- Is there a charge to place courses on the MyiCourse™ site?
- Can I charge people to take my course?
- Can I sell advertising for my courses?
- How does MyiCourse™ make money?
- How do I find a course?
- How do I register to take a course?
- Does my registration work for all courses?
- Are all of the courses free?
- How do I know which course is best?
- How do I know what’s in the course before I take it?
- Can I create my own courses?
- Do I have to have programming or HTML skills to make a course?
- Can I charge for my course?
- How do I process credit cards for my courses?
- How do other people see and take my course?
- How do I know if the course was completed?
- Can I sell advertising on my courses?
- Is there a limit on the number of courses I can make or take?
- Can I make a course on any subject?
- What happens if I place copyrighted material in my course?
- What browser and operating system should I use with MyiCourse™?
- Who owns my course content after I create a course?
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Is there a charge to place courses on the MyiCourse™ site and/or create an online university?
No, it’s free. Really, it’s free! We believe everyone should have the ability to teach others. Not all worthwhile information resides inside a classroom. Remember our motto, “Flattening the world one course at a time.” We believe education should not have barriers. We are as free as Craig’s List.
You bet. If you create a MyiCourse™ university, you can create courses which are free, or which require payment. After the course is authored, you determine the price you feel equates with the knowledge you are trying to convey. Then go to your MyiCourse™ sub-domain and set up one of the payment gateways in the set-up section of the website. No, we don’t get a cut of any monies you make. Remember, the site is free! All revenues you generate, are yours to keep, we do not get inside of your pockets.
Yes! There are a variety of income opportunities with your MyiCourse™ site. Banner advertisements are the most prominent advertisement opportunities. MyiCourse™ allows you to become your own ad agency. The banner ads option can be activated and is available on a monthly subscription basis of $15/month. Although you pay a monthly charge to MyiCourse™ you can sell this space to anyone who wants to advertise at your site. (This is the only way that MyiCourse™ will charge you for use of the platform. If you don’t want to advertise, the site is free. If you want to advertise, we require $15 per month.) For example, if you know 5 companies that want to have their name associated with your course content, and each company is willing to pay $50 per month, you can generate $250 per month. (Really, the amount is $235 after paying $15 for the banner ad option)! Remember, you are in charge. There are no obstacles.
MyiCourse™ makes money from the monthly fee from those site owners that choose to activate their banner ad option and sell banner advertisements to others. We do not charge to create, use, or operate any learning platforms at MyiCourse™. We do not get a cut from any commerce done on the site. There are no hidden fees or agendas. The way we make money is by charging people to use the banner ad space. If you don’t mind having banner ads, then the site is free.
All courses created by the public university platforms can be found by the MyiCourse™ search engine. The search window is always visible to allow you to search for courses created by others who want to flatten the world as well. If you search and don’t find a subject you want, maybe you should think of creating a course on this topic yourself.
Registration is simple and only requires two pieces of information; a valid e-mail address and a password. You only have to register once to take any course anywhere on the myicourse platform. Click Login in the upper right hand corner and fill in the registration for new users. Remember your user name and password. If you forget your email address...well let's not go there. If you forget your password, simply click the forgot password option.
Yes, once you register the first time with your e-mail and password, it will work on all other MyiCourse sites. Some sites may ask for additional user information. We also hate, as users of the internet, having to re-register time and time again. Remember, we are users just like you. We, like everyone else hate those irritating and annoying pop-up ads, which is why we do not allow them on our site!
No, however, many of the courses are free. Some courses do require payment. That is the beauty of the MyiCourse™ site. We allow free commerce and a marketplace economy to determine the worth of the intellectual property created on our platforms.
All courses can be rated by the students after completion. The rating of course work helps others determine the value. The 5 star rating can be found on the search page results. We only allow the rating to occur once someone has completed the course work on that particular cource.
First, go to the MyiCourse™ home page and enter a search term for the subject you are interested in. For example, enter “How to install a ceiling fan.” The search results page will list courses that match your search request. The search result will also contain a link for course “details.” This details page will describe the course, the rating and issues such as the inclusion of downloadable notes, images, audio, video, PDF files and additional comments.
