LearnDash

APRIL 11, 2024

In fact, the best thing you can do when you get a refund request is learn why it happened. Then, if there are ways the situation could be avoided in the future with other members, apply what you’ve learned as you move forward (more on this later). Whatever the case may be, avoid the trap of taking membership refund requests personally.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you don’t have a specific problem to solve but are instead looking for advice or guidance, there’s only so much our support team can do. Read the support docs » Learn Dash Support Documentation. Blog Roundup: Social Learning While Social Distancing. Be as specific as you can be about your problem. Search the blog!

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LearnDash

JULY 1, 2021

The problem is that many of these learners won’t necessarily tell you what’s going wrong. Quizzes are a learning tool. Scenario-based learning. Scenario-based learning places learners in a situation where they can practice what they have learned. Community discussion. Quiz scores.

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Course Online Metrics Quiz 337

LearnDash

APRIL 13, 2023

This is essential to get your viewers to take some kind of action, such as: Purchasing your online course Joining your email list Becoming part of your online community Subscribing to your YouTube channel Connecting with you on other platforms …and so on. Talk to your audience about their problems and answer their questions.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 20, 2018

Overbearing pedagogy is a recurring problem for many adult learners. But they want a balance between guided learning and their own impulse toward self-direction. If your students are learning a new language, that why might be “meeting new people,” “getting ready for a big trip,” or “reading a foreign-language book.”

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LearnDash

JANUARY 7, 2020

Mobile learning provides a prime opportunity to connect with Millennial audiences. 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. It’s been several years now since mobile online activity surpassed that of desktop usage.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 19, 2019

One-on-one private sessions, tandem learning, and mentorship are all important ways to support learners. Learner drop-out is a consistent problem across the field, and the causes behind it are well-known. This connection can come in various forms: through a private lesson, a learning buddy, or a mentor. LearnDash Buddy Up.

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LearnDash

JUNE 8, 2021

The only problem is, they don’t know how. The problem is that most professional sales people don’t write that way, because irritating a customer isn’t a good sales strategy—especially when all they need to do to get away from you is to close a browser tab. The problem isn’t the quantity of words, but the quality.

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Sales Course Online Tips 266

LearnDash

AUGUST 10, 2021

But for people in our community who are trying to decide if LearnDash is the right choice for them, reviews are invaluable. Nevertheless, I didn’t have much problems with LearnDash. In term of learning, it’s very easy to construct courses and to sell them. That’s perfect. We feel pretty vindicated.

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LearnDash

MARCH 9, 2022

People buy online courses because they have a huge problem that needs to be solved sooner rather than later. This can apply to your course topic and it works especially well if you’ve already built a community. That’s the beauty of online learning. Here are a few strategies for choosing a topic in a saturated market.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The good news is that, in many cases, fixing these problems doesn’t mean going back to the drawing board—it just means finding the weak link and repairing it. Practice: Learners should do what they’re learning. For instance, learners practice math by doing math problem, and they practice language by making sentences and speaking.

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Course Online Blended Learning Lesson 283

LearnDash

JUNE 2, 2020

All-in-one CMSs suffer from other problems, too, from feature bloat to a slow development cycle and a smaller pool of qualified developers. By joining LearnDash you not only receive best-in-class online course software (with an entire free website template to get started), but you also become a member of our vibrant, supportive community !

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 10, 2018

How can mobile learning make blended classrooms more effective? With most learners bringing their technology with them into the classroom—either on their laptop or their smartphone—there’s less of a distinction between when classroom learning ends, and the out-of-class, self-directed learning begins.

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Blended Learning Blended Mobile Create 188

LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Of course, the problem is that many of your learners won’t always tell you how it’s going in your course. Online discussion threads are a great way for learners to work through material together and feel a sense of community. Course creators are always looking for ways to improve their courses. Is there a difference in engagement?

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

By changing the way you offer material, you can help learners complete their learning objectives, and improve satisfaction with their learning experience. Community support is a huge part learner success for many online students. Community support is a huge part learner success for many online students. Try these tips.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 14, 2019

From machine learning to virtual reality , the past year has seen some incredible technological advances. As these technologies become more accessible, the ramifications they have on the e-learning community will become ever more intense. Access will become more reasonable for mid-sized e-learning providers.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Gamification has been a huge buzzword in the e-learning industry for a while now, and with good reason. As such, e-learning programs with gamification functionality have been in high demand among learners and educators alike. Like badges, point systems can be used to instruct learners about the learning program itself.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

As an online course instructor, what can you learn from taking one? If you’ve never taken an online course, or if it’s been a while since your last experience, you may be surprised by what you learn from the experience. It’s easier to identify problems than it is to discover solutions.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

And with an online course, learners have the chance to learn how to coordinate a team project in a distributed work environment—an increasingly necessary skill in today’s work culture. Online, these problems are compounded by distance, shifting schedules, and lack of face-to-face communication. Prepare to combat social loafing.

