Unknown: Okay, so recording started, and we'llkick things off.
So yeah, thanks everyone for being here, andwelcome to our
WordPress online workshop about learningmanagement systems. And the reason why I chose to
select this topic was because, out of the hundredsof online workshops there's been this topic hadn't
been covered. So it was a thought. It was a greatopportunity to
dive into this topic. So
before we do dive into the topic
in the chat. If you'd like to, please justintroduce yourself, maybe where you're from, and
on a scale of one to five, and one being brandnew, and five being an expert. How comfortable are
you with WordPress?
That will just help us? I don't get a goodoverview of who's here, and there's no right or
wrong answers to that question,
anything goes and while you're doing that, I'lljust introduce myself. So my name is Shane. I'm
based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
I am a happiness engineer employed by Automattic,and I'm sponsored to contribute to the WordPress
community at this time, and part of that is
doing online workshops like this and also helping
get community events up and running. And prior tothis, I was a web developer for over 10 years, and
I mainly made websites and WordPress, using a lotof WooCommerce as well, and the odd website in
Drupal, Magento, shop, fire, etc, but yeah, mainlyWordPress, I would say. And if you'd like to
connect further
after the workshop, if you have questions, pleasefeel free to reach out on Slack, or you can look
me up on LinkedIn as well. I have, I think, theonly spelling of my name on LinkedIn, so it
shouldn't be too hard to find.
I'd also like to share in the chat a link to theslides, if you'd like to follow on follow along on
your own computer,
and
I'll just read it. So Nick is from BritishColumbia, Canada, and is a four out of 10. So
that's really cool. Moon is from India, and a oneout of 10. So nice and brand new. This will be
perfect for you.
And we've got, sorry, I'm not sure what was yourname.
We've got D starts with D, long letters, longstrings of numbers and letters. Here from
California,
some ways he's a one, some ways he's a four, butthat's absolutely fine. And Nora Zaman is our co
host for today. He's from Bangladesh, and he's avery experienced web developer, also plugin
developer and theme developer and Don, thank you.Yeah. I'm not sure what happened with the username
there, but Don is joining us. Scott, from Idaho,five out of 10.
Yeah, no problem. Still, it's all good.
So yeah, great. We've got a good range here, andI'm hoping that this workshop will have something
for everyone. So let's
one more admin slide
so everyone's muted. Thanks so much.
We'll have a Q amp a slide at the end. So if youhave questions, I'll do my best to answer them,
then otherwise, I will get back to you with ananswer if I can't answer it on the spot. So this
is what we're going to cover today. It looks likea lot, but we'll go pretty quickly, because I want
to get to the demo at the end, where the fun canbe had. So we're going to cover what an LMS is,
why you can use or why you should use a WordPressLMS plugin, the core components of one the key
features to understand monetization options, thefront end and the back end, common integrations,
free versus Pro, which I think is quite importantto look at.
We're going to look at Choosing an LMS plugin,Anne theme. What things do we need to consider?
And we're going to look at popular LMS plugins,and then we're going to finish up with a demo.
So let's kick things off. What is an LMS? So youprobably already know an LMS is a learning
management system, and it's software for creating,delivering and managing educational content, and a
WordPress LMS plugin is a plugin that addsfunctionality to your site, much like work.
Commerce, or an e-commerce plugin, sort of boltsthis free, ready, ready to go, ready made
functionality to your existing website. And it'san alternative to
sort of self-hosted
platform such as teachable think effect in Kajabi,and we'll go over why that is important. So
why would we use a WordPress LMS over us a servicethat's already
dedicated to providing it for us? So if we have,if we use an LMS plugin on our website or enable
us to have ownership over we can control our owncontent and our data and our student list. We can
also have cost control, so no one will be taking acut of our fees if we want to charge for courses.
We have flexibility to customize it exactly how wewant, and if you don't have the skills to do that,
you can hire a developer to help you with that andextend it or make it look a certain way, or
whatever the case may be. So we have thatflexibility built in when we use a plugin
integration options. We can integrate not onlywith our existing website, but if we're already
selling things using wordcommerce. We canintegrate our LMS with our word commerce platform
and use the same payment gateway to take money,
take payments. So it also integrates. If you're onan elemental fan, you can use the elemental
builder to help build your courses. So itintegrates with many other things, and we'll look
at those later as well. And yeah, one of the mostimportant things, I think, is no platform lock in,
so you can migrate, migrate your data in and outof other other LMS plugins or other systems if
you'd like to do so.
