Learnworlds | Learnworlds Features & Pricing

The course creation platform industry is filled with many solutions. When we started out in our journey towards reviewing as many platforms as we can, we quickly realized that there was much to unpack. While courses all have information in common, and that information needs to be packaged in a format that’s easily digestible, much about the way course platforms work is unique. In this LearnWolrds review, we’ll examine each feature the platform has to offer. The goal? We want to give you every bit of insight you need to determine whether this is the platform to create your next course on. 

LearnWorlds Review:

What is LearnWorlds?

LearnWorlds is a course creation platform that allows you to create, market, and sell courses online. At a glance, you can tell it is filled with many features. And truth be told, there appear to be enough features that make it immediately appear as a more robust platform, and likely one better suited for training companies or enterprises than solo entrepreneurs. But before you write the platform off, you should know that access to its features will help you build a high-quality course.

LearnWorlds Review: Feature Breakdown

LearnWorlds is one of the most feature-packed course creation platforms we’ve come across. It’s filled with features and functionality that most platforms don’t have, placing it in a league of its own. For example, while everyone knows student engagement is imperative, few if any platforms we’ve come across offer a built-in social network and a daily news section fueled by RSS feeds you can choose. That said, let’s take a look at what LearnWorld has to offer.

Signing-up

Getting started in LearnWorlds is a one-step process. Enter your email address and give your school name to start building. LearnWorlds does not require a credit card to access the platform and provides access for a 30-day test-drive on all plans excluding their high-volume plan.

Dashboard

Once signed up you are sent directly to your dashboard. Your dashboard holds the wealth of information that is neatly categorized. There’s a collection of videos for each category, and categories include content on creating your first course, building landing pages, exploring what LearnWorlds has to offer, and the collection of the most common questions instructors have.

Creating Courses

To start building your course, click on Courses in your left-hand margin. Next click on the Create Course button. LearnWorlds then offers a course creation wizard. It starts by asking for a title for your course. You’ll then select the type of access for your course. Here, you can choose to create a paid, free, private (only accessible to users who have been enrolled for it), or keep your course in draft or coming soon mode. 

If you plan on creating a paid course, enter a price point and determine if you want to add a discount and what that value will be. Your course will need an image and a brief description. Lastly, you can determine whether to offer your course using a drip feed. If you’re not sure about this just yet, you can always revisit it later. 

As course creation or set up processes go, LearnWorlds’ is relatively easy to move through. And this is important. Course creators are typically knowledge experts and not course creation experts. Simplfying the proess lowers the barriers to entry, making the platform more accessible and enjoyable for more instructors.

Course creation out of the way, you’ll be presented with a markup/preview of your course sales page which is completely editable. By clicking on the Edit page button, you’ll be able to add a new page, edit page properties (including SEO), add custom code, or even clone, clear, or delete a page. 

You’ll also have the option of customizing colors, typography, buttons, and your page layout. LearnWorlds ensures that all design work fits perfectly on all types of screens, and you can get a peek at each via the responsive drop-down menu at the top of the screen. When you’re done, take a look at what you built by clicking on the Preview button or save your page.

Creating Course Content 

Sales page design out of the way, let’s focus on building your actual course material. To start creating course content, you’ll use a series of tabs at the top of your screen. The tabs are available when looking at the editable version of your sales page. 

Tabs include Layout, Contents, Access, Pricing, Settings, Course player, Video library, and Dashboard. Building your course content takes place on the Contents tab. Course content starts with the creation of a section. When you create sections, you must add a section title, determine level access based on whether this section is in draft mode, coming soon, free, or paid. You’ll also need a description and can upload a section background if you’d like.

Creating almost every element in LearnWorlds follows this process. It starts with selecting an item, then labeling and customizing it where necessary. It quickly becomes an easy-to-perform process.

Activities

Once the first section is created, you’ll be able to add an activity. If you’re like us, you’re probably wondering what the significance of a section is. As we built-out our sample course, we learned that sections are actually lessons. Activities are, therefore, parts of lessons.

