What does “Syndicate Course” mean?

Syndicating online courses in Odijoo means creating an online course using the authoring tool or by importing a PowerPoint presentation and then selling that course to other users to use in their own classroom. 

Syndicated courses are found for sale in the Marketplace. They are usually produced by subject matter experts or instructional designers, who wish to monetize their knowledge without having to
create and administer a classroom of their own.

Syndicating a course is a simple process:

The first step is to create an online course in Odijoo using
the Authoring tool, or by importing a PowerPoint Presentation. Once this is
done, a user can go to Authored Courses
and next to the appropriate course, choose Syndicate
Course
. The next step is to add details to the syndicated course. These
include:

  • A name and description – these are the
    only required fields. They describe the contents of a syndicated course.
  • Keywords that describe the syndicated course.
  • Subject Matter – describes what the
    syndicated course content is about; over 70 subject matters to choose from.
  • Industry – describes the industry the
    course content is centered around; over 40 industries to choose from.
  • Requirements – Any prior knowledge about
    a topic which users should already have before purchasing a syndicated course.
  • Payment Options – The cost for users to
    purchase the syndicated course and the currency they will be paying in.
  • Course Image – What users see beside the
    name and description of a syndicated course, when viewing it in the
    Marketplace.

After including course details and
setting the appropriate cost for users, the syndicated course
will show up in the Marketplace.

When a user searches the Marketplace, they
will see the course details, details and any user ratings that have been added
by previous students. To purchase a syndicated course, a user must add it to
their cart and pay for it within Odijoo via PayPal. After they pay the
enrollment fee, Odijoo receives the payment, keeps 10% (with a $5 minimum
charge) and the rest is payed to the classroom administrator after the end of
the month. Odijoo covers any applicable taxes or PayPal fees.

There is no limit to how many times a syndicated course can
be sold or bought. If a user wants to create multiple classrooms with the same
syndicated course content, they must purchase more than one instance of the
same syndicated course. This can be done by changing the quantity field in the
shopping cart to the appropriate number.

Once a user purchases a syndicated
course, they can access it by clicking on the Order History section of the Marketplace
menu and finding their course at the bottom under Courses ready for a Classroom. The course content cannot be
modified, it can only be deployed to a classroom. Once a user has purchased a
syndicated course and turned it into a classroom, they can:

  • Turn it into a closed enrollment classroom and
    invite students to join for free or for an enrollment cost.
  • Turn it into an open enrollment classroom and
    offer it for free or for an enrollment cost in the Marketplace.
  • Add the classroom to their campus.

 

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