Teachworks’ Website Booking Plugin Part 3: Adding Your First Course

Teachworks’ Website Booking Plugin is a customizable booking solution that tutoring companies can add directly to their websites to improve client engagement.

This article marks the final segment of a three-part series that guides you through adding your first booking option, open class, and course. In this post, we’ll focus on adding your first course that new and existing clients can enroll in.

Below are the other articles in the series:

• Teachworks’ Website Booking Plugin Part 1: Adding Your First Booking Option
• Teachworks’ Website Booking Plugin Part 2: Adding Your First Open Class

What is the Website Booking Plugin?

Teachworks’ free Website Booking Plugin is a feature that you can integrate directly with your tutoring website. Your existing clients and prospective clients can visit your website to easily book lessons, join classes or enroll in courses depending on your specific configuration.

The add-on offers a range of customizable settings, including the ability to modify basic design elements such as the button colour and text. Once you’ve customized your settings, you can copy the code provided and add it to your website where you would like the booking plugin to appear.

For more detailed information about the available settings, visit our knowledge base: Website Booking Plugin. If you would like to view a live demo of this feature, you can find one here: Website Booking Plugin Demo.

Adding Your First Course

In order to display courses on the Website Booking Plugin, you’ll need to select “Join Open Classes” or “Both” under the Booking Modes section on the Website Booking Plugin settings page.

In addition to the settings above, you’ll need to enable the Open Classes Add-on. On the Open Classes Settings page, make sure that you’ve activated the “Join Course” setting.

After completing the initial setup, you can proceed to add your first course by following the easy steps below:

1. Add a new lesson to the calendar and enable the “Allow students to join lesson” option.

2. Set a student limit if applicable.

3. Select the “Repeat” checkbox – this will bring up a “Repeat Settings” popup. On the popup, select the “Join full course of lessons” option.

4. Add a Course Name and Description as needed to provide your clients with more information about the course.

5. Select your preferred repeat settings.

6. Submit the form to save your changes and create your first course.

Enrolling in a Course Through the Website Booking Plugin

Now that you’ve created your first course, clients will be able to enroll through the Website Booking Plugin added to your website. The process will look like this from a client’s perspective:

1. Clients visit your website and click the booking button.

2. They are presented with a list of available courses that they can join. Next to the course they will see a “Join All” button. They will also be able to expand the course details to view upcoming dates.

3. After clicking the “Join All” button for a specific course, they’ll be directed to the booking form where they can enter their personal details.

4. Lastly, they’ll then have the opportunity to review their course enrollment information and details. They can click the “Complete Enrollment” button to finalize the enrollment.

A few things to keep in mind:

• Courses will only appear in this list if the course has not started yet. If you’d like to give students an opportunity to join future lessons after it has already started, you’ll need to edit the lesson’s repeat settings and set the Enrollment Settings to “Join Individual lessons”.
• By default, your service list settings will be used to determine the total cost of the course. If a student is logged in when booking, their selected billing method will be used to determine the cost. If you would like to set the same cost for all students in the course, you can use the cost override feature to do this.
• As soon as you start adding courses, you will see 2 new “Join Course Confirmation Email” templates – one is for teachers and the other for clients.

For more information about adding courses in Teachworks, visit our knowledge base: Creating Courses

Additional Website Booking Plugin Features

The Website Booking Plugin supports various additional features, such as the ability to add Multiple Website Booking Plugins. This might be useful for companies that offer a variety of courses and would like to keep them separate based for whatever reason.

For more information, you can view this blog post: Bonus Website Booking Plugin Options.

You can access the other parts in this series by clicking on one of the links below:

• Teachworks’ Website Booking Plugin Part 1
• Teachworks’ Website Booking Plugin Part 2

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