I needed a clear idea of what video courses looked like in Wix. I LOVED all the tips @ 6:50 -- it was extra info I didn't think about but was SO helpful, especially when it comes to closed captioning. Great video, and just what I needed and more! Thank you!
Emily, that was a flawless introduction! Thank you! I am planning to use puppets for early financial literacy for kids by reaching out to teachers and parents in my community. I found your video informative and straight to the point! Thank you!
Ken, thank you for your great feedback! I am really happy that the video helped you and hope that everything goes well with your site! If you have further questions don't hesitate to let me know.
Thank you for sharing this. I've been wanting to see an example of an online course with wix and saw your video. You're so close to 1K! Keep it coming.
Hi Emily! Is it written Em with Em Design? Thank you for this video! It was so helpful. You can tell that you know what you are talking about because you go through everything very swiftly and fast. I had to replay several parts because I couldn’t keep up 😅
Can you do a video that offers online courses, but that if you purchase the course you also could do a add on of one-to-one coaching to the course -love ❤️your videos 😀
Great video, very helpful. The one question I cant seem to find the answer to. Is there any way to set up a course so that people can pay and join the course without creating a profile on your website. Conversions are sooo much better if you can go straight from a landing page to a check out page. The way it is currently set up they have to create an account and verify their email before they can pay. Any help would be amazing, thanks!
Thanks Sister, I am just starting a School of English and this has given me an idea for an online Course! If you have any other helpful links for online language Courses, please let me know! Thanks ;-)👍
Hi Emily, nice to see this video and appreciate a lot. Ur efforts and knowledge reflect when u speak or demonstrate. My question is how is this course in online program is different than course in wix booking system.
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I’m happy this video was helpful. The bookings app has the option to “book a course” which would be an in person live course that need to be booked where the Wix Online Courses is an online course builder where you can build the course structure step by step for participants to work through. Hope this helps!
Rats! I was waiting patiently to see how the finished program page integrates into the site's other pages, that's the one thing in Wix I don't get yet. This would have been around 11:00. But then you just said "Publish" and that was it! Darn. I think I need a tutorial on the dashboard and how it relates to the site pages. Thanks
Same! I created two courses but there is only one program page showing on my editor menu so I can’t link the correct sales page to the correct course. There also isn’t a clear way to get the url. I’m really confused 😢
This is a wonderful comment! Thank you for bringing this up. You’re absolutely right, I need to make a “step two” video for this. Please stay tuned, now that the holidays are over I want to get back to filming. Let me know if there are any details I can cover to make the video most helpful for you.
@@thewixcollective : ) ok! (Be careful what you ask for?) 😜 I started a tutorial of my own but didn't quite get there, not using Wix right now but prob will be. My topics are interrelated, all related to "Wix for online courses" but somewhat apply to other uses of Wix. 1. Relationship of Dashboard; Page Editor; and Site Pages and Menu. i.e. what I'm calling "non-static" pages appear in both, how does that work? 2. How "static" and "non-static" pages get presented in Wix system, where "static" are pages with functionality like forms, courses etc and 'static' is images and text. I liked the word "dynamic" but Wix uses that for something else. 3. Relationship of kinds of "views," namely "myself" as 1. Site Owner/Editor and 2. Course Teacher/Admin; and then "the user" as 3. Marketing, Intake, and Registration, vs. 4. Student in the course. What do people see in each role and how does that relate to #1 of this list? How's that?
@@teach-learn4078 this is AWESOME! Thank you for taking time to jot all this down for me. These are great questions and I am going to start recording ASAP. If you have more to add please let me know! Thanks again!
@@thewixcollective Great, ok, have at 'er! btw I had made this diagram but didn't continue, maybe you can use it. docs.google.com/presentation/d/13u_hbSkFvCyM6eQl2qnwjWtcwxPlFZ0k62biOqVVGbs/edit?usp=sharing
Great Video, I have a couple questions I am hoping you can answer. 1) I don't want to have the program list or program page visible on my site. I want to create a funnel to purchase the course instead, is that doable? 2) if yes, once they purchase the course from my funnel how do participants gain access to the program? is there a login page or how does that all work? thank you!
Hi Tracey! Yes that is doable. I normally create sales pages for the course that link directly to a “join/pay now” page for just the one course. Once a participant is in the course, they are able to access the course as long as it is open by logging in and selecting “my courses” from the member log in menu. I hope that helps!
