students.
Customized Training Certificates
Provide course participants who successfully complete training courses with course certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to course certificates …
(Customized course certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The export/import functionality allows you to move courses to other sites.
User Messaging
WP Courseware allows you to set up custom user messages to congratulate students after completing modules and courses and to communicate course-related administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email to congratulate students who successfully complete training quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email trainees with their final course grades with a single click …
(WPCourseware – Custom User Notifications)
Quizzes And Surveys
Add quizzes and surveys to your course content …
(Add Surveys And Quizzes)
- 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 survey results.
- The instructor grade book helps track your student’s progress …
(WP Courseware – Edit Quiz/Survey Screen)
e-Commerce & Membership Site Plugin Integration
WP Courseware works with many leading e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Integrates With WordPress eCommerce & Membership Site Plugins)
User Feedback
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback 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, 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, Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Speaker
Useful Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing yourself 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 allows you to convert any post or page on your site into a course unit, so if you have already published some “how to” articles and tutorials.
Plugin Support
WP Courseware is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, 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” section 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)
Product Price
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This enables you to activate WPCourseware on a single WordPress domain. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This option allows you to use WP Courseware on ten websites. Cost includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This edition enables you to configure WP Courseware on twenty-five websites. Pricing includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Note: The price of this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The above reflects the current pricing when this article was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin author when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Product Info
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
Download The Product
WP Courseware will help you create and sell an e-training product fast. This is a powerful courseware solution that you should definitely consider using.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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