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Project Education Effectiveness Online 137

LearnDash

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Many learners sign up for a course excited about what they will be learning, but once they get a week or two in, they become fatigued and drop out. To combat learner burnout, many instructors focus on more interactive material, building community support, and finding ways to reengage learners who have stopped logging in to their account.

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Learner Course Design Beginner 268

LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The problem is that, with the focus on creating a great course, it can be difficult to know when you’ve arrived. Instead, learn more about instructional design principles for online courses. You have cultivated a supportive community. There are many ways you can build a community.

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Quality Online Course Lecture 152

LearnDash

MARCH 14, 2019

Let’s say you want to learn a business skill like online marketing. One of unfortunate truths about online courses is that completion rates are terribly low when compared to traditional classroom learning. Blended learning courses will naturally have less students. Is there a related course community?

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Metrics Online Course Blended Learning 135

LearnDash

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you’ve spent much time in the world of online learning, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a lot of industry advice out there about how to grow your course : how to price it effectively , how to manage your email marketing lists , how to market your course to new audiences , how to create an effective sales strategy , and so on and so forth.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There are two problems with this. They start writing a blog post on an interesting subject, but just as they’re getting into the meet of the content they pull back and say “to learn more, take my course!”. The biggest problem with this mindset is that a high-quality course is more than a blog post could ever be.

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Compliance Training Course Online Write Blog 212

LearnDash

JANUARY 8, 2019

We’ve written a lot about the value of community in online education. One side benefit is that, when learners work together to create a learning environment, it takes a load off your shoulders. This isn’t to say it’s easy, or that these communities happen automatically.

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Management Course Online Tips 190

LearnDash

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It means they learn the course material, but it also means they remember the course material for months—if not years—after finishing. The problem is that the more a course pushes assessment till the end of the course, the more learners are likely to do the same with their studying. Encourage discussion groups and community support.

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Learner Micro-Learning Social Networks Quiz 139

LearnDash

MARCH 28, 2012

Yet I am amazed at the number of organizations that don’t take advantage of social components for their employee learning. There are a wide range of options at your disposal for social learning, so let me provide you with a strategy for one tool that you may find of use: Social tool: a “Facebook” type wall for commenting.

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Social Learning Social Strategy Learning Strategy 100

LearnDash

MAY 2, 2019

Some learners can be overly competitive, and this turns the entire experience into a toxic quagmire for the rest of the community. The problem here is that your learners only see who won—they don’t get to see by how much. This is because competition can so frequently be a double-edged sword.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This has let us keep our focus on building a true learning-focused product, rather than a tool that puts sales first and the learner experience second. The problem is that Kajabi’s chief way to upsell you on their pricing plan is by limiting the number of products you can sell. Now, what Kajabi is selling you are “products.”.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For some people, the term “elearning” immediately conjures images of the inscrutable internet, complicated learning platforms, and technology beyond the grasp for those who are well out of school. Now compare that with those 30 students working from their own homes and reading their learning resources from their computer.

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LearnDash

APRIL 12, 2018

It’s not an easy problem to solve, but that’s not to say there aren’t steps you can take to improve course retention. Communities are a powerful tool, both for breaking down the isolation of online learning and for encouraging learners to come back. Break away from passive learning.

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Course Micro-Learning Social Media Community 102

LearnDash

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

One of the most common problems many sites encounter when their traffic suddenly explodes is that they don’t have the bandwidth to manage the increased load. Instead, build the best course you can and cultivate a community of learners whose positive experiences will encourage them to share your course to their networks.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 14, 2012

For quite some time now the learning community has been referring to the upcoming eLearning protocol as “Tin-Can API” due to the back and forth communication nature of this new standard. I think this name was well suited for the project initially, but it was starting to pose some problems.

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LearnDash

MAY 26, 2016

This is obviously a worst-case scenario but it highlights the downside of online learning: it can be extremely boring. This may seem silly but it’s actually a proven way to improve learning retention and to motivate learners to progress through your course. Some of the most successful learning programs use gamification.

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Learner Online Forum Tips 103

LearnDash

MAY 13, 2021

No one wants their learning experience to be disrupted by spam pop up ads, or to have their email and password compromised because of bad security. As an Automattic plugin, Jetpack is a well-known name in the WordPress community for helping to speed up WordPress websites. VaultPress/Jetpack Security.

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Scanning Security Firewalls Course 152

LearnDash

APRIL 16, 2012

It has been 10 years, give or take, since the last major SCORM update was introduced to the learning community. I think the concept behind it is a very good direction for SCORM and the learning field overall. Is there a need to relabel what we call a Learning Management System simply because we are upgrading SCORM?

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Since our launch in January of this year, our main priority has been to create a product that is in touch with the latest elearning trends, and that is consistently enhanced based on community feedback. No problem! New Course Layer: Lesson Topics! Want to require an assignment for a Lesson Topic? Lesson List showing Topics.

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