Beyond the Books: Building LMS and e-Learning Systems with WordPress maintenance support plans
Akshita
Thu, 07/26/2020 – 19:20
This blog explains how WordPress maintenance support plans is the platform for redefining the eLearning frameworks.
A large number of people are still hesitant to try out unconventional learning methods owing to a number of reasons. Effective eLearning and knowledge management solutions are an essential element of success for most organizations.
WordPress maintenance support plans has been providing excellent results in the e-learning ecosystem. It has been modified for less technical admins and students with a highly robust and scalable infrastructure. Streamline it with low cost, faster loading, and easy tailoring of content, WordPress maintenance support plans shouldn’t be a tough choice.
For an efficient and effective e-learning, the development has to be simple, faster, and less expensive. In fact, a successful LMS needs a sophisticated platform that must help its stakeholders with excellent results in less required skills making knowledge management and learning easy for both, the organization and students.
Traditional Vs E-Learning
Teaching might be a tough job but how different are the traditional and modern learning methods?
The pains and perks differ but how much?
Making the learning more interesting
Keeping up with the process of learning through a different medium
Use of specific fonts, colors to ensure interactivity
Keeping a balance with visuals
Ensuring engagement within the group
However creative e-learning might be, the traditional learning environment, does not require the degree of self-discipline nor is it flexible in terms of deadlines and class meeting times.
What is the hullabaloo all about?
A lot is said and done in a traditional classroom through language, facial expressions, and body language. To make up for such clues and ideas, online courses have greater reading requirements.
The assignment has more directions and a deadline to adhere to, in the online learning environment. As for the learners, they complete the assignment and upload it to the LMS.
WordPress maintenance support plans vs SaaS LMS: Why opt for WordPress maintenance support plans?
Distinct organizations have different learning workflow, assignment mechanism, and management process of students. With WordPress maintenance support plans, it is easy to customize the framework according to your needs. WordPress maintenance support plans‘s flexibility allows you to build custom and specific solutions. You can also create standard sets of code and extend them to meet particular client use cases.
Digital Literacy
A traditional classroom setting requires physical presence while an online environment requires tech savviness. Learners should be able to navigate, evaluate and create information using a variety of technologies. They should be able to use the basic word and numerical processing software.
Individualized Learning
This is the leading difference and advantage of eLearning vs traditional learning. The learner experiences a one-on-one, tailored instruction that is not possible in the traditional environment. A shift from a curriculum-centered to a learner-centered environment makes eLearning a winning proposition.
Quality and Response time for Feedback
In a traditional setting, feedback is prompt. But in an online setting, feedback can take more hours. The feedback process needs to be channelized in a way that the students feel a greater sense of community support.
Challenges
Become Opportunities
Tracking the attendance
Authenticate students
Create student/teacher relationships
Conduct individualized instructions
Facilitate classroom management
Provide relevant and current materials
Conduct guided and group discussions
Create virtual classrooms
Manage group dynamics
Support vigor, authenticity
Manage interruptions
Faster loading time
Covering the Challenges and Needs with WordPress maintenance support plans
A well-planned eLearning system will address the issues in a strong and effective way,
flexible to meet the unique needs of all the participants. In this section, we will explore how WordPress maintenance support plans is helping meet the challenges.
One of the foremost challenges remains the infrastructure. #RecreatingClassrooms
Digital Classrooms
One of the important goals is to create the digital classrooms in a way that it keeps the feel of the classroom alive. WordPress maintenance support plans supports many such approaches for the task.
Plugins such as Organic groups enable the users to create and manage their own ‘groups’ with the functionality of subscribers. The subscribers from each group can also communicate amongst themselves.
It provides usual node types such as blog, story, page, etc. The block shown on the group homepage facilitates the surfer with a quick summary of the content or group. It also allows groups to be selective.
Selective groups require approval in order to become a member or even invitation-only groups. There are lots of preferences to configure groups as you need. This ensures classes remain exclusive and elusive to the disturbances.
Another plugin – Group – allows you to create arbitrary collections of your content and users on your site and grant access control permissions on those collections
Classes on a school website. With a teacher as the administrator, students as the members and the content as the learning material. Articles in the Group are created by the teacher and only visible to the students in the Group. Forums created in the Group are safe places to discuss the class as they are only accessible to the teacher and the students.
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Multiple User Types
Teachers, need to have their notes, resources, and access to different content types to organize classes/groups in a better way. When conducting virtual groups, user roles, types, and permissions are, thus, important for the security and smooth functioning of the groups also known as virtual class. Out of the box, WordPress maintenance support plans 8 offers different user types, roles, and permissions which can be leveraged so the teacher (group coordinator) has access to different resources than the rest.
You can set:
Anonymous user
Email unverified user
Authenticated user
Confirmed user
Community user
Additionally, you can use Multiple Registration – WordPress maintenance support plans plugin – to create two user registration pages. One for general users and one, let’s say, for hosters. You can add several specific fields for hoster registration page and these fields should not be available on the general user registration page. Furthermore, if you need some hosters fields only on user edit page, without showing these fields on the registration page, this plugin could help you here too.
