One of the biggest challenges with online learning can be motivating your learners - to enrol, progress and complete. Often life can get in the way, particularly when a course is self-paced and there are so many things competing for their attention. Ironically...
As the old saying goes, "The only constant in life is change", and the world of online learning is no different. In the last decade, we’ve seen the rise of platforms like Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, Udacity, Teachable and Thinkific. These offer subject experts the...
Taking an online course requires commitment and motivation, irrespective of how relevant, engaging or interactive we make the training. As learning designers, we can use lessons from behavioural science to help our students overcome some of the obstacles and...
If you’re a training company providing online courses to your clients and their staff, you’ll need to make sure your online learning platform (aka as Learning Management System or ‘LMS’) has the functionality you need to deliver this successfully. In our experience,...
Sometimes after you launch a new product, you realise the name ain’t right. And that’s certainly the case with the Business-to-Business Toolkit. As such, we’ve rebranded our flagship WordPress plugin as the Organization Toolkit. Why the change? We developed the...
The “LearnDash LMS Tips & Tricks” Facebook forum is a brilliant place to go if you have any questions or issues related to LearnDash. We recently spotted an issue from a LearnDash user whose website broke whenever they activated LearnDash: Whenever they activated...
We’re excited to announce the release of version 1.1 of the Business-to-Business toolkit for LearnDash. When you update to this version you’ll get a few great new features to really enhance the delivery of your training into organisations. Some of the new features in...
If you deliver online training, it’s crucial to ensure there are no accessibility barriers that might prevent learners with disabilities from experiencing your online courses. If you sell your courses into organisations that have...
In our opinion, the first place to start when designing any online course or programme is understanding the person(s) you will be creating it for. This will affect many aspects of your online course, including: What impact you want to have. What should be the change...
A member of the LearnDash LMS Tips & Tricks Facebook group recently asked people to name something that LearnDash does that makes you glad you opted for the plugin. There were some responses you’d expect - like eCommerce functionality, its low cost and how simple...
LearnDash 3.5 was released at the start of September 2021 and one if its new features is the ability to save learner quiz progress. Historically, a learner would have been expected to complete a LearnDash quiz in a single sitting. The new version of LearnDash provides...
A new major release of LearnDash is now available. Due to several large changes, this is not currently available via the standard WordPress plugin updater. Instead, you’ll need to log into your LearnDash account and download a zip file to upgrade manually. As we...
At Training Spark, we love working with open source platforms - particularly those that help training providers deliver online and blended learning. More often than not, the solutions that we work with are called “Open Source” software. “Open source” means that anyone...
“The emails that LearnDash sends out are going to spam!” This is one of the most common issues we see from people who run LearnDash courses. It can be a frustrating issue that leads to an influx of support queries or a lack of trust from your customers. More often...
As a training provider, you may be selling your training and consultancy to a client as part of a wider package. For example, your client may be delivering a company-wide initiative around a particular topic (such as equality and diversity, leadership or equal...
If you’re a training provider looking to use WordPress as your learning management system, then there are a handful of essential plugins you’ll need to give you the functionality you need. We’ve helped many training companies deliver blended and online learning using...