Create your online course in 25 Steps with LifterLMS FREE in WordPress | e-learning evolved

hi everyone jb here at websites for beginners and today we are looking at something that i've been planning to do for months and that is to show you how to create an online course where the learning management system and we will be using lifter lms for that and i have a few reasons for that i don't want to spend too much time talking at the beginning i want to get to the real work but just a few things this course are for people that probably already have a wordpress site you can also learn how to build one here following tutorials on the channel second you know nothing about lms or learning management systems and you want to learn how to do that that means we take things a little bit slower than many other tutorials that you will find on youtube the ones that say go you go there go here go there if you know the beginners tutorials here on websites for beginners well they take it a little bit more in depth and slower so that you can get behind it thirdly there are many levels to an lms a learning management system you can build huge sites only focusing on that what we're going to do is we're going to bring in just one course on your existing site and that brings us to number four which is this is free we're going to use lifterlms because it has a free version and everything that we're going to do in this video is only going to use that more tutorials will follow to show you all the premium add-ons that you can bring from lifterlms to really enhance your online course but for this course we are sticking to lifter lms the free course it's a great free plugin onto your wordpress that allows you to bring in a course to your site so a quick word as to why would you want to bring a course onto your site well you could be a trainer you could be a teacher you could be a coach and if you're many of those you would have known that in the last two three months of total chaos in our lives suddenly you cannot reach people anymore physical distancing social distancing and it's a very unknown factor whether this will change and when it will change going digital going online is the way to go actually it's been like that for many years it's just now that things have accelerated this is the new new or the new normal and for that it is highly advisable that if you do coaching training tutorials and you've been doing that on one to one sessions and your mindset is no i have to see this person in person otherwise it won't work you are going to lose out on the market you will need to find a way to become digital this is here to help you guys that don't really have to know how how to do this you have financial constraints you want to try and do it by yourself i'm going to show you how to do that and all of this we're going to do in 25 steps yep 25 steps i've come up with the number originally it was 19 and then it was 28 and then i started making some tweaks and i got it to 25 so we can have this nice number 25. let's get cracking step number one is you have to get your site ready you can either build it from scratch or you already have it and it has to be wordpress lifter lms runs in wordpress so i've got grace black here which is a starter site that i'm using from astra theme and i've imported the site i've tested it a little bit and i've played around with it and i've built this demo on this so we're going to be using her site this is perfect because she calls herself a life coach if you didn't know about life grace black is probably also at a juncture at this moment where she doesn't know where to go to we're all in limbo and i liked it because i saw the coaching up here and i thought definitely you can see here she's got coaching and that she has these sessions and book sessions and for her it's definitely going to be a challenge to go to someone's house at this moment even when restrictions are lifted in areas that were under lockdown and had all kinds of regulations people are going to be hesitant to allow you into their homes this is a way to establish rapport get that confidence going again you know build up a relationship and make sure that people can reach you so we are going to bring in a course she is going to present a course online for free she wants to give something back to people make them feel better during this time this is the site just to show you on the back and what we've got here i'll first go to appearance and you can see that i've loaded astra but you will also notice that i've installed the pro version of astra there's a link for that in the description below it gives you a lot of more flexibility it gives you widgets and it gives you other things we're using here with the page builders and it gives me premium starter templates and this is when i go over here to appearance starter templates where i had found this great site with grace black where is it over here and this is part of the agency bundle which is a premium site but you can check out there's so so many to choose from here and they're all great ready to jump start your business if you don't know where to start this is step number one get everything ready step number two you need to choose the right theme now wait a minute you know usually when we do tutorials with wordpress we say you can use any theme but lifter elements has a few snags that you have to be aware of because it utilizes certain areas on your site and if your theme isn't compatible it may mix up things a little bit there are a few things that you can do you can use their own theme lifter lms actually has their own theme or you can use one of the tested themes or you just email your theme provider the person who developed your theme and you tell them hey can you add this into your theme and it will become compatible because astra is one of those themes i have decided to use astra for this tutorial you can also have a look here it is by the boss course maker pro dv emerson neve ocean wp ventura so if you are starting from scratch i recommend that you go with one of these guys they are tested and they will work well with lifter lms but if you already have a site and you didn't use it test lifter lms and like i said if there is any warning that pops up just email your theme developer they should be able to fix that view very easily there's actually a script you can add but you know i'm no scripter i'm no coder i know nothing so i just go with something that works right out of the box so step number two make sure you get the right theme astra you can download from the wordpress repository if you want to go pro follow the link in the description below and you will get all those extra goodies like these extra templates that i've talked about so step number two make sure that you've got the right theme installed let's jump over now to number three and that is where we have to install lifterlms we're going to activate it and set up the wizard go to plugins add new and this takes us into the wordpress repository where we will find lifterlms search for lifterlms1 word and then you will see over here i'm going to click on install now it's going to take some time for me because my connection is a little bit slow so while it's doing that i quickly want to talk about lms which stands for learning management system or learn management system you know in the world we always run into lingo and jargon these words that every area uses which no one else knows what they mean lms learn management systems is a word that we use for online training platform it's a system that puts all your learning together and it manages it so whenever you see a course online or a course site that is a lms that's a big word for something very simple to understand and that's what lifterlmiss is it allows you to bring courses and show it on your site now that took actually very long usually if i'm just doing it online it's a few seconds so don't be fooled by how long that took and all the jibbery jabbery i was talking during that time after installation let's click on activate and then it's going to bring in the wizard i've made a mistake a few times of not going through the wizard and i would tell you don't say skip setup go through the setup because what lifter lms is going to do is it's going to create very important pages for you your archive pages and your course pages that you will use later on and if you skip it you will need to go and do that manually and i just told you earlier i don't like to do those things i like things out of the box i'm no coder i don't like to play around with extra settings so use the wizard we click here on get started now and this here are the pages that i've been talking about course catalog don't worry about this we're just going to say save and continue we want those yes over here payments now remember in this tutorial we're not taking payments that's for a next tutorial so you can choose whatever you want i'm going to put it on south african rant let me see just to be different though it's going to be a free course it's not going to be a paid course but i just want to be different which currency let's get around there south african where is it now let me see rent i'm just going to type rent there we go got it and i'm going to click here on enable offline payments the reason i'm doing this is because there is a very annoying feature in lifter lms if you don't select this lifter lms is continuously going to look for a payment gateway and you see the word here payment gateway now payment gateway is a method how people will pay for your course if i come to your site you have a course and i sign up i need to pay you how am i going to pay you am i going to pay you by credit card am i going to pay you by paypal that is your payment gateway but we are setting up a course that will be available for free to my customers so i don't need that payment gateway i don't even need offline payments but if i don't enable this lifterlms is continuously going to give me warnings saying telling me that you haven't set up a payment gateway so when i know that i'm going to use something for free i just enable the offline payment so i don't get that warning message all the time save and continue on this and then we're basically at the end it's going to ask you hey do you want a coupon do you want a discount who doesn't like a discount so you can say allow and it will send you that information i already have it so i'm going to say no thanks and remember if you want to know more about the premium versions of lifter lms look for the link in the description below that is an affiliate link which means if you make a purchase through that link i will get a little something you won't pay anything extra really supportive to this channel thank you very much and then i'm going to say no thanks don't need that and then it's going to ask you install a sample course or start from scratch here i'm going to drop my two cents when you are new to anything that you install your first reaction is to go for a sample course i've found that actually this slows down my entire process because even when you install a sample course you still need to learn how to use it but now the settings have been set up based on someone else's experience and that often leads to more trouble even with starter sites it's a good idea to get an overview of what's coming up if you just want to have a look at it but when you are setting up your own lms your own online course just start from scratch and that's the purpose of this video to show you how to do that and you don't have to worry so we're going to click here on start from scratch and that is our installation our activation and then our wizard set up step three step four we're going to add our own course but you would have seen after you had completed the wizard installation that you got this page here if you've worked in wordpress this looks very familiar this looks like a