So
the core components of an LMS are the contentstructure, which is typically made up of courses.
And inside courses, you'll find lessons, andinside lessons, you'll find topics, and then a
module or a section might be a group of lessons.And within those content structures we can assess,
so we can have quizzes to test our studentsknowledge, assign assignments or homework or
project and issue certificates when the studentshave completed the assignments, work or courses
and our people, our students are coming to enrollin our courses, our instructors are going to
create the courses or teach them, and our admin asour site manager, just like a classic WordPress
website set up.
So our key features to understand is that
we have a course builder, and that will be aninterface for creating the course content, and in
our demonstration later, we'll look at the
one that we're going to go with as the classiceditor enabled. But we can also choose to enable
the Gutenberg editor if you'd like more advancedediting options. And there are also many other
integrations, like Elementor, if you're a fan ofthat or another page building plugin, there's a
good chance that they'll have something for themore popular LMS plugins. Anyway.
So progress tracking, students can see wherethey're at. They have their own dashboard, and
they can see the progress on the courses thatthey're enrolled in, and we can see it from the
admin side of you as well, and drip content. So ifthis is how you want to structure your lessons or
your courses, you could release a lesson weekly ormonthly or fortnightly, if, if you want to do so,
you can, you can have that option and
sort of related to that as prerequisite. So wewould like the students to complete course a
before moving to course b. We can enable that aswell. And how we handle enrollments, whether we
want them to be free, enrollments paid, or we canmanually add students to to a course as well, and
having a grade book, so tracking the scores andthe performance the outcomes of these students in
there, and the courses and lessons that they take.
So monetization options, we can provide freecourses or courses have like a one time payment or
a subscription membership, and we can bundle ourcourses together and sell multiple courses in a
bundle.
Payment integrations are Common. Common ones areWooCommerce, PayPal and Stripe and.
We'll, we'll look at this in the demon as well.
So front end versus back end. Typically thebreakdown will be something like on the front end,
students and instructor. Students and instructorswill be visiting the front end, and they will be
taking courses, viewing their progress andmanaging their own content. And then the back end
is more for the site admin and the instructors,where they can look at settings, change them if
they want, look at reports, manage users and alsocreate the courses.
So some common integrations that you'll see arepage builders, and this will depend on the LMS
plugin itself, and whether or not
these page builders have sort of seen that it'spopular enough to make us plug in to integrate
with it. But there are ones for ElementorGutenberg and Divi.
If you like a particular page builder, I wouldjust have a look see if I've got a plugin that
will integrate with your chosen LMS plugin.There's also other integrations, like email
marketing plugins or services that you canintegrate with your LMS membership options, like
WooCommerce memberships, paid memberships, pro andsome LM SSL will actually have this built in as
well.
Communication tools such as zoom, buddy, press BB,press. Some free some paid add ons, which we'll
look at later, e-commerce,
you know, WooCommerce integrates easy digitaldownloads might as well. Some LMS plugins will
also have their own e-commerce engines
and customer relationship managers such as fluentserum and HubSpot can integrate depending on the
LMS plugin, but it's good to know that you cansort of extend the functionality beyond what's
given to out of the box
and Free versus Pro. So we'll look at this againin little bit more detail coming up, but typically
we'll see that LMS provide courses and lessons tobe created for free.
They'll provide basic quizzes, student dashboardand a way to track progress and basic monetization
options, and typically behind the paywall or proadd on is the ability to issue certificates and
assignments, see advanced reports, set upsubscriptions and receive priority support.
So
when we're choosing LMS plugin, some things thatwe might want to consider would be the ease of
use. Actually easy is it to use this plugin andthe design and user experience
the features that you need now versus later, orfree versus Pro? How many are you getting for
free, and how much is it going to be to upgradelater, and what are the features that you'll get
if you do decide to upgrade, upgrade pricing orsomething, to consider support quality. So we can
see if the if they provide a free plugin, we cango to that plugin website and look at their
support forums and see if they're active, see ifthe issues are resolved, obviously, look at the
reviews about the plug in itself, and how often isit being updated? Is it being updated with new
features and security enhancements, which I thinkis very important aspect, because we will have
certain information about students that we want tokeep secure.
Do they have a thriving community, and do theyhave good documentation so that you can help
yourself using it so or ask questions? So
we've listed here six popular plugins forWordPress. And these aren't any particular order.
