Guru Manual

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Version 1.0.3

Updated on 4/26/2012

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1 What is Guru? |Copyright of iJoomla.com

WHAT IS GURU? ................................................................................................................................................ 3

INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

Enter your PayPal Email: ................................................................................................................................. 3

SET UP PAYPAL ........................................................................................................................................................ 4

Steps: .................................................................................................................................................................. 4

UNINSTALLING........................................................................................................................................................... 6

UPGRADING .............................................................................................................................................................. 7

HIERARCHY ........................................................................................................................................................ 7

SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................................... 7

SETTINGS: GENERAL ................................................................................................................................................ 7

SETTINGS: MEDIA STORAGE ..................................................................................................................................... 8

SETTINGS: LAYOUTS................................................................................................................................................. 9

List of categories ............................................................................................................................................... 9

Category Page ................................................................................................................................................. 11

List of Courses ................................................................................................................................................. 11

Course Page .................................................................................................................................................... 13

Other.................................................................................................................................................................. 15

List of Teachers ............................................................................................................................................... 16

Teacher Page .................................................................................................................................................. 17

SETTINGS: STYLE ................................................................................................................................................... 19

SETTINGS: PROGRESS BAR .................................................................................................................................... 19

SETTINGS: EMAIL .................................................................................................................................................... 20

SETTINGS: PROMOTION BOX .................................................................................................................................. 21

PAYMENT PLUGINS ................................................................................................................................................. 22

MANAGERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 22

TEACHER MANAGER ................................................................................................................................................ 23

Adding a new teacher ..................................................................................................................................... 23

Tabs ................................................................................................................................................................... 25

STUDENT MANAGER ................................................................................................................................................ 28

Adding a new student ..................................................................................................................................... 28

ORDERS .................................................................................................................................................................. 30

Columns: ........................................................................................................................................................... 30

Adding a new orders ....................................................................................................................................... 31

PROMO CODES ....................................................................................................................................................... 34

Adding a new promo code ............................................................................................................................. 35

LANGUAGES ............................................................................................................................................................ 36

TRAINING .......................................................................................................................................................... 36

COURSES ................................................................................................................................................................ 37

Columns ............................................................................................................................................................ 37

Adding a new course ...................................................................................................................................... 38

Tabs ................................................................................................................................................................... 38

COURSE TREE ......................................................................................................................................................... 44


Accessing the course tree .............................................................................................................................. 45

Adding modules ............................................................................................................................................... 45

Adding lessons................................................................................................................................................. 46

CREATING THE LESSON .......................................................................................................................................... 47

TABS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 48

General ............................................................................................................................................................. 48

Jump Buttons ................................................................................................................................................... 52

Narration/Sound............................................................................................................................................... 53

Publishing ......................................................................................................................................................... 54

Meta Tags ......................................................................................................................................................... 54

RE-ORGANZING YOUR TREE ................................................................................................................................... 55

COURSES CATEGORIES .......................................................................................................................................... 55

Creating a new course category ................................................................................................................... 56

MEDIA LIBRARY ....................................................................................................................................................... 57

Adding new media .......................................................................................................................................... 58

MEDIA CATEGORIES ............................................................................................................................................... 63

Adding a media category................................................................................................................................ 63

QUIZZES .................................................................................................................................................................. 65

Creating a new quiz ........................................................................................................................................ 65

SUBSCRIPTIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 69

PLANS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 69

Creating a new subscription plan .................................................................................................................. 70

renewal plans ................................................................................................................................................... 71

Creating renewal plans ................................................................................................................................... 72

EMAIL REMINDERS .................................................................................................................................................. 73

Creating a new Email reminder ..................................................................................................................... 73

COMMENTS? .................................................................................................................................................... 75


WHAT IS GURU?

Guru is a learning and training extension for Joomla. It allows you to create training courses

with media, that you can sell.

