{"id":12527,"date":"2020-10-15T07:16:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/blog\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:14:03","slug":"create-and-sell-online-courses-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/blog\/wordpress\/create-and-sell-online-courses-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create and Sell Online Courses with WordPress at Free of Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, it brought a big change.<\/p>\n

Education was distributed to the masses. Popular Renaissance artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, learned from books and wrote new books to share his knowledge to the next generation.<\/p>\n

In those days, it served as a payment source for the authors.<\/p>\n

Today, the Internet acts as a printing press and we generate new content at a rapid speed. Similar to that in the Renaissance, many people get to learn new skills online, apart from their formal education.<\/p>\n

Today, it serves as a payment source for those who create and sell online courses.<\/p>\n

You can create and sell an online course, if you are good at something. In this guide, you will learn to setup an online course for free with the help of WordPress and create a profitable income stream from your blog.<\/p>\n

Bloggers like Pat Flynn and Yaro Starak have managed to make hundreds of thousands of dollars just by selling online courses from their blogs. If you know or have an experience in a specific topic, you can create a course to share your knowledge while also turning your blog into a passive income source.<\/p>\n

Though it might sound like a complicated process, it is very easy and free to set up an online course with WordPress.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s check it how to do.<\/p>\n

Reasons to Use WordPress<\/h3>\n

Generally, an online platform such as LMS (Learning Management System)<\/a> helps in creating and selling your courses as well as managing your students. However, you need to pay more for these platforms with monthly subscriptions and platforms fees.<\/p>\n

While using WordPress, you don\u2019t need to pay the monthly subscription fees and platform fees to offer a smooth online learning experience to your students without any issues.<\/p>\n

You will find many great WordPress LMS plugins that can be used to get this job done. You get advanced features with premium plugins and come at one-time prices. There are a few free plugins available if you can\u2019t afford using premium plugins.<\/p>\n

Best Free WordPress LMS Plugins<\/h3>\n

You will find a limited free LMS plugins available on WordPress. But, most of them are either outdated or come with poor features. Surely, these are the best free options available at the moment.<\/p>\n

LearnPress<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The most popular, free and stable plugin, LearnPress is the only plugin that gets updated regularly. It offers you a beautiful design and allows its users to use themes to customize the design of your courses to provide a better experience to your students.<\/p>\n

You can create video, text, and quiz based courses with PayPal integration. It also offers payment gateways such as Stripe and 2Checkout along with Add-Ons.<\/p>\n

LifterLMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A newer WordPress LMS plugin<\/a>, LifterLMS features a modern design and several customization options to create an effective online learning platform.<\/p>\n

You also get the ability to extend its functions with premium add-ons.<\/p>\n

MasterStudy LMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MasterStudy LMS, another great free plugin, allows you to setup a learning management system in WordPress. With this plugin you can create text, video, and slideshow based learning programs. It also offers integration with PayPal and Stripe to accept payments.<\/p>\n

What are the Key Elements of an Effective Online Course?<\/h3>\n

Before starting with the setting up of the learning management system, ensure that you have a fully prepared content plan for your online course.<\/p>\n

Creating an online course and a blog post are completely different. When you want to start with your online courses you need to do careful planning of it along with a composition of the right content, assignments, and flowing lessons that connect with each other.<\/p>\n

Your students will precisely study your online course as time passes. It means you should ensure that each lesson in your course comprises of informative and entertaining content so that the students stay engaged throughout the course.<\/p>\n

For instance, if you are learning something online and the video is just showing you a person speaking without any gestures, you won\u2019t be interested in watching it.<\/p>\n

A great online course comprises of multimedia content such as:<\/p>\n