LearnDash

MARCH 23, 2023

When people hear the term “artificial intelligence” they tend to think of rogue robots, anarchic androids or sinister cyborgs taking over the world and giving humanity the same short shrift that the asteroid gave to the dinosaurs all of those years ago. While, we admit, an AI-induced apocalypse might—but probably won’t—one day come to pass, the AI that we have today is here to help.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It’s time to build out your course. You’ve purchased and installed LearnDash and have all your content, but there is a critical decision to make before getting started. How should you structure your content to maximize learner engagement and course sales? LearnDash, like all top Learning Management Systems, has a content hierarchy. So rather than having a flat learning experience where you move from one lesson to another, you can group content into sections, lessons, and lesson topic

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

Content is done, promotions are ready, and the last item on your pre-launch checklist is how to price an online course so that people will sign up. Pricing can be one of the trickiest elements of launching a new course online because it is a balance of finding that sweet spot of providing value to your target audience at a price they’re willing to pay.

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LearnDash

MARCH 9, 2022

As an expert in your field, there will come a time when you’ll want to start offering online courses. Depending on your industry, your competition may have already beat you to the punch. Does this mean your dreams of having a profitable online course are over? Of course not. Find out why below. A saturated market doesn’t mean there’s no room for you and your ideas.

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LearnDash

MARCH 7, 2022

The process of creating a good course has a few different aspects. You have to organize content, record course videos, and so much more. The work doesn’t stop there though. Even after the course is complete there are other things like marketing that must be done. Once you have students in your course the real challenge begins—getting your students to complete the course.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Good SEO practices can build strength, but bad ones can undermine all your efforts. Here’s how to avoid some of the worst errors. In our recent post on building SEO strength , we talked about the basic best practices you can follow to help grow organic traffic to your course website. However, as with almost any marketing strategy, there’s also many mistakes you can make along the way, either by following a bad strategy, or by being misled by bad advice.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’re building your course website. How should you structure it, and what pages do you need? Here’s a topic we haven’t touched on much in this blog: your course website. We’ve written a lot about how to create a top-notch course, how to build community, and how to support learners as they move through your program. But there’s a lot of questions about building an actual course website that we haven’t covered.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that LearnDash has joined the Liquid Web family, and are beyond excited at what this means for not only you as a LearnDash user, but also for your learners taking your LearnDash powered courses! Since our inception, we have had one goal: to give course creators like you the ability to create unparalleled online learning experiences.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

LMS Comparison: LearnDash vs. Thinkific. Wondering how LearnDash and Thinkific compare as Learning Management Systems? Let us give you a deep dive. If you’re researching your options for hosting an online learning course, you’re probably aware that there are a lot of services out there to choose from. One of the most popular choices, Thinkific, offers users a fully-hosted platform that with all their needs in one place.

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LearnDash

JUNE 17, 2021

Is online training for businesses worth the investment? You’ve heard a lot about online learning, but how do you know it’s the best solution for your organization? Many businesses have ample need for more efficient training, whether it be for new hires, continued learning, or leadership development. However, it’s not always clear to these organizations how they should address this need.

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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

APRIL 27, 2021

Why you should build and test a workable model of your course early in the design process. You’ve just had a brainstorm for a great new course idea, and you’re eager to begin planning content. You quickly write a course outline , and are ready to begin fleshing it out into a full-blown course. But before you get too carried away, there’s a step you should take first: course prototyping.

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LearnDash

MARCH 30, 2021

How do you know if there is a market for your specialized online course? One of the biggest struggles first-time educators face when they launch a new course lies in finding a promising subject. They may have an idea that inspires them, but it’s less certain whether that idea will appeal to anyone else. As a result, the temptation for these course providers is to go broad.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Scenarios offer learners an opportunity to practice responses in a controlled environment. One of the biggest leaps most learners make as they grow a new skill is putting theory into practice. In low-stakes situations, this isn’t usually a big deal. It’s inevitable that learners will bake a few bad cakes, hit a wrong cord, or write some buggy lines of code.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 5, 2021

