COURSE MANAGER (example)

With our online course management system you can add as many courses as you want and manage them on the Courses Manager.

General Tab:

• Enter the course name, category and author.
• Choose a difficulty level and enter a description.

Image Tab:

• Select the course image.
• The image will be displayed on the course page on the top, left or right.

Files/Media

• Select files to show on the front-end.

Requirements Tab

• Select prerequisite courses, if any.
• Enter any other prerequisite books and materials.

Pricing/Plans Tab

1. Select the subscription plans and set the price.
2. Select the renewal plans and set the price.
3. Select which subscription e-mail reminders will be sent.

Publishing Tab

• Select whether or not the course will be published.
• Select a start and end publishing date.

Metatags Tab

On this tab, you can enter the metatags for the courses page. Meta tags are important for search engine optimization.

• Title metatag
• Keywords metatag
• Description

And create your course tree.

With our LMS component, you can add a table of content for each course. The Course Tree feature makes constructing your course a breeze.

You can:

See a Visual Representation of the Course: Modules and Module Lessons:

You Can Take the Following Actions to Organize and Add to Your Course:

1. Add new modules and lessons on the fly.
2. Edit the modules and lessons by clicking on them.
3. Remove modules and lessons by clicking the red x. 
4. Reorder the modules and lessons by dragging and dropping them.

The Module Edit Page Opens in a LightBox Style Pop-Up When You Add a Module:

This allows you to stay on the same page. You can enter the module name, select a media and access. If you don't choose any media or text, the module name will be displayed in large font inside the module window.

The Lesson Edit Page Opens Up In a Lightbox Style Pop-Up When You Add a Lesson:

This allows you to stay on the same page. You can then select your layout, narration and much more. Learn more about lessons here.

e-Learning has never looked better or slicker with this table of content feature!

COMMISSIONS & AFFILIATE SYSTEM (example)

Our commission system is a great feature allowing you to turn your online content into a fully-fledged learning platform like Udemy. It lets you earn commissions on your own course(s) as well as on thousands of other courses, track sales and get paid easily.

The commissions system is personalized for each teacher separately. It produces reports, and has a batch payment option to send money through Paypal.

It will give you more structure, more information and greater clarity — and it's easy, transparent and fabulous.

Managing The Commission System

Adding A Commission Plan Is Super Easy

To add a commission plan, contact admin@globalsparks.com to help you setting it up.

We Calculate The Discount!

Offer discounts? No problem. We take the price of the course, subtract the discount and calculate the commission based on the amount actually paid by the student. It's only fair.

Flexibility Makes Adjustments Simple

You can change the commission plan at any time without affecting previous plans. So if a course was purchased when the teacher was on a previous rate, their commission will be calculated based on their old rate. All future purchases will be calculated based on their new rate. It's really brilliant.

Supporting PayPal And Mass Payments

Teachers can set their own PayPal email addresses, and if they've registered with a different address, we give them a dedicated field.

Promo Codes That Only Work For Selected Courses

You can set a promo code to work for just one course. It fits beautifully into the commissions system.

Export All Your Data

The commission system is full of ‘export' options, allowing you to request any data you like: history, pending commissions, details of already paid commissions… everything.

It's insanely easy and useful, and for the basic commissions report you can export your earnings reports on the front end.

The Commissions System For Teachers

Simple And Clear Summary Of Teacher Earnings

Teachers want to know exactly how much they're earning. Our system lets them track the orders. They can see how much they've already received, the details of those orders and how much is pending withdrawal.

Pending Commissions

Teachers can see their pending commissions any time they want.

Received Commission Summary

We give teachers a history of what they were paid, when they were paid and what the payment consisted of. It's simple and detailed, and comes all wrapped up in a clean design that's easy to navigate.

Payment Any Way You Want

If a teacher doesn't have a Paypal account, they can ask to be paid by bank transfer, Stripe, and a bunch of other methods.

