We're planning on putting a storyline course on our website on a page that only people who have paid can see. We need to roll it out pretty soon and we're expecting take up to be big in the beginning (possibly 200+ people all doing it at the same time). Is there anything we need to be aware of to make sure everything runs smoothly?
Do you have a capacity for the users to log into your site? If it is Wordpress you may want to look at using plugins like learn dash to manage this. if you will have 200 users concurrently then you will likely need to upgrade your server of look at using AWS
Thanks for your advice. Our website can definitely handle that amount of people. But most of our pages out just text, is there a difference if there's a storyline course on the page? Or if the website is fine with that many people normally will it be okay?
Sorry, we're a small company with a big website so we sometimes lack the technical knowledge needed.
I would load test your site. It is difficult to say without knowing how you are loading the course or if you will be tracking, if you use a paywall does your website then validate if the user has permission to view each file or just the link?
The storyline course will behave slightly differently as they will preload content 3 slides ahead and then whatever it can load which with 200 concurrent users might put additional strain.
Without knowing how you plan to deliver it on the website and what the stats of the server are then I wouldn't like to guess, you sound confident it can cope though.
Hi everyone, I have a scenario: Client wants to have a paid course placed on a web (built on WordPress). The process should be that a customer pays for subscription of the course and gets access to a section of the web accessible only for paying customers. There the customer chooses a course by clicking on a button. This opens a new window with the course, and it is not possible to copy the link to this site (so that the paying customer cannot share the URL of the course to nonpaying customers).
My question is - Is there a solution, which enables this scenario? Or is there a better way to protect the course from being shared via URL to nonpaying folks? (I've never used any paywall plugin and I could not find any information on how it works in this interaction.)
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Do you have a capacity for the users to log into your site? If it is Wordpress you may want to look at using plugins like learn dash to manage this. if you will have 200 users concurrently then you will likely need to upgrade your server of look at using AWS
Hi Phil,
Thanks for your advice. Our website can definitely handle that amount of people. But most of our pages out just text, is there a difference if there's a storyline course on the page? Or if the website is fine with that many people normally will it be okay?
Sorry, we're a small company with a big website so we sometimes lack the technical knowledge needed.
Rachel
I would load test your site. It is difficult to say without knowing how you are loading the course or if you will be tracking, if you use a paywall does your website then validate if the user has permission to view each file or just the link?
The storyline course will behave slightly differently as they will preload content 3 slides ahead and then whatever it can load which with 200 concurrent users might put additional strain.
Without knowing how you plan to deliver it on the website and what the stats of the server are then I wouldn't like to guess, you sound confident it can cope though.
For a Wordpress elearning plugin, I recommend www.elearningfreak.com
Hi everyone, I have a scenario: Client wants to have a paid course placed on a web (built on WordPress). The process should be that a customer pays for subscription of the course and gets access to a section of the web accessible only for paying customers. There the customer chooses a course by clicking on a button. This opens a new window with the course, and it is not possible to copy the link to this site (so that the paying customer cannot share the URL of the course to nonpaying customers).
My question is - Is there a solution, which enables this scenario? Or is there a better way to protect the course from being shared via URL to nonpaying folks? (I've never used any paywall plugin and I could not find any information on how it works in this interaction.)
Thank you for your insights!
Petr