The Our College (OC) Course Builder is a complete Learning Management System (LMS) solution that allows you to create courses with lessons, quizzes, assignments and a host more features.

You can create an unlimited amount of courses!

All courses are standalone. An added feature of our OC Course Builder is that you can bundle courses together into collections. Example of this could be “Beginners”, “Intermediate” and “Advanced” courses of the same subject sold as one bundle.

You can create unlimited collections (bundles) of your courses and make them available as specials!

Making a course a prerequisite ensures that students have to complete a course before they can proceed to the next level.

For example a students needs to complete the beginners course before they can enroll for intermediate. This is very important from a quality control point of view.

Courses consists of lessons (chapters/sections – snippets) that form part of your curriculum. The concept is to divide your content into bite size snippets for easy consumption. Making a lesson a prerequisite prevent students from jumping ahead in the course.

You can create unlimited lessons within a course.

At the end of a lesson (or group of lessons) you can add a quiz to test your students to see if they actually understand the content. Making a quiz/test a prerequisite, will ensure that students cannot proceed if they do not pass.

You can create unlimited quizzes/tests within a courses.

Quizzes can comprise of many different types of questions. The following are available in OC Course Builder.

• Single choice
• Multiple choice
• True or false
• Sorting choice
• Fill in Blank
• Random Quiz Questions

You can create unlimited questions within quizzes.

Lessons and quizzes can be bundled together to form chapters or sections within your course. You can add assignments after each section where students need to upload either a written or design assignment, thesis or dissertation that needs to be marked by the lecturer.

NB! This is a very important feature if you are designing SETA or  CHE accredited qualifications. These documents will form part of the students POE.

You can create unlimited assignments  within a courses.

Create and share Rich Content and Applications. With our H5P integration, teachers can create and edit interactive videos, Interactive presentations, interactive games, advertisements and many more features to keep students engaged.  

You can create unlimited interactive H5P content within your courses.

Make your courses and lessons available on pre-determined  dates and times.  This prevents students from rushing through a course and complete a one year higher certificate in three months and allows you to conform to the notional hours requirement of the SETA’s

NB! This is a very important feature if you are designing SETA or  CHE accredited qualifications. 

Keep a record and track your students’ overall performance by monitoring their grades on specific learning tasks and extract data that will help you optimize your learning plan. This allows you to step in with additional support and assistance if a student is struggling.

NB! This is a very important feature if you are designing SETA or  CHE accredited qualifications. This can form part of their POE.

You can add scheduled live streaming events to your courses by simply adding  a streaming session to a lesson in the course. You can then use the drip module to schedule the event for a certain day and time.

You can create and publish as many webinars as you wish to support your students or you can use this feature as a promotional tool to market your services and courses.

On our platform you can charge students a once of fee or create membership levels where students pay a registration fee and then the course fees on a monthly basis. This can be for a single course or for bundles.

Here are some examples of pricing:

• Free sample courses
• First three lessons in a course for free, balance paid for
• Single course once off – R1950 or
• Single Course – R300 pm
• Course Bundles – (6 skills courses) R650 pm
• Entire collection of bundles (150 courses) R900 pm
• Corporate bundles R1350 pm
• Buy one get one Free!

The system is very flexible and you can get very creative and offer your students a choice of payment methods to choose from.

We make use of a leading South African payment gateway called PayFast that offers 100% secure online payment options

Here are some examples of how your students can pay online:

• Debit Cards – Debit cards issued by Maestro and Visa Electron are still popular among many South African shoppers, and can be used to make online purchases through Payfast.
• Cheque and Credit Cards – Visa and Mastercard credit cards are the most popular and trusted online payment methods around the world.
• Masterpass – A free digital wallet from Mastercard that enables online shoppers to quickly and securely check out and make online payments.
• Instant EFT – Instant EFT by PayFast allows online shoppers with access to internet banking to make an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) that gets instantly verified.
• Mobicred – is an online revolving credit account that gives buyers access to credit, which they can use to buy online and pay a monthly mount. Once you pay you can use that amount again to buy.
• Zapper – is a free ‘scan to pay’ app that makes payments convenient and secure for both online shoppers and merchants.

Here are some examples of how your students can pay offline if they don’t want to pay via the web:

• Bank Deposit – We send the student an invoice and they can pay directly into our bank account.
• Scode – is a unique payment platform that allows shoppers to pay for their online purchases in-store at the money market counters of more than 6,000 retail outlets across South Africa.

We simply SMS a unique code to the student who then presents the code and pay at a till or money market counter at one of the following stores.

Our system offers many  payment methods that your students can choose from.