INSTALLATION

To install Guru, unzip the package and install each of the following:

Go to Extensions->Install/uninstall

Browse to find and install com_guru_x.zip

Once installed, you will be able to access Guru by going to Components->Guru

ENTER YOUR PAYPAL EMAIL:

Go to components->Guru->Settings->PayPal plugin

Click PayPal

Enter your PayPal Email


SET UP PAYPAL

There are 2 things you must change in PayPal in order for Guru to work properly after your

customers make a payment.

Turn on auto return this ensures that your customers return to the site automatically

after they make the payment

Enable IPN (Instant Payment Notifications) this ensures that their order is recorded by

Guru as paid so that they can access their courses.

STEPS:

1. Login to PayPal

2. Click on "My Profile"

3. Click on "My selling tools" on the left

4. Click on "Website preferences" -> Update

a. Choose "Auto Return:" On

b. Enter your site's URL

c. Save


5. You should be back in the My Selling Tools page

6. Click on "Instant Payment Notifications" -> Update

a. enter your site's URL

b. Check the radio button next to Receive IPN messages (Enabled)

c. Save


UNINSTALLING

To uninstall Guru, simply uninstall the component and the modules. You will not lose any

information when you re-install the Guru extension.

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UPGRADING

There is no need to uninstall Guru in order to upgrade it. Simply install the component and the

module on top of the current installation.

HIERARCHY

Guru allows you to create course categories, then add the courses that reside inside them. Each

course contains training modules (educational not Joomla modules!).

You can then add lessons to each module, on the course tree, to hold the teaching material

itself. That content can be videos, text, links, quiz, audio, documents, files and more.

So the course hierarchy as follows:

---Courses categories

---Courses

---Modules

---Lessons

SETTINGS

SETTINGS: GENERAL

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Currency: Choose the currency appropriate for your country

Date/Time Format: Select the date and time format appropriate for your country

Open lesson in: You can choose to open the lesson on the front end inside the page, or

in a Modal Window

Let joomla determine the graybox size: Choose YES on this option if you want to let

Joomla determine the best size for the modal window on the backend

Window size (front-end): Enter the size of the Modal Window on the backend, where

the lesson and media preview will be displayed

Lesson window size (front-end): Enter the size of the Modal Window on the front end,

where the lesson will be displayed

Default video size: Enter the default video size for all your videos. You can choose a

different size on individual videos

SETTINGS: MEDIA STORAGE


Store Images in: Choose the folder where to store images uploaded

Store videos in: Choose the folder where to store video files uploaded

Store Audio in: Choose the folder where to store audio files uploaded

Store Documents in: Choose the folder where to store document files uploaded

Store Files in: Choose the folder where to store files uploaded

SETTINGS: LAYOUTS

LIST OF CATEGORIES

This is the Guru home page, it displays a list of categories like this (mini profile view):

Or like this (tree view):


On settings you can control everything about this page:

Layout: Mini Profiles: A format that shows information about this category, such as

image, description, read more. You can set up all these parameters below.

Tree: a format that shows a simple bullet list of the categories.

Image Size: Enter the category thumbnail image in pixels, to display in the mini profile

Image Alignment: Choose the category image thumbnail alignment

Wrap Image: Do you want the description text to wrap around the thumbnail?

Description Length: Choose how many maximum characters or words to show from the

category description.

Description Alignment: Choose the category description alignment

Read More: Choose whether you'd like to show a "read more" link to the category page.

If you choose NO, and users will use click the category name to get to the category page.

Read More alignment: If you choose to show the "read more" link, do you want it to

align to the left or to the right?

Show empty categories: If a category has no courses or sub categories, would you still

like to show it?


CATEGORY PAGE

This is the page that shows the category information and any sub categories or courses inside it.

On settings you can control every aspect of this page:

Image Size: Enter the category thumbnail image in pixels, to display in the mini profile

Image Alignment: Choose the category image thumbnail alignment



category description.

Description Alignment: Choose the category description alignment

LIST OF COURSES

List of courses are displayed on the category page of a category that has courses.


It looks like this (mini profile view):


On settings you can control every element of the course list:

Layout: Mini Profiles: A format that shows information about this course, such as image,

description, read more. You can set up all these parameters below. Tree: a format that

shows a simple bullet list of the courses.