This was so informative, thank you! I plan on creating a membership service where each month my subscribers will have access to 15 children's activity ideas and matching resources. These will change each month. Can I still do that using this feature? What would be the best way to do that? Also, I want to add some some exclusive content only for my subscribers, so is there a way to make it so when someone becomes a subscriber they go to an overarching home page which has several buttons, one that takes them into that months content (the course function) and others take them to things like recipe pages etc etc. Thank you!
Hey! I am so glad that this tutorial was helpful. You are totally able to create all of those resources in a Wix membership. I would recommend blending the Wix Courses and member's only pages that update every month. I This is something I will be covering in my monthly group launching soon called The Wix Collective. There you can also get one-on-one Voxer access with me so I can answer your questions more directly! you can sign up at emdesignco.com/innercircle I'd love to be able to help you more there! :)
Hey! Sorry for my late response. As of now, it isn’t possible to change the background color on each step. You can however add a cover image to each section and step to create variation. Thanks for the comment!
Thank you so much for this. I have a problem with my course, when entering in the phone and hit "start" button... in "participant view" there's nothing. But when I refresh the page the contents are there. I didn't have that problem before, could you help me please? 😥
That is a very odd problem and also has to be really frustrating. May I ask a couple questions to clarify? 1. Are you in preview mode in the editor/dashboard or is this on the published site? 2. If it is on the published site and you are viewing on a phone is it having this problem on both Android and iPhone? 3. Have you attempted closing down your Wix editing tab, opening, and re-publishing?
Thanks for this videos. I have one question: can you use this program with basic plans on Wix (Light or Core) or does it require a more expensive plan? I was able to install it but it's not clear to me how much it will cost to actually use it and launch a course via Wix. Thanks!
Wonderful question! Thankfully you do not have to have a special plan to launch a course with Wix. However if you plan to sell the course you’ll need an e-commerce plan. My advice: go with the cheapest and upgrade only when necessary. Wix will let you know when you need to upgrade. So, build your course and then upgrade to a very basic eCommerce plan to start selling. Hope that helps!
Emily, really informative! Your directions are clear and paced well. The course you mentioned about creating a professional site…Where can I find that?
Hello Robyn! Thank you for your kind comment. In regards to that course I mentioned, I was in the process of building it and did not get it launched by the time my first baby was born. I then decided to just make all my content public for now. If you want to subscribe to my website, I can keep you updated via email with when new videos launch and if/when a course becomes available. :)
This is wonderful thank you! I have a question. Once someone purchases a course do they get a log in and password to access it? And of someone purchases multiple courses will they all show on the same page?
Hey Ali! Yes, they have to log in with email and password. Also, they can purchase multiple courses and access them all on their dashboard at anytime. :)
Hi thank you. This is informative! One question. Is there a way to change displaying order of online courses? For example, could I show the courses in the order like...Beginner on the left, Intermediate in the middle, and Advanced on the right section?? I set up 3 courses on language learning (level 1, 2, and 3) but because I created the level 3 course last, it's shown on the left section of the page, which is kinda reverse... (I somehow found the way in which I can copy and paste the programs on other pages by Add-on function but I just adjust the displaying order ON THE ORIGINAL PAGE...)
My apologies on my late response, I did not see your comment! I hope that my response is still relevant to your question. Unfortunately there is not a way to display courses in a specific order unless you would want to place them on a page one by one instead of using the original program listing page. To accomplish that you would want to create a new page, add the courses one by one and then make sure that your URL for the program page links to that new page instead of the one that was originally set up with the Wix program app. I hope that helps!
When you go on participant view or just how it looks like finished live, i tried to view it on iphone or smaller screens and it doesnt seem to be responsive in design, it just takes 40% of the screen and the rest is padding, is there a way to make this pretty and working on mobile?
Great vid and very helpful, thanks. For those of you who have built out a course, maybe you can help. I have 2 courses published on my site. On the programs page displaying just onne of the courses, I use Classic view with course title and course picture on the top of the page. below that is the body with text describing the course, pricing etc. On the right side of the body is a sidebar. It looks like I should be able to put text in it but I cannot find anyway to do so, I have found how to change the design, opacity etc but absolutely no place to enter text. If possible, I'd like to put a bulleted list in that section. Thanks.
I'm uploading all my content easily. Thank you for your videos! My one question is: do I have to invite people? Can I have my program content in the site menu under "online courses", and have people sign on, choose what they want, and pay? And/or send the URL out in newsletters? My classes are ongoing, all recorded.
