LearnWorlds Review
LearnWorlds is another platform for online course creation that offers a wide variety of features such as a comprehensive course builder, marketing tools, web site builder and helps support.
LearnWorlds begins with you creating your school. It offers a Welcome Screen walkthrough to get you easily started.
Online Course Creation
- Paid
- Draft
- Coming Soon
- Free
- Private
If you choose paid, you will be prompted to set a starting price of your course. There is also an option to set a discounted price. A nice thing about LearnWorlds is that there are also links to reading recommendations on how to set pricing.
Like other online learning platforms, LearnWorlds allows you to schedule your courses (drip feed).
Course Page Builder
Once you have created your course, you will be brought to a default template course page. You can then customise the look and feel of the course landing page. The page builder has the following features:
- customisable layout, headers and footers
- options to configure your page so that it is optimised for search engines. A cool feature here is that you are provided with a live preview of what your course snippet would look like under Google results. This allows you to tweak the title to encourage clicks
- configure site navigation
- add custom code like CSS and Javascript
Course Contents
Define and set access for different sections of your course
When adding course content to your LearnWorlds course, you first need to define sections in your course.You can set these sections as Draft, Soon (visible but not yet accessible), Free or Paid.
Once your sections are defined, you can add activities.
Each activity supports different content formats:
- Videos
Select videos that you uploaded to your LearnWorld’s course library or embed videos from Vimeo / Wistia. - EBooks
eBooks are similar to Word documents where you add paragraphs of text, table and images - PDFs/Audio files
- Embed Youtube videos/SoundCloud files
- SCORM/HTML5 package
Upload content developed and exported into SCORM packages by online learning authoring tools like Storyline, Captivate and iSpring - Live Sessions
LearnWorlds supports Zoom Meetings, Zoom Webinars and Webex Meetings - Quizzes
Create multiple-choice, True/False, Poll, Short Answer, Text with Feedback type of quizzes - Exams
Create multiple choice and True/False questions under an exam setting. You can set the duration in minutes and have passing grades. - Assignments
Open-ended questions where learners submit their assignments via the editor or upload a file - Certificates
Award certificates for completing exams or completing the learning units in the course. You can let users share the certificate on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
Pricing options
Site Builder
LearnWorlds Site builder is very comprehensive. There are a variety of colour schemes that you can choose. There is a huge selection of fonts. You can customise buttons and configure layoutss.
Reporting
User Analytics
Get data on user progress. You can filter by courses, average scores and progress. You can also create user segments and schedule reports.
Exams Reporting
- all the grades of those who took your course exams.
- certificates issued to students of your courses
Sales Reporting
Obtain course orders data, course product revenues, instructor revenues and cancelled sales.
Payment Processing
When it comes to payment processing, you can set the currency of your choice from 20+ currency options. You can also connect to a Stripe, Paypal, 2CO2Checkout or Shopify account to receive and manage course payments and receive funds.
Third-party Integrations
Connect to email marketing tools like mailchimp, Constant Contact, Convertkit, Aweber
Marketing Tools
LearnWorlds offers various marketing tools. The tools allow you to set bundles and subscriptions. You can create promotions and also capture leads from visitors who register on your pages.
Set up your affiliate program
LearnWorlds Pricing Plans
Note: Prices are in USD
Starter
- $5 fee Per Course Sale
- 1 Admin
- Custom Domain
- Page Builder allowing you to build 3 pages
- Unlimited Courses
Pro Trainer
- Features in addition to Starter
- No Transaction Fees
- Build Unlimited Pages with Page builder
- Site Builder with Blog
- Access to subscriptions and memberships
- Customise Course player, check out page and certificates
- Course Integration with Zoom and Webex
- Upload 10 SCORM/HTML5 packages for your learning activities
- Set File Assignments
- Affiliate Management
- 24/7 Priority Email Support
Learning Center
- Features in addition to Pro Trainer
- 20 admins/instructors
- Bulk Student Enrollments
- Fully labelled under your brand
- Interactive videos - add quizzes to your videos
- Ability to have your custom IOS & Andrioid App (with a extra fee)
- Unlimited Scorm/HTML5 packages for your learning content
Other costs
There are no transaction fees. As you are using your own Paypal or Stripe accounts for payment processing, there are no additional processing fees.
Research of reviews online
I found the Reviews on TrustPilot to be acceptable. There were only 23 reviews and 87% of them were above great. Most people liked the features. For those who didn’t like it, it was mainly due to the interface, which after trying it out, I have to agree can be quite overwhelming for those who have little exposure or experience with creating web sites using site builders.
Is LearnWorlds the right solution for me to sell online courses?
Similar to other online course platforms, this is not for you if you:
- require reporting for SCORM, XAPI online learning content
- require gamification elements that you can customise (badges, points, leaderboards for interacting with your site)
If you need advanced interactivity in your courses, you will need to create those interactions with online learning authoring tools like Storyline, Captivate or iSpring and take up the Pro Trainer (upload up to 10 interactive packages) or the Learning Center plan (unlimited hosting of packages). As mentioned in the earlier points, you will not be able to receive any reports on how your students interact with these packages.
What do I like about LearnWorlds?
It provides a wide variety of learning content formats for its Pro Trainer plan price point. The site builder provides a wide range of customisable options. The course builder supports a wide variety of learning content formats. For example, you can add different types of quizzes. If all you require is the standard range of course formats, LearnWorlds definitely delivers.
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