Adding content to your digital products or courses

This guide will show you how to add content like text, links, videos, images, and PDF documents to your digital products or courses.

In Voma, you can deliver any product to your customers as a digital product or course by adding content to it. We simplify the transformation with our content editor, making the process a straightforward and hassle-free experience. 

 

 

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More about digital products and courses

How to add rich content, links, and images

How to add PDFs

How to add videos 

How to publish and preview your changes

 

 

 

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More about digital products and courses

It's important to understand that while all courses are digital products, not all digital products are courses. For example, you can deliver graphic templates, software, downloadable ebooks, info sheets, and helpful resources as digital products without them being courses.

Voma allows you to create your lessons in whatever way works best for you. You can include multiple videos or PDF documents, links, and rich text in a single lesson. The text, links, images, and videos can also be arranged in any sequence you prefer.

 

📑  Note: Whether you're creating a digital product or a course, you'll create module/s and add content to lesson/s to provide structure to your product.

 

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How to add rich content, links, and images

 

📑  Note: You can either copy your content from existing digital products or courses into Voma, or create new content from scratch. When you paste existing content into a lesson, Voma will preserve its basic formatting.

1. Head over to the product you want to add content to and select the Content tab.
   
   
   
2. Click on the lesson where you want to add the content.
   
   
   
3. Now you can create your lesson by adding content to it. 
   
   
   You can add: 
   • PDF Files:
     • Upload one or multiple PDF Documents.
   • Text: 
     • You can apply various styling options to your text, including Bold, Italics, Underline, and Strikethrough. You can also choose the color of your text.

     • To give structure to your lesson, it’s important to use:

       • Paragraph Format - This gives you the option to use pre-set formatting for text in paragraphs, different-sized headings, and even code.
       • Align - Align text to the left, right, center, or justify. 
       • Lists - To create numbered or bulleted lists.
       • Indents - These control the distance from the left margin.
   • Links:
     • To insert a link to an external URL, click on the Insert Link  icon.
     • Type or paste the URL and text you want to display in your lesson and tick the checkbox if you want the link to open in a new tab.
     • Click Insert. 
   • Videos:
     • You can embed one or more YouTube, Wistia, Vimeo, or Loom video/s to a lesson.
   •  Images:
     • Click on the Insert Image  icon to upload an image from your device.
     • You can click on the inserted image for more editing options like adding links, captions, alternative text, and more.
4. When you’re done, head to the top right corner of your screen and click Save. 
   
   

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How to add PDF's

PDF is a consistent, secure way to distribute valuable content that your customers can also print out or download for offline use. 

1. Under the Files section in your lesson, select Upload a PDF.
   
   
   
2. Choose the PDF you want to upload and click Upload 1 File.
   
    
3. Your file will now be listed under Files, from where you can view, rename, or delete it.
   

 

📑  Note: The maximum file size for a PDF is 25MB, but there's no limit to the number of PDF documents you can add to a lesson. 

 

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How to add videos

You can embed one or more YouTube, Wistia, Vimeo, or Loom video/s to a lesson. You can also control the placement of your video/s within your lesson, it doesn't have to be at the top.

1. Head to the lesson where you want to add the video, and click on insert video .
   
   
   
2. Paste the video URL into the space provided. You also have the option to select the Autoplay option. Click Insert.
3. After inserting the video, you can click on the video to open up additional editing options. You'll be able to replace the video with another video, delete it, or select/change the autoplay option.
4. When you're done, click Save.
   
   

💡  Tip: If you don't have a suitable video platform yet, Loom is one of the options you can consider.

 

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How to publish and preview your changes

While you're still working on your digital product or course, you can keep your lessons in Draft mode until you’re ready to publish it.

Whenever you want to preview your changes, set the status of the lesson you want to preview to Live and click Preview. Change the status back to Draft until your product is ready to go live.

You can simply change the status of your lesson to Live when you feel you're ready to publish it, and you can Preview your content from any tab within the Products section.

 

🔎  Sneak Peek:

 

📑  Note: When a user places an order that includes at least one product with published LMS content, they will receive a transactional email with a link. This link will direct them to the customer dashboard, where they can log in and access their LMS products. 

 

 

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