These are just ones that I went out and found thatthey have really good ratings. They have a lot of
users and a lot of installs. And I would encourageyou to either check them out or just start by
Googling, you know, WordPress LMS plugin and andgo on your own journey and take in the last few
slides that we've just looked at, what to considerwhen selecting one,
because I don't want to steer you in any path. I'mnot sponsored by any of these.
I have chosen one for our demonstration, butthat's not for any particular reason, apart from I
just saw it was feature rich and what allowed meto make a good demonstration. So please do your
own research in this area.
So another aspect of an LMS plug in.
Is also an LMS theme. And
what to consider when trying to select LMS themewould obviously be, you know, the compatibility
with your chosen LMS plugin,
the performance and Page Speed,
whether it has a core, focused, course focuseddesign or not, is it? Does it have mobile and
accessibility support?
Is it able to be customized without a lot ofcomplexity being added to the situation?
And yeah, is it going to be maintained in the longterm and supported. And just to give you some
context around this, when I searched in theWordPress themes directory for LMS, there are over
130 options, and these were all free. So there's alot to consider, and it can take some time to
narrow it down to ones that you like. And then ontop of that, some of the plugins on the previous
screen, on the previous slide, they offer theirown things, and some are free and some are paid.
So there's a lot to check out in this area. Andalso,
if you're adding an LMS plugin to an existingwebsite. You may not want to select an LMS theme
because it will override the entire theme of yourcurrent website, right? But if you're starting
from the start, then this might be a good way togo.
And if you do already have an existing LMSwebsite, sorry, an existing website, and you're
installing an LMS plugin, then you
might want to look at whether or not there aredesign options just for the LMS part of the kind
of website that it's going to create for you, andwe'll look at that coming up pretty shortly. So
lots to consider there, but
yeah, but we'll explore those in the demo. So
let's get into the demo, and I will stop talkingso much.
So by the end of it, my aim is for you to be ableto install and configure
a true to LMS plugin or any plugin, any LMSplugin,
we'll go on and we'll create courses, lessons anda quiz, and you'll be able to navigate the admin
and also the front end views. So
let's move over to this test website that I'vecreated.
It's a website. It's quite bare,
but it's a pretty default WordPress install, and Ihave chosen tutor LMS plugin for this demo,
so
normally it wouldn't be
installed, right? So
to install it, we'll go plugins and then add New
and then we can type in the search here LMS, hitenter,
and we'll get options for many free LMS plugins.And mixed within them. You'll also see add ons,
such as the one that I was talking about, theelemental add on for tutor LMS
and it, it's quite vast. There's a lot, there's alot here. There's that fluent CRM integration. So
there's a lot that you can extend for free. But
the one I chose for today was the tutor LMSplugin, and it's already active, but let's say it
wasn't we would just click install. Now it woulddo its thing, install, and then we would see a
button that we can click again to activate it. Andthen once we've activated it, we can see it in our
Installed Plugins list, and we can see that tutorLMS is installed here, and we can see a bit about
it. View details if we'd like to view the pluginsite itself or look at
ratings or support change log. All that stuff ishere, but I think we'll start by looking at the
settings, so we can click on this link here, or gotrue to LMS, and then down to settings.
And what I want to show you here is not everyindividual setting, but I just want to encourage
you to check out the settings of any LMS pluginthat you install, just so that you can actually
see what options we have available to us so we canchange.
Things like which page will be a dashboard. If youwant to set up a terms and condition page for your
courses or privacy policy, you can set one in thepages, create one in the pages area, come back
here and set it so these are just things to beaware of.
There are things like marketplaces. We havepagination options. We have different options
related to our instructor or instructors. We canallow people to become an instructor. So
we can allow instructors to publish their owncourses. So there are lots of things to be aware
of, depending on your needs and the way you wantto run your website.
Within courses, we have lots of options as well.
We also have quite a few options for lessons andthe quizzes.
Yeah, there's, there's quite a few in like,interesting options here. Like, will you let
students take the quiz more than once, and if so,will you mark them on their highest grade, average
grade, the first attempt, last attempt? Sothere's, there's a few controls here for you.