Image Size: Enter the course thumbnail image in pixels, to display in the mini profile

Image Alignment: Choose the course image thumbnail alignment



course description.

Description Alignment: Choose the course description alignment


Read More: Choose whether you'd like to show a "read more" link to the course page. If

you choose NO, and users will use click the course name to get to the course page.



COURSE PAGE

The course page is where you can see the actual information about the course. It looks like this:

TOP AREA - THE AREA ON TOP OF THE TABS


This is the area right on top of the tabs. You can control which information to show and how.

Image Size: The course image thumbnail size

Image Alignment: Enter the course thumbnail image in pixels, to display in the top area


Teacher Name: Choose whether you wish to show the teacher's name or not

Released Date: Choose whether you wish to show the release date of this course or not

Level: Choose whether you wish to show the difficultly level of this course or not

Price: Choose whether you wish to show the price of this course or not

TABS


The tabs are where most of the information is, and you can choose to show or hide any of the

tabs. Tabs with no information available wont show. For example, if a course doesnt have any

requirements, the tab wont be displayed.

Table of Contents: Choose whether you wish to show the table of content tab or not

Description: Choose whether you wish to show the description tab or not

Price: Choose whether you wish to show the pricing tab or not

Teacher: Choose whether you wish to show teacher tab or not

Requirements: Choose whether you wish to show the requirements tab or not

OTHER

Show "Buy Now" button: Choose whether you wish to show a "Buy Now" button on the course

page or not


"Buy Now" Location: Choose the location of the "Buy Now" button (top, bottom, both top and

bottom)

LIST OF TEACHERS

The list of teachers shows all your teachers.

You can choose to show them like this (mini profile view):



You can control each element on this page on the settings:

Layout: Mini Profiles: A format that shows information about this teacher, such as

image, description, read more. You can set up all these parameters below. Tree: a

format that shows a simple bullet list of the teachers.

Image Size: Enter the teacher thumbnail image in pixels, to display in the mini profile

Image Alignment: Choose the teacher image thumbnail alignment



teacher description.

Description Alignment: Choose the teacher description alignment

Read More: Choose whether you'd like to show a "read more" link to the teacher page.

If you choose NO, and users will use click the teacher name to get to the teacher page.



TEACHER PAGE

The teachers page as well as the teacher tab shows the full information of the teacher.


You can control each of the elements of this page on the settings:

Image Size: Enter the teacher thumbnail image in pixels, to display in the teacher's

profile page

Image Alignment: Choose the teacher image alignment



teacher description.

Description Alignment: Choose the teacher description alignment

Note: to control which of the teachers links to show (blog, Email, twitter, facebook, website),

refer to their edit profile page. Incomplete links will not show on the front end.


SETTINGS: STYLE

On this page you can edit the class names on the left and the class properties on the right. Each

element in Guru has its own class and you can choose whether to use the default classes or

assign existing or entirely new classes.

Note: you need basic CSS knowledge to work with this feature. If you dont posses this

knowledge, we suggest you dont touch this page.

SETTINGS: PROGRESS BAR


The progress bar shows the student their progress on the lesson page on the front end. They

can see how many modules/lessons are left for them to finish the course.

On this setting page you can choose whether to show the progress bar and assign colors and

size to it.

Show Progress Bar: choose Yes if youd like to show the progress bar

Done Color: Choose the color that represents lessons that are already done

Not Done Color: Choose the color that represents lessons that are not done yet

Current Lesson Color: Choose the color to represent the current lesson

Width: Enter the width of the progress bar in pixels

Height: Enter the height of the progress bar in pixels

SETTINGS: EMAIL

On this settings page, you can enter the from name and from Email properties, that they will

see on every Guru Email they get from you.