GRADUAL RELEASE OF LESSONS (example) 

This feature allows you to release lessons gradually — once a day or once a week or once a month. Not only can you stop students jumping around on the course, you can now use your course as a marketing machine. Send students an email each time a lesson is ready and you’ll bring them back to your course automatically. They’ll stay on your course and renew their subscription to gain access to the remaining lessons. You’ll get more money in your pocket, if that's a priority for you.

How It Works

Backend

On the Lesson Edit page, choose the type of course you wish to create:

• Non-Sequential – All lessons are available as soon as the student signs up.
• Sequential – Lessons are available one at a time, every day/week/month.

You can also choose how unavailable courses will be displayed on the course table of content:

• Show all lessons, including the unavailable ones. (Unreleased lessons ones are gray and not clickable.)
• Show only the available lessons.

• Go to Courses Manager and click Edit next to the course you made sequential
• On pricing/plans tab check the box next to the email "New Lesson"

• You can always edit the content of this email by going to Subscriptions->System Emails

Front End

Available lessons will display the word “Available”. Lessons that are not yet available will display the date on which the lesson will be released to the student. (The date will be different for each student.)

CERTIFICATES (example)

Why are Certificates a great idea?

If your potential students know they can get a certificate that will help them get hired or improve their resume, then there is a much better chance that they will sign up for your courses! More students = More cash for you, if that is one of your goals.

Certificate Designs

You can use the default Certificate already in place (including default text, image, etc), or we offer several optional certificate templates you can choose from. You can add your logo to any of the templates and you can even upload your own template, just create a 800x600 px image and upload it.

Content and Email templates

• Choose what information will show on the certificates (name, course, etc.)
• Control the content of the email the student gets when he/she is eligible to a certificate

Front End Features:

We added a new page to the student interface "My Certificates". On this page students can:

• View their certificate
• Download it as PDF
• Share it with a link and
• Email it

If they are not eligible for a certificate, for any reason, they can see why.

 Clicking on the email icon opens this pop-up and allows the student to email their certificate.

 Clicking on the link icon opens this pop-up. It allows them to copy a direct URL to their certificate:

Certificate Terms:

How does the platform know which of the students deserves a certificate? When you create/edit a course, you can choose any of the terms below:

• No certificates
• Completed all the lessons
• Passed the final exam
• Passed the quizzes in avg of x%
• Completed all the lessons and pass the final exam in avg of x%
• Completed all the lessons and pass quizzes in avg of x%

The final result:

SCORM SUPPORT (example)

What is SCORM?

SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a set of technical standards for eLearning products. It provides the communication method and data models that allow eLearning content and LMSs to work together. It tells programmers how to write code so that what they build will “play well” with other eLearning software. SCORM is considered the most widely used eLearning standard available.

Back-end

Our platform has a dedicated option to support SCORM. On the backend you have option to create Menu item for scrom. For each SCORM file, you have to assign it to the specific course. Then the scorm file will be only available to be added in lessons from the assigned course.

SCORM file in lesson of course:

• Log in front-end with teacher account.
• Go to teacher dashboard, and there is a new menu item – Scorm.
• Teacher can add/edit/delete scorm files from that page and the scorm files added are available only for that teacher.
• Go to “Courses” page and edit tree for one course.
• Add new lesson or edit a lesson already created.
• From “Layout” tab, select Scorm icon, and then select a scorm file or you can create a new scorm in lesson page.

Once the course is successfully saved you can view it on the fronted

Our eLearning system allows you to set up subscription plans with automated e-mail reminders.

When you’re ready to sell your course, you can set up subscription plans based on time: by hours, days, months and years, or you can create an unlimited subscription plan that doesn’t expire. You can also set e-mail reminders: e-mails that will be sent to subscribers when their plan is about to or has already expired.

These plans and e-mail reminders will be available for you to choose on the course pricing tab. On the front-end, the course page will have the plans on the pricing tab and once the customer checks out, they'll be able to select which plan they want.

