General question about online course

Sep 20, 2012

By Ian Katz

Hi there

I am new to this.

I organise a few medical conferences where the presenters virtually always use PPT.

I would like to do the following:

1. Establish overall business website with ? sub sites for different medical conferences

2. Have each individual presenter upload their PPT to appropriate part of site

3. Give people registered to conference access to the online presentations with ability to see presentation on a mobile device at the conference

4. Have ability to sell some lectures or all of conference to people not registered for conference.

Any advice how to do this would be appreciated - can articulate be used to set up a white label site or should I use another system

Thanks

Ian

6 Replies

Bruce Graham
Hero

over 11 years ago09/21/12 at 5:45 am (UTC)

Hi Ian, and welcome to the community.

I'm a little unsure what you are asking...

Articulate products are used to build courses, Articulate Online is the Articulate LMS - learn more here.

You could do the creation using Studio or Storyline, but I feel you would need to develop your Portal and distribution Network some other way, using standard web-tools of some sort, especially for the Purchase & Payment requirement.

Bruce

Ian Katz
Author

over 11 years ago09/21/12 at 7:53 pm (UTC)

Essentially trying to find out if articulate is what I need - it sounds not as I do not really have to build the course. Just want to store them and give access/sell them.

What sort of standard web-tools would you recommend.

Ian

Daniel Brigham
Hero

over 11 years ago09/22/12 at 12:44 pm (UTC)

Hi, Ian:

My gut says you just need a tool the publishes PPT presentations for the web. Articulate products of course can do that (and a gazillion other things), but there are cheaper options. Google "publishing powerpoint presentations for the web"--you'll find cheaper tools.

Mike Taylor
Hero

over 11 years ago09/24/12 at 4:39 am (UTC)

I'm not sure about the selling part but something along the lines of Brainshark might be worth checking out. ( https://www.brainshark.com/ )

If they are "course-like" you might also take a look at something like Open Sesame which resells elearning. ( https://www.opensesame.com/ )

Frank Golden

over 11 years ago10/09/12 at 11:39 am (UTC)

Here's a short tutorial on what Daniel was hinting at with publshing PPT's to the web here. It's for the 2003 version but my guess is they haven't changed the formatting that drastically since. And once you get that squared away, you could maybe think of mobile learning methods to make each and every PPT as accessible as possible. And to Mike's point, Brainshark's a good option as well as some other providers like ej4 (http://www.ej4.com) or Pironcorp (http://www.pironcorp.com) might be worth looking into as well.

Jerson Campos

over 11 years ago10/10/12 at 12:56 pm (UTC)

From what I read in your original post is that you want to create one main site where the presenters can upload their presentations. You would like to give access to this information to those individuals that paid to attend your conference, but for those who didn't they would have to pay an additional fee.

What you need is a Content Management System. WordPress might do the trick. There are many plugins (some free) that will do what you want. Restrict access to members only, setup simple ecommerce transactions, allow uploads. You will need to find a host that is compatible with WordPress, search for a theme that you like, research and install the plugins you need and then just spread the word. Let me know if you have anymore questions about WordPress.

General question about online course

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