LearnDash

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Everyone with an email inbox knows that major businesses use Black Friday to bring in new customers, sell products, and connect with an existing customer base. However, just because you’re a small online business owner doesn’t mean you can’t get a piece of the Black Friday pie, too. Here are five ways to take advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday for your online course business.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 11, 2022

When you’re delivering a course, you’re telling a story. Topics build upon one another, leading to a final outcome or takeaway for the learner. As a teacher or learning instructor, sometimes you have to slow down or speed up the storytelling process to maintain engagement or promote retention. Dripping your course content allows you to tell a better story to your learners.

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LearnDash

JUNE 29, 2022

Email marketing is one of the most profitable marketing channels in 2022. It’s cheap and it drives customer acquisition and retention. Organizing and selling your online course with email marketing is easier than you think. You just need two things: a product and a sales strategy. With the right technique, you can sell anything you want. Do you want to learn how to build and promote your new online course?

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LearnDash

MAY 12, 2022

Many customers expect the option to try before they buy when considering a purchase—after all, most of us wouldn’t drive off the lot in a new car without taking it for a test drive first. The same can be true for students considering enrolling in your online courses. Even though you know your content is top-notch, a new customer might not be convinced before seeing it for themself.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Your LMS is the foundation of your entire online learning experience. Is it letting you down? For online educators, few decisions are as consequential as which Learning Management System (LMS) they choose to be the platform for their online course. Your LMS will determine what teaching tools you have at your disposal, the user experience of your learners, and even your ability to launch a financially viable program.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 19, 2021

Teachable is one of the most popular online course platforms available. But that doesn’t make it right for your course. For those new to the world of online education, navigating the various Learning Management Systems (LMSs) on the market can be exhausting. However, making the right choice is crucial for the success of any new online education project.

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LearnDash

JULY 13, 2021

Knowing what kind of certification course you want to offer will help with marketing. Certification is one of the biggest markets in online education. It’s one of the most direct ways to offer learners an educational opportunity that will affect their bottom line as well as your own. Plus, many industries require ongoing certification in various skills for professional reasons, and some businesses will subsidize their employee’s ongoing education costs, making certification courses lucrative bus

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LearnDash

MAY 6, 2021

Protecting your intellectual property is important, but securing your website should come first. A common concern for many course creators lies in how they can protect their content from being stolen. After putting all that work into developing course content as an intellectual property, no one wants it to be scraped and shared elsewhere.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Mobile learning isn’t just a way to make courses more accessible—it’s a way to deliver better learning content. The first priority of many online educators is to create the best desktop experience possible—and who can blame them? After all, most of them are also creating content on their desktop, and it’s a space learners traditionally turn to when they search for new learning content.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed or looking for inspiration, here’s a place to start. For a lot of course creators, marketing is a love it or hate it activity. It takes time, thoughtfulness, and a lot of brainpower to do right, and it can be discouraging if your efforts don’t seem to be paying off. However, if you’re serious about building your online course, there’s no way around it: this is not an “if you build it they will come” situation.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 19, 2021

To build a successful online coaching and mentoring business, you first need to build clear messaging with your brand. Coaches and mentors are some of the most consequential relationships in many people’s lives. You’ve probably heard many successful people thanking their mentors and coaches during award ceremonies or in the acknowledgment of their books.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 14, 2021

How can you make homework interesting and engaging without discouraging learners? One of the greatest perennial problems facing online educators lies in keeping learners engaged with interesting and meaningful assignments. Learning is hard, and learners need homework to learn the skills necessary to master the course. Too little practice can leave a learner feeling like they got a lot of lectures without getting any real hands-on experience.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 8, 2020

2020 has been the year of online learning in ways both good and bad. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. Few years in recent history have been as norm-breaking as 2020. Life has changed for all of us on a number of levels, and while some things are only on hold until the current pandemic subsides, the post-pandemic world will also mean finding a “new normal.” And like it or not, education is one of the things that’s likely to have changed for good.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Wondering what skills are in demand right now? Here are some of the most popular course trends to prepare for 2021. It’s been a red-letter year for online learning. At a time when workforces across the globe have moved online and a rocky economy has caused many to search for ways to improve their attractiveness on the job market, e-learning has provided an accessible and flexible solution.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Membership plugins help you control access, membership levels, and subscriptions. One of the most popular business models in online education is that of the membership site. Membership sites let you control who has access to your content, and allow you to charge different subscription rates depending on the level of access you want to grant. You probably even have accounts on several membership sites, and now you want to create a site of your own.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Getting started with a fully functional online course website just got easier! If you are currently using LearnDash, or are thinking about choosing us for your LMS, then I have great news to share! The folks at Astra have released four new starter site templates designed specifically for LearnDash—giving you five amazing options to help you get started quickly with your online courses!

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Are you a new LearnDash user with some questions about how to set up your course? Here’s how to find the help you need. Over the years, we’ve seen LearnDash users create a range of courses, using our plugin in ways we would never have thought of doing ourselves. That users are continually coming up with new course ideas speaks to the importance of having a flexible LMS like LearnDash.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 4, 2020

AI in e-learning isn’t theoretical—it’s already here. It’s hard to write about AI in e-learning without feeling as though you’re engaging in the sort of speculation usually left to science fiction authors, especially as we’re used to thinking of it as something potentially sinister or frightening. However, whether or not we’re aware of it, AI has become a regular part of our day-to-day lives.

