WPLMS For Offline Courses

Hi Mr. Vibe, I'm also trying to implement offline payment for courses, with our students being handed a unique course code when payment is completed. I need help with the implementation part. I'd like to be able to take out the "Take this Course" button, and thus do away with the shopping cart altogether and instead just have the student input their course code to be accepted into the course. I also wanted to have the course code be a unique alphanumeric code for each student (for better control) so if there is a way to automatically upload these codes as csv and have the system validate against this csv that would be great. I'd appreciate some guidance on this.   thanks!

I like the idea of the system checking a user via the csv and then allocating the student to the course immediately, or if student is not yet registered, create the new user and added to course :) Can we implement it soon? Re tracking course progress, for our needs that's where we utilize the LMS itself, with auto evaluation of quizzes. It's only in the final exams that we do the manual rating because we usually incorporate essay type questions for finals. Upon passing the final exam, instructor provides approval for the student to receive certification and sends the student a code to access their final rating and certificate online.

Yes ZYMedia probably this will be good solution. A nice suggestion will be add a "pay per performance" features. Example: i will add a education center who will pay not for sales but for every information request that receive over their courses. To may all more simple, i suggest to create a front-end course creation different from online and offline courses. In this case for offline courses we need to create a course curriculum without content because content will share offline, it will be possible? Other things, i think that will be good to create a new template page where we can find offline courses with this filter geo and  start date, separated from advanced course search. Last thing: In this moment wplms will become a very complete solution for every type of training program, do you think that will be a good solution add some feature such as "sponsored course" ore a "flag" added on block course which can differentiate "new course", "trend course" ecc?

Attendance system definitely! We were looking at a modified time logger but were not sure how to combine it with the theme. One other feature we'd most like to have is a peer rating system for specific activities/assignments that involve group work.

You may want to offer more than distant (offline) courses choice. I am offering following options to my instructors and students: - online courses - distant (offline) courses - tutoring  - skype courses and tutoring - corporate  courses (for employees, package of several courses for a fixed price or subscription fee) When are you planning this feature, in version 2.0? I suggest it would really help if you could search courses by the following options or if you can ad a feature for instructors - how to create multiple options and ordering when creating courses. Also sorting by location and course start.

I'd like to bring to discussion following thoughts about offline courses, and its implementation. I've used different products to support and market my school since 2009. Till 2014 it was primarily onsite education with short term and long term classes and tours. That's why I know what functionality I need to offer an effective from marketing/booking offline education, and to make students interested and happy with the online support part. The latter is implemented by WPLMS so well and thoughtfully, that It worth my time on adapting my many years 'monster' for WPLMS (or, both). Thank you for WPLMS. Now about the newborn feature - offline courses. Main difference in presenting online and offline classes 1. Offline education always has dates of the start and end, plus schedule for sub events (lessons, meetings, tour day points, etc.). Presentation with flexible search and sorting by dates is invaluable for shopping students, to find what fits their own schedule. 2. For offline classes duration category is very important, as it helps to separate long term classes (tour, course) from short term ones (lection, webinar, seminar, workshop), and pick the right product, fitting own schedule, and style of education 3. Offline always has a physical location. It is not that important if all the classes take place in the same venue, but for educational tour , and aggregation courses from different schools, and teachers, it is critical.   How it practically works for OFFLINE classes in my projects on other LMS systems 1. Dates - it is important to be able to sort the directory by the course start date. I know, it is not the simplest query from the DB. Check events-manager-extended plugin, where it was coded in early 2009! - adding filter 'future courses' only shows nice and simple directory, where the soonest class is on the top. //as of now we hope that visitor is smart enough to use future/past date filter option to filter off future courses. I think it is longer, and for more specific searches. I'd like an option in the filter widget to show "show only future" checkbox.  -  start date, plus and date for multi day classes has to stay in the course description/directory always, even whet it's expired. It shows the progress of the school. - Buy/Take button should be available till the start day (or via switch - till end date), allowing students to book it any time before the course start, or even jump in after the beginning. What we have now came from the online courses, and doesn't work for offline courses: both the displaying of the date(s), and the  Take course button logic. - there is a need for eye catching timetable for the (primarily, as they have dates) classes, so students see what is coming soon. It can be a new (or more flexible old one) widget to display future classes with dates. With today's WPLMS I'm solving this via EventOn Basic Calendar widget + a dedicated page Event Calendar, but it requires duplicating courses (at least titles and dates) in EventOn. 2. Course duration category - The Course Duration (or Course Type) taxonomy turned out to be practical for me. I adapted existing Location taxonomy for this. For now I need sorting by duration more than by location, although displaying the location is great for some classes. If you will fully implement another sortable taxonomy, it'll help. At least adding the setting for Location slug (in WPLMS updates the todo list) will make it work.   3. Location We have it, unless, as in my case it got stolen to be used as Duration.   Some other aspects offline classes 1. Sometimes schedule for sub events is being adjusted on the go (public holidays, sudden opportunities, sick students…) We do not have any class subschedule, but it can be handled via EvenOn events. 2. Sometimes students are being added to the class while it's already in progress. I'm not sure if the instructor is allowed to add students after the start date, or does date influence the instructor's ability to manage student lists. It is great that we have the managing option! 3. There is nothing more sweet for the business owner, and very motivating in sales as a sign "Sold out" for 100% booked classes. Both in directory instead of the price, and on the course description page instead of the Take course button, for non course students.   I hope it is helpful, and one day will be implemented. Again, these are small things which value a lot,as it turned out from my experience.  

How do you see a perfect blend, and what options are you missing? I'd like to know how different people approach this need.