From Name: The name they see on the Email they receive

From Email: The actual Email address they get the Email from


SETTINGS: PROMOTION BOX

When visitors of your site try to access lessons or files they have no permission to access, they

get a Modal Window with some content and a list of subscription plans to choose from. It looks

like this:

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You can edit the text that shows on top of the list of plans on this settings page:

PAYMENT PLUGINS

Here you can see a list of all the payment plugin installed

MANAGERS


TEACHER MANAGER

The teacher manager allows you view/manage/add/edit teachers.

ADDING A NEW TEACHER

On teachers manager click the New icon on top

On the next page, you will see 2 options:


Add a teacher who doesn't exist in the user database: Choose this option if the teacher you're

wanting to add doesn't have a user account on this Joomla website. If you choose this option,

you will be taken to profile creation page:

Once you fill out this page and save, this teacher will be added both to the teachers manager

and to the Joomla user manager.

Add a teacher who already exists in the user database: Choose this option if the teacher you're

wanting to add already has a user account on this Joomla website. If you choose this option,

you will be asked to enter the username, enter it and click NEXT.


Once you do, youll be able to enter the rest of the profile details, existing details will be pre-

populated.

TABS

GENERAL


Name: Enter the teachers' full name

Username: Enter the teacher's username

Title: Enter the teacher's title (For example, CEO of iJoomla)

Email: Enter the teacher's Email address

Website URL: Enter the teacher's website URL, must start with http://

Blog URL: Enter the teacher's blog URL, must start with http://

Facebook page URL: Enter the teacher's facebook URL, must start with http://

Twitter ID: Enter the teacher's twitter ID

Group: Choose a user group for this teacher

PHOTO

On this tab you can upload an image for the teacher. Usually this would be the teachers

headshot. This is the image that will be shown on list of teachers and on teachers profile page

on front end.


Click on "choose file" button to upload your image. The image can be in the following format:

.jpg, .gif, .png, .jpeg

Once the photo is uploaded, you can either delete it by clicking the Remove button or replace it

by clicking the Choose File button again.

BIO

On the bio tab you can enter the teachers biography. This information will be displayed on the

teachers list (mini profile view only), on the teachers profile page and on the teacher tab on

the course page.


STUDENT MANAGER

The student manager allows you view/manage/add/edit students.

ADDING A NEW STUDENT

On students manager click the NEW icon on top.


On the next page, you will see 2 options:

Add a student who doesn't exist in the user database: Choose this option if the student you're

wanting to add doesn't have a user account on this Joomla website. If you choose this option,

you will be taken to profile creation page:

Once you fill out this page and save, this student will be added both to the student manager

and to the Joomla user manager.

Add a student who already exists in the user database: Choose this option if the student

you're wanting to add already has a user account on this Joomla website. If you choose this

option, you will be asked to enter the username, enter it and click NEXT.


Once you do, youll be able to enter the rest of the profile details, existing details will be pre-

populated. Complete the missing fields and click SAVE.

ORDERS

The orders manager allows you view/add orders.

COLUMNS:

ID

The order id. Each order has a unique id.

DATE

The date the order was placed


PRICE

The amount paid for this order

CUSTOMER

The name of the customer who placed the order

STATUS

The payment status of this order. It can be paid or pending

PAYMENT METHOD

The payment plugin used to make a payment

ADDING A NEW ORDERS

You can place an order on the backend, just as easy as it is on the front end, and with even

more flexibility. This is useful if a customer is calling to order on the phone, or via Email, or if

you simply need to add an order through the backend.

STEP 1

To add a new order on the backend, click on NEW button on top.

STEP 2

You will see 3 options:


Add an order to someone who doesn't exist on the user database: If you want to add

an order to someone who is not already a user on the Joomla user manager, choose this

option.

If you choose this option, you will be asked to first create a user account for this person.

Add an order to someone who exists on the user database but is not a customer yet: If

you want to add an order to someone who already has a user account on the user

manager, but is not a customer yet, choose this option.

If you choose this option, you will be asked to enter the username of this person.

Add an order to an existing customer: If you want to add an order to an existing

customer, choose this option.

If you choose this option, you will be asked to enter the username of this person.

STEP 3

Now you will see the following screen:


Click the Add Product link.

