Who is getting paid?

Hi guys, I'm playing catch up here - we have twelve courses we'd like to sell to both individual consumers and corporations for a fixed fee and a reasonable level of authentication (for example limited IP addresses or suchlike).

Diid anyone discover a great solution over the last 12 months?

Nick, two "developments" have been: http://chrislema.com/e-learning-on-wordpress-made-easy/ and learndash, the wordpress LMS.

Holly

Whoops, meant to add the link to LearnDash: http://www.learndash.com/learndash-lms-features/ in that last response.

The learn dash solution looks perfect - have you used it? Any thoughts?

Another recent addition: http://www.woothemes.com/products/sensei/

Do those 3 actually support Storyline?

The Sensei one and Chris Lema both seem to just use simple text and video (i.e. blog) type material.

Cheers for your help guys

Hi Nick-

Yes, LearnDash supports one-click storyline uploads, which is especially effective for TinCan API.  We are releasing this feature in the very near future.

Kind Regards,

Justin Ferriman

Founder, LearnDash

My company eLearnIT LLC, which is both a software consultancy and training provider, has been selling eCourses hosted in AOL for almost 3 years. We sell both individual timed access licenses and corporate annual site licenses with pre-negotiated numbers of concurrent users.  Using the AOL API I created a .NET based site license self service client that allows the corporate learning manager to maintain their user base. Internally we use a a .NET & light weight DBMS based subscription management system that I built.  It uses the AOL API to add/delete subscribers to my courses.  

In our case a course is composed of multiple learning modules (presentations) that are members of a course (group).  This system has been working quite well.  I chose AOL because it was a complete integrated solution with AP. Using it allowed me to focus on perfecting my content and not dealing with hosting issues. My start up costs and aggravation were almost nil.

Here's a link to the sales page: Nothing fancy, but it works well for our intended audience  

Those are some impressive prices, Yakov. Do people sign up without seeing a demo or sample first?

Regarding your course tracking, do individual users see check marks (or the equivalent) to show which modules/presentations they have completed so far?

Russ,

In  addition to the many years I spent in the software development trenches, I served umpteen years as a contract and W2 trainer honing my expertise in my little niche.  You can read my story in this recent blog post (scroll down to the My Story section).   You can read about our courseware's value statement in this recent blog post

AOL does show a %complete for each module.  *Unfortunately* the # is not 100% reliable - meaning it doesn't properly track the percentage.  (Why doesn't it show me 100% complete is at the top of my FAQ list)   Oftentimes I have 'hidden' pages that I added for various technical reasons and/or embedded quizzes and interactions. My courses are not linear.  A learner may skip a summary or topic intro page or any other page for that matter.  However, the figure does give a learner and their manager a strong indication of progress.

Here are links to demo pages. Once in click on the PPT image to navigate load the Articulate based demo (You can get to them from the sales page by clicking a course name) 

Intro Course

Advanced Part 01

HTH

Yakov