Also, video. I think video is pretty popular whenit comes to courses, especially on a website like
my one, which is
aimed at teaching origami courses. So I think avideo will be very helpful in that sense. So we
have got quite a few options here when it comes tovideo and the monetization. So tutor LMS has its
own e-commerce engine, but it also does integratewith WooCommerce. If you get the paid version, but
without the paid version, you can still takepayments for your courses
and set up all the important things, like thecurrency and we have a payment method. One of the
limitations of the free version is that it onlyprovides PayPal, but there's nothing stopping you
from signing up to PayPal and using it perfectly,like out of the box.
Or you could look at the upgrade and integratewith another one, or Yeah, WooCommerce, or
whatever you might be using,
but yeah, still within the free version, we canset up taxes, if we want to. So here in New
Zealand, we have 15% JS T rate, it's called, andwe can, we can do that in the free version, and
have a few settings here to change depending onour setup. So still pretty powerful, we can also
set up coupons and offer them during the checkoutprocess, or essentially bypass the cart and go
straight to buying the course. Now, if you've onlygot one or two courses, this might be a good
option
to enable. And like I was saying earlier, like ifyou select an LMS theme, but actually it's going
to take over the entire look of your site, of yourexisting site. Then we may not want to do that,
but we can still have some design choices ordesign options within the your existing theme and
within the LMS plugin, so we can control how manycolumns the courses will be in on the course page,
pagination. We can also enable filters. So ifyou've got a lot of courses, you might want to
categorize them or allow users to search.
Also, difficulty level might be good if you've gota number for beginner, intermediate, advanced, or
if you are charging
the price. So we've got some pretty handy filtersbuilt in here as well.
We've got layout options for our instructors andfor our student profiles. So I've set both to
modern and we can also set them to private, ifyou'd like to have them set to private,
so up to you, and on our Course Details page, wecan enable or disable many options here, so most
of them are enabled, and we'll have a look at thislater. I've I've stuck with the default kind of
blue color scheme, but we could change it to oneof these predefined options, or select our own
colors,
if you'd like to do so. So there's a few designoptions within the LMS Plugin without, you know,
installing a theme and overtaking your currentthing completely. And.
Advanced Settings are more around, like permalinksand API key integrations and yeah, this would be
pretty cool to change if you didn't actually referto your courses as courses, maybe they were
classes or programs or tutorials or whatever youwant to refer to them as you could update the
permalink structure so that it's kind of neat andtidy, and may have some SEO benefits there as
well.
So yeah, like, you can erase the data if you wantto uninstall the plugin. So lots of things to look
at and consider, and I would just recommend thatyou just check through your settings on your
chosen LMS plugin.
And
one thing that I think we should look at are
the
two to LMS. Calls them add ons, and really it'sthe
it's the place to show you what's available if youdo upgrade to the pro version. And there's some
really cool stuff here, like this is where we canenable subscriptions if we want to do so. Social
logins, I think, are really good to
remove any barriers to somebody coming and signingup to your website. They can just use Facebook or
Google, and it's all really quick
notifications that might also be good. Zoomintegrations that might be really good, if that's
why you want to run your courses. Makememberships, bro
translations really important.
Buddy Press for like forum, type
software on your on your website, but
if you look at
the
page here, you can you know, you can see theprice, and then you can also
have a much better overview of what's free versusPro. And there's a really long list here,
and I'm pretty sure that most of the big LMSplugins will have something similar, where you can
compare and just decide whether or not you needthese features, and then take the plunge or not,
with
a subscription that works for you. And also, Iwould check if they do offer some sort of money
back guarantee. It's always nice to know, I think,if you're unsure and you want to check it out that
you can get your money back within 30 days, ifyou're not super happy with what you were what you
were given. So just a couple of things to be awareof there.
But we will
actually look at a course now on the front end ofthe site. So my website is very bare. It's brand
new, but we do have a course over on the Coursespage. So that Settings page, you know, will allow
us to make changes to the way that this coursepage looks. So
we've only got one course, but we may have sort oftwo, three and four courses in a grid pan. But
maybe we want two in a row, three in a row, youknow, all of that stuff. So we can configure that
in the settings, and it will appear differentlyhere. Same with our color scheme. Things are blue,
but perhaps you'd like to customize that to yourdesign, and we can click into a course
to see more about it. So what we're actuallyseeing here is the view of an instructor, but also
an enrolled student. So we can see our courseprogress, which is yet to start, but we can see a
few things like Q and A and announcements, whereasif we you whereas, if
we went to this website or this course page,
as somebody that wasn't logged in, you wouldn'tsee, obviously, like the progress here, and you
wouldn't see announcements or Q and A, these arefor enrolled students. So
they would also see this list of lessons, butinstead of an eye icon here, there'd be a padlock,
so they wouldn't actually be able to go and viewthe course content or the lesson content unless
they were enrolled. So
you Yeah, I like to enable, like I enabled reviewsso that you can see what it will look like, and
people can leave their own review, and it's mostlylike any other review
section. But I just thought it would be handy. Wecan also have our students.