A new field will appear:

Click the select button to choose the course youd like to add. You will see a window

with all the courses.

Click on the name of the course youd like to add.


Subscription type: choose whether its a new subscription or a renewal

Select plan: choose the subscription the renewal plan

Payment method: Choose the payment method

Promo code: Choose a promo code if you wish

Amount paid: Enter the amount paid. The amount can be any amount you want or the

price of this course.

To add more courses to this order, click on Add Product link again, and repeat the process.

Click Save when done

PROMO CODES

The promo codes manager allows you view/manage/add/edit promotion codes you can later

give your customers/visitors


ADDING A NEW PROMO CODE

Click NEW button on top

PARAMETERS:

Title: Give this promo code a name. For example Christmas 2011 sale

Code: Enter the code here, it can contain only alpha-numeric characters. Upper case

characters will be converted to lower case.

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Usage limit: If you'd like to limit the amount of times this promo code can be used,

enter the maximum amount here. Leave empty if you don't wish to limit

Discount amount: How much discount would you like to give? Enter the amount and

then choose % of $

Start publishing: Enter the date you'd like this promo code to start being working

End publishing: Enter the date you'd like this promo code to stop working

Only for existing students: If you'd like only existing students to be able to user this

promo code, choose YES here.

Publishing: Choose whether this promo code is published or not, unpublished promo

codes will not work

Usage Left: How many more times this promo code can be used (if a limit was set)

Time left: How much time is left before this promo code expires

Once youre done, click SAVE

LANGUAGES

The language manager allows you to replace the language of the front end backend. Its very

important that you dont change the variable themselves, only the values. For example:

GURU_TREESETTINGS = Settings

Everything thats before the = sign, is a variable, dont touch it. You can touch everything after

the = sign.

TRAINING


COURSES

The courses manager is where you manage all your courses.

COLUMNS

COURSE TREE (#MODULES)

Under this column you can find the name of the course. Clicking on it will take you to the course

tree.

EDIT INFO

Click on Edit Info on this column to access the basic settings of this course such as name,

category, image and description


CATEGORY

This column displays the category name of where this course resides.

ADDING A NEW COURSE

To add a new course, click on NEW button on top

TABS

GENERAL TAB


Course name: Enter the course name as you want it to show on the front-end

Alias: What you enter here, will be used to create SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs)

Parent Category: Choose the parent category of this course

Teacher: Choose who is the teacher of this course

Level: Choose the difficulty level of this course

Description: Enter a description of this course. This description will be displayed on the

course page and on list of courses

IMAGE TAB


Upload your image here. Images can be in .gif, .jpg, .jpeg,.png formats

FILES TAB

Choose which files will be displayed on the exercise files tab on the course page on the front

end. Click on Add Files and click on the file to add it. You can also choose the access level

(students, registered, visitors). Visitors who dont have access to the file, will see the promotion

window that allows them to select a plan and purchase the course.


PRICING/PLANS TAB

This tab allows you to select which subscription plans, renewal plans and Email reminders are

available for this course, what it the price for each plan/renewal plan and which plan/renewal

is the default (which means it will be selected by default on the front end).

SUBSCRIPTION PLANS

Subscriptions plans: Check the box next to each plan youd like to have available for this

course. Check the radio button next to the plan youd like to have as the default plan. Enter the

price for this course on the right. You can edit the subscription plans on the Subscriptions ->

Plans


RENEWAL PLANS

Renewal plans: Check the box next to each plan youd like to have available for renewal this

course. Check the radio button next to the plan youd like to have as the default renewal plan.

Enter the price for this course on the right. You can edit the subscription plans on the

Subscriptions -> Plans

EMAIL REMINDERS

Email Reminders: Choose which of the Email reminders will be sent for this course. You can edit

the Email reminders under: Subscriptions -> Email reminders

PUBLISHING TAB


Published: Choose YES if you want this course to be visible on the front end.

Start Publishing Date: Choose the date when this course starts to be visible on the front

end. The default is today's date

End Publishing Date: Choose the date when this course stops to be visible on the front

end. The default is never.