Of course, that’s what the site is for! Go to the MyiCourse™ home page and go through the simple three step process of creating your own MyiCourse™ university. After completing the registration, you will be taken to your MyiCourse™ university. Login and you will have access to the administration functions. Once you create your own MyiCourse universtiy, you can create as many courses, on whatever topic you choose.
No! The MyiCourse™ interface is almost totally WYSIWYG, or “What you see is what you get.” If you can operate a word processor, you can create page content. However, for those who have HTML coding skills, this option is available as well.
Yes! Fees can be charged for any course, or they can be placed on the system without any charge. The choice is yours. If you are going to charge the public to take courses, you will need to create a payment gateway account to process credit card purchases. For more detail, see the next question.
MyiCourse™ encourages commerce and payment for intellectual property. Those who wish to charge for a course will need to establish a payment gateway account with an outside company, such as Paypal. Login to your new site and click “set-up.” Then choose “Payment Configuration.” This will show all companies that interface with the MyiCourse™ system. Enter the appropriate information on the company you choose, click the “enable” box and then click “save.” You have now connected your credit card processing. For a more detailed course, please go to the MyiCourse™ learning center. (No we don’t receive any type of monies from the bank, Paypal… or you. Remember, it’s free!).
People will normally find your course by searching the MyiCourse database with specific search terms. You will also want to drive people to your specific courses from other web sites such as blogs or by distributing the URL address in company literature, etc. The student will then register and can take your course.
Accountability is a key component of distance education. All courses on the MyiCourse™ system are timed. Each student will be able to see how much time was spent on each course. All tests are graded and the transcript of completed courses will also include test grades.
You bet. You may sell banner advertisements on your site. MyiCourse™, should you decide to sell banner ads, will charge $15 per month to help offset our costs. There is no limit to the number of banner ads and you may sell them for any fee you decide is appropriate. Some of our platform users have sold $500 worth of advertising for “free” courses they authored on their site. With a $15 a month overhead cost, this leaves them with a net of $485 per month.
No. The only limit is your knowledge and your passion.
We encourage courses on nearly every subject but there are a few limitations on inappropriate materials. Please see the user agreement. In short, any course work that might be harmful, is specifically prohibited, e.g. “How to make a bomb.”
What happens if I place copyrighted or inappropriate material in my course?
Per the user agreement, MyiCourse™ reserves the right to remove courses and materials that violate the user agreement. While we encourage free expression, we do respect the intellectual rights of others.
What browser and operating system should I use with MyiCourse™?
In general, the courses located on MyiCourse™ can be viewed with many older computers and even with modem connections. This is not the suggested method for using MyiCourse™ to create course content. MyiCourse™ works best with newer computer systems with higher amounts of RAM and a broad-band connection. The web browser on the computer may actually be a bigger issue. No browser is perfect and occasional incompatibilities may be encountered.
Users of Microsoft Windows OS will find MyiCourse™ works well with Internet Explorer and Firefox. MacOSX users will wish to avoid the Safari browser as many incompatibilities currently exist. These are expected to improve with Safari 3. MacOSX users are currently urged to use Firefox or Camino browsers. Linux users are urged to use the Firefox browser. All users are urged to switch browsers when an incompatibility is found.
But what about the really older Macs, OS 8.5 to 9.x? Those older Macs have plenty of difficulty on the web as most browsers are now terribly out of date. The only currently supported browser for these older systems is iCab. Using iCab 3.0.3 will allow the Mac to register and access courses, but there are still conflicts and it will not allow the Mac owner to create course content. The iCab is a free browser and may help squeeze a bit more life from these older computers.
Who owns the course content that I create?
You do! Not us! You create it; you own it. (It's inside our user agreement, if you don't believe us!) Remember, we have developed the Myicourse site to allow everyone to convey thoughts via the internet. Put your mind at ease, if you create it, you own it."
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