And give them the ability to ask questions so
and we can reply to them as the instructor. SoI've just kind of written some
kind of test questions here and a test reply soyou can see it in action and announcements. So if
you'd like to, you know, announce that, hey, we'vegot a new origami course coming in February to
keep keep things alive, keep people interested inthat way. So,
yeah, there's a few cool things here, and I'vesort of split this course into two sections,
getting started, and a project area. So let's havea look.
So if we click into what is origami, it's content,like word written content here, but it can have
images and videos added if you'd like to add them,and the student can work through the lesson and
mark it as complete once they've read
through it and understood everything, and move onto the next and continue To do that
as they work through
and I've
included a a quiz here so we can have a look atour quiz is structured, so what is a crease,
type of origami paper? And then, yeah, so we'vewritten our questions and answers here, and we can
submit and go to the next there's a dash line.Mean cut along the line. There's a valley fold
folder only works in valleys. Who knows? Sosubmit. We'll get it.
Okay, great, which I haven't done very well on myown quiz, so that's great, but, yeah, you get the
idea, right? So we can start it again,
if we gonna learn from our mistakes,
or we can move on to a project and we'll just,we'll abandon the quiz for now.
It's all good. So
starting a project,
it can be a mix of written and
visual content. So I've got a image here, which Ithink really adds a lot to an origami course. And
I think it would be even better if I created avideo, but for the purpose of the demonstration, I
haven't done that, but, yeah, I encourage you
to do all that, make it as make it as helpful aspossible.
Move on to the next.
Yeah, so you can,
you can have many, as many lessons within a courseas you like. So I just wanted to give you, like,
an example of how they might look, and also takinginto account, again, some of the design choices
that we've selected. So we've gone with the blue,
default blue color schemes, and that's reflectedhere on our links and our background colors, etc.
So we can close out of the course, and now we cansee, hey, we've actually done 29% of it.
And if you've done 100% you might mark thiscomplete and move on to the next or come back
later and try another one. So
what I want to show you as well as our dashboard.So as a student will see like a like, I think this
dashboard, but they won't see this instructorsection. This is because I'm both a student and an
instructor in this demonstration, but they'll beable to see how many courses are enrolled in the
progress on the courses and yeah, so like theirlittle area to keep track of everything,
if you have, yeah, this wish list functionalityenabled, they might add a course to the wish list
and come back and purchase it at another time. Or
if they're free courses, just keep it on theirradar and keep it within their wish list. And you
can see their quiz attempts, which mine werepretty bad, but yeah, be good for them to see
their quiz attempts and check them out as well. Soreviews.
They've left a review or received a review. You'llsee them here, and I'll, you know, update their
profile, etc, ask a question. See.
Their order history, if they've purchasedsomething, all of the good stuff that you would
want to see about your own profile on a website,such as this, logging out settings, etc. So
I think we should actually look at actuallysetting up a new course,
and not just seeing one that has already set upfor us. So what I'll do is navigate back to the
dashboard and have a look at our courses here. Sothis is the one that we just looked at, but let's
create a new one.
So I thought we could make a origami course basedon creating dinosaurs. So we could call this
dinosaurs or origami dinosaurs course, or whateveryou want to call it right and add a description.
So this course is dedicated to crafting alldinosaurs,
alrighty, like it,
and we have some options. So is the coursedifficulty for everyone, beginner, intermediate,
expert, I think, for the purpose of this, I'lljust say it's intermediate. And we also have this
option here to make the course public or
keep it as it is, which means that they have toenroll. So up to you. And also, would you like to
enable that Q and A section for your course?Again, completely up to you. Content drip is one
of those paid features, but this is where you'dset it up if you had it enabled. And you can also
cap the number of students that can enroll in yourcourse if that's something you'd like to do. So
those are our kind of basic options, or ouroverview options. And then on the right side here,
we've got, you can add tags if you'd likecategories, which I think will be really helpful
if you've got
a lot of courses. Here's where you actually set upthe pricing to so we could say that this course
is going to be $10
and you know what? It's going to go on sale for499,
for the next whatever month. We could add an introvideo, if you had something prepared, or we could
add a image. So I did prepare an image earlierthat we can add and that can just, yeah, make
things a little bit more interesting.