page it looks like a post but what i want you to do is not do anything here uh we want to go back we want to see what happened in the back end so i'm going to go up here click on view posts let's see what we've got here now just click here on dashboard to give us an overview we have installed lifterlms and with it came four other labels courses memberships engagements and orders and we are going to use 99 for this tutorial only this one over here courses we are developing designing or creating a course that we want to publish on our site and that's going to happen all over here there are a few settings under lifter lms but mostly we're going to be here if we work with memberships usually paid memberships that will happen here but we're not going to do that in this course engagements and orders no we're not going to touch that but don't worry all of these i will cover in future tutorials let's then go to courses and click on courses and this is going to again show you a very familiar display in wordpress it looks like a page index or all pages or posts or whatever and you will immediately know that you don't have any courses because we haven't created any yet it says no courses found so let's click here on add course now we go back to that page we had just seen a few moments ago this is going to be our course landing page let's call it that our course landing page and the first thing is we have to give our course a title what is the name of our course now for who is this against sarah black right sarah life coach she wants to give people a course how to survive these strenuous times so she's calling this one surviving the beast and then what we do is we publish it and now it's published let's go have a preview click here on preview let me just close this one we don't need this and there we go now what is very important let's look at a few things here so you can get your head around it this is how it looks in my back end this is how it looks on the front and color changes font changes what's going on what's going on is that i've already set up my site remember for grace black i've made all those styling changes i've changed the fonts i've changed the colors all of that and i did that in my theme which is astra what lifter lms does is when it displays on the front it it gets all that information as to how the topography looks how the color and styling looks and it applies it to the courses and that's why everything can look so consistent so even though if it looks blue in the back with a different font on the front end it's going to be harmonious with the rest of your site by default you can see there's some stuff in here i want to start from scratch here all of this had been built out within the wordpress gutenberg editor so if you don't know how to work with the wordpress gutenberg editor you can just check your own websites for beginners we've got plenty of tutorials on how to work with that but even just following with this video you're going to learn very quickly how to work with the gutenberg editor to build out structure with your course and your lessons you will need to understand a little bit of the gutenberg editor what you see here are lifter lms blocks and they have been broadened by default because you're going to need them but what i want to do is i'm going to delete them all so that we have a clean clean page so that you can understand how to do this yourself click on anything and you will see the block highlighted go to the three dots click on remove block next one click on it you see this block is bigger and if you want to know what this block is about when it is selected you will see in the options sidebar on the right here at the top that is the name of this block so this is instructors let's go here and remove it next one click on it no access plans lifterlms pricing table take it out and we do the same for these guys we will get back to all of them it's not the end of the world wow that expression is a little strange lately right i'm going to remove all of them and finally we get to this area which is your default gutenberg editor standard display let's update click on preview go to the front and see what we've got now so we have our course title here at the top and then we have a comments section down here great so now we've set up our course we've created our course let's go and build it up step five we are going to give structure to our course we're going to build the course now think back to school think back to university or think back to any online course that you have attended there are usually some chapters or main lessons and then you have sub lessons it's it's like a book with the index you have your main index and then you have sub indexes below that let's go to here go to the back end and we are going to create the structure now that's all we're going to do so we're going to look at chapter 1 chapter 2 and then add lessons to those to do that you simply go here to document select document you can see all these options you have and you will see this blue button most of the time unless you collapse it like so it will appear launch course builder this is where we are going to build out the course click on it and it will take us into the course builder so the course is surviving the beast and what we are going to do now we're only going to give it structure so the first structure you give it is your chapter it's just like you're grouping your categories here on the right you see it says add elements and the first one is a section a section for me is a chapter i just like to use the word chapter it makes it very easy for me to understand what's going on but a section itself is just the framework there's no content within a section so if i click on the section click on it you will see it adds section one and it calls it new section i'm going to click again here on section give me section two again three and four i'll be working with four sections now i'm going to change the name of these sections and that's very simple click on it to select it and then i'm going to just triple click to select all the text and then let's give it i'm going to call chapter one and i'll type in chapter one so we know where we are call this one introduction go to the second one chapter two and this one will be the unprecedented unprecedented times then we go to this one chapter three weathering the storm and then section four which will be my chapter four and we'll call this umbrellas for the future you can stand under mine good what you'll notice and it happens so quickly you'll probably won't notice it as you make changes here here in the bottom right hand corner where it says saved it will update so even if i click on it nothing is going to happen because it already did that if this is dark blue not grayed out then you know you have to click on it but it automatically saves and it does so very very quickly so now we have our four sections we don't have any content yet we don't have any lessons yet and you need a lesson for content these are just containers sections are just containers i'll click on this one let's go to section one click on it you see it's blue and now i begin to add lessons so for this one you go to the right here and you click on new lesson and you see lesson number one is added under that one i'll bring in two lessons under chapter one listen one and lesson two then i'll go to chapter two and on the chapter two i'm also going to bring in two lessons and then chapter three click on that um another two okay one more let me see yep and then chapter four new lesson in total i'm going to have two four six seven lessons let's change the names again so this one i'll call lesson one and this will be my introduction to my course lesson two is going to be about material so let's call it course material i will give them something they can download and read and then here is the meat so this i'm going to call lesson three because i'm trying to keep chronological order of these lessons even though it says lesson one this means lesson one of section two but in my structure this is lesson three and we call this how did we get here talking about our current situation look at this one lesson four why this is the ultimate test then we go here and this will be lesson five it's all about mindset it's on six we're almost done listen six adaptability is the key to survival oh getting deep right and then here lesson seven will be our last one less than seven umbrellas or the future and this will be very important because you remember sarah is probably losing a lot of business at this moment she's a life coach and nobody's interested in life at this moment so for her she needs to give this for free get people engaged and then here for the last lesson or even in between with these other lessons she will be marketing her services and this is a great way to advertise yourself again you will notice that here in the bottom right hand corner there's nothing i can click there on save but nothing has happened it saves as quickly as i go through this so we have developed the structure can we see how this looks so if you go up here to surviving the beast and you go here next to it you will see view course so let's click on this and see what's going to happen and we see again our title we see nothing else right and the reason is we need to build out this page all that content that we had removed earlier that content those blocks are necessary for us to display our structure here on our course page step six let's build out our course landing page i'll use some words that are my own preference landing page is that page where people will come to for your course they will land on that page that is their main entrance to your course let's go back to the wordpress backend to access it from here again then we go to courses click on courses and you will see surviving the beast has now been created click on surviving the beast and here we are now we bring in those blocks that we had removed earlier when you install lifter lms it gives you these lifter lms wordpress gutenberg blocks you can access them two areas over here click on the plus or up here click on this one add block if you collapse this panel here scroll down you will see at the bottom lifter lms blocks let's open that and see what we've got here we've got six blocks in total that we can help to build out our course page what we'll do is we'll bring them all in one by one and see how this will display on the front end so the first one i will start with probably is course information when somebody comes to my site they'll definitely want some information about my site let's drop that one in there you'll see course information there was something happening there and it was gone we'll bring it back let's go to the next one so click here on add go again to lifterlms at the bottom and next i think i'm going to bring an instructor who's presenting this course a little bit about the instructor which in this case will be sarah black your case may be you or your client let's click on this and it's going to bring in the course instructor click on add block most used lifter lms and i'll choose course progress to give you an idea of how far you have progressed in your course by default as you bring it in it just sits here at 50 it's just a placeholder so the idea is as this bar or as you continue with the course or your client does this bar will grow indicating how the course has progressed let's add another one we go to lifter lms blocks and now i want to bring in the syllabus now the syllabus is that thing we just created all of our sections and our lessons to give people an idea what they can expect when they join this course so click on course syllabus and this is going to draw all of that information that we had created you see here chapter one two three and four introduction unprecedented times weathering the storm and then here are lessons under