META TAGS TAB

Title: Enter the title tag for this course's page. Up to 64 characters are recommended.

Keywords: Enter the keywords metatag for this course's page. Up to 64 characters are

recommended.

Description: Enter the description metatag of this course's page. Up to 200 characters

are recommended.

REQUIREMENTS TAB

PREREQUISITES COURSE(S):


Add Course: choose which courses are prerequisites to this course. You can add as many

as you wish. These courses will be listed on the requirements tab of the course on the

front end.

Other Prerequisites: Enter any other prerequisites here.

Misc. Requirements: Enter any misc. prerequisites here.

Prerequisites Books: Enter names of books that are prerequisites.

COURSE TREE

The course tree is the heart of Guru. It allows you to structure your course by adding modules,

lessons and media on the fly.


ACCESSING THE COURSE TREE

You can access the course tree by clicking on the course name on the course manager.

A new course will have no modules and no lessons and will look like this:

ADDING MODULES

To add modules to your course, simply click on the Add New Module link, next to the course

name


You will see a new window that allows you to enter the module name and select a media or

text to show on that modules page. You can also select the access level. Click Save when youre

done.

ADDING LESSONS

You need to add at least one module, in order to add lessons, because lessons reside inside

modules. To add a new lesson, click on Add New Lesson link next to the module name.


CREATING THE LESSON

When you click on Add New Lesson, it opens a new window that allows you to construct your

lesson.


TABS

GENERAL

Lesson title: Enter the lesson title here, this is what will show on the course tree on the

front end

Alias: What you enter here will be used to create SEF URLs. You may leave this empty

Level: Choose the difficulty level of this lesson. The level will be shown on course tree on

the front end

Who can access this lesson: Choose who can see this lesson. Students = people who

paid for this course. Members = people are registered members of your site. Guests:

Anyone.


LAYOUTS:

Here you can choose any of the 12 available layouts, simply by clicking on the visual

representation of the desired layout.

Each layout can contain either a media (video, audio, document, file, link) or text, media

AND text or a quiz. You can tell by the colors and graphics on each layout what can go

inside it:

Orange zone = Media,

Gray zone = Text

Question Mark zone = Quiz

ADDING THE MEDIA/TEXT TO THE LESSON

After you select the layout, you can now select the media, text or quiz.

ADDING MEDIA TO A MEDIA ZONE:

Simply click on the Select media above the orange media zone to select from the

media library

Click on New media if youd like to add a brand new media.

Once you add the media, you can click on Edit Media to edit its properties.


ADDING TEXT TO A TEXT ZONE:


Simply click on the Select media above the gray text zone to select from the media

library (only text type is available here)

Click on New text if youd like to add a brand new text.

Once you add the text, you can click on Edit Text to edit its properties.


ADDING A QUIZ TO A QUIZ ZONE:

Simply click on the Select quiz above the orange zone to select from the list of quizzes

Click on New Quiz if youd like to add a brand new quiz.

Once you add the quiz, you can click on Edit quiz to edit its properties.

JUMP BUTTONS


Jump buttons allow you to add buttons inside your lesson to take your students to a different

location on your course. Its useful to skip information they already know, or take them to

lesson you think they may want to repeat.

You can add up to 4 jump buttons. Only ones you created will show on the front end.

HOW TO ADD A JUMP BUTTON

At the bottom of the lesson general tab, you will see 4 pink buttons. Click on one.

A new window will open, allowing you to enter the button label, and choose where inside the

course youd like them to go.

Enter the Jump text and click on the lesson youd like them to jump to,

Scroll down and click save

NARRATION/SOUND


Choose the audio file to be played automatically when the lesson page loads. This is optional.

PUBLISHING

Published: Choose YES if you want this lesson to be visible on the front end.

Start Publishing Date: Choose the date when this lesson starts to be visible on the front

end. The default is today's date

End Publishing Date: Choose the date when this lesson stops to be visible on the front

end. The default is never.

META TAGS


Title: Enter the title tag for this lesson's page. Up to 64 characters are recommended.