We can schedule it too. So if you have some freetime, but you're not actually ready for the course
to go live, we could schedule it to say, go live,maybe in a couple of days or at a certain time. So
just call to kind of have that option, and whetheror not you want it to be public, password
protected or private, but we'll, we'll, we'll setit as public and the curriculum, so this is where
we're actually going to set up our course lessons.So we could say,
like an introduction,
perhaps we could say, you know, dinosaur origami
is a great intermediate level course, so whateveryou want to say,
and then we could add a lesson. So perhaps we say,let's start off with the classic T Rex.
And
I've just got some content over here that we canpaste in to our
course content box, but this would look differentif you did enable Gutenberg, which was in the
advanced settings, like, off server, sorry, butyeah, you would be able to use Gutenberg here, or
you can, like, if you integrated with TheElementor page builder, it would
be here as well. So this is where we want to
add the course content or the lesson content, andsave that
and we can just continue to do this. So,
Brontosaurus, I'm just
trying to think of dinosaurs. Now
that's spelling correctly, but you get the idea.So we just keep adding our lesson content
and uploading videos or or images. You could givesome hand in from.
Information about the time.
Or if you've got a PDF, for example, you couldattach that here as well. So again, just keep
going to your heart's content. Or if you think
like this is quite a simple one, we're going tocreate dinosaur origami, but
within that,
you know, like, I could probably structure these alittle bit differently, so instead of in the
introduction, we could actually have the projects.
So let's get
let's get folding. I
So, yeah,
I could actually have put those lessons into hereto
structure it better. But if
we can drag and drop,
hey, we can, that's really cool.
So,
yeah, I think it's structured a bit betterintroduction. Maybe this doesn't, yeah, I'm not
exactly sure what we could put into anintroduction for origami about dinosaurs, but
I just want to show you, you know what's actuallypossible here, so we can,
yeah, perhaps we do like
a quiz. We could add that in here as well. So addquiz, title,
dinosaur quiz.
Add a summary, if you want to,
and then start adding our questions. So got a fewdifferent question options here, and some pro ones
to the classic like true or false or multiplechoice are very common. So we can say our donor
source, cool.
We could say yes, that is true, or no, that isfalse, and we could set the answer here
award points. I don't think would say that you getone point per saying that it's false. I think
we'll say true, and maybe we'll get five pointsfor that answer. Is it required? Do we want to
display the points, etc? And then when we move onto our next one, we click the button here and we
add something else. So who knows? You know, whatis the
tallest dinosaur?
And give?
Give our options beneath add an option
and yeah, we also have some different conditionshere based on the multiple choice question. So
yeah, maybe you could have multiple correctanswers. Maybe this needs to be required.
Randomize the choice, and it's pretty cool.
Number of points again, display the points or not,and this quiz setting, so maybe there's a time
limit. Would you like to allow reach rise in orone or two. What's the passing grade?
Yeah, Max questions allowed to answer. So there'ssome pretty cool settings here as well. Oh,
hang on, I haven't selected that answer, right? Sowe'll save that. So now we have, like, a pretty
starting to get there, we've got two topics or twolessons, and we've got Yeah, lessons within those
topics
and a quiz. So we can just keep adding to this asmuch as you like, and we'll look at the additional
settings. So some
some options here to give more context, what willI learn? We'll learn how to create origami
dinosaurs. And do we have a target audience inmind? Maybe we do. But I think for this, it can be
open to anyone.
And what's our course duration? Maybe it's likeone hour.
Materials included
for, you know, probably for this one, we're notincluding any materials, but we could say that
they need paper, scissors, whatever
it might be. And, yeah, our certificate. So if wehad a
course that was based in academia, and we'reactually wanting to give a certificate to
recognize that a student's done the course. Wecould set that up here as well. So, yeah, we're
just working within the the free options here, butit's good to know what is included in the pro
version as well. So we'll go ahead and pull.
Wish this. It's going to be interesting becausenot fleshed out as well as my other course, but
you can see it's listed here. Every course thatyou add will also be listed here. But a good
overview, I forgot to add a category, but thatwould show here. Got our price, who authored it?