Create Your Subscription Plans:

You Can See All of Your Subscription Plans on the Subscription Plan Manager. Default subscription plans are already in place. If you need something different, let us know.

Create Automated E-Mail Reminders:

You might need technical support from our team to work on this part.

You Can See All of Your E-Mail Reminders on the E-Mail Reminders Manager:

Course Pricing Tab:

1. Assign the prices for each plan and the default plan.
2. Choose a renewal price for each plan.
3. Choose which e-mail reminder to include for the course.

Your Customers Will See the Plans on the Course Pricing Tab:

Your Customers Will Be Able to Choose a Plan When They Check Out:

This LMS subscription plan allows you to make money from membership to your courses easily!

FREE CONTENT (example)

How it works:

Once you've finished creating or editing a course, you can set the price to "free" – and you can even choose who gets to enjoy the gift.

That makes free courses a great way to reward current customers and tempt targeted leads.

Step-by-step Instructions:

To make a course free:

• Open the course to access editing options.
• Switch to the pricing/plans tab.
• Check the box next to “ This course is free for ” .
• Choose who gets the course for free.

A course can be given free to four classes of users:

• Members
• Guests
• Students of any course
• Students of a selected course(s)

Remember that all the lessons in a free course will be available free of charge, regardless of the permission level of each lesson.

To access free courses for guests, guests can simply click through to view the lessons. For courses restricted to members and students, users will need to enroll first. The course will then be added to their “my course” page.

QUIZZES (optional)

The Quiz Manager allows you to create quizzes that you can later add to your lessons. Quizzes are great to make sure that your students understand the material they’ve been studying so far. You can add quizzes to your course modules inside a lesson.

You Can See All of Your Quizzes on the Quizzes Manager:

On the Backend:

Create a New Quiz, Add a Name and a Description on the General Tab:

On the Backend:

On Frontend Teacher Interface:

Add additional optional quiz options 

• Enter a minimum passing score.
• Set a time limit in minutes to submit the quiz.
• Choose the number of times the quiz can be taken.
• Define the number of available questions selected randomly to construct the quiz.
• Question weight to decide which questions are more important than others.
• Add media to quiz questions
• Add media to quiz answers

Manage Your Questions in the Questions Tab:

On the Backend:

 Edit the Question and the Possible Answers:

On the Backend:

On the Frontend Teacher Interface:

The Quiz Looks Like This on the Front-End:

After submitting the quiz, it looks like this:

The student can see which of the questions he got right and wrong.

You can also add any media to your questions or to your answers (images, videos, etc.)

You can download/export the quizzes results in PDF of CVS format:

Students can view their quizzes on the frontend:

STUDENT MANAGEMENT (example)

You can manage students easily! The Student Manager allows you to manage all of your students in one place. In addition to being able to add/edit/delete students, you can also monitor their progress on your courses, review their orders, and more.

You Can View All of Your Students in the Student Manager:

You Can Add New Students in the Student Manager:

TRAINER/TEACHER INTERFACE (DASHBOARD)

 
Teachers can prepare or import whole courses themselves, and manage those courses on their own time.

Teacher Registration Is Easy

Teachers can register quickly, receive approval, then start working on their courses right away.

Review, Publish, You're Done!

When teachers can prepare their courses without the help of the site's admin, all is needed is a quick admin review of the course, and then publish at the click of a button. You'll have all the time you need to promote the course, bring in students and make money (if that is your goal)!

Teachers Can Create New Quizzes And Add Media

To build a really comprehensive course, teachers can add quizzes and media. Teachers can do that by embedding media, linking to it or uploading it directly to the platform.

Stats About Students

The teachers' interface also gives teachers stats about their students and full access to quiz results. They can see how well students are doing and receive detailed information that shows which students succeeded where — and where they need to work harder.

Grade Essays

Teachers can easily grade student's essays and even leave a comment.