them that is the course syllabus let's bring in another block i think there's two more what do we have here pricing course progress syllabus instructor continue so let's say here's our continue button if you have already started it you come back later you want to continue this will be your button and then the last one is lifter elements pricing table it's basically how much is this course going to cost and it says no access plans found let's leave these six just as they are no changes made to them at this moment update the page go preview it see how it looks so the first thing to note though is the color changes because we get that from the theme the second thing to note is the font all of this coming from the theme and as you make changes in your theme the styling etc it will also make changes here so we have course information with no information we have the course instructor unknown person our syllabus this one is perfect this one is fine we cannot make any changes here this is all done when you are designing your course then what where are those guys at the top and actually our course what is this one called our course progress is also not there because this course hasn't started and no one has signed up for it these won't appear because you didn't set an access plan this won't appear so you only have those things that have been set what we'll do in the next few minutes is we're going to build all of this out so that this course page can look good that when people come to your site and they come to this course that they will be able to understand immediately what this course is about and whether they want to sign up or not i'll leave this front end open so that every time we preview it we can just come and check what's going on here step 7 let's add a featured image so go over here and featured image is always added under your document tab over here you will see there's a lot of options going on here in the sidebar we look here for featured image now the featured image is very important because i can bet you two dollars bob that you are probably going to share this on facebook and when you share it on facebook you will need to have a featured image so that's a pretty important decision that you have to make and that's why i include it as a very crucial step because i always forget it i'm that person that designed my site and then when i want to share something on facebook i realize it doesn't have a featured image and then i need to go back and add the image and it just it's a huge track so i'm going to add it here already very early in the course step 7 add a featured image let's do that click on it it will open your media library and i'm just going to use the images directly from my explorer you will use your finder on a mac so i'm not going to upload anything per se i'm just going to drag and drop them now i've got the featured image over here and the reason it looks like this is i want to quickly talk about a few things here decisions you can make so let's click on it let me just bring it back and talk about what i've got going on over here first this image is in a ratio of 1200 pixels width at 600 and 630 pixels height this is the ideal resolution for posting something on facebook your featured image doesn't have to be these dimensions but what is important that whatever you want to appear in facebook should be within a frame like this so if you have one that's a little bit higher make sure that your text does not break outside of that resolution or that ratio the second thing is i put a square here in the middle this is another thing on some platforms they will present it as a square so i call it your safe area you need to put your text if you have anything or a logo or your main content kind of try and put it within a square in the center to make sure that it will always display these are just a few guidelines they are not strict rules but they work for me and by following them i hardly have any headaches when sharing on social media i'm going to close this so for my featured image this is my go-to method at this moment i'm going to click and drag it drop it it's going to upload and make sure that you have something here for your alternative text i'll just copy this one copy and then ctrl v paste that set featured image and there it is set now under featured image update preview and there our featured image of our course will display at the top of our course naturally you don't want it like this you're going to make it look much better right promise me that but this is just for our purposes here during this tutorial step 8 let's go and build out the course information and we're going to spend some time here on the course information go to the back end and to interact with anything on a page you simply click on it as you click on it you see it is selected and on the right if it doesn't select block you just click here on block and everything that you can do for this block will appear here in the sidebar on the right under block sometimes by mistake you'll have documents selected and you'll be confused where are the settings just remember select block then you're good no problem over there let's start with estimated completion time this is a good idea to give people an idea how long this course is you know i've seen of course lately on facebook where somebody was charging 99 and when i checked the course length it was like 24 minutes must be super content that's just not realistic with what you get nowadays maybe 10 or 20 years ago it was but you have to be realistic for people's expectations when they go online for example on linkedin learning i'm paying what 29 or dollars a month you get unlimited courses huge selection so you have to kind of understand what you are competing with that's why your estimated completion time should be important this course is for free so hey free is free here you type in anything you can use text you can use letters it doesn't matter this is just a string so i'll say this course is about two hours and 45 minutes that's my estimate and as i type it there did you see what happened here it filled it in over here so it's kind of dynamic so that's how you bring in your completion time let's update that go and preview it so you can see how it updates here on the front end course information estimate the time 2 hours and 45 minutes jump back let's see what's going on under here for the course information display estimated time yes we can deactivate it if we want to but we want to display that display difficulty yes so she's a life coach and she believes that you have to go through certain stages of maturity so she has different courses so yeah she has some difficulty level these let's call it that way now where am i going to find these difficulties because it says yes i see nothing this you go back to document and then here you will see difficulties and you can add the difficulties here but what i'll do is i'll rather go into the back end and show you where those difficulties are so you have a little bit more control over them let's just update this page before we leave and then go to the w up here for your wordpress dashboard and then here where we see courses you will see difficulties appear over here as well click on that and by default lifter lms has installed three difficulties for you well beginner intermediate and advanced let's just do it a little bit differently and let's get rid of these difficulties so i'll select them all then i'll go to bulk actions delete and apply and we create our own difficulties the first one she calls is a novice novice and then slug i'll do the same and i'll click on add new course difficulty so novice is like a beginner the next one she will call an apprentice which is similar to novice but we'll say apprentice at least princess at least is trying hard you see multitasking doesn't work for me i try to speak and type at the same time just doesn't work add new course difficulties so there we've got that and then last one will be master shifu so slack will be master and then add new course difficulty now we've added our own difficulties go to courses surviving the beast here is our course let's go to difficulties click here and then we're going to call this novice so when i start typing in o you will see it gives me this option to select this one so let's click on novice and has anything changed nothing has changed let's click on update still nothing has changed let's go view it on the front end and you will see under course information we have estimated time plus difficulty novice here let's go to the back i'm just going to refresh this page because i know sometimes yep with the refresh it helps there it brings in difficulty novice so remember that refresh it will help you and if it says order save just click that thing away that is difficulties so let's click again on course information we did the time we did the difficulty now we are at display tracks we are not going to use tracks or the concept of tracks in this tutorial now what is a track a track for example is when you decide that you want to become a fireman and then when you want to sign up for a fireman's course they're going to tell you okay there are 10 courses and you have to follow them in this order it's a track that you have to follow from a to z to get there this idea here is if you have plenty and many courses on your site and you have developed these tracks for people then you will include this one we are not going to do that so we deactivate it no need for that display categories now categories i would say is very very very important when you have multiple courses and because we have a vision that sarah black is going to develop many courses in our future we're going to use categories go up again here to document and you will know categories appear here on the sidebar and you can add new course category over here again i'll go to the backend and do it over there so let's just update before we exit go to wordpress and under courses select categories these are empty so we'll add our own and the first category i will call work skills and under slug i will just type work add new course let's call the next one family life family this one we call it social social connections and just social she really thought about her business right and then for this one last one will be work life life life encounters i'm getting very creative here life so these are the kind of topics that she has in her life coaching sometimes it's about social skills sometimes it's about work relations etc so she's got these four categories now we've created our four categories so we go back to our courses surviving the beast and now here in the sidebar if you click on categories you will see they appear over here um so this let's say this is not about family life but it's about life encounters and work skills these are the focus points of this course that she's providing for these categories so let's update it and again it's not updating here and if that happens you just refresh your page and it should show you the categories now that you see that and on the front end let's just preview and update this one as well you can see this is clickable because if you make more courses in the future these will be your archive pages where you can click and everything related to work skills will appear on that archive page we're almost done with the course information click again on course information to activate the settings on the right so we've done categories and the last one is tags tags very similar to categories it's just more opportunities for you to sort it and i'm not going to use tags now i'm lazy so i'm going to deactivate that i can leave it just empty but i'm going to deactivate it but if you do want to add it you go through the same process you can do it in the back like we did with categories or you can just go up here to document and look for tags over here and then