Campus - Online Courses Platform Plugin

Campus is a Kajabi clone plugin for October CMS. It lets you create an complete online course platform. People can purchase course and follow through the course with the pre-defined drip-method by the course author. You can set up your own fully functioning online courses with your own video, external video, audio, pdf, images and content.

Features

• OC v3 compatible
• multisite compatible
• a course is comprised of multiples modules themselves comprised of lessons.
• a course can be free to access, be purchased or a prior interview is necessary (by application).
• a course's access can be limited in time (to avoid fraud and sharing account)
• the pace of the course can be decided with the following options:
  • All modules/lessons are instantly and always available
  • Modules get available every X days
  • Modules get available on a particular weekday
  • Modules get available on a specific date
• a module can be set to be always available independently of the course drip-method chosen (useful for Bonus modules or Introduction type of modules)
• user checkout and fulfill the registration process after successful payment
• allow to externalize the customer onboarding process with an external application process (Ex: interview) and payment process
• notifications to customers and admin when a customer purchases a course
• notifications when a module gets unlocked and available (requires the cronjob to be installed)
• manual trigger for notification from the course author to customers when a new lesson has been added or updated
• course progress management (Lesson completion and general progress in the course)
  • Free flow mode: capacity to decide if user is required to complete a lesson before seeing the next one or have access to all the lessons inside a module
• possibility to use a custom email template inside a course or let the system use the default one when a module is getting unlocked for the user
• thumbnail generation from video file (requires FFMpeg library to be installed on the server) at creation of lesson (settings)
• a lesson material can be:
  • a video file
  • an audio file
  • a rich text content (with video, embed video, and/or audio)
  • Images slideshow
  • PDF slideshow
  • attachments files
• lesson video resumes where you left it in the lesson page
• backend shortcuts access to modules'courses and lessons' courses (settings)
• easy way to reorder modules (from the course form) and lessons (from the modules form)
• can add notes aside each lesson for content creators. Helps to add reminders, to-dos,...

Notification Emails

These are the notification emails that are sent using Campus.

Admin templates

• admin-client-purchase: Sent to the site admin when a course has been purchased.

Public templates

• client-purchase: Sent to the customer after a successful checkout process.
• client-registration: Sent to the customer after a successful checkout process for website registration purpose.
• client-module-unlocked: Sent to the customer when a module get unlocked (if the course is setup with drip content).
• client-updated-lesson-lang: Manually triggered by course author. Sent to the customer when a lesson has been added or updated.

Note: Make sure the .env variable ACTIVE_THEME is set with the active theme

Course Workflow

Demo data

The demo data provides you with 3 different test courses and a user. The user will be registered to 2 of the courses:

• Relationship Mastery for Men
• Online Cooking
• Learn to play the guitar

Note: This will create the corresponding folders in the media files to store videos and images.

Relationship Mastery for Men

Registration can be done after payment - This is a paid course - link to a Stripe Product.

Content is revealed automatically every 7 days from the user registration date.

Online Cooking

Registration is immediate as this is a free course -

All content is immediately available.

Learn to play the guitar

Registration is manual as this course needs a interview, which we call a By application course -

Content is revealed on Saturday's.

To seed the data

run the command php artisan campus:seed-demo

You can then login with the following credentials email: john@doe.com password: johndoe9090

Installing the cron job worker

This job is handling the correct flow in the user's progress on their courses. It will move forward the user progress to the next module when it is required and send the appropriate email to notify the user.

Install the cron tab on your server as per October CMS documentation

Ex: * * * * * php /october/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

One time test the schedule job worker

or manually run the command to test php artisan campus:test-job

How to implement payment options

Stripe setup

The Campus plugin is using the Stripe Checkout Link.

First, create your Stripe account here. Set the test mode. Then, create a Stripe payment link page. Copy/paste your payment page link url in your Course, in the tab options of the form in the backend. Ex: https://buy.stripe.com/3fsbYd1QO9cRgVKdQQ

Then go to your Stripe dashboard, menu developers, tab Webhook and add your webhook link relative to your application domain name. Ex: https://courses.mydomain.com/webhook/{your_token}

Note: {your_token} must be defined in the plugin settings

Grab your Stripe Product ID and paste it into the course, options tab, in the backend. Note: the product you created for your payment link can be found on the product catalog page, then on the top right corner of the product detail page. A product ID looks like prod_PBzUOxYHmboLvN

Then head over your website and you can pay by using the credit card number 4242 4242 4242 4242, a expiry date in the future like 12/34 and a random CVC.

Components

[courseRegister]

[courseList]

[courseDetails]

[moduleDetails]

[lessonDetails]

Upcoming version

new features coming up:

• refactoring the webhook payment so that we can easily add new ones like Paypal
• adding a quizz feature for the lesson
• a theme implementing a UI for course creator to manage courses (to replace OC backend)
• a comment system underneath each lesson / or global forum attached to each course
• possibility to add a pinned message on the course UI
• send reminder to user who didn't check their new modules available