Posts by Ben Arellano

Subscribers-only offer for 48 hours! A perfect companion to WP Courseware! Today, Ben and I are thrilled to announce the release of S3 Media Maestro, the newest plugin from Fly Plugins! Just as with WP Courseware, this is a plugin that we developed to use on our own training sites, so we hope you find it helpful…

Our latest website redesign brings a new look, a member dashboard, and enhanced support functionality! Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of a newly-redesigned FlyPlugins.com, along with a few important updates for our customers. We’ve worked hard to create a site that better serves our existing and prospective customers and we hope it delivers an outstanding…

I recently finished a reading of Richard Mayer’s popular text, Multimedia Learning. If you’re using WP Courseware and haven’t read the book, it’s a great resource for techniques that help in explaining ideas to your students or course participants One of the key concepts Mayer discusses in the book is the management of “essential processing”.…

With so many tasks associated with the management of e-learning becoming automated, it’s easy to set up an online course and rely on it to consistently deliver your training content without much input. After all, one of the most attractive features of delivering training electronically is the ability to scale up a course for hundreds…

“What types of content can be added to a WP Courseware course unit?” “Will WP Courseware work with my membership plugin?” “Can I include quizzes in my WP Courseware course?” These are just a few of the “frequently asked questions” we receive at Fly Plugins regarding WP Courseware. And we’re very happy to receive and answer…

Delivering web-based training has never been easier or more cost-effective that it is now.  The costs associated with developing and hosting a website are lower than ever and with content management platforms like WordPress available for installation with the click of a button, setting up a website on your own is silly simple. However, as…

First of all, whether you’ve purchased a copy of WP Courseware or not, we want to thank you. Thank you for taking the time to either purchase the plugin or at least spend a little time exploring a product that we’ve spent months of effort working on in order to make creating training courses in WordPress easier…

With nearly 100 million iPads sold to-date and the iPhone accounting for almost 6% of mobile phones sold world-wide in Q3 of 2012, it’s evident that consumers are moving toward higher-end mobile devices with more powerful processing capabilities and expanded functionality. Additionally, there are over 700,000 apps available in the Apple App Store and nearly…

Today, I’d like to discuss one of the most often overlooked, yet powerful features within WP Courseware, the email notification templates. Located in the “Edit Course Settings” screen for each individual course you create, you have the ability to send your course participants emails upon successful completion of both modules and courses. Email notifications can…

One of our absolute favorite ways to produce content for training courses is through the use of screencasting. There are so many benefits to using this medium for delivering web-based instructional content. You don’t need an expensive camera or complex video editing software, making it an efficient and cost-effective way of producing recordings. Furthermore, some…