Activities are available in various formats. These include:

Multimedia

• Video
• E-book
• PDF
• YouTube
• SoundCloud
• Audio
• SCORM/HTML5 Package

Live Session

• Zoom Meeting
• Zoom Webinar

Questionnaires

Certificates

• Certificate
• Certificate of completion

Embed

• Embed code
• Embed a Slideshare
• Embed an external link

Once you’ve selected the activity, you’ll need to edit its settings. Clicking on the Settings button will create a pop-up window to the right of the screen. This is where you will give you activity a title and description. Depending on the type of activity you’ve selected, you’ll need to add additional information. For example, a video will require that you it selected from LearnWorlds video library or enter the video ID if it’s hosted with Vimeo.

As you can tell, LearnWorlds offers a variety of ways for you to engage your students in activities. And truth be told, this is one of the most comprehensive features we’ve seen out there.

Interactive E-books

LearnWorlds has created one of the most impressive learning experiences we’ve seen. The platform allows you to create interactive e-books by converting content you have or by uploading a Word document and turning it into an e-book. But that’s not all. Your attractive e-book can be used as a working document by students. They can highlight content and add notes to aid their learning experience. Interactive e-books also come with over 25 templates, so you never have to worry about how attractive they look.

Site Builder

While we briefly covered site design functionality, it’s worth mentioning that the Site Builder handles designing your entire website. LearnWorlds offers 400 templates you can use to design pages. That’s one of the highest numbers we’ve come across in the industry. Once again, you get to choose a color palette, font types, and a layout for each page. 

Login Forms

Login forms include a collection of templates. Once you’ve selected one, you can choose what your login process will be. You can enable logins for everyone, or disable the option, give admin users access, and disallow sign-ups altogether.

Logo and Favicon

LearnWorlds allows you to make the platform your own by adding a favicon and logo. Your logo will appear as a video watermark (when enabled), in the header of emails sent to users, and serve as the default metadata image for pages posted to social media.

Blog Set up

The blog set up process is straightforward. It starts with the selection of a radio button to activate it. You can edit your blog homepage in the paid editor, and give it a name and a description. LearnWorlds also automatically creates an RSS feed for your blog.

Custom code

Custom code is helpful for course creators that understand why it’s required. In many cases, it’s got to do with unique design elements you’d like to include on your site, or with inclusion of analytics and the use of tracking codes. Whatever your reason, LearnWorlds allows you to add custom code to the head and body of your website.

Site Flavors?

A feature we are not entirely sure we understand is Site Flavors. LearnWorlds allows you the option of duplicating an already designed website and tweaking it for launch whenever you want to, or creating a new site altogether. From what we can tell, this functionality may come in handy if you’re performing A/B split testing. The only challenge is, we don’t see the option to run an A/B split test in the platform, and that could require a third-party app integration at most, or the use of Google Analytics. 

Site Settings

The Site Settings section is where you go to manage your domain. Settings include: 

Domain

Create redirects from a custom domain to a LearnWorlds subdomain or a replace your LearnWorlds URL with your own custom domain.

Sign up

Sign up allows you to choose your sign-up process, which can be directly through your school,  via a one-click sales funnel, or through social media. You also get to choose which sign up fields you require, if a checkbox should appear for enrollees to accept terms and conditions, and to allow multiple concurrent sessions from the same user.

Navigation

Setting navigation allows you to pick a default or homepage for your site. LearnWorlds offers the option to lock un-enrolled users out of the site by redirecting them to a specific page, or by allowing them to navigate through your schools pages and access free course material.

And we think this is a smart idea. LearnWorlds has clearly thought about the intricacies of making content available as well as the potential for converting visitors into customers. Site Navigation makes it possible to include a custom logout URL, a nice touch for instructors who want to create additional engagements and intive students to off-platform resourse and social communities.

Users

The Users section of LearnWorlds is broken up into three areas. It includes Learners, Instructors, and Affiliates. Each area allows you to view all users for that category, and comes with a host of features to manage them. For example, you get a search bar to search for learners, and that can be controlled by the collection of filters. These include filter for learners who have purchased a specific product, enrolled on a specific date, or select learners by their account status (suspended, paying, non-paying, and never logged in). 

Like most course platforms, you can manually add users, instructors, and affiliates to your database. Click on the Add New User button, enter users full name, email address, tag, and then click on the Add user button.

Users Filter By

While the user categories above come with their own screens, and filters, LearnWorlds also offers preset filters. These are:

• Paying: a list of paying students
• Non-paying: a list of non-paying students
• Suspended: a list of suspended students
• Active this week: students active within the last week
• Signed up this week: new students who’ve enrolled in the current week