you will fill it in where's tags here and you'll fill it in over there same thing step nine is the course instructor so let's see remember how to activate it click on it and here we have the course instructor let's just click here on block on the side and there's almost nothing to do there so how are you going to make this look a little bit more spiffy with an image and your name that you're going to do in wordpress so let's exit here again we go to wordpress let me say first update and then click on wordpress and for this you go to the user profile if only you are working with this site you are the user if you have many other people and many other contributors you will have more users we're assuming to keep it simple this is your site and therefore you will be the only user in this site to find yourself you go over here to users and you click on your profile and you will see under your profile that you have a profile picture you can change your profile picture on gravatar what the hey is gravatar if you know what gravatar is go there if you don't we're going to do something different and then you have to change also your information over here let's do this one first so your first name her name is grace and then black and her nickname is grace i'm gonna just say grace black i can say gracie let's say gracie to be different gracie and then display name publicly and this is where you choose how it's going to display on the front end but i'm going to choose crease black that's what i want so now we've done the name let's save this update profile and let's see when we go to the front this tab is still open and i refresh it you will see here it says grace black now and the author she is the author so let's change the image now like i said if you know what is gravatar and you have an account at gravitar go ahead knock yourself out if you don't want to go that route this much easier way to do it go to plugins and we're going to add a new plugin for this and just click on add plugin and you type for this one user profile picture user profile picture and you'll get this one there are a few plugins that can do it um you know you get used to a certain plugin and you just keep going there so i i've had very good results with this one user profile picture that's why i recommend it install now click activate let's go to the sidebar users your profile and now you will see profile image just says click to edit it doesn't say go to gravatar anymore this plugin now overrides that setting so i'll click here and then i'll just bring in an image for grace grace black a one to one ratio which means the length and the height and the width well top right bottom and left they are all the same size one to one set profile image this grace crazy let's update the profile let's go here let's refresh wonderful let's go see how it looks in our builder so we go to courses courses surviving the beast and you will see it will update here as well again just for reference if you click on it you will see there are almost no options on the right so these are sit blocks given to you by lifter elements that help you to build out that page and that is our course instructor part step 10 let's look at the syllabus so if i click here on any area here you will see it selects the syllabus and over here again nothing even if i click up and down nothing right so these are settings that are preset if you view it on the front end you will see this is how it looks the one thing i want to change here and that is that i think between my course instructor and my syllabus there is just not enough space and maybe i even want to say syllabus how can i do that and remember we are here in an editor and there are actually blocks from wordpress that you can use to build out a little bit more so what i'll do is i'll go up here between these two and i'll look for that little plus i'll click on add block and i'm going to look for a spacer so i'll just type in spacer and the spacer when you click on it will come in and it will give you space so you can apply a little bit more white space between these sections it's highlighted if it isn't click on it and you'll see on the right side it says that this distance is 100 pixels i'm just going to half that and type in 50 to give us a little bit more space let's update that see how it displays on the front you can see there's a little bit more space and actually i think we can do the same maybe here ah no i think let's leave it like that but let's put here a title like course syllabus how can we do that we bring in a blog here and we bring in a block for heading so let's look for a heading type heading here you see heading and click on it and it brings in a text area so let's type in here syllabus it's syllabus and you will see here it's set to h2 h2 and it is aligned to the left you can also line it center right i think we want to keep it to the left because these guys are on the left update that let's see how that looks that looks good something something to brag about let's go back and just remember these guys over here this progress and these guys down here they are not currently displaying because we haven't started the course yet once we do that they will be back in the picture step 11 let's talk about the access plan access plan it's another word you'll have to understand what it means how can people who come to your site get access to this course do they have to enroll is it for free or do they have to pay something that is the access plan you will have to go and set it up you will see currently here where it says no access plans found when i click on it it also does not display on the front end there is nothing here we need to set that up and this is where you have to take your mouse and continue scrolling down down down and you'll get to this area which is all connected to lifter lms and here we are going to create that access plan for people to sign up but they don't have to pay anything it is for free there are many things that you can do with the access plan you can put a price on it and you can give out coupons so that people can sign up still pay nothing but at least you get them to feel that there is value in this case though we're going to give it away for free from the beginning but you have to create an access plan otherwise it will look like this on the front end and people won't be able to join let's go back and we are going to click here on add new you have to learn how to not see things this is how i think in the book hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy they talk about not being able to see things and this is one of those cases where many of these plugins have so many features try and focus on those things i show you and forget the rest future tutorials will cover mostly all of them but for today just focus on this one here access plan we're going to bring in an access plan click on add new we give the plan a title so that we can identify it so i'm just going to give it the same name surviving surviving the beast and i i will call it free because i want to give it away for free then i'll go to enroll text and this is going to be the text on your button so enroll today let's say enroll today and then is free no payment required i select this before i click on this you see there's a lot of stuff over here for pricing etc once i select this they will go away boom they're gone and that's the only three things we're going to do give it a title enrollment text and say no payment required then scroll down and click here on save and it jumps back up and you see that area where no access plan was before now it gives me this it says surviving the beast free it's free enroll today how does this look on the front end let's update and preview scroll to the bottom and nicely it draws all the styling from our theme good we're going to make some changes to this in the future to give it a little bit of sparkle and more emphasis but for now this our step 11 creating access plan we're done with this one now people can just click here on on enroll today they will be able to sign up and they can begin enjoying your course of course there's still no content in there so you still need to set that up step 12 and that is about reviews but we have here at the bottom something called a comment so if we want people to leave a comment that's great they leave a comment but what about the review review is actually a little bit more engaging now this comment area comes by default with wordpress so the first thing we're going to do is turn it off go to the back end click on document and then here i'm just going to close these and look for discussion this is where you find your comments under discussion allow comments let's switch it off deselect it update so you can see how it will look on the front and now when i scroll to the bottom there's no comment section anymore to bring in the review section that is done with lifter lms so the settings for lifterlms remember scroll keep scrolling keep scrolling and there you go and you will see here this is where we were with the access plan for the sales page then we go here to reviews click on this and we're basically just going to enable a few things enable reviews yup display reviews so if people leave a review yup and then prevent multiple reviews that's to make sure that the same very supportive family member that you have do not come and leave you 20 reviews to try and impress other people to sign up for your course and we're going to say yes update that and remember what i told you don't look at anything else this is what we're focusing on and preview it and as i scroll now to the bottom you're going to see very similar to the comment section but now it's about reviews review title you review text and then leave a review i would say it's almost identical except that there's a title and a message area to the comments but this is the review part that comes directly from lifterlms it's something that you have control over in the back end as well let's get to step 13 and this is about the accessibility or rather the the way people are going to find your course when they come to your site where will they find this course and you think of course they'll find it no let's go to our site here and i'm going to click on home and once i click on home where is my course i didn't put it on any of my pages so there's no way to link to that course and it's not here in my menu and this is what i want to do at this step so that we can bring it into our menu so from here on if we need to access it very easy to find it so there are a few things that we can do we can put it on a page as a call to action which is a button or a section that they can go for or we can put it in the menu and that's what i want to do in fact there is an area called coaching and if i click here it's going to take us to oh grace i keep calling her sarah sorry grace it's going to take us to grace black's page yeah that's why we call it gracie and we can put it here somewhere like over here a call to action but what i'm going to do is i'm going to make it part of the menu i'll put it under coaching so i want to make it a sub menu let's go and do that so that has to happen within menus i'm going to leave it open go to our first tab and let's just make sure update to save our work go to wordpress click on the w and then in the sidebar look for appearance and click on menus this menu has already been set up earlier because i used that starter template from astra where am i going to find the course and this is where a lot of people go click look because they just cannot find it strange things about wordpress and it's one of those things that the if you do it often like i do with these tutorials you're just like ah i guess it's over there if you don't do it as often as i do you may search forever go up here where it says screen options click on that and then all the way from here you will see courses memberships custom links categories tags formats course categories difficulties tags etc all the way from this one to this one these are all possible links that you can add to your menu relating to lifter lms some of them are activated some aren't so if you want something and you cannot see it it's probably just deactivated i'm looking for the course so you look here for courses and as i click on this one you will see the label for courses appear here in this drop down so courses there it is courses i can close my screen again let's click here on the drop down for courses and surviving the beast there we go so we click on surviving the beast add it to the menu and then we put it under coaching we drag it to the right as a sub menu voila save the menu go to the front let's refresh this page and you will see coaching appears here and as i hover over it there we go i go to home do the same and i did that on purpose because i knew this is what was going to happen so this is all related to my theme this is my theme's header which in this case is astra so i'll have to go and make some changes to this before i do that i need to go and activate the color options let me just go to the back end and i'll go to appearance go to astra options and here where it says colors and background this is a pro module i'll just click on activate to make sure i can work with those colors on the background let's go to the front again we can access the customizer from here so i'll click here on customize then select header primary header and i'll scroll to the bottom where it says menu and sub menu click on these and then i'm going to change the link color what is the link color for this little wreath i'm going to grab my color picker go there until okay click on that one copy that code and then link text color here paste it good let's see if i hover over it there we see surviving the beast now that's fine i'm good with that even that background it's like a plaster on her band-aid on the front head i'm just going to leave them remember to publish this and then i'm going to close it it takes us again to the front end and now when a visitor comes to your site hello gracie how are you doing they go to coaching surviving the beast and if they click on this link it takes them to the course great now people can actually access it this is great stuff and this is how it will look for them let's actually go and see how it will look for them because currently you are viewing it as you if you want to see how it will look to a student you can go up here to the toolbar and say view as visitor or view as student let's go with view as visitors so this is somebody who's coming to your site they're just visiting your site click on that and has anything changed yep it has changed right so not much okay because they have to sign them and then let's go back to view as myself before we continue with all the functions going on and how you can set up more stuff here i want to bling up this site a little bit and just help you to think a little outside the box when it comes to when you are working with things like this especially in the gutenberg editor because page builders are so dominant at this moment we completely overlooked the wordpress gutenberg editor but when it comes to posts and things like lifterlms and many other platforms they still rely on this editor and i would highly recommend that you spend a little bit time on it check out the tutorials we have for add-ons for it and it will really help to extend your world in wordpress gutenberg editing so what i want to do is i want to take this page here my my course page i'm going to just spice it up a little bit with a few ideas with an add-on also one from astra called ultimate add-ons for gutenberg there are actually a number out there but i'm going to stick to this one because i don't want to overcrowd my plugins let's go to the back end and here we are still i'll go to plugins and i'll click on add new we're going to look for one called ultimate uh alter with add-ons for gutenberg and you have to type it like that because there are a number of ultimate add-ons for other page builders as well it looks like this ug and you see 200 000 active installations probably people that are using starter sites from astra click on install now important this is for free the ultimate add-on for gutenberg totally for free so what it does it gives you a little bit extra functionality more blocks that you can use when you're using the wordpress gutenberg editor and that helps you to build out much flashier pages than you would just normally do with gutenberg by itself activate and to access it you simply go into your courses click on courses surviving the beast and now if you want to bring in a blog so let's just click up here on add block collapse this you will see here at the bottom you will have ultimate add-on blocks and you even have your user profile cute okay ultimate add-ons block so here is what i'm going to do just a little bit playing around giving a little bit shine i'm going to create a hero section at the top so i want to have a hero image and then i have some text over that so the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to remove the featured image i'm going to say it shouldn't display on this page and that i'm going to do with my astra theme scroll down and click here on disable title update and to show you what that will do is here where it says surviving the beast it will remove that now next i'm going to remove the featured image go to the back end and then here click on disable featured image update let's see that on the front end a preview oh okay that wasn't preview and now it's all gone but we still need something at the top otherwise people will have no idea what this is about let me close this one and that's where i'm going to bring in my own little thing look for a plus anywhere i'll just i'll click here on add block and i'm going to look for a section which is one of my favorite rappers when it comes not rappers mcm wrappers when it comes to ultimate add-on blocks click on section and then i have a section here and inside this i'm going to put an advanced heading so click on add block and if you want to know more about what i'm doing now check out the tutorials here on website for beginners so i'm just going to go through this just to give you an idea of what you can do within this course page advanced heading we will call this what is this called again about the beast surviving the beast and then here write the description i'll say uh tough times don't last tough people do yeah right tough people do and now i will select the back where i can select the section and i'll bring in an image for that so over here background select image select background image and which one shown let's just choose one of these nice smile over there let's do that grace remember she's grace and then what i will do it says here layout content box full width i'll do that let's give some padding at the top and the bottom that will be under spacing at the top 20 let's put it at 150 and then at the bottom i'll put that on 150 as well let's change the overlay because it's a little bit not enough contrast so let's see overlay is the image color type color image overlay color okay good let's choose this one and then opacity like so all right all right and then we go here click on the advanced heading and we change the custom color to white and then here for the sub heading also the color make that white we've got a separator there which also needs to become let's change a different color yellow okay let's update that just to see how this little section that i just pulled out how that will look on the front oh it looks pretty good of course it has to go at the top that's very simple nigel we're just going to shift it up so go to the back end and here where you see let's click on the section you'll see the arrows move up and once it gets here it cannot move up it's at the top so what we've done effectively is we've disabled the title of this course we've disabled featured image and we've created our own hero banner at the top if i update this now it will move to the top and there we go very nice this is very professional you can pay me later but this is how it looks now and what else we can do there are so many things you can do like i said think outside the box for example here surviving the beast this area where people can sign up i think stretching all the way from left to right unnecessary so what i'll do is i'll put it inside a column go to the bottom here we are and here is a plus between these two and i'm going to look for advanced columns from ultimate add-ons blocks click on advanced columns it gives me two columns i'll select the wrapper here and then columns i'll just increase that to three then i'll click on this enrollment visibility block click here and drag it until i see that blue line there for the middle column and i drop it now i have constrained it i've made it like a little sign up box click on update preview it on the front and look at that that looks much much better right really really nifty and you can now begin to understand that there's a lot that you can do here you can let's let's do something crazy as well i'll go to syllabus and bring in advanced columns again i'll just type columns click on advanced columns and then i'll click on this heading for syllabus and i'll drag it in here click on syllabus and i'll drag that in there and then i'll go to my columns let me see how to do this click on this column let me just select it up here column and then for the width i'm going to put this at 30 percent and then for my second column content with oops at 70 don't worry everything will be all right let's update it and see did i make a mess or does it still look okay preview it hey hey doesn't look bad right and in fact i'm thinking this would also be cool let's grab this one that we've got down here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to drag it uh let me put it here don't worry don't worry and then i'm going to drag it here under syllabus oh i'm messing up big time and i didn't test it before the time it's just as i'm sitting here now i'm coming up with these ideas and that doesn't look so great because it does on the line so let me take that away but i mean here even or even there let's take it down one let's update that see it on the front that doesn't look bad but i'm going to take it back here to where it been before update and this we had done now with the ultimate add-ons for gutenberg and if you want to have a look at everything there you will see you have your info boxes posts that you can bring in no need for doing that you have teams social share price list in fact i think the social share is not a bad idea let's do that let's click here on social share and we added it over here and then from social share you can probably bring in a few more buttons let's change this to what is this one twitter so okay let's make another one and change this one to linkedin okay i wonder how this is going to look okay we should get on i'm wasting time here and just add a spacer sorry need to add a spacer there and drag this a little bit preview there we go and in no time you have made your page look different to each and every other course page from lifterlms that other people will be making so allow yourself a few minutes or a few hours to do a little something different for your course page by doing what i just did go install a plugin or use the blocks that come with the wordpress gutenberg editor and bring in extra stuff here you can have long descriptions of your course you can add text here to give more description about your course you can add indexes you can add lists of what people will learn just think of that what are the benefits what are the outcomes that you will all do with those add-ons let's start talking about content you