How do students find our classes and enroll in them?

I plan to advertise my courses on my own website, of course, but I thought I read somewhere that Digital Chalk has a directory of courses available. Is that directory available for anyone to look at or do you have to sign up for a Digital Chalk account? Where is it located? I also thought I read somewhere that Digital Chalk handles enrollments and collecting registration fees, sending the course author the fee after Digital Chalk's fees have been subtracted. Is that correct? Thank you!

We do handle the registration, payment collection and we send you a payment with the course fee each month. Right now we are not offering a course catalog that lists all of our customer courses. You will need to do the course marketing from your website or via email. It is our plan to add a public course catalog in the future but we don't have anything available for announcement at this time. 

Thank you for your quick response!

One of the best routes to go in terms of driving traffic is the use of blogs. Blogs can be a great source of advertisement by giving your readers value in the content. Blogs can also create "buzz" and gain popularity through consistent posting. The more you post, the better the results. It has been said that posting twice a week results in good Google indexing. Blogging is also free and yields amazing results. Using your DigitalChalk Virtual URL you can create a link that re-directs students to your DigitalChalk account, from there they can create a login and view all available course on your site. It is that easy.

Is there another link students can go to as opposed to just a log in/new user page?

For example, Paypal gives you the option to log in, create new user, or bypass that and "buy" with your information. My client wants that option.

Right now those are the only options unless you want to use our Web Service programing API to communicate with the system.

We are planning on offering an RSS option that would let you put a course catalog on your own website and let the user click on and open the item directly in the shopping cart. I can't give you a specific date but it should be something that is available later this year. 

How does one go about using the API service? Are the particulars provided? Is there a 'copy & paste' function with the API, like using HTML. I'm not too familiar with the API options.

Web Services are not as simple as just writting HTML, it requires code that can perform some logic. Normally you will need to have someone who is a software programmer write the code on your side to talk to the API. It works with most programming languages so you can do it from any software system or Website that has a connection to the Internet. We provide the programming documentation that tells the programmer how to talk to our system.

We can build the software piece that works off your website or software if you like. Simple Web Service interfaces off your website might only take a couple days. A more complex system can take a few weeks to program. Let us know if this is something you want to look into. 

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