Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are discovering new opportunities to profit from areas like online education.
eTraining is is the modern equivalent of distance learning, where students have no face-to-face interaction with the teacher or trainer.
The eTraining Industry Is Growing
eTraining marketplaces like Udemy are strong indicators of the tremendous growth of the e-Learning industry.
Udemy provides 30,000+ courses online covering all topics, from business and personal development, to courses on building healthy relationships and hobbies, etc …
(Udemy.com offers over 30,000 ecourses 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 to teach.
eLearning – Opportunities & Drawbacks
The internet provides benefits and opportunities for developing courses online, but there are also significant drawbacks and challenges.:
- Working out methods of delivering training,
- Employing popular tools and technologies that do not require spending additional time learning,
- Ensuring consistency of standards used throughout the content, course branding, etc.
- Measuring results,
- Assessing student scores,
- Creating reports, certificates of completion
Additional factors include the lack of human contact, boredom and lack of motivation, distracting environments, etc.
e-Learning – A World Of Possibilities
If you are an internet marketer, creating a learning course that teaches people new skills is a great way to attract new subscribers or develop a new stream of revenue. Product creation is, after all, one of the best ways to attract new customers, as well as establish authority and credibility online and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be turned into an ecourse.
(Got a passion or interest in fashion photography, landscaping or writing sales copy? Turn it into an online training product!)
The problem with product creation, however, is that creating “how to” ebooks and training courses from scratch takes a lot of time. If you have been online for a while, however, you probably already have content on your blog or website that can be leveraged into a digital product.
If your website is built using WordPress and you plan to create and sell elearning products, there’s a cost-effective and professional courseware plugin that can help you.
Announcing …
WP Courseware – WordPress Learning Management Plugin
Description Of Product
WP Courseware is a learning management system plugin for WordPress that lets you set up training courses and build e-learning products fast using WordPress.
(WP Courseware – WordPress Course Creation Plugin)
Thousands of WordPress sites use WP Courseware. WPCourseware makes creating courses in WordPress very simple.
In WPCourseware, e-Courses consist of modules and training modules comprise of units, surveys, etc.
WP Courseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds a new section to the admin menu that lets you create a new training course, edit existing modules and units, edit quiz questions, edit plugin, import/export your course information, modify certificates, access training documentation, etc …
(WPCourseware options menu)
WP Courseware also lets you include a widget in your sidebar, allowing users to view their own course progress …
(WPCourseware Sidebar Widget)
You can completely customize and configure all of your courses.
For example, you can specify whether course students need to complete a course section before they are allowed to advance to the next unit …
(Customize your course settings to suit your needs)
You can see an overview of all training courses inside your dashboard and perform a range of actions (e.g. reorder modules, units and quizzes) …
(View course details inside the WP dashboard)
If you are already familiar with the way WordPress works, you can quickly create training courses using familiar interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit your course title and description, set user access, customize user messages and user notifications, provide certificates of completion for courses and fine tune other course settings simply by switching tabs, entering data into fields, checking radio buttons, selecting drop-down menu options, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(”Edit Course” area)
Adding modules and course units is as simple as adding and editing a WordPress post. You can include text, images, videos, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can rearrange the order of your units inside training modules using drag and drop inside the ”Order Course Modules & Units” screen …
(Order Course Modules & Units section)
When you are done creating your unit, simply publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
All of your course units will be listed in a table in the “Course Units” area …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and modules into pages is simple. WPCourseware lets you insert course and module information into pages using shortcodes …
(WP Courseware shortcode)
With shortcodes, you can add training course content to your pages and manage all of your course options from a central location …
(Training course created with WP Courseware)
After publishing your e-learning product, members must log in and have permission to view your training content …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to view your training content)
For more details, visit the plugin site here: WPCourseware
Benefits Of Using WP Courseware
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using WP Courseware to add professional training courses to your WordPress website on your web site:
Fast And Easy To Install And Implement. Ready To Use In Minutes.
WPCourseware installs just like any other WP plugin. Just upload a zip file that contains the plugin to your Plugins folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Simple To Use
As mentioned earlier, if you are already familiar with the way WordPress works, you can create courses very quickly using familiar WordPress interfaces and functionality.
Just create a course, module, or 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 Capacity
WPCourseware allows you to add unlimited courses, modules, lessons, surveys, quizzes and enrollees.
Add Any Kind Of Content
Course units use WordPress custom types, which let you add any type of content you would normally add to a WordPress post or pageWordPress pages or posts besides text, such as audio files, videos, images, links, downloadable files, etc.
(Use different types of content in your training courses)
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Works on all WordPress themes: The plugin works with all WordPress themes.
- Use on all devices: WP Courseware allows you to deliver your training content across multiple devices.
Product Features
WPCourseware provides WP users with many features. Here are some of those features:
Course Outline
You can create a course outline or course progress page using shortcodes. The course progress shortcode displays all the courses students are enrolled in while also displaying their current progress.
Progress-Tracking Features
Students can also view their course progress with a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track a student’s course progress inside your dashboard …
(Progress-tracking features)
Enroll New Participants Automatically
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course participants.
Customized Course Certificates
At the end of a course, you can provide course participants with customized course certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to course certificates …
(Training certificates)
Import/Export Functionality
The import/export functionality lets you set up a course on other WordPress websites.
User Notifications
WP Courseware lets you set up custom email notifications for course participants upon module and course completion and to communicate other administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated upon passing course quizzes. Additionally, you can also send out mass emails to students with their final grades with a single click …
(Email Messages – WP Courseware)
Add Surveys & Quizzes
Add a quiz or survey to your course content …
(Quizzes & Surveys)
- Use course progress blocking or non-blocking quizzes depending on how you choose to structure the course.
- Quizzes can be timed, paginated, and include customized feedback based on question tags.
- 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 your students are progressing in a course …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Settings Area – WP Courseware)
Integrates With Membership & e-Commerce Plugins
WPCourseware works with leading WordPress e-commerce and membership plugins …
(Works With WordPress Membership & eCommerce Sites)
Feedback From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials that plugin users have published 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, Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Speaker
WP Courseware Plugin – Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been online for a while, you probably already have plenty of great content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new product.
WPCourseware lets you convert any any WordPress page or post into a course unit, so if there are a number of “how to” content like tutorials have already posted on your website, you probably have a product partially created …
(Convert any WordPress page or post 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 training courses, you can also use WP Courseware to train new staff, or document instructions for outsourcing tasks.
Support
The plugin is well-supported and backed by a risk-free, 30 day, 100% 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 provides a list of the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to over 15 “how-to” tutorials …
(Plugin Documentation – Video Tutorials)
Product Cost
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Licensing – This allows you to activate WPCourseware on one WordPress web site only. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $99.00.
- 10-Site License – This license option lets you run WPCourseware on ten domains. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $125.00.
- 25-Site Licensing – This lets you install WP Courseware on twenty-five web sites. Includes one year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $175.00.
Please Note: Pricing for the product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the pricing at the time this review was written. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the software author when you visit the plugin site 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 Info
For a demo video of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the WP Courseware website.
In Conclusion
If you’re searching for a cost-effective way to create ecourses, The WPCourseware plugin is a great courseware plugin that you may want to download.
For more information, check out the plugin here:
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