How do you intergate eLearning and wordpress?

Feb 01, 2011

David Becker
By David Becker

Hi all, I've been playing with wordpress/buddypress lately and I love all the social media widgets and plug-ins. I've also fiddled with scormcloud, to take the learning to the learners, rather than make them come to an LMS.

What I'd really like to do, is launch the eLearning inside a page in wordpress. that way all the great tools like twitter/facebook/chat/voting/reviews etc.... all this amazing stuff you can do with wordpress, would be at their fingertips and available around the learning. What I don't want is the eLearning to launch in a new window, thus forcing learners to tab between the wordpress site and the eLearning windows.

Has anyone done this before? any ideas?

cheers

Dave

37 Replies
Amanda Westendorf
13 years ago02/24/11 at 9:30 am (UTC)

I have used WordPress to "host" an asynchronous course in the past. WordPress was the site the learner logged into, and from there, they had the option to view their eLearning module (Articulate-published presentation), post on the weekly blog, review video tutorials, or open and download Word doc. assignments.

But, like you said, the eLearning modules did open in a new browser window. It would be interesting to see if they could open up within WordPress instead.

David Becker
13 years ago02/24/11 at 4:13 pm (UTC)

They can with an iframe plugin, check out www.rsa-training.com.au adn login guest/guest I set this up to see how it could be done and its actually really easy. Sadly it doesn't track anything. If u use scormcloud then it costs money and the eLearning launches in a new window. Someone need to create a wordpress plugin for scorm! any takers?

Steve Flowers
13 years ago02/24/11 at 5:19 pm (UTC)

Hmm... You mean something that would track completion linking the SCORM API to a Wordpress mechanism? What kind of data element support would you be looking for (simply completion status or more like a wider data set)? How would it be reported into Wordpress? I'm intrigued by the concept, just curious about the use cases 

I don't think it would really be all that difficult to pull off. Provided that you weren't looking for full SCORM support - just a subset.

David Becker
13 years ago02/24/11 at 5:42 pm (UTC)

Hi Steve,

Probably tracking completion, score, attempts and maybe that's it, it would probably want to be tied to buddypress, so you can lock down the content to members only and becoming a member automatically enrolls you in everything (probably in a learning sequence). I would see it having maybe:

Backend report on worpress dashboard to see individual and total progress.

Widget for individuals to see their progress like ticks complete.

I don't see it being complex, like assigning different courses to different people or complex reporting. I guess the main thing is to bring simple LMS functionality to wordpress, so content is embedded in the page with all these cool social features arrayed around it.

Use cases are probably where there's a clearly defined audience and a common learning pathway so for example sales channel certification programs, where your sales force are not employees, high turnover, but need training and most importantly, need the community of practice around them to guide, inspire and transfer tacit learning through all the social stuff.

Eg party planner businesses like tupperware, or mobs that produce consumer electronics and sell them through their own branded retail outlets, but also through 20 other non-branded retail chains, Dunno, havent given use cases too much thought, but everyone feels the market shifting and changing and cheap, fast is good, but most importantly it frees up all that lovely LMS budget to spend on building a community that is engaged.

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