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Navigation is a critical component for any website.  And for online courses, it can often be the difference between presenting your material in a manner which effectively facilities the e-learning process or causing confusion and hindering a student’s progress. We’ve had quite a few requests from our user community for additional navigation options within WP Courseware and we hear…

When Ben and I set up our very first online course a few years ago, we wanted to provide an interactive environment in which our course participants were motivated by a sense of community. After all, we tend to learn better when we’re learning with others. Ideas are exchanged, communication skills are developed, and the…

You know the story.  You set up a WordPress site a few months or even years ago with a crystal clear vision of how you wanted your site to look and what you wanted it to do. You found the right theme and started extending the functionality of your site with a few plugins. Over…

You asked for it…now you’ve got it! WP Courseware has rolled out a MASSIVE feature update with version 2.3! We’ve rolled out some great new functionality, including some very exciting features: Automated member enrollment for the most popular membership plugins, including WishList Member, S2 Member, and Magic Member. Automated PDF certificate creation for course completion…

Let’s face it. Creating good training content in any format is time-consuming work.  When Ben and I developed our first video training course a couple of years ago, we spent well over a hundred hours brainstorming, recording, and editing our content. With so much time and energy invested in producing a course, we knew that…

Screencasts are a great way to capture content for online training courses. As we’ve discussed in prior posts, they’re also very often the most effective way to deliver some forms of training, such as software tutorials. It takes little more than a screencasting software package and PowerPoint or KeyNote to get started, which makes for…

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…