Posts by Ben Arellano
No Time To Build a Course? Use These 13 Strategies to Make Your Time Intentional
We very often hear from WP Courseware users who have a great idea for a viable paid course, but who struggle finding time to actually create content. As any entrepreneur knows, taking your idea from a small seed in your mind to a full-time business often means making it a priority through sacrifices. That might…
Read MoreHow to Set Up an Affiliate Program for Your Online Courses
We’re fortunate to have conversations, either through email or our support desk, with hundreds of WP Courseware customers every week. It’s a very good thing for us as we’ve had the opportunity to learn so much about what our customers are teaching, how they deliver training, how they price and market their courses, and what…
Read MoreA Complete Guide to the WP Courseware Instructor Role
As many of you know, we introduced an instructor role to WP Courseware in our last major update. After spending some time experimenting with it post-release, I would have to say that it’s one of my favorite feature additions to WP Courseware since we released advanced quiz functionality over two years ago. The instructor role feature has been among our…
Read MoreBring Your WP Courseware Courses to Life with H5P Interactive Content
The world of e-learning is constantly changing and evolving. As readily available technologies emerge, new tools are allowing the online learning experience to become more effective and efficient. With every new advance in browser capabilities or handheld devices, courses become richer and more accessible allowing the process of consuming information to benefit larger numbers of…
Read MoreUsing WishList Member to Sell Your WP Courseware Courses
The History of WishList Member and WP Courseware There are a lot of great membership plugins out there for WordPress. Each has its own unique features which set it apart from others and we do our best to continually develop WP Courseware integrations for as many of them as possible so that our users have options for…
Read MoreJump Starting Your Course Idea with Mind Mapping
When it comes to the actionable content we’ve created to help our customers succeed with profitable courses using WP Courseware, one of our current users recently pointed out something which I hadn’t realized and of course it now seems very obvious. Over the last four and a half years, we’ve spent a lot of time writing…
Read MoreIntroducing WP Courseware Version 4.0 with Instructor Roles and More!
It’s been a busy summer here at Fly Plugins! After receiving an incredible response from our 2016 WP Courseware user survey and hiring a very talented new development team, we’ve been hard at work on the features our customers would like to see rolled out. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a major update to WP…
Read MoreAre You Paying More for Coffee Than WordPress Hosting?
Can I tell you one of my pet peeves? These days many of us are completely comfortable spending $5 on coffee every day of the week. Yet I can’t tell you how many online entrepreneurs I’ve spoken with who run their entire business on WordPress, but who refuse to pay more than $30 per month for web hosting.…
Read MoreUsing myCRED and WP Courseware for Reward-Driven Learning
myCred and WP Courseware can be integrated to incentivize your online course students and keep them engaged. Let’s take a look at how it works! Over the last four years of WP Courseware, we’ve been able to create quite a few integrations to link our LMS plugin‘s core functionality with other WordPress solutions. Of course,…
Read MorePaid Memberships Pro for Selling Courses
A couple weeks ago I published an article on how to sell courses using Easy Digital Downloads. But what if you would like to add a membership element to your website? Whats the difference? Easy Digital Downloads allows you to sell courses as “products”. A membership plugin allows you to use your website as the “product”.…
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