Odijoo is a free course authoring tool designed to fit the needs of a variety of audiences. Odijoo makes e-Learning simple and quick for anyone – from the novice, looking for a quick way to place their content online and start teaching, to the expert who wants to host them SCORM content for free.

To show Odijoo’s versatility, we’ve put together this list of 3 easy ways for you to author your courses for free in Odijoo, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user.

1. Easy Course Authoring for the Beginner

By far the easiest way to author courses in Odijoo, is to create a classroom and upload files into it, such as PDFs or PowerPoints. This is surely not the most effective way of administering a course, but for users who have little time and require a quick, collaborative, web-based and free method of sharing files and training, it may be the best solution.

To add a PDF or PowerPoint to Odijoo, simply create a classroom, and add your resources to it. Resources can be PDFs, PowerPoints, Microsoft Word files and much more. Once you’re ready to share, invite your students or add your Classroom as a public Classroom to the Odijoo Marketplace. Learn more»

2. Rapid Course authoring for the Intermediate User

Rapid Course authoring is a good option for users who require a more advanced course authoring method than simply adding resources, yet still require a fast and easy-to-use solution. Odijoo’s built-in authoring tool allows users to create PowerPoint-like course slides, from right within Odijoo and instantly then save them as an Odijoo course. Your Authoring tool-created course can incorporate images, hyperlinks, flash, video, audio and more.

Once you’ve finished authoring your course, you can import it into a classroom, to add resources / files, discussion boards, quizzes, completion reports (grading) and more. You can also invite students to take the course, or offer it for free or a fee on the Odijoo Marketplace to the Odijoo community. The result is a beautiful, interactive and dynamic online course, authored and hosted for you within Odijoo.

To create a course using the Odijoo authoring tool, log in, navigate to the Content Menu and select “Authoring tool” to begin. Learn more»

3. Advanced Course Authoring for the Expert

If you’re an expert course developer, or someone who’s familiar with Online Course authoring, then you’ll likely already have previously-created SCORM-Compliant content, authored in an external authoring tool. Odijoo is 100% SCORM- compliant and allows you to import your SCORM content and begin teaching it right away, and for free. Simply import your SCORM course and then add it to a classroom.

Once in a classroom, you can choose to add discussion boards, quizzes and completion reports to your SCORM course and most importantly, you can begin inviting students to take the course. Alternatively, you can sell it or offer the course for free, in the Odijoo Marketplace, to interested Odijoo users. The best part is it’s all 100% free – if you don’t make money, we don’t charge.

To import a SCORM-compliant course to Odijoo, log in, navigate to the Content Menu and select “Import SCORM” to begin. Learn more»

So there you have it – whether you’re a novice, intermediate or expert, Odijoo has the free, and web-based course authoring solution for you. To learn more about Odijoo, click here.

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!

Signing up for Odijoo, creating courses in Odijoo, publishing courses in Odijoo and hosting courses in Odijoo are all absolutely free. However, once you’re done all that, you’re going to want to bring your knowledge online and start delivering, sharing or monetizing your courses.

There are three ways to bring your knowledge online with Odijoo:

1. You can share your online courses with the Odijoo community.
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2. You can sell your online courses in Odijoo. Odijoo™ deducts 10% from the purchase price (with a $5 minimum charge) everytime someone purchases your course and you keep the rest! If you don’t make money, we don’t charge!
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3. You can create an Odijoo Campus for free and have your own private online space for training employees. Campus seats are sold in blocks, with each seat representing one user taking one course. You can either purchase a block of 100 seats for $700, a block of 500 seats for $3,000 or a block of 1,000 seats for $5,000.
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It’s that simple to bring your knowledge online wth Odijoo!