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Odijoo – “So how do you make money?”

Monday, April 12th, 2010

After explaining and demo-ing Odijoo at the 2010 F5 Expo, one of the recurring questions we got, was “it’s free? So how do you make money?”

The answer is simple. Let’s start off with what is free in Odijoo…

It is free to do the following in Odijoo:

  • Sign up
  • Create online courses
  • Import your PowerPoint slides
  • Convert courses into classrooms (add interactivity –  multimedia, students, quizzes, discussion boards and more)
  • Administer classrooms and courses to your students, or to members of the Odijoo community
  • Create and maintain your own Odijoo Campus that’s accesible to the general public, located at yoursubdomain.odijoo.com.
  • Add your course to the Marketplace and allow members of the Odijoo community to enroll in it and rate it
  • Create a paid enrollment course and put it up for sale in the Odijoo Marketplace or in your public Campus (accesible to anyone in Odijoo)
  • Take courses, rate courses, add members as contacts, message contacts, participate in discussions

So when do we charge? Good question.

There are two scenarios, where Odijoo would retain money from you:

  1. Subject Matter Experts: If you making money in Odijoo by selling courses, Odijoo retains 10% per course sold.If you’re a trainer that does consulting on the side, you would want to charge a fee for your Odijoo training course and offer it for paid enrollment from either your Odijoo Campus, or the Marketplace. It is free to create and put your paid enrollment course up for “sale”. However, when students can begin paying your enrollment fee and taking your course, Odijoo deducts 10% from the purchase price (with a $5 minimum charge) and you keep the rest! If you don’t make money, we don’t charge!
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  2. Organizations: If you are using an Odijoo Campus as a corporate training centre and you would like it to be privately accessible for only your employees.If you’re an organization or trainer and would like your Odijoo Campus to act as a completely private online training centre, accessible only to the employees whom you invite, rather the general public, this is called a Private Campus. You will need to purchase “seats” for your employees, which each seat representing one of your employees/learners taking one of your courses.You can purchase your Campus seats in blocks (bundles) of 100, 500 or 1,000 seats. The cost is $700, $3,000 and $5,000, respectively, which averages out to $5-7 per employee taking a course in your campus.
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So, it’s that simple. Unless you sell a course or request for a fully-private Odijoo Campus, Odijoo is 100% free to sign up for and use. We hope this is more clear now and keep the questions coming!

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Odijoo’s Five Remedies for the Pain of eLearning

Friday, March 5th, 2010

While eLearning is often more effective, convenient and affordable for organizations than face to face training, it can also be a tremendous undertaking. To implement an eLearning solution in an organization, the following is required:

  • An authoring tool to create online courses from existing training material
  • Learning Management System (LMS) software to create a virtual Classroom out of the course material and manage/track student progress
  • Third party companies to install, customize, integrate and theme the often code-heavy LMS
  • A hosting company to host the LMS

The above reasons make implementing an eLearning solution not only a slow and complex process, but an expensive one, often costing tens of thousands of dollars. For Small to Medium sized businesses, with limited resources, this process and price tag is not feasible.

Odijoo is designed to simplify eLearning for SMBs, by bringing together an affordable and unique combination of Rapid and easy-to-use tools from a single platform. Organizations can sign up for Odijoo and for less than a few thousand dollars, can create courses, invite students and set up their own Online Training Centre, at their own Odijoo URL. Everything in Odijoo is hosted and managed for the user and all the tools required to get an organization’s courses online are built-in and accessible over the web. This simplified, all-in-one approach is the key behind Odijoo’s innovation.

Odijoo’s technical innovation lies in the following features:

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1. Odijoo Campuses – Allows organizations to have their own unique Odijoo URL, located at an Odijoo sub-domain of their choice (http://organizationname.odijoo.com). Known as an Odijoo Campus, this sub-domain can be used as a private Online Training Centre, to which employees can be invited, courses can be imported and employees can trained from. Odijoo Campuses can be customized to match an organization’s look and feel and are hosted, secure and affordable, costing between $700 and $5,000 total.

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2. Free Built in Course Authoring – Odijoo’s built in Course authoring tool allows members to create dynamic online training courses from scratch and then use them to teach within Odijoo. Courses are easy to create and can include formatted text, audio narration, videos, images, flash animations and more. Alternatively, instead of using the authoring tool, users can import PowerPoint slides into Odijoo and instantly convert them into Odijoo courses. It is 100% free to create and host courses in Odijoo, from both the authoring tool or from PowerPoint slides. Once a course is created, it can be taught to students from a member’s Odijoo Campus, or it can be shared or sold to other Odijoo users in the Marketplace.

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3. Free Course Publishing and Hosting – Once a course is created or imported into Odijoo, it can be turned into a classroom and administered to students for free. A classroom is a space which combines a course, with students, teachers and Learning Resources, such as discussion boards, quizzes and completion reports (student tracking and grading).

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4. Marketplace – The Marketplace is where knowledge is shared, exchanged and monetized in Odijoo. Learners can access the Marketplace and:

  • Enroll in free courses that other users have put up.
  • Enroll in paid courses that cost money to enroll in. The enrollment fee is determined by that course’s creator.
  • Purchase syndicated course material from other members and teach it to their own students. This is called “Course Syndication” in Odijoo.

There is no charge to course creators for sharing free courses in the Marketplace. Odijoo only charges a fee to members who successfully sell or syndicate a course. For every successful purchase, Odijoo retains 10% of the purchase price (with a $5 minimum charge). There is no charge for trying to sell or syndicate a course, only for successfully selling or syndicating it. All payments in Odijoo are exchanged securely via a built-in PayPal system.

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5. Social Learning – Odijoo is a Social Learning Platform, in that it combines eLearning with Social Networking, to create an Online Community of Knowledge. For example members can enroll in others’ courses and interact, through the Marketplace. They can also rate one another’s courses, add friends as contacts within Odijoo or send messages to other members, all from within Odijoo.

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Odijoo Released!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

We’re excited to announce the release of Odijoo! Odijoo is an all-in-one web-based eLearning platform that allows users to create, publish, share, sell and syndicate online courses from your own personalized online space, known as an Odijoo campus.

Check out the brand new Odijoo Course Authoring tool. The new authoring tool allows you to create online courses and add modules, lessons, topics, audio narration or sound, videos, pictures, text formatting and more.

Create an Odijoo Campus for free and have your own personalized, themed and branded online space within Odijoo located at yourcampusname.odijoo.com. Simply sign up for a campus, import your classrooms into it and invite members to join. You can use a campus as your own private webpage within Odijoo, or a storefront ort or online training centre, from which you can conduct your business.

You can also monetize your knowledge with the new Odijoo. Create an online course with the authoring tool or by importing a PowerPoint and syndicate (sell) the content in the Marketplace to other users. Once a course is syndicated, other users can purchase it, turn it into a classroom and teach it to their students. If you don’t want to syndicate, you can create a classroom out of your course, set an enrollment fee and sell it in the Marketplace as a paid enrollment classroom. Users can enroll in your course and learn, while you make money per every student that takes it!

For more information on the new Odijoo, including all of the features listed above, check out our Odijoo overview.

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