So this can be
so we can add, you know, other users, othertutors, to the course, and say that tutor didn't
have time to create the
course on the website, where you could create itfor them and then set them to be the author.
So that's just a cool feature. We can go back inand edit our course, if we like, or yeah, we'll go
and have a quick look, because I'm aware that timeis ticking, so let's view the course. So, yeah,
we'll get our overview. We've got our
top topics and our lessons and our quiz listed,and we can also buy this one. So let's have a
quick look at that. So it's added to the cart.When I view the cart,
yeah, okay, so it needs a bit of design love, butthe bones are there, proceed to check out. So this
is pretty impressive for its native engine, likewe're not integrating with word commerce or
anything like that. So it's really cool, likebasic
system that just works. So
yeah, really cool. And what I'll do is, I want toshow you the
changes that happen when we change themes. So
I'll keep this page open and I will navigate to
my themes area.
So a lot of these themes that are listed for free,and some were actually provided by true to LMS for
free. So that was this one here. So if we activatethis thing,
we can see, once I refresh, that things havechanged a little bit like the fonts changed. I
Yeah, like before we had the header and footerincluded in this page. Now it's different. Some of
the icons are different. The Yeah, the font haschanged. It's actually a little bit easier to look
at, I would say.
But if we navigate back and change to this was afree theme and the WordPress themes repository,
and
this one changes things again, so we have ourheader back.
Our site. Title is nice and large here, and it'sgone with a sort of green and blue color scheme.
Our
topics, the drop down here, is slightly different.
And our course pages, again, are structured alittle bit differently, different fonts. But,
yeah, pretty, pretty cool. Just depends on whatyou like. So, crisp, bar,
crisp, bar,
okay, so it's more in the center here, center ofthe page, and it
would need some configuration for this menu hereit's
it's listed all the pages, so
we would need to fix that up a little
bit to navigate back to courses.
So yeah, course pages a little bit different aswell, and our individual course page. Okay, so
our button text is blue on blue, so it's notperfect,
but yeah, it's it's just an option, and it's veryeasy to switch back to our default theme if we
don't like it
or delete it entirely, so go back to what we had.It's nice and familiar. And perhaps I have decided
that I'll just stick with this one here,
but I will move back into our
presentation
and try and leave some time here for
questions. If there are any, so please feel freeto write
your questions in the chat or come off mute. I'lldo my best to answer them
and do.
John's asked here, has the plugin created new userroles for students and instructors? Yes, so it did
create a new user role for instructors. So I goback here, you'll see that I am an administrator
and a tutor instructor.
Now
don't believe there's a student role, but Ibelieve there'll be a subscriber.
Yeah, that would be something to check out, but Ibelieve that a student will be a subscriber. And,
yeah, this has a special role for a tutor orinstructor. So that's a really good question.
How to find the slides or video later? Yep, so Iwill
send you a link in the chat here, and I'll alsopost the slides on the meetup website as well.
So yeah, there's, there's a lot of links, slidesyou can see, like, especially
with the the the options for plugins to check out.I've linked each one so you can go and have a look
there. And, yeah, please feel free to reach outand slack or look, look me up on LinkedIn. I'm
always happy to connect. And yeah, help however Ican.
So yeah, I think yeah, please feel free to connectwith me there, or if you've got any more questions
via them in the chat here.
I also just want to let you know that there'splenty of educational resources on Learn, do
wordpress.org,
and I encourage you to keep keep learning. Goingover there if you want to learn more. And
Don saying the guys who created learn press wrotea book on building WordPress apps that I really
like. Cool. Yeah, that sounds great.
If you want to share the link to the book and thechat here or on the meetup
website. Would be cool to check that out as well.
And our co host,
Narasimhan, I think you have contacts
who like work on two to LMS, so he could be areally good resource and really good person to ask
questions as well. He's also a plugin developerhimself, so
yeah,
please don't be shy, and please reach out with anyquestions that you might have, even if it comes to
tomorrow or next week, any any time is good.
So with that,
I will, yeah, just say a big thanks to everyonefor joining. I hope that was informative and big.
Thank you to our co host, neraza. Minute reallyhelps a lot for me to be able to focus on the
course.
So yeah, thank you so much and hope to see younext time.
So yeah, please take it easy and we'll see youaround. And don't be shy to reach out and get in
touch. Awesome. Okay,
thanks, everyone.