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Efficient set up of self-hosted eLearning bringing you…

More Control & Autonomy
Better Cost Management
Reliable Security
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Advantages of Using a Learning Management System

For Teachers and Coaches

Expand your outreach
Build your reputation
Mix or match online training with live group or one-on-one training
Let your online learners progress at their own rate
Reward their efforts with shareable awards, badges, certificates

For Creative Entrepreneurs

Sync eLearning with your projects, teams, clients
Streamline repetitive tasks to save time and add convenience for your clients, your fellow creatives, and of course for yourself
Inform your clients and your colleagues while boosting your own expertise in the process

For Businesses and Organizations

Simplify staff onboarding or exiting
Add clarity for new clients and projects
Offer in-house team training
Prepare management and staff for more efficient time spent in meetings
Reduce repetitive tasks in managing your teams

Why You Should Choose a Self-Hosted LMS…

Own your content and be able to take it with you. Having your LMS built in WordPress means you have control of where you host your content, you can archive your content, use it wherever you choose. You can even store it on your local computer if you choose. Thats an advantage you don’t always have when with cloud hosted LMS services. Self-hosted means it is yours.

Some cloud-hosted LMS services take an additional cut out of your profits. Avoid that altogether when you self-host your Learning Management System. You choose how you charge your clients and manage your own gateway account. Simple gateway services such as Stripe or PayPal charge about 3% per transaction.

Websentia Web Services can design your LMS site to match your branding. Your LMS stays true to your logo, colors, and fonts offering maximum flexibility in layouts using WordPress and custom blocks.

Replicate your website’s headers, footers, posts types, page layouts. Websentia Web Services offers templated or completely customized shells for your LMS.

Self-hosting gives you many choices regarding the security and information handling of your LMS. You monitor who sees what on your platform. Your LMS is managed and maintained by technicians you know and trust. No other eyes have access to the valuable and creative information you offer.

For Your Self-Hosted eLearning, It is Good to Know:

Websentia Web Services makes site setup easy using WordPress and LifterLMS. But presenting the information you want to make available through the LMS via lessons and courses, videos, quizes is up to you and your team to create. We can certainly help. You can learn to create course material presentations or you can have Websentia do that for you. This is where so much of the ongoing work remains for you or your teaching experts even when you choose to use cloud-based services.

This is a general statement and we try to cover the big issues on this page. However, like owning a home or a car, there are responsibilities that self-hosting requires and that cloud-hosted services often handle for you. The luxuries of autonomy mainly require a shift in awareness. Meanwhile, we are here to advise and assist with any questions that arise.

This is not difficult but you must make wise choices. You have many more options at your discretion when you choolse self-hosting. Websentia Web Services can advise you on where to get started with a simple, cost-effective service that can scale if and when more hosting resources are required.

With self-hosting, you automatically have the option to white-label your domain. You can use your current domain with a sub-domain attached (such as elearning.your-domain.com) or you might prefer to find a new, unique domain to use. But you must secure the domain or set up a subdomain. Websentia can step in and make this step easy for you.

This is where you will likely save money but must put in some initial effort. Two payment gateway services that work well for small to medium-sized transactions are Stripe® and PayPal® who charge about 3% of your intake. If your price points are in the upper tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars US, there are special systems and services that can save you money.

Websentia Web Services can handle this for you or you can hire your own staff but you will want to have someone in charge of being sure your site is fully functional. When a student or trainee reports an issue, the support staff you choose can help assist with information or fix many issues. In some cases, outreach to WordPress plugin developers is required and your designated team would serve as your main point of contact.

The primary issue is that your website staff should regularly update WordPress, your theme, and all plugins. Then follow up with a quick review of site functionality. With carefully selected themes and plugins, there is rarely an instance where something breaks as a result of updates.

It is best not to include eLearning as part of your website, but instead, as a separate website that syncs with your main website.

LMSes generally require a sizeable amount of power to function and run somewhat slower than a streamlined website. You don’t want to weigh down your main website with heavy functionality until it is needed. This is why it is highly recommended that your LMS resides on a separate website that only runs when called upon.

Websentia Web Services uses LifterLMS on top of WordPress which can be designed to replicate the look and feel of your existing website. This being a separate website, we mimic the main site elements of your existing website such as the logo, header, footer, navigation, and more.