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Thursday, 27 August 2020 07:33

How to create WordPress sites - LMS

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How To Make A Beautiful Online Course Website With WordPress

How to Create Online Course, LMS, Educational Website like Udemy with WordPress 2020 - edema Theme

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 06:56

Tips on Building an LMS , an Online School

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Introduction on Tips Building an LMS

This is the last article on Online Education. I will underline some important areas that you must investigate if you want to run an Online School. The best Tip on building an LMS is to be always a student of your area of expertise, you must work hard and you have to know it.

The most popular free LMS is MOODLE. It can be integrated with WordPress via Bridge software. Here are the links:

Link to moodle.org

Link to Bridge of WP

other Tips on Building an LMS are:

General Tips on building an Online Education Site (LMS)

You must study what competitors do.
You need to speak with an Accountant for taxation
You need to speak with a lawyer for "Terms" and "Privacy" pages and other topics that a site is needed according to low
And of course, you can have parallel courses on many educational sites.
You must use many other sites, communities in order to promote your course (Facebook, YouTube, e.t.c).
You must optimize your site, and build an SEO friendly site.
you must be patient
see what others do
in your area of interest, you must study and know the majority of info
to offer what the people need (solve problems in areas of big interest)
validate the content, what is asking the market?
do not forget the family
do a little gymnastic
have main targets and minor (keep a diary)
if a task is difficult then break it in smaller tasks
to take feedback (how many see your article/course, with Google Analytics is away)
how may stars give to your course?
communicate with students to learn what is not good for them
all we do mistakes and we have failures, but we learn and we have progressed at the end. Since a lot of people create LMS sites then everyone can create, the quality is coming with experience, clear thinking, few lessons, and the help of God.
work with love

others tips on building an LMS are:

You are going to build the site or you are going to hire an engineer?

Can you build the site, if you have the knowledge do it and refactor it until you make it as good as you can?
There are many sites with prebuild option, just click and the site is ready, then update, delete, add info.
Or find a web engineer, to make the site.

What is your budget -Tips on building an Online Education Site (LMS)?

You need to pay for the LMS software, the domain name, the hosting company, the hosting company of videos, the PayPal or other payment gateway (per sales amount of money), and programs like Video editing and capture for your lessons.
Some programs we pay one's a year or more years depending on what we want.
There are also expenses of the Template, plugins/extensions, the payment of web developers, and possible support contracts.

What is your site content -Tips on building an Online Education Site (LMS)?

You want to produce or/and offer pdf books?
Do you want to have a blog? (can you write articles or you will have to pay?)
What form of lessons are you going to have? (video, text, PowerPoint, photos with text, slides e.t.c)
Do you want to have an Online Community?
Do you want to offer support or making projects or writing plugins/themes?

So I wish all the future owners of Online Schools all the best in their efforts to create great sites.

Demo WordPress Installations (there are few LMS installations full of Tips):

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Wednesday, 29 April 2020 06:49

Budget LMS', Learning Management Systems Part II

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Introduction to Budget LMS', Part II

During my research for budget Learning Management Systems. I found and many other alternatives budget or not plugins or extensions of a CMS (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal). Also, there is CodeIgniter (CI), a PHP Framework used in the western world for Educational or Public Sectors' applications. There are few of CI apps, I 've chosen the Academy Budget LMS.

In the first article Part I, I 've spoken about:

Moodle
Joomla
WordPress

Budget LMS solutions. In this second article Part II, I will speak about Drupal and CodeIgniter Budget LMS solutions. Also in the end I'll provide a retired WordPress Budget LMS, so If someone wants can write o fork, it is the famous CoursePress Pro, and two articles for WordPress and Joomla LMS'.

Some people create their own LMS' (Learning Management Systems), by configuring the CMS with many different plugins. It is up to you, many choices, many different solutions for a Budget LMS.

Drupal Budget LMS'

From the article follow the link

Which is the Best Drupal distribution for LMS?

These might help your LMS selection

LMS (learning management system)
https://groups.drupal.org/lms-learning-management-system

Open Academy
https://www.drupal.org/project/openacademy

Opigno LMS
https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms

Julio
https://www.drupal.org/project/julio

Comparison of these 3 distributions
http://opensource.com/education/14/9/3-drupal-distributions-education

ELMS Group
https://groups.drupal.org/elms

In the Drupal ecosystem, some people create their own LMS.

Codeigniter Budget LMS'

CodeIgniter is a very popular Php Frameworks for Education. If you follow the link, you can see many alternatives in https://codecanyon.net. For me, the best is the Academy LMS.

c)An article for Badget or not LMS' (just click the ilink):

Make your own fork: CoursePress Pro

Update: As of May 2019, this plugin has been retired and is no longer supported by WPMUDev. They have published the code on Github for those technical types who might want to fork and maintain it for their needs.

Best LMS Joomla Extensions for 2021

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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:20

On how to offer Online Education

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Introduction

How to offer? It depends on the type of Education. If it is about Programming, it is a practical material you must preset practical info. If it is about another topic you may use PowePoint and speak as you speak to one of your friends. You may have music or not, you may have short or big paragraphs or videos or audio. After the article about some budget LMS's, I'd like, in this article, to give some info on how we must deliver Online Education.

There are some basic principles, on how to offer Online Education:

Do what others do, what is popular, for example, WordPress is very popular
Validate that the content is popular, now in April 2020 everyone wants an Online School
Do it with love, start from this that you love
keep mental space
cooperate with one or more person to obtain expertise and gain the needed time to learn
if you can not do a task outsourced it
have time for your family

Also, read this article with Tips On Creating An Online School

What is popular in order to know how to offer online education

You can validate the demand of the content by Google (keyword search), or on how many students are following the course in Udemy, e. t.c. There are a lot of services performing SEO research, and you can learn what people want and where. In general, you must solve problems with online education and you must help the people.

Online lessons on how to offer education

First I 'm going to give info about a school (between others) that gives lessons on how to deliver:

ACS Online School on how to offer Online Education

ACS Online School follows the link. In principle is a good school to learn how to teach, if you are not a tutor.

Education Courses follow the link

Course on Delivering Distance Education follow the link

Udemy, Phil Ediner on how to offer Online Education

There are also a lot of good courses in many other places. I just want to mention the course from Udemy

of Phil Ediner, it is really excellent.

Closing the article, I add this link on Communication Skills

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Monday, 27 April 2020 15:29

Budget LMS', Learning Management Systems Part I

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Introduction to Budget LMS'

For a few months, I have researched the market, in order to find a budget LMS. So below are the results of my study. There are LMS like Moodle who are free. And also LMS' that are extensions or plugins to popular CMS' like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. In this article, I 'll provide info about Moodle, Joomla, and WordPress Budget LMS'.

Moodle a FREE LMS

Go for moodle If you want to teach and not for a paid course, you can receive payments with a plugin (I think Paypal), if you want a budget LMS the easiest is to go with WordPress.

But If you already have Moodle and you want to make better the way of payment you must use WordPress or even Joomla. With WordPress, there are some solutions, the most used is the Edwiser Bridge. See the below video: