LearnDash Consultant on Building HighLevel Powered Online Courses

HighLevel provides features for building memberships and online courses. It's a standard option included in the price. It's not a feature I expected when I first experimented with HighLevel.

But what happens, when you need more than HighLevel's membership and course feature provides. What are your options then?

Let me, a LearnDash consultant, go over an option HighLevel course builders should consider when they need features not available in HighLevel.

LearnDash Consultant on Example Feature You Might Need

When you first started with your platform, you were likely needing something that would get your online course up and running quickly. You probably wanted a do-it-yourself option that didn't require hiring a consultant. You made your selection and it worked.

Then your requirements grew or changed and you needed to make an enhancement. Here are some options actual clients brought to us that required an upgrade from what a SAAS style solution like HighLevel's can provide.

• One site builder wanted to enhance their courses to include other resources. Those didn't fit nicely into course. They wanted to provide members access to a library of recipes and other resources that could be searched by their members. Their platform couldn't do that.
• A customer of ours provided continuing education credits to pharmacists. They had been notifying the governing body of student course completion manually. Their business grew and the manual processing was taking too much time. They needed a direct system-to-system interface to communicate student completions automatically. Their platform couldn't do that.
• We had a prospect with an opportunity to offer their course materials to thousands of students in a large school district. In order to offer them their course curriculum, they needed to comply with their security requirements not supported by their platform.
• When selling a block of licenses to an organization, administrators needed visibility to the progress made by their members. They needed answers questions like, "How many employees have completed the courses? How long is it taking them to go through the materials? Are they getting passing grades?" This couldn't be done with their SAAS solution.

These aren't a HighLevel shortcoming. Membership features provided by platforms like HighLevel include features that will attract a good number of customers to their platform. They can't offer everything. What often happens, as a course or membership grows, is their needs grow. They end up needing feature not provided by their platform.

LearnDash Consultant on How to Address This

What do I recommend? Consider a Wordpress-based online course solution.

If you check our blog, you'll find my article series, What Online Course Platform Is Right for You. There I discuss how to select your online course platforms based on your needs. SAAS platforms like HighLevel's are discussed. I include a discussion on using Wordpress and a learning management system (LMS) as an option for address requirements it doesn't provide. I discuss how you can use Wordpress with LearnDash to address just about any requirement you might have.

Wordpress is used by over 40% of websites available online. It's a defacto standard. With the addition of LearnDash, you have a solid learning management system (LMS) for building courses on Wordpress. If you combine that with a Wordpress membership plugin and a CRM like HighLevel, you have the ability to manage all sorts of varied requirements. You can provide you customers with a very complete solution. Check the article series for more details.

Until recently, connecting Wordpress with HighLevel wasn't a real option. We have released our Membresio plugin that provides the connectivity you need to use a Wordpress / LearnDash configuration with HighLevel. You can use HighLevel to:

• sell your course using HighLevel's e-commerce,
• trigger HighLevel automations to provide Wordpress/LearnDash course access,
• trigger removing course access when/if a members stops paying for a subscription,
• use HighLevel automation (and other features) to manage members as they travel through your course, and
• much, much more.

Once your platform is configured, the sky's the limit on what you can provide your members.

Let me know if you'd like to talk about this in more detail. You can schedule a call with me using my calendar link. Let's see what option are available for you to enhance your online course platform and take it to the next level.