🎓 COURSE ORIENTATION

How to Build a Profitable Course Website with WordPress

🧠 What will students learn in your course?

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Build a fully functioning WordPress website tailored for selling online courses and digital/physical products.
• Set up hosting, domain, WordPress, and key plugins step-by-step.
• Use LearnPress to structure and deliver online course content quickly and efficiently.
• Configure payment processing for immediate course sales.
• Understand the essential systems that support a scalable, income-generating website.

This course emphasizes clarity, confidence, and completion — learners won’t just gain knowledge; they’ll launch a working course website by the end.

🔧 Requirements or prerequisites

No technical experience is required. This course was built for beginners.

Students should have:

• A computer with internet access.
• A willingness to follow instructions and build the website as they go.

This course lowers the barrier to entry by using beginner-friendly tools, visual walkthroughs, and short, purposeful lessons.

👩‍🏫 Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for:

• Adult learners, especially aged 25–65, looking to turn their knowledge into income.
• Entrepreneurs, content creators, coaches, Etsy sellers, and teachers who want to control their course delivery and revenue.
• Beginners who feel overwhelmed by tech tutorials and just want a clear, no-fluff path to launching their site.

Whether you’re launching your first product or moving off of someone else’s platform, this course is your foundation.

💬 Orientation Goals and Support

This course includes:

• Confidence-building: Clear, jargon-free guidance to reduce tech anxiety.
• Community mindset: Promotes ownership and pride in your learning space.
• Skill-building: Teaches digital skills like plugin configuration, layout choices, and user experience design.
• Tool familiarity: You’ll work directly inside WordPress using the tools real professionals use.
• Self-efficacy: You’ll build and test your site incrementally so you always know where you are and what to fix.

🧩 Learning Experience Design

To help ensure your success, this course includes:

This self-directed format is built to accommodate adult learners balancing many priorities.

📈 Evaluation & Success

There are no graded exams in this course.

Your success is measured by:

• Completing the “Review Your Knowledge” self-assessments in each section.
• Launching a functioning, student-ready course website by the end.

This project-based structure reflects real-world learning: the website you publish is your final product and proof of mastery.

🚀 Ready to Begin?

Let’s build your course website together!