Keywords: Enter the keywords metatag for this lesson's page. Up to 64 characters are

recommended.

Description: Enter the description metatag of this lesson's page. Up to 200 characters

are recommended.

RE-ORGANZING YOUR TREE

You can, at any point, move things around on your course tree. You can:

Edit the module/lesson by clicking on its name

Remove modules and lessons by clicking the red x next to them

Drag and drop modules to a new location

Drag and drop lessons to a new location, within the same module or a different one

COURSES CATEGORIES

The category manager allows you to manage all your courses categories.


CREATING A NEW COURSE CATEGORY

Click on NEW

Category Name: Enter the course category name

Alias: What you enter here, will be used to create SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs)

Parent Category: Select the parent category or leave it at "root"

Description: Enter the description of this category. This description will be displayed on

front end category list and category page

Image: Upload your image for your category here. Images can be in .gif, .jpg, .png

formats

Save

You can create as many nested categories as you need.


MEDIA LIBRARY

The media library allows you to organize all your media in one place. Think of media as your

building blocks for your lessons. You can use and re-use the same media if you need to.


ADDING NEW MEDIA

Click New

Type: Select the media type. Based on your selection, new fields appropriate to the

selected media type will show below

Name: Enter the media name, use a descriptive name here

Category: Choose the media category

Published: Choose YES if you want this media to be visible on the front end.

Sub Title / Instruction: Enter any sub title here

ADDING A VIDEO

When you add a video, you can choose one of the three available methods:

Video code: If you have the video placed somewhere on the web, you can place the

code in this box

Video URL: If the video is located in any of the supported sites, you can enter the URL

here. Guru will do the rest.


Uploading a file: You may also choose to upload an actual video file. Beware that most

servers have a limitation on the video size that can be uploaded. This limitation is shown

in red. Most videos are just too large to be uploaded this way, so the first or second

options are more appropriate

Once you enter/select the video, you can set up the video size. You can keep the default

size, as its set on the general settings page, or you can enter a new width and height, for

this video only.

ADDING AN AUDIO

When you add an audio, you can choose one of the three available methods:

Audio code: If you have the video placed somewhere on the web, you can place the

code in this box

Audio URL: If you have the audio file placed anywhere on the web, you can place the file

URL here

Uploading a file: You may also choose to upload an actual audio file. Beware that most

servers have a limitation on the audio size that can be uploaded. This limitation is shown

in red.

Once you enter/select the audio, you can set up the audio width in pixels


ADDING A URL

When you add a URL to the media library, all you have to do is simply enter the full URL in the

box.

Once you enter the URL, you can choose how to display the URL on the lesson page:

Inside a wrapper: The web page will show inside the lesson page.

As a link: the URL will show as a link to that document

ADDING A TEXT

To create a text media item, simply enter the text inside the HTML editor

ADDING AN IMAGE


Image: click select file to choose a file on your computer. Supported file types: .jpg, .gif,

.jpeg.png

Image size: Enter the image size and choose whether its the width or height.

ADDING A DOCUMENT

When you add a document, you can choose one of the two available methods:

Document URL: If you have the document file placed anywhere on the web, you can

place the file URL here

Uploading a file: You may also choose to upload an actual document file. Beware that

most servers have a limitation on the audio size that can be uploaded. This limitation is

shown in red.

SUPPORTED FILE TYPES:

.doc

.docx

.txt

.pdf

.csv

.htm


.html

.xhtml

.xml

.sxw

.rtf

.odt

.css

.odp

.pps

.ppt

.sxi

Once you enter/select how to display the document on the lesson page:

Inside a wrapper: valid only for PDF files. The PDF will show inside the lesson page.

As a link: the document will show as a link to that document

Size:

If you choose wrapper you can enter the size (width x height) in pixels.

ADDING A FILE

When you add a file, you can choose one of the two available methods:

File URL: If you have the file placed anywhere on the web, you can place the file URL

here

Uploading a file: You may also choose to upload an actual file. Beware that most servers

have a limitation on the audio size that can be uploaded. This limitation is shown in red.