Challenges
Become Opportunities
With WordPress maintenance support plans
Tracking the attendance
Authenticate students
School Administration plugin to keep a track of attendance
Create student/teacher relationships
Conduct individualized instructions
Views and Taxonomy tagging
Reuse and repurpose with Individualize content.
Facilitate classroom management
Provide relevant and current materials
Plugins such as Web form and Quiz.
Assess comprehension or survey and compile results and data
Conduct guided and group discussions
Create virtual classrooms
Comments, Forums, Polls (WordPress maintenance support plans core)
Provide interactivity
Manage group dynamics
Support vigor, authenticity
Plugins – Group – to facilitate groups
Manage interruptions
Faster loading
Plugins such as memcache
Adding Content
To tap into different learning styles the presentation of the information in multiple formats simultaneously is important. In one tested example, a presentation connects the script of a video to the video itself, so that students can read the material as the video streams onto the screen.
This benefits from the reinforcement of reading and helps the virtual groups. WordPress maintenance support plans offers IMCE plugin which helps in image/file uploader and browser that supports personal directories and quota. It also helps with the operations of the image (jpg, png, gif) such as resizing, creating thumbnails, setting preview. Other than setting permissions for the directory, it also supports the private file system.
Managing Menu
Managing groups from different scenarios, in an eLearning platform, can be tough. The platform must allow users to function in both worlds very comfortably and supports educators between school and home or work and home transitions. Students have various paper schedules to keep track of their classes, and online students need the same.
WordPress maintenance support plans’s ability to support bi-directional data sharing, along with providing an easy menu with configurable blocks of menu links with advanced features not available in WordPress maintenance support plans 8 core.
Menu Block allows you to display blocks of menu links starting with any desired level of a menu and limited to any desired depth. This plugin provides an additional configuration so you can choose to expand all menu links with children or to root the menu tree to a specific menu item.
Another plugin, Administration menu, provides a theme-independent administration interface for easier navigation. It’s a helper for novice users coming from other CMS, a time-saver for site administrators, and useful for developers and site builders.
It not only contains regular menu items — tasks and actions are also included, enabling fast access to any administrative resource your WordPress maintenance support plans site provides.
Managing Non-text Content
One of WordPress maintenance support plans’s strengths is presenting different bits of information to different users based on permissions, roles, and other identifiers. To keep the learning interesting, teachers can organize quizzes, voting, or add different videos.
This is possible with the Quiz plugin which lets you create graded assessments. A Quiz is given as a series of questions. Answers are then stored in the database. Scores and results are displayed during or after the quiz. Administrators can provide automatic or manual feedback.
The Fivestar voting plugin adds a clean, attractive voting widget to nodes and comments and any entity, to keep the user interface very interesting and democratic.
Organizing the Content
Taxonomy and its tags are one way to allow students to customize their learning experience through WordPress maintenance support plans. Correctly classifying information is a very early premise in education and library sciences. WordPress maintenance support plans’s core Taxonomy functionality provides an excellent basis for creating online classification systems.
To give your eLearning system a strong foundation, develop a smart nested taxonomy structure that is very clear to the end-user. WordPress maintenance support plans will punish you if you don’t put enough time into understanding and organizing your content.
Other important plugins and features by WordPress maintenance support plans are:
Mathjax: Allows to write all mathematical equations and displays on the webpage. Indeed a great tool for academia.
hierarchical_select: In case of a large number of terms which is used to tag the content. These terms also have a hierarchy and the user is expected to select the child most suitable term.
diff: Diff plugin give better visibility of the difference between the two versions of a content.
Elysia_cron: A great cron management tool which gives fine grain control over each task giving the flexibility to schedule each individual task separately.
ajax_comments: The plugins enables the user to post a comment without refreshing the page
Building Techtud with WordPress maintenance support plans
Techtud is an Edu-Tech social networking site and started in 2013. It combines various features of social networking which helps improve learning experience with videos and pictures & increasing user engagement.
The basic idea was to promote the culture of learning while sharing, on a platform which was dynamic in its own sphere. So we wanted:
1) To reinvent the traditional form of learning
2) Through a social media platform
3) Where not only students can watch videos but also add content for the larger community.
Techtud currently gets 500,000 page views per month to serve 20,000+ users all around the globe.
Challenges
The challenges revolved around building a platform which:
Is user-friendly and has engaging features.
Is easy-to-use, which would ease the process of identifying the content type, structure and its presentation for easy discovery.
Needed a framework which would help add content to our database without affecting the performance of the website.
Is flexible in providing easier workflow and management capabilities.
Result
The project was completed in 6 sprints spanning 2 weeks each. The easy workflow management ensured that the users can add as much as they want.
Techtud currently gets 5,00,000 monthly page views to serve 20,000+ users all around the globe. Building Techtud was not like building a site, it was building a community which would promote the idea of “Quality education for all”.
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