Online Course Platform You Own: Build It on WordPress

What is an online course platform? It is the software that holds your courses, your students and your sales in one place. This video explains the three kinds and shows one built on a WordPress site you own.

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What is an online course platform? It is the software that holds your courses, your students and your sales in one place. It delivers the lessons and quizzes. It handles sign-up and payment. And it keeps track of progress and certificates. There are three kinds. A marketplace, where your course sits in a catalogue beside everyone else. A hosted course tool, where you rent a ready-made school. And a plugin that turns a website you own into the platform. The first two are quick to start. The third is the only one where the school is yours. Renting has a cost beyond the bill. You pay a fee for as long as you teach. Your students sit on someone else's list. And you can only add the features the platform allows. Stop paying, and the school closes. Who needs one? Coaches and consultants, who sell what they know. Schools and tutors. Companies, training their own staff. And clubs and associations, teaching their members. Whichever kind you choose, it has to do six jobs. Host the lessons. Take the payment. Save every student's progress. Test them with quizzes. Issue certificates. And report back to the owner. Here are all six on one WordPress site. A student picks a course from the catalogue, and carries on from the lesson where he stopped. Each course also has a community room, where students ask each other for help. Teachers get a public profile, with their courses and their ratings, a private dashboard with their own revenue, and a list of every student enrolled in their courses. The owner keeps every course in one list, and builds each one in the same builder, section by section. One screen shows every student and how far they have got. Another shows every payment, and exports it to a spreadsheet. It grows with you. Teach alone, or open applications and let other teachers join. Sell one course, or a membership plan that opens a whole group of them. And if your courses already sit in one of the well known WordPress course plugins, an import tool brings the courses, lessons and quizzes across. Side by side. A fee every month, or a free plugin on hosting you already pay for. Their address, or your domain. Fixed features, or anything you choose to add. Students on their list, or on yours. Every lesson you upload to a rented platform is one more thing to move later. Build on your own site, and you build it once. Learnomy is the free course plugin for WordPress. Start your course platform on your own site this week. Get Learnomy. The link is below.