Thanks for this, that was super helpful. I love the wix platform and I would like to start with online courses as well. Do you have any videos (in the making) on how to create funnels and landing pages as well? To drive new potential customers to your course/page? I'm a service based business (go to people) and want to expand now by adding online courses (world wide).
Thank you for your comment, Sanne! So glad to hear you love Wix too. Creating funnels and landing pages with Wix can be really challenging, however, it is doable! Thank you for giving me the idea for a future video - stay tuned!
@@thewixcollective Thank you! I might have my marketing team do that instead. For the previewing option.. if you publish the program so you can preview it is there a way to hide it so it's not visible to the public yet? I don't want anyone seeing it (or attempt booking it) until I actually want it to go live, if that makes sense?
@@sannevermeulen2547 yes! There is a way. Check out the course details and set the course to “private.” That way you can publish it and only have it viewable by direct invite or link. I hope that helps!!
So helpful! My clients will have already paid for the online course. Is there an easy way to give them access to it knowing that they have previously paid through another link? Thank you!
Sorry for my late reply. You can add them to the course directly by going to course in the dashboard and selecting "Invite Participants" and in the pop up window that appears, click "Add Participants". Does that help?
Great video Emily! Very informative and helpful. Any tips on adding cover images in the 'basic info" section. Cant seem to add anything? Any size or file type rules there?
Hey there! Thanks for your comment, sorry for my delay. The holidays and traveling has behind on responding. There unfortunately is not a specific size, but you can see a place to add a photo for the course at the top of the course page as you input your steps. I’ve had the most luck starting out with a 16:9 image and editing from there as needed.
I'm working on my first Wix challenge/course. Do I have to publish it to preview the lessons? And would you recommend Wix email to have everything in one place? I've just been ESP hopping -- Zapier freaks me out to connect all the different platforms.
Hey there! Thanks for your comment, sorry for my delay. The holidays and traveling has me behind on responding. I made a video on how to add audio/downloads to your course here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E96MU6O1aOY.html
So sorry for my late reply, yes as long as you have the course open and it hasn’t ended participants can have access to the course. Thanks for the question!
What a great tutorial, arigatou! My question is, once I embed my Unlisted RU-vid videos to my courses, I see on the corner of my videos the option to watch the videos on RU-vid. Is there a way to remove that and keep learners strictly on my website?
Thanks so much! That's a good question. The more courses I build the more I realize that embedding Unlisted RU-vid videos is probably not the best option. It's easy but it does not secure your content. I'd recommend either uploading directly to Wix or looking into something like Vimeo where you can pay a fee to keep your videos safe.
If you are creating a course that starts/ends on specific dates, can students still login after the course ends to re-watch the course content? Do they still get lifetime access to the content?
I watched this video hoping you would show us how to integrate the programs onto a sales page. I can’t seem to find the direct url to link to. Also, in my wix editor it only shows one program page even though I have more than one program, and there are no options to duplicate or customize the url.
Hey Star! The direct URL can be found under program settings under SEO settings. Also, the editor shows a preview of the program page where you can edit. It then creates the changes on how the rest of the programs are listed. I hope that helps!
I have done this before but teachers had to create their courses in a word document and share files in a Google drive folder. It was a little extra work but I liked it because then I had creative control so that everything looked seamless. You could also add your course creators as admin on your site and show them how to create courses.
Question: I have been looking at Mighty Networks because it so beautifully allows you to combine a Facebook community type feel with the opportunity to sign up for different programs, classes etc. My goal is to have a membership site where people can have access to various areas of the site that may include some courses, while also having the ability to connect with other members in forum type areas, earn badges etc. I see the members area in wix and the groups feature in courses but I guess i don't see how to incorporate the groups and courses and forums all in one beautiful package like Mighty Networks does. Any insight on that?
I am trying to create a course that is donation based - people can choose what to pay based on certain levels. I have created a donation page successfully but how can I set it up so once they make a donation they automatically get an invite to the course/access to the content?
