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Randomized quizzes are a great tool for enhancing learning retention. They’re also simple to create within WP Courseware. At the end of 2014, we released the largest update we’ve ever made to WP Courseware. After months of development and testing and with the guidance of one of the smartest people in the WordPress ecosystem, our…

Fumbling around with WordPress can be daunting in the beginning, however, these WordPress training resources can greatly lessen the learning curve for new users of the world’s most popular content management system. I can remember it like it was yesterday. Three things happened around 2009 which all culminated in me becoming deeply embedded in the…

Customer churn can lead to a 33% loss in sales for a membership or course site each year. But what can you do to fix it? For a membership site or online course which relies on recurring monthly subscription income, there are a number of potential factors which can lead to a loss of customers…

Amazon’s S3 cloud storage platform is extremely cost-effective, but budgeting for it can be difficult to predict. When we started our first online course back in 2010, almost all of the content consisted of video. And when we launched we knew we needed to address three specific issues right off the bat… Since we were…

Want to know how to create an online course with WordPress? These 10 simple steps will show you how. Article Index 1. Introduction 2. Course Topic Selection 3. Course Topic Validation 4. Setting Learning Outcomes 5. Compiling Your Resources 6. Beginning Your Outline 7. Choosing a Delivery Method 8. Creating Your Course Lessons 9. Building…

One of my favorite plugins that allows you to sell products on your website is WooCommerce. WooCommerce was one of the first e-commerce plugins for WordPress, introduced in 2011. WooCommerce was immediately a hit within the WordPress community. As you may know, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic in May of 2015 and is continually being improved. Selling courses…

If content is king on the internet, video is the undisputed queen. In this article, we illustrate how simple it is to embed video within your WordPress content. 1 billion hours… 1,608 human life spans… Any guesses as to what statistic these numbers correlate to? These numbers describe the amount of YouTube video content consumed…

The number of web-based graphic creation packages has exploded over the last two to three years and that’s great news for creators of online courses. These web apps offer many, many helpful resources for creating graphics and resources for e-learning and most of them are actually free to start using. They can also help create…

Digital Access Pass (DAP) is one of the leaders when it comes to membership plugins in the WordPress space. DAP was designed for internet marketers and has a lot of great features which allow you to automate your membership payments, manage recurring subscriptions, and even upsell customers on higher value products or membership levels. There are so many possibilities…

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…