Ready to take your course to the next level in 2021? Here are some ideas for how to improve. It’s a new year, and for most business owners, that means it’s time to reflect on how far they’ve come since the previous year, and where they hope to go in the year to come. While New Year’s Resolutions are notoriously difficult to keep, when it comes to your online course, setting just one or two major goals for the year on top of what you’re already accomplishing can get

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Planning to launch a membership website for e-learning in 2021? Here are your best options. One of the most common use cases we have for LearnDash comes in the form of membership websites. Instructors want to create an experience where their learners can pay an ongoing subscription to have access to certain sets of courses, along with various other privileges.

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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 15, 2020

Automation can help you get learners the support they need before they know they need it. One of the biggest struggles facing online instructors is that of helping their learners complete their courses. Many online learners will sign up for a course that they never finish, and this can be disheartening for the instructor who was hoping to gain a loyal new follower.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Virtual events give your learners an opportunity to connect socially and add to the value of your course. Online courses allow educators to create material and then resell it numerous times to multiple learners. However, courses are rarely sources of passive income. In reality, they require a lot of time to develop new material, market to new learners, moderate and support.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Gamification is one of the most effective ways to increase learner engagement in your course. If you’ve spent enough time reading about how to design an engaging online course, you’ve probably heard of gamification. While the buzz word may be recent, the concept itself is not. People have been looking for ways to turn learning into a game for a long time, so it’s no surprise that people want to find ways to apply this strategy to e-learning as well.

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LearnDash

JULY 21, 2020

Your course website needs to handle a larger load. Here’s how to prepare it for growth. One of our most frequently asked pre-sales questions has to do with the user capacity for our plugin. Sometimes this question comes from a large organization that wants to be able to onboard a whole lot of users at one time, whereas in other cases, it comes from users who are seeing their course numbers grow and want to prepare for continued success.

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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

MAY 18, 2020

We asked members of our community to share how they’ve used our platform to create new courses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The responses have been astounding. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen a spike in new users on our platform as schools, business owners, and entrepreneurs have worked overtime to move their operations online.

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LearnDash

MAY 5, 2020

Language learning is comprised of four foundational skills. Here’s how you can teach them in your course. From the earliest days of the Internet, online learners and educators have looked for ways to use it as a resource for teaching and learning languages. It’s no surprise why: the Internet connects users around the globe, but that connection is only as useful as the communication it facilitates.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How can educators retain learners after their course finishes? Many of our users devote a lot of time and energy into putting together their courses and finding students who would benefit from them. Attracting new students takes a lot of resources for most educators. Rather than throw those relationships away when the course is over, educators should provide value-added modules and offers that keep the student interested and give them additional information to help them succeed.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2020

Mobile learning provides a prime opportunity to connect with Millennial audiences. It’s been several years now since mobile online activity surpassed that of desktop usage. Since smartphones first came on the market, they have slowly expanded to fill an ever larger place in the day-to-day lives of users around the world. While every age range uses smartphones (and can therefore benefit from mobile learning), Millennials have shown themselves to be true power users of the platform.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 19, 2019

One-on-one private sessions, tandem learning, and mentorship are all important ways to support learners. Every online educator knows how challenging it can be to help a learner cross the finish line on their course. Learner drop-out is a consistent problem across the field, and the causes behind it are well-known. In some cases, life intervenes: a learner becomes suddenly busy, they underestimate the work it would take to complete a course, or they fall ill or have to cope with personal difficul

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 10, 2019

What happens when your idea is too big for one course? We’ve written a lot about micro learning and related ideas, but we haven’t talked much about the opposite: macro learning, and the big-picture thinking it entails. While micro learning can help educators find traction with their course and build momentum, macro learning provides direction and an overarching unity to their course material.

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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 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

JULY 30, 2019

Building a brand can help you market your online courses more effectively. When you have a great idea for a course, it is tempting to jump straight into creating content and putting it online. However, you can reach a much larger number of people if you invest time in building your brand. Many course creators don’t know much about how to build a brand.

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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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