remember we designed this course we have it here lesson one there's nothing in there let's begin adding stuff in there so i'll close this one out we go to the back let's just update this and as we are here on this page go to document and now we go back to our course builder that framework that we had created at the very beginning click here on launch course builder and it takes us back to this area where we had started back in 1922. let's expand you see here it says expand all click on that and it will give you all of the lessons we had created let's go to lesson one now i'm going to give you a few options here of what you can do with lessons and how you can build them out and again i want you to think really outside the box don't just get stuck to a video there is so much more than you can do than just the video let's talk first about general content something that you can do like text so you are going to do that within the wordpress gutenberg editor as you hover over here you'll see there's a little w and it says open wordpress lesson editor and as i click on that it's going to open and it's going to look again like the gutenberg editor one thing you'll note as we move forward here that at some point you're going to have many tabs here for some reason as i click on one thing it will open a new tab open a new tab just go back and close the old ones i'll leave this one open to prove my point later on but just be aware that this will happen so we can see it's lesson one we see it says mark complete let's just update this and click on preview to see how this listen currently looks on the front end so we have to listen here then it says back to surviving the beast it says mark complete that's when you have finished the lesson and then here you have next lesson lesson number two course material so these are your navigators that tells you where to go left or right let's talk about these two things here they are blocks so we go back to the editor and you will see if i click here on mark complete it's going to select it as a block it says up here listen progression mark complete and if i click on these two you will see this is listen navigation to get them you do the same you go up here to blocks and then go to lifterlms blocks and you will see these two appear here for the lesson the others don't appear here because they are not related to your listen you can remove them if you want to but i would highly recommend do not do that freddy leave them in there let's build out some content you want to thank people for signing up this is going to be all text so you can do that with the wordpress gutenberg editor and i'll do it very similar to what we had done earlier let's go to any plus i'm going to look for a heading i'll use the advanced heading and then here i'm going to call it welcome to a new beginning you've made the right choice and then i can style it i will put it to the left and then i'll move it to the top i'll click here on move up and move up then i'm going to bring in text so the first thing is i'll bring in a heading or a chapter let's call that i'll use a normal heading here so i'll click on heading i'll even put this on h3 h2 is fine and call it a new beginning and under this i'll bring in paragraph text so i'll look for paragraph over here and then i'll bring in text for that i'm going to use lorem ipsum random text and i'll use my lorem ipsum dot io text generator and then i'll say five paragraphs good enough let's generate some text here i'll grab this here and copy that let's go to the backend and i'll paste it ctrl v we've got two paragraphs great let's bring in another heading i'll just go to this one and duplicate it and then drag it here y o y y or y then i'll bring in more paragraph text let's grab more text here and the whole idea is that here people are going to read ctrl v and one thing you will notice let's update this and first preview it on the front how this lesson looks this looks like a textbook lesson very nice welcome to a new beginning right so two things here you need to think about spacing these two are too close to each other so what i can do go back and when i click on this one for the advanced heading i can look for spacing down here separate the bottom spacing no so spacing is not going to be an issue here so i'll bring in a spacer for this my good friend the spacer all right and then reduce this and i'll also put a spacer here to give some more space to this one as well and this way my page just looks much more structured like that great and if gracie wants to add another photo of herself let's do that let's bring in an image over here image and then from our media library let's choose gracie there right and then i'm going to say a line to the left like so i'll put it on medium here let's go down and there we do that see and that's it so we've built out our introduction lesson over here and people are just basically going to read through it and then yeah mark complete step 16 let's add a downloadable file this is something that you may want for people to download the course contents and that's why i bring this in because you're going to have maybe some cheat sheet or some guide that you want people to download also to promote yourself a little bit so let's add a pdf to our site what i'll do is go back to the back end because here i want to show you when you click on document in the sidebar you're going to see the course builder appear here and under it you will see a layout currently you are busy with this one lesson one introduction and by simply clicking on lesson two course materials it's going to switch to lesson two and now it brings you in listen to and you can build up lesson two i'll just click here and i'm going to say download and it's going to give me this block a common block called file click on that i'll just move it up first and then you can bring in any file that you want people to download i'll drag my explorer i have a pdf here i'll click and drag it and drop it there and you see there it says course materials which you can change download a free health brochure for this course that doesn't make any sense and that's it there's a download button not much you can style here on the right but this is for free and i'll just add a spacer here again and where is spacer look for it again spacer drag it down and let's um that's it so let's say update we preview this and this will open listen to now for us so let's navigate here at the bottom first back to lesson one this is lesson one they will read through it then they'll go to lesson two yes listen to download the free health brochure for this course let's click on download and it's going to download the pdf for us and then when they open it superhero oh cool good and now you've learned also how you can easily make your course materials downloadable and accessible for people within your course step 17 now we talk about video video you do not add within the page that is done within the course builder we've done lesson one we've built that out and listen to and let's close this and let's go to the back here we are this is our lesson two let's just update it let's go to document and then here where we had been navigating between the various lessons go ahead and click on launch course builder and it will take us back to this interface let's expand all so we can see what we've got and under lesson one and listen to you will see now here there is a highlighted area and it says has content so this indicates to us that these lessons have content for lesson three how did we get here now comes the meat this is going to be the video right video is the in thing we need to have video and you can bring in youtube you can bring in vimeo and this is where you want to add the video but whereas we had built out these two with the wordpress gutenberg editor you're not going to do that with video lifter lms has been specifically designed to work different with video to allow for some premium features like autoplay but that is a premium feature but this one we don't care about that to bring in the video you go here to the settings so not the top row to the second row and you click here on settings and it's going to open all the settings on the side and here you will see video embed url let's go find a random video on vimeo vimeo.com and i'll go to inspiration and watch something there watch and let's select any of these videos vienna is like pause this one click on share and then over here you will see the link copy that control c command c and then we go back here and where the video embed url is ctrl v and that's it and you can click here on saved if you think nothing happened but indeed it has happened so what's going on now where is that video you will see here now as the same for these two this little area is highlighted to show that there is content now the video button for this one is highlighted can we view this yes we can hover over the title and then you go to the preview here where it says view lesson and click on that this is going to open lesson three how did we get here and here's the video now the mark complete button is flushed straight to the video and i just don't like it i want some space there how on earth are we going to add the space this is the great thing you can add content and you can add video individually and they will work nicely together this is what i mean let's go back here let's go to lesson three how did we get here and we click on open wordpress listen editor up here we will see the mark complete button and i want to bring in space so i'll click on add block look for my spacer click on that move the spacer one up and i'll just reduce this i want it over here 34 let's put it on 35 update and here listen 3 is still open so i'm going to refresh this and you will see that space has been added that's all that you need to build out your lessons don't make it complicated don't worry about all those other features that you see here within the course builder i'm going to close these two get rid of them go back to the course builder i'll close this window here in your course builder step one like we did earlier is sections lessons then add content if it's only text or images you do it with the wordpress editor open wordpress lesson editor if you want to bring in video you do it over here there are other features over here but i guess you're going to use these guys most of the time in future tutorials we're going to come back here a lot we're going to talk about assignments and we're going to talk about quizzes all of that will happen here within your course builder this one we don't have that this is just grace giving away this course for free she doesn't want to test people she doesn't want to give them assignments it's purely a promotional tool now that we've done this what you will need to do is go through all of the courses that you are setting up and fill out the content all the way from lesson one to lesson seven i'm naturally not going to do that otherwise this video will run into hours and hours of just repeat but that is what you will have to do and when you are done with that you just click here at the bottom on exit and it takes you back to your course page step 18 now let's talk about the big stuff the things that will scare you which is enrollment how can people enroll for this course now here i want to tell you a very important thing you are giving away your course for free because what you want is for them to use your business in the future you hope that this promotion will encourage them to do business with you but more importantly you want their email addresses yes right by enrolling they will actually provide you their information which means that in the future you can send them promotions you can get in touch with them that is the whole idea of giving courses away for free i think if you go to how many websites you're going to see this a lot the mistake that many