Hi Connie! Yes! You could set up a group (looks very much like a Facebook group page) for the course where people can ask questions publicly with other members in the group, or you can link your email in the corse for direct questions, or you can add a quiz/questionnaire at the end of each step where you can see the participants responses. Sorry for my delay! Hope this helps :)
Hi Emily, I am watching your content with interest, easy to listen to, can’t understand why you haven’t got 10s of thousands of subs right now. I have a specific question that wix themselves do or will not answer. This video you made touches on it, bit I hope you might expand it a little. I wanted to create a membership on wix to eventually replace my Patreon account. All my videos tutorials in excess of 190 and growing are on Vimeo and set to unlisted ( specific domain) Patreon. I do not want to add all of those videos and all that are to come into my wix website packages it will slow the site to a grinding halt. I tried to add in the tutorials url to the Vimeo player in wix, but it will not play or see it unless I reset the video to public on the Vimeo end. That obviously makes no sense, and does not protect the video. Wix said it’s because they do not have an agreement with Vimeo ? Makes little sense either. Is there a way to have my unlisted specific domain videos stay where they are on Vimeo , and have them embed as unlisted on wix so that member under specific pricing plans only can access their level entitlement, this will also be same question when uploading new courses in The future. I cannot think that I am the only art content creator in the world who wants to add unlisted Vimeo content to Wix website accessed. The way I have described. I hope the you might be able to describe with an idiot proof approach how it can be achieved . Sorry for the long message, but I can’t go forward or get answers. Kindest best wishes Paul
Hello! I have currently added online programs to my website and have the appropriate domain to do so. I’m at the point where I’m trying to preview my course like you did. I published it like you did and went back hoping I could preview it but it’s still telling me I need to add Online a programs to my site, but I went and checked in the App Store and it says it’s already installed. Do you know what I could do to fix this?
Hey Kasey! Two ideas: 1. Have you published the actual course or are you still in draft mode? 2. Have you gone into the editor and added a course page? the app might be installed but not added to the website via the editor. Hope that helps! Keep me posted!
Hi, thx for the vid and greets from germany. Do you maybe know how to invite someone for a FREE Login to a Online Course which is already running and you have to pay for? If I invite someone for testing issues, they always just land on the page where they have to pay for the course. thx
Hi Rafael, My apologies for my late reply. Just now seeing this. You can add participants to the course for free by going to your course page in the dashboard and selecting “invite participants.” A pop up will appear asking you to enter in an email address of a contact to invite. Instead of inviting, click on the drop down menu “invite” and select “add participants.” Then you can add the contacts and they’ll be added for free to the course. Hope that helps!
Hello Eniola! Try making sure your course is set to public and then click "preview" and see if that works? I believe you should be able to do that without publishing. Let me know if it does not.
@@thewixcollective thanks for the reply I've been able to preview it now but I'm facing other issues 1. I can't add a downloadable pdf at the beginning of the course? 2. There's no actual customization i can do to the course view? 3. Can't i change the word "steps" to another word like lessons
@@Ojet 1.You can add a downloadable PDF to the introduction or a step. Look for the small "up arrow" button on the right hand side of the window while adding or changing content. 2. There are only two options of a course view to choose from in Wix right now and you can view those options in the editor. 3. You can change the title of the steps, however, under the sections (i.e. "Introductions") it will say "0/4 steps completed" and that is not able to be changed. Hope that helps!
@@thewixcollective I am thinking of switching to wix for website/retreat registration/online program/recorded class registration for my non-profit. What I am finding with registration apps (beyond really requiring an expert to use like the Event Calendar Pro wordpress plugin) is major drawbacks that reviews don’t mention. I think online reviewers don’t catch problems that you find out about only after you really enroll people in an event. For example: Retreat Guru only pays you after $3000 worth of registrations come in. My most recent example is that Course Storm will only enroll people in the U.S. and lists the event in my time zone (without even stating what time zone that is!) and does not convert to the participants own timezone. It is a big deal to set up these apps or plug ins for a series of classes and only find out after the fact that they have major deficiencies.
@@YudronWangmo Thank you for sharing! That is very discouraging to get deep into an event app build and then run into those issues. There are always bumps in the road that happen due to every event being different, however, thankfully Wix is free to try while you're testing it out.
Is there a reason I don't have the two options of 'share invite link to the program' and the other one when i do the last step to invite members? i can only invite them via email? also i have no idea how they access the program page as theres no url for them to see?
Great question! I recently did a deeper dive into Wix Courses. Here's a link to the playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLceeB5Zk6eWx0EeJY3vLR77K-zsO2hGqV&si=LJup5cG1G3Z9oJTe Video #3 on that playlist will hopefully point you in the right direction.
Hi, I have watched a few of your videos and love how knowledgeable you are. What email can I use to contact you? What is your website address? Thanks Laura
Hi Laura! Somehow I missed your comment here. Thank you so much! I am going to start offering some consultation bookings on my site at TheWixCollective.com but until then you can reach me at emily@thewixcollective.com.
