eFront eLearning (LMS) integration plugin

Ongoing enrollment question

Hi,

I'm deciding on the delivery mechanism for an online course I am creating, and found this thread very interesting.

I have a couple of questions about the capabilities of this solution before finally deciding and buying the aMember script and installing eFront, would you be able to help? I haven't been able to find this information by reading the FAQ or Wiki at eFront.

My model is a fairly standard one: Free subscription for a limited "preview" course. Monthly paid membership for a 6 month period delivering 26 lessons (i.e. weekly). I will have Silver, Gold, Platinum levels (i.e. different courses in eFront, I presume) with access to different content and files.

1) Can this solution drip feed the content on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, with content scheduled from the moment they sign up? I see from the Wiki that I can schedule content for specific dates, but that's not of interest as this is an ongoing enrollment process.

2) If the member cancel their subscription half way through I would like them to be able to access all lessons so far (after all, they've paid for them), but prevent new lessons becoming available. Is this possible?

3) As a bonus... I noticed 'Projects' in eFront which seems to be perfect for getting feedback and provide guidance, as I intend to take 2-3 of the lessons and give the student a task to complete. Again, can this be done on a drip-feed basis? I noticed for instance that projects have a deadline and it would be very useful to be able to set the deadline to 6 months from signup for instance.

Thanks for any feedback!

Thanks for the feedback (and my apologies for my late reply). I will keep my eyes out for your next version of the plugin.

This is in fact a very standard model - at least in the Internet Marketing world. There are a number of websites who operate on this basis and today using Joomla, or Wordpress with Digital Access Pass, or Wordpress with Wishlist Member, or other solutions such as www.membergate.com (although they are missing some of the functionality).

There are quite a number of people looking for decent solutions that are easy to use, and with the Internet being what it is, I believe having drip-feed for delivering online courses would be very relevant for many, including companies. For instance, companies could run online safety courses for new staff members on a rolling basis, distance learning companies who do correspondence courses have people starting afresh on a continuous basis, etc.

I will join the forum at eFront and maybe have a discussion with the developers there as well.

Cheers!

Hello everyone,

Thanks for a great plugin Skippybosco !

I just installed it, but I get something strange when creating products :

*eFront Groups is empty (no choice)
* eFront Subscriptions is empty (no choice)
* Additional subscriptions shows my course, but none of the lessons

Is this normal ? Any idea on what I should do to correct this ?

Thanks a lot !

I just solved it : a mistake in the plugin username.

Very very cool plugin. eFront + aMember, the best of both worlds

efront vs aMember customer records

Hello Skippy,

It seems the aMember plugin does not integrate the payment data into the customer efront account. So he would see 0 when he actually paid for the course.

Is this normal ?

How would it work when someone who is already a member wants to purchase an additional course ? Should they do it through their eFront Home (will it propagate back to aMember ?), or through their aMember home (then should you disable the purchasing of the course through eFront to avoid a mess in customer records) ?

Thanks for your kind advice.

Needing to test functionality of aMember & eFront

I have read through the threads and see that others have brought up a concern between eFront and aMember trial version.

Has there been any update to this issue?

Is there a particular reason for aMember failing to work with some plugins?

Thank you,
Christoph Micklon
Abacus
Christoph@WebDEZN.com
+1 (775) 636.7564

problem: I have set up the amember pro efront plugin as instructed, and now when I try to log into efront using my admin username and password I am unable to log in and keep getting the following message in efront when I attempt to log in:

"You have been logged out due to a long period of inactivity"

I am trying to log into efront with the same admin account that I am using for the efront plugin. Is this not allowed?

Also, I do no have choices for any of the categories under the "Additional Options" section of the amember manage products page.

What could be causing both of these problems?

Problem solved

Your efront plugin documentation has the following url listed for the Full path to the eFront API2:

http://mydomain.com/efront/www.api2.php:mad:

This needs to be corrected to:

http://mydomain.com/efront/www/api2.php

I'm still not sure what's causing the efront login problem, but I suspect that it is due to the admin login being used by amember and myself at the same time.

eFront Plugin Issue

I have followed all of the instructions in the efront plugin documentation, and it appears that I have installed efront, amember pro, and the plugin successfully. Unfortunately, I cannot access the efront lesson that I created when I log into amember with the account I created. I want the student to go directly into the efront lesson dashboard immediately after they log in through amember. Instead, when I log in I go to the amember membership page, where I see the lesson link. When I click on the link, I go to the error 404 page of my wordpress website.

I have entered - http://www.myiprep.com/efront/www/content/lessons/ - as the product url in amember. Is this correct, and if so, how will amember differentiate between lessons when I create more than one lesson in this folder? Does the efront plugin act to protect the lesson or do I need to configure the other plugins available in amember, such as PHP include? Basically, I am at a loss as to how to set up efront with amember in order to protect the lessons created and provide each student direct access to the lesson the student purchases.

Any help on this will be much appreciated.

Skippybosco, Would you close this postings -- it got 117 threads -- and start a new one with all update informationm other recommendations on solutions outside eFront, and important notes. And if possible, move this postings (and open new one) in 3rd Party Forum?

I was unaware you had this problems in the past.

I was being concerned that the thread was being long and you have 6 pages -- It will take time for users to read each page for a solution. However, I believe some of the older posts may have been resolved via your upgraded versions; they may not be active on-going issue with eFront Plugin (or troubleshooting). I believe you have done lot of upgraded since the first post, I think it's appropriate to create a new thread with latest version including features and any other note or information we need to know (e.g. change in php).

No no no...I think I wasn't clear myself and I apologized. I think this efront discussions should be moved to "3rd Party Service Provider" -- because you're selling or giving away plug in for eFront.

Skippy, I want to thank you for asking me for clarification. Right now, I'm not sure if you should close the thread because of your past experience. I trust you know what may be best and what's right thing to do.