Supported file types: EXE and ZIP


MEDIA CATEGORIES

In the media category manager you can create and manage your media categories. This will

help you later to find the media easily.

ADDING A MEDIA CATEGORY

Click New

GENERAL TAB

Category name: Enter the category name

Parent category: Choose a parent category, or leave it as root

Description: Enter a description for this category

Published: Choose whether you'd like this category to be published or not

Note: Currently there is no practical use for the description field


METATAGS TAB

Note: Currently there is no practical use for these fields

Title: Enter the title tag for this media category. Up to 64 characters are recommended.

Keywords: Enter the keywords metatag for this media category. Up to 64 characters are

recommended.

Description: Enter the description metatag of this media category. Up to 200 characters

are recommended.


QUIZZES

Quizzes manager allow you to create quizzes to display inside your course.

CREATING A NEW QUIZ

To create a new quiz, simply click on NEW

GENERAL TAB

Enter a name for the quiz and a description if you wish


Name: The quiz name that will be displayed on the front end

Description: This description will be displayed on the front end, under the quiz name

QUESTIONS TAB

Click on Add Question

A new window will open

Enter your question on the left and the optional answers on the right

Each correct answer should have the check box next to it checked

Click Save


You can add as many questions as you want, but its recommended you keep it short.

No data on the quiz results is collected in Guru. (we are exploring this for the future.)

THE QUIZ ON THE FRONT END

The quiz on the front end will show the questions in the order they are on the quiz creation

page. Submitting the quiz will show the student exactly which answers were right and which

were wrong, plus their score.

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SUBSCRIPTIONS

PLANS


On the subscription plans manger you can set up subscription plans for your courses, and then

set up the price on for each plan on the course pricing/plans tab.

CREATING A NEW SUBSCRIPTION PLAN

To create a new plan, click NEW

Enter the name

Choose the term. By default the term is unlimited, which means, once the student

buys the course, they always have access, it never expires.

If you choose an amount (1-25), it will allow you to choose the time unit: hours, days,

months, years


Click SAVE and your new subscription plan is ready.

Each subscription plan you add, will now be shown on the pricing/plans on the course

creation page:

RENEWAL PLANS

Renewal plans allow you to set a different price for students who decide to renew their

subscription to a course after it expires. Under my courses page, they will be able to see a

Renew button next to each course theyve purchased.


When they click on it, they will be taken to the shopping cart with this course and the

renewal plans to choose from.

CREATING RENEWAL PLANS

There is no need to create renewal plans, as all regular subscription plans can be used as

renewal plans. You will find the same list of plans under Renewal plans on product

creation page, pricing/plans tab.

On the left navigation tree

Go to Training->Courses

Click on Edit Info under the Edit Info column

Switch to the pricing/plans tab


Simply check the box next to the renewal plans youd like to activate and enter the price on

the right. The plan you check as Default will be the default plan selected on the plan drop

down on the cart.

EMAIL REMINDERS

Note: be sure to install the cron plugin and publish it if youd like to send Email reminders.

Email reminders allow you to automatically send out Email reminding your students that their

subscription to a course is about to, or has, expired.

CREATING A NEW EMAIL REMINDER

Click NEW


Published: If the Email is unpublished, it will not be sent

Name: Enter a name for the Email reminder, make it descriptive, such as On expiration

Email

Term: Choose the term, when youd like this Email to be sent (On expiration, 1 day

before or after expiration)

Email Subject: Enter the subject of the Email. For example Your subscription to

[PRODUCT_NAME] is about to expire

You can include any of the variables on top in your subject

Email Body: Enter the content of the Email here. You can use any of the variables on

top, to construct your Email.

The variables are the ones that start with a [ and end with ], and they are upper case. The

variables will be replaced with the information once the Email is sent. If you omit the brackets

or if you change the variable in any way, it will not work.

You can use these variables inside the Email body and inside the subject.

We have provided you with some default Email reminders to help you get started. Feel free to

open them and customize them to fit your needs.


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