Thanks to the digital revolution, thousands of entrepreneurial businesses and individuals are now finding new opportunities to profit from in areas like online education.
Electronic learning, or “elearning,” is is the technological equivalent of distance learning, where students do not interact face-to-face with the trainer or teacher.
The e-Training Industry Is Growing
e-Training course sites like Udemy.com are strong indicators of the explosive growth of the eLearning industry.
Udemy.com currently offers over 30,000 ecourses on every topic imaginable, from internet marketing and personal productivity, to parenting & relationships and hobbies, etc …
(Udemy offers 30,000+ courses online on every subject imaginable!)
This is not only great for people looking to learn new skills, but also for businesses that have something that can help transform the lives of others.
Online Training – Opportunities And Challenges
Some of the challenges of developing e-courses include:
- Working out the best way to deliver content,
- Using familiar tools that course students can use instinctively to get trained,
- Ensuring consistent standards are used throughout the content, branding, etc.
- Measuring learning performance,
- Grading scores,
- Creating useful reports, completion certificates
Additional factors include the lack of face-to-face interaction, lack of motivation (e.g. boredom), distracting environments, etc.
e-Courses – Unlimited Possibilities
If you plan to create and sell information-based products, creating ecourses that teach people useful subjects is a great way to grow a list or develop a new stream of revenue. Product creation is one of the best ways to build a customer base, establish authority and credibility and position yourself as an industry or niche leader.
There’s a ton of opportunity. Almost anything can be turned into an online training course.
(Got a passion or interest in fashion photography, horticulture or writing sales copy? Turn it into an e-course!)
The problem is that creating PDF reports and training courses from scratch can take a lot of time. If you have been marketing yourself online for a while, however, you probably already have content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new digital product.
If your website is built with WordPress and you plan to create training products, there’s a cost-effective and powerful plugin that can help you.
Our WordPress Plugin Is …
WPCourseware – Learning Management System Courseware Plugin For WordPress
Description
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.
(WPCourseware – Online Course Creation Software)
7,000+ websites use WPCourseware. The plugin makes creating e-courses in WordPress simple.
Training courses in WP Courseware comprise of modules and training modules include units, quizzes, etc.
WPCourseware can be fully integrated with any WordPress site. Once installed, the plugin adds an “options” menu that lets you create new training courses, add or edit existing modules and units, add quizzes and surveys, edit settings, import/export your course information, modify training certificates, view plugin documentation, etc …
(WP Courseware plugin menu)
WP Courseware also lets you add a widget in the sidebar, allowing users to monitor their course progress …
(WPCourseware Widget)
Your courses can be entirely customized and configured.
For example, you can choose whether course students need to have completed a training section before they are allowed to progress to the next section …
(Courses can be configured to suit your needs)
You can view training course information “at a glance” and perform a number of actions (e.g. edit course settings) …
(View information about all courses inside the WP dashboard)
If you are already familiar with WordPress, you can quickly create courses using familiar WordPress interfaces and functions.
For example, you can add and edit the course title and description, set user access, customize user messages and notifications, provide course completion certificates and fine tune other course settings simply by clicking tabs, entering information into fields, checking radio buttons, choosing options from drop-down menus, rearranging elements around screens using drag and drop, etc …
(Plugin options area)
Adding modules and units is as easy as adding and editing WordPress posts. You can easily include text, images, videos, and any other form of content that you would normally add to a post.
You can order your training content by dragging and dropping units inside modules inside the Ordering settings area …
(Order Course Modules & Units screen)
When you are done adding content to your module, just publish it like any other WordPress post or page.
All of your course units display in a table in the “Course Units” section …
(Course Units table)
Placing your course and training modules into pages is simple. You can use shortcodes to insert course and 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 the plugin settings section …
(Creating professional training courses with WPCourseware)
Once your e-learning product is published, it can be viewed by logged in your registered users …
(Users must be logged in and have permission to access your training content)
More info: WP Courseware
Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using WPCourseware to add professional training courses to your WordPress web site on your site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Configure. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
WPCourseware is quite easy to install. Just upload a zip folder that contains the plugin to your Plugin folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Create Training Courses Quickly
As mentioned earlier, if you have a basic understanding of how WordPress works, you can create training courses quickly using familiar interfaces and functions.
Simply create a 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 plugin lets you set up unlimited courses, modules, lessons, quizzes, surveys and add an unlimited number of students to courses.
Use Different Content
A course unit uses WordPress custom types, which lets you add anything you would normally insert into a WordPress page or postWordPress posts or pages besides text, like embedded media, graphic elements, links, file downloads, etc.
(Add any type of content you like in your training courses)
Additional plugin benefits include:
- Works on all WP themes: The plugin integrates with all WordPress themes.
- Use on all devices: WPCourseware allows you to deliver your training content across multiple devices.
Plugin Features
WP Courseware provides many great features to website owners. Below we have listed a few:
Course Outline
You can create course outlines and course progress pages via shortcodes. The course progress shortcode is dynamic and displays the courses students are enrolled in as well as displaying their current progress.
Track Course Progress
Students can also navigate through their course using a dynamic custom sidebar widget.
As an administrator, you can also track student progress inside your dashboard …
(Track student progress)
Automatic Enrollment
Set up courses to allow automatic enrollment of new course participants.
Course Certificate Distribution
Provide students with course completion certificates. You can add custom backgrounds, logos and signatures to certificates …
(Customized training course certificates)
Export/Import Functionality
The export/import option allows you to transfer your course to other sites.
Custom User Notifications
WP Courseware allows you to create custom email notifications to congratulate students upon module or course completion and for communicating other administrative matters. You can also customize the quiz result email so your students can be congratulated after successfully completing a quiz. Additionally, you can also send out a mass email trainees with their final grade with just one click …
(Custom Notifications – WPCourseware)
Surveys & Quizzes
Add a quiz or survey to your course content …
(Add Surveys And Quizzes)
- Depending on how you decide to build the 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 instructor grade book will help you track how your students are progressing in a course …
(Edit Quiz/Survey Section – WP Courseware)
Membership And eCommerce Integration
WPCourseware works with many ecommerce and membership plugins …
(Membership Site & eCommerce Integration)
Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials and comments that plugin customers 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
Product Tips
As mentioned earlier, if you have been marketing your business online for a while, you probably already have plenty of great training content on your website or blog that can be leveraged into a new digital training product.
WP Courseware allows you to convert any any WordPress page or post into a course unit, so if showing outsourced workers how to complete certain tasks.
Support
WPCourseware is very well-supported and backed by a risk-free, 30 day, 100% 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 options and settings area provides examples of the available shortcodes …
(WPCourseware Documentation – Shortcodes)
And access to a complete library of ”how-to” video tutorials …
(Plugin Documentation – Plugin Video Tutorials)
Software Cost
WP Courseware is available in the following options:
- 2-Site Edition – This license option allows you to run WPCourseware on one web site only. It includes one year of free upgrades and support. Price = $99.00.
- 10-Site Edition – This enables you to set up WP Courseware on ten WordPress web sites. Includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Cost = $125.00.
- 25-Site License – This allows you to run WPCourseware on twenty-five domains. It includes 1 year of free upgrades and support. Price = $175.00.
Note: Pricing details of WPCourseware depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the plugin is selling for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual price charged by the plugin developer when you visit the plugin site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the WPCourseware website.
The Bottom Line
WPCourseware will help you build a training product fast. This is a great courseware plugin that you should definitely look into.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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