people make is that they just give it away for free without asking for an email in return and for newcomers to website making that may be your mindset as well mine was like that but trust me you're going to find down the line that you haven't had engagement with thousands of people and you cannot reach them you've lost those leads we call it lead it's when somebody gives you the information and you can contact them again so this is step 18. we want people to be able to sign up let's just have a look at how this is done and actually it's not much you have to do it's something someone else is going to do let's preview our site currently on the front end click here on home and this is how our site looks what i'm going to do is i'm going to open another browser just for us not to get confused so i'll copy here my domain then i'll open a new browser which is blisk and i'll copy that paste it just turn off my developer mode and here is my page my site exactly what we've been working with this whole time here's my coaching surviving the beast and there is everything here well let's see what happens and remember i'm not logged in on this site so what happens if i click here on listen1 it's easier you must enroll in this course to access course content how rude well and if i click on it it doesn't even allow me to click on it i need to enroll right this is what we want so let's see what happens when bobby mcgee enrolls is going to click on enroll today and this is going to be the purchase page now if you had set up a payment access plan there's going to be a price here many other things but in this case we made it free if you already have an account you can log in but we don't so we cannot log in so we're going to do this from scratch and i'm going to say bobby what what did i say movie mcvee mcv oh bobbymcv hotmail.com sorry bobby if that is your hotmail address you're going to get a confirmation email soon and then same hotmail.com and i'm going to set up a password and i have to remember this because i want to show you later how you're going to log in again i want to stop here for a while i haven't answered the question why are we working with lifter lms and not many of the other lms plugins available on the market i have done an incredible amount of research and when it came to the easiest all-in-one package on the market it was lifter lms i've spent hours weeks on working through different plugins and this is what i found works for me so if you ask me even to look at others there's maybe a few like tutor lms i will kind of give it the time but many of the older guys they are just too crazy they have so many things and their schemes when you go and try and sign up for them you will find you have to purchase more and more and more if you are happy with lms that you've been used using from before stick to that don't make the jump just don't do that but if you don't want to spend crazy money you're looking for something simple lift your lms let's change the rest of the stuff here bobby mcv poppy 16 northern lights avenue let's put this the tully free state 9445 south africa i'm not going to add my phone number there and click on enroll now bobby mcvee is sitting in anticipation is he going to pass his creator check and he's in bobby's in course enrollment success appear congratulations you enrolled in surviving the beast that's quite a mouthful so now when bobby scrolls down i need you to notice two very important things one is that we have the progress bar here up to now that thing didn't appear because i wasn't enrolled so there's no progress the second thing i want you to notice is this button the continue button now says get started because bobby you haven't started yet come on buddy let's get started so let's see what's going to happen when bobby clicks on get started get started and there it begins great so bobby spends his first 20 minutes reading through this and then when he's done he clicks on mark complete great and as he clicks on it it will tell him up here hey you you're 14.9 percent done buddy good luck and then it takes him automatically to listen to and down here it says download so he's going to download again that cute little pug lately i love pugs neighbors have got pugs and these guys always come visit me every afternoon play with my dog so before i just thought i remember the pug from what is it men in black and i never liked the pug but lately i think the pugs are so cute right and then when you're done with that you say mark complete and it will take you to lesson three and complete your section great you get a reward for that you completed the lesson and this is how you keep track when you want to go back to the course page you just go up here to back to surviving the beast and there it is and now you can see here is your progress 28.57 percent and this button now says continue this is what bobby has done what does this mean for you for you as grace black let's go to our wordpress page and i'm going to close this and i'm going to close this and uh let's go here and let's just click here on lifterlms3 our site and then let's go to the dashboard and i'm going to close vimeo right so what this means for us is that if i go to that course we had built so we go to courses courses click on surviving the beast scroll all the way down let me just close this one you are going to see here student management and you're going to see mcv bobby has signed up and the wonderful thing about bobby mcvee signing up in order to manage the students visit the trigger is when i click here on bobby mcv any changes say leave here we get all the details from bobby mcvee his information right courses membership right and there you have everything about bobby you've always wanted and if you want to find it within lifterlms you go to lifterlms and you click here on reporting within the lifter lms you'll find it over here and now you can export bobby mcvee or his details rather to cvs csv click on that and here you're going to get everything and the most important part is column b is email address that's the way you will be collecting your leads and as people sign up you will get all that information here lifter lms reporting and they will appear over here and you can even check their progress as it goes on step 19 let's talk about student dashboard and how you log in and log out i'll go to bobby mcvee's site at this moment here is bobby mcvee he's signed in here this is his courses what else can he do how is he going to be able to access his dashboard you will have to give him some way right if he goes to surviving the beast this is it but what if his little sister tina wants to come up and sign up for the course and do it by herself every time he logs in it's going to be in his name so they want to have also the opportunity to sign out and sign back in let's go and do that let's go to our area and we are going to be doing that within our menus go to appearance here hover to menus click on menus and now what we want to do is we want to bring in an area for my courses the courses that i that i can sign up for or the courses that i have signed up for and that i can log in again you're not going to see it here this course is here so remember when i told you earlier if you know it should be there but you cannot find it go up here to screen options and look for it and this one here is lifter lms which i think is actually the most important one but for some reason it's not activated click on lifter lms and you get the label over here close the screen options click on lifterlms and there are many and you can do a lot with this and i'm still going to show you in other tutorials how you can really set up very very nifty login and log out menus within your header in this instance i'm just going to go here to my courses select this and click add to menu and then let's just put it here under coaching so this will be here at the bottom of under coaching let's say save menu click here on lifterlms at the top or on your home setting to go to the front end and now when you go to coaching you will see my courses appear over here click on that and this will be the dashboard now remember this is what you see you are the admin you are grace you are not enrolled in this course so nothing special here but let's go and see how this will look for bobby we go to our other page let's click here on home and that should refresh everything so if i hover over coaching you will see it says now my courses if i click on my courses this is what bobby is going to see he's going to see the dashboard and then he's going to see that the course he has signed up for and as you click on it it will take him back to that course now his little sister lisa wants to also do it so he goes to my courses and you can click here on sign out you can also add a sign out menu link there we'll do that in another tutorial so now bobby signed out he has to sign in again in the future so lisa takes her time she signs out bobby comes back we go bobby dot mcv at hotmail.com password login oh could not find it account with the browser combination let's try again bobby dodd mcvee there we go for a moment i thought i had gotten something wrong and you can also see here as my courses view all my achievements view all certificate blah blah blah and a lot of stuff up here maybe this is not what grace is interested we'll take a look at how we can reduce this but this is how bobby is going to sign in and sign out by just giving him a my courses access within your header as i mentioned that you see there's a lot of areas here that bobby can click on dashboard my courses will show him courses my grades right and this is how far he's going my memberships no membership my achievements nope my certificates nope if you haven't activated these things they won't show so in this case i just want to remove it i don't want to give bobby too much clutter so let's go and remove that you go to your area go to the back end and then you go to lifterlms and click on settings go over to accounts and then here you will see the student dashboard in points and you can see all of those things that we have seen appear over here now memberships you don't have membership so if you don't have it you simply delete this like so achievements no view certificates no notifications you can leave that edit account lost password yes redeem vouchers um you're not going to have that now leave that maybe in the future you will have that so these three you want to remove save your changes let's go see what bobby will see now when he refreshes his page refresh and you will see those guys have been removed that's how you can clean up that dashboard a little bit for bobby strangely enough you won't believe it we are almost done one thing that i think is very important when you come to a course is a sidebar you can add more information in a sidebar and let me show you how we're going to do that so lifter lms let's just go to lifterlms see how our course currently looks surviving the beast and here on the right we're going to add a sidebar to do that you go to your back end lifterlms and you go to appearance widgets and then here you will see course sidebar and listen sidebar and there are two specific widgets just for your course the one is course progress so click and drag that in and the other one is course syllabus click and drag that in so the syllabus we can call it here course outline and then here for course progress your progress display to enroll students only yes so let's say save save and then we go to our front end i'll click and hold control on my keyboard command on a mac hold that and click and it will open a new tab here let's go to surviving the beast and we don't see the sidebar and the reason you won't see the sidebar like i'm not seeing it is because in my pre-made in my preset template that i'm using from astra it's been deactivated usually it should be on by default but in this