Admin can manage contests with actions as: search, approve, publish, feature,… Follow this tutorial for more detail.

1. Go to Admin Control Panel.
2. At Plugins Manager sidebar >> click on Contests.

SEARCH CONTESTS

You can search by:

• Enter title.
• Select category.
• Disable or enable feature.

MANAGE CONTESTS

1. Contest ID.

2. Contest type: Photo, music or video.

3. Contest name.

4. Approve status: you can change approve status here (approved, pending or denied).

5. Contest status: you can change contest status here (draft, published, closed).

6. Contest owner.

7. Contest category.

8. Auto approve entry: yes or no.

9. Feature or not feature contest.

10. Contest created date.

11. Action: delete contest.

Organize a Contest to collect user-generated content that you’ll be able to show in a public gallery and enable the voting system to help spread the contest. You can create contests in many types as photos, videos or music.

This tutorial will guide you how to create a contest.

1. Go to Contest browser page.
2. Click on Create button >> redirect to Add new Contest page.
3. Enter all information.

1. Choose contest type: photo, video or music.

2. Choose category.

3. Enter contest name.

4. Enter description.

5. Enter award.

6. Enter terms & conditions.

 

 

7. Upload thumbnail photo.

8. Select start and end contest duration datetime.

9. Select start and end