Hello guys, I’ve found some youtube videos that are titled “Wordpress online course site for free” etc., do you think these can be great? I am making a mini online course, I have about 1400 subscribers on Youtube and I believe some of them will buy my course, but not that many and I don’t want to spend like 100 USD a month for the LMS system. Do you think WordPress - building a page with some plugin for online courses could be sufficient? Will the servers be sufficient? Has anyone tried this?
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What are your reasons you wouldn’t deliver your course through a paid YouTube channel membership?
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Wordpress online course site for free
Truth be told Free in these videos videos no fee for theme and plugin. They don’t take into account the cost of hosting and domain.
And none of these plugins are completely free. You can get a basic LMS running easily but advanced features are usually behind paywall.
Will the servers be sufficient?
Again depends upon the hosting you go with.
Do you think WordPress - building a page with some plugin for online courses could be sufficient?
I would personally prefer WordPress than paying big buck for SaaS solutions. But it all depends on the requirements for your LMS and how technical can you get.
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Sure it would techincally “work” buuuuut:
You wouldn’t be able to control payment & enrollment automatically
You wouldn’t be able to manage/see/report completion, etc.
The user experience would be terrible. Leading to bad reviews.
If you don’t think your course will be profitable if you have expenses to do it, just don’t do it.
Nothing good is free
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WordPress should be the perfect one to present a landing page, but if you want a basic, not to fancy or pricey LMS. I would recommend to look into Moodle. Just experiment a little with it.
But the real question that I should ask: what’s your plan? There are about 224 LMS, 79, LXP and about 12 modulair Learning ecosystems (that I know off). For everything is something, but the way of using, features and the back-end support versus money, time and skills are the first things you should know. If you are really considering selling multiple courses and making a living out of it. Only then I would advise to go further on the LMS journey. It’s expensive and time consuming. WordPress is using a black and white Television to display 8k movies. It’s not worth the shitload of negative feedback.
You’re welcome to send me a DM. Happy to help you in the right direction.
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Try microlearning! Wordpress is a disaster… your users will hate you … and an LMS is typically more than you need or want. We went with www.mylearnie.com and are happy with it