case it's deactivated so that's something you have to go set up in your theme and here i will show you what astra has that's why astra is a very good theme choice for lifterlms on this page let's click on customize up here in the toolbar to enter the customizer for astra and then here you will see in the sidebar there's actually a section for lifter lms this is the integration that the guys at brainstorm force have done with lifter elements click on it and it says your course columns membership columns but so what that's not going to give me my sidebar click back and then you will see here it says sidebar so click on the sidebar and then here lifter lms lifter lms course unless and so everything connected to lifter elements let's go to no sidebar and say right sidebar and then go to left the course and listen right sidebar and there is your sidebar now that's what i want bobby say publish close out here and now we have the course outline here and we have also your progress so if we go back to the front so if we go to bobby's page now and we click here on course this is what bobby is going to see the course outline and his progress i think we should put progress at the top let's do that so here we go to our widget area under appearance let me just collapse this and drop your progress at the top i think that's better and then when bobby goes to his page refresh you will see his progress at the top and those that he have completed they already been checked and then this is where he can continue this is his course page but you can also do sidebar for your lesson so if i click here on lesson three this is where bobby will continue from this will give me the video but no sidebar here there is an area for a sidebar you can see the space has moved because we activated that within the astra theme but we haven't added any content to that sidebar let's do that let's go here to our backend lesson sidebar and we do the same we bring in the course progress we bring in course syllabus and the same thing progress we can type in their progress and syllabus we can type in outline same thing again save and save but again think outside the box you can also bring in an image over here with some text image click here on add image put in grace and happy to work with you and then let's see this will appear on our lesson page so let's go back to bobby what he will see let's click on the course page surviving the beast right so this is the sidebar and then if he clicks on lesson three it takes him to the lesson page and this is how the sidebar will look i think my opinion sidebars for courses are essential so set them up put some information here especially if you want people to sign up for other courses and you have more ideas your call to actions those things that you want people to take action on can go in here you can add links here you can put advertisements in there very good area for people to get exposure to other things that you have to offer for them let's take a recap of where we are because for today's tutorial we are done let's go to our page and i'm just going to close this i'll close lorem ipsum let's click here go to the front and we started way back when like i said in 1922 we started with this site that i had imported from astra and this is grace black and during these times grace wants to bring an online course to generate some business we had created that course by installing lifterlms then we had created the course and we called it surviving the beast for this course we had built out the structure and to do that we had clicked here on launch course builder which had taken us into the course builder we had build out sections under these sections we had added the lessons for each lesson we added content for these two we did it in the gutenberg editor this one we added the video and the rest is up to you after we had done that we had gone back and then we had built out our course page so for this example we had brought in these blocks from lifter lms do you remember up here click on the plus and lifter lms blocks that we had used to bring in information about our course then i had installed ultimate add-ons for gutenberg which is a free gutenberg plugin also from the guys who make the astra theme and i created my own hero image at the top i've also brought in columns to space these things a little bit differently i added a few hittings here and there and i just jazzed it up a little bit to make it look more unique the great thing about this is working with a compatible theme is that how everything here looks on the front end is regulated by the theme if i go to preview we see that the colors are different on the front than they are in the back that's because they draw that information topography color style etc from the theme what's very important is that we add added links up here to our header and our menu so that people can easily access the course and that those people like bobby who have already joined can easily access his courses as well sign out and again pick up where he left off last time there's nothing more that grace actually needs to do she's not running a full-time online business this is just an add-on service that she wants to provide at this moment like so many people want to do but i'm pretty sure grace is going to find out very soon that this is a very profitable way and very easy way of generating business and income and that she will start doing more like this in the future what grace will need to do though is that she will need to heavily promote what she's doing so when you go to your home page you will need to bring in a call to action something to promote this course because if people don't go up there by themselves they're never going to know you even have a course to offer and that means you have to put a link on your pages or a pop-up just to tell people hey sign up for this course it's for free let's just quickly see how you would do that we go to our back end let's go to our home page and then we are going to click up here to edit it with elementor in the page builder and what we want to do is we just want to add a button just to see how we can bring in a call to action so here i have probably a heading and i'll bring in a button below that so i'll search for button here's a button and i have also ultimate add-on buttons multi button so i'll just bring this one drop it down there and join what will we say live coach course free and then we have to add a link to it so over here in the link all i need to do is i have to search for this course which is what did we have beast and as i type in there it's going to look through everything in my wordpress and it says hey you actually have something worth the name beast it's called surviving the beast that's what i want so i click on that one and that's where i'll leave it you can give link options here and say open in a new window i won't do that this is just a little tip here you actually want people to come to your page don't care about the risk sign up for that course so that you can get the email address so you want to guide them away from this page you want them to go over that page it's like a funnel you're funneling them into a direction and you want them to enroll for this course that's it so anything in a link in your builder or whatever you are using this is how you can do it you can create an area like this a special area this big just promote your course you can have a pop-up like i mentioned earlier in this case i'm just adding this button here as a high recommended step that you have to take when you want to promote your course click here on update and then we go view it on the front end so live live coach course free okay that's very difficult to pronounce click on this and what oh ah new course and here i would say you will have to add a little bit more information maybe a bio about yourself over here in this sidebar a description of the course here with a blog for text and this one looks a little bit too squashed at this moment and then get a few friends to sign up for this course and leave some good reviews here life saving changes i'm wearing a cape from now on flying from building to building something like that and this is how people are going to sign up and then you have all these call to actions on different places on your site let's just quickly to sign off and end it off go over to lifterlms and see what's going on with what lifter lms has to offer us in terms of maybe going pro in the future something that we will tackle very soon here on websites for beginners the question is why is lifter lms free how it works currently in the world when everybody is doing the same thing someone will come along and say hey i cannot compete with what you are doing you are doing it she is doing it he is doing it everyone is doing it so you know what i'm going to make that part free what we have in common that part i'm going to make for free then those things that will enhance my product i'm going to make that premium that's kind of how things work nowadays that is why lifter lms has a free version and we've only worked with the free version but i'm very excited to show you pro features in upcoming tutorials and yes when you get to lms plugins for wordpress these guys are not the cheapest things in the world because the concept behind it is that you are going to be making money with it that is the plan b behind having online courses if you go here and we click on pricing you're going to see that they have bundles that you can go for there is individual add-ons for each one you pay 99. you have to be very careful you really have to be desperate for only one bundle or only one add-on to get that what you'll probably go for is the universe bundle that is three hundred dollars a year and then the infinity bundle that is a thousand peer also check out for when there is sales it says here at the bottom may sale what does that mean like oh here get 10 percent off that 10 off is almost always there other times there will be a bigger discount so check out for these things so what you get if you go for the bigger bundles or the premium bundles you get a few more features you get all these other add-ons and when we talk about these add-ons you will have to go here software and add-ons and then you will see they've got quite a numbers you've got groups advanced quizzes this is very important if you are running a school like setup you have more assignments advanced videos is one that i really like to use so advanced videos few features for example it allows you to have continuous video if somebody finishes a video the next video automatically start playing then you have custom fields pdfs and then you have these integrations with stripe paypal woocommerce and then you also have mailer integrations that you have a number of and i know they keep on growing and these are the add-ons that you will be paying for those two or those three bundles that we have seen the one that is the individual add-ons then the universe bundle and the infinity bundle but think carefully about it because it's not little money it's a lot of money and that's why i hope to in the tutorials where we will be looking at these premium features in the future will give you a good idea of whether you should go for it or not what you've learned today though is how to set up your lifterlms online education form course for free and we did it in less than two hours if you follow along don't think it's just going to be just like that you'll have to invest time in it you'll have to go make the videos you'll have to write your stuff it's going to take a lot of investment but it is a really powerful promotional and conversion tool hope this was useful thank you very much for the support see you in the next video stay safe this is jp signing off

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Length: 110min 4sec (6604 seconds)

Published: Sat May 16 2020