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LearnDash

JULY 30, 2020

Over the past few months we have teamed-up Elementor to create an integration that allows for greater course customization. With this collaboration, we are expanding your ability to create a more cohesive look for their website than was possible before. In a nutshell: LearnDash design elements that were previously difficult or impossible to customize can now be easily edited to match your brand with Elementor, including color scheme and font choices!

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LearnDash

JUNE 25, 2020

We all know that gamification is an effective, enjoyable, engaging learning tool. But how do you design a game for your course? I learned to type from an old computer game. I was probably ten or twelve, and although I’d been using a computer for several years at that point, I had yet to learn how to type on a keyboard. However, I was almost old enough to need to being turning in typed school assignments, so my mom picked up a copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and had me work on it for a

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LearnDash

JUNE 23, 2020

Keep your learners invested in the long term by giving them a reason to keep coming back. We talked in our recent article on incremental learning about how expectations around learning are changing—especially for self-motivated adults. In fact, one of the factors fueling the online education boom is the desire for self-improvement, and a degree to which people increasingly draw their identity from being learners.

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LearnDash

MAY 13, 2020

The pandemic has put online education in the spotlight and under the magnifying glass. The emergence of the novel coronavirus has initiated an abrupt shift around the globe toward online education. For many, the transition has been rocky. Many larger organizations have been scaling their educational infrastructure as rapidly as possible, while individual educators are trying to make their way through a sudden influx of new learners.

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LearnDash

APRIL 9, 2020

As Generation Z graduates from college and enters the workforce, how should online educators respond to their learning and training needs? For about the past decade, countless articles have been written about Millennials and the way they’ve been shaping office culture. However, this generation has now (with the exception of post-graduates and late-comers) graduated from college and established themselves within the workforce.

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LearnDash

APRIL 8, 2020

Whether you’re working from a template or building from scratch, these design principles for children will help you create a better course for kids. For many years, online education has been a field primarily dominated by adults. From college courses to ongoing professional education, instructional design has focused on the priorities of these adult learners , which are very different from the priorities of children.

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LearnDash

APRIL 7, 2020

With so many in-person courses moving online, here’s how to make sure all your learners can access them. In the past few weeks, as schools have shut down and workplaces have made a rapid transition online, we have seen a tremendous shift in the way people are creating and engaging with online content. The learning curve for many has been steep, but it has also meant that organizations of every stripe are suddenly overcoming long-held prejudices against remote work and education as accommodating

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LearnDash

MARCH 5, 2020

It’s now easier than ever to switch from Moodle to LearnDash. Here’s why you should. You’re starting an online course. What platform should you use? This is the first and most basic question facing anyone as they get their start in online education—whether as a private individual launching their first course, an educational institution trying to bring their current catalog online, or a business hoping to broaden their employee training.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 13, 2020

Trigger other apps, course enrollments, and more based on course activity… from the Zapier platform! Have you ever wanted to sell a LearnDash course using a shopping cart like Shopify? Or perhaps enroll webinar attendees (using GoToWebinar, Zoom, etc.) into a course? You can do this (and so much more) using the updated Zapier v2.0 add-on for LearnDash!

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Ongoing education opportunities can improve employee satisfaction and wellbeing. One of the top concerns for many businesses lies in finding and retaining talented employees. A qualified individual who leaves one company for another represents a huge loss for a business, both in terms of brain drain and in the time and resources it will take to find and train a replacement.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula has taught over 10,000 people how to successful launch an online product, and he does it using LearnDash. Keep it simple. That’s what everyone will tell you when it comes to creating your online course, but eventually those shiny objects start to look quite appealing. Before you know it, you’re adding all kinds of bells and whistles before your course is even launched.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If you want to market your online course to Millennials, you need to know your audience. It seems like generational prejudices are a perennial problem, with older cohorts consistently critical of the way the young aren’t living up to expectations, and the younger groups dismissing the older generations as being out of touch. These complaints are as old as time and are unlikely to go away, but paying too much heed to them can be a dangerous trap—especially for online educators.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Webinars offer the personal touch that online courses are often lacking. When offering an online course you should consider hosting a webinar that ties into your topic. It’s a great way to increaes learner engagement for your course. In addition, holding regular webinars can put you in touch with guest speakers that are willing to help add value to your community.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Refresher training helps keep important knowledge fresh and current. Whether your a student or a teacher, one thing we all know for personal experience is that knowledge fades over time. Our brains are very efficient at dumping information we don’t need, and the best way we have of showing our brain that that information is still useful is by using it.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Offering interactions with your students can enhance their learning experience. Online courses have many advantages: they fit very easily into students’ schedules, they are usually more affordable than courses offered by brick and mortar schools, and they are ideal for those who have caring or parenting responsibilities. While focusing on these benefits is great, I think it’s important to recognize the big downside of online courses: they lack a human element that is very important f

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Nail down the what, when, and why of your training course for best results. Now that you understand the why of investing in refresher training, it’s time to cover the how. In many ways, refresher training is like any other course. You have to establish learning objectives , offer feedback, and build a community around the course—even if that community is a subset of your larger office culture.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 8, 2019

As tuition costs skyrocket, universities are looking for innovative ways to attract students – and not necessarily for a four-year degree. The concept of getting a bachelors degree is still very much part of culture (especially here in the United States). To say that the traditional method of getting a formal education is “dying” would be a lie.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 6, 2019

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LearnDash

JULY 2, 2019

Before you build it, you have to first determine if it is worth it. There are many reasons why you may decide to create an online course. Maybe when you were trying to learn something, you found few resources with a systematic approach to transferring the knowledge you needed. Perhaps you are just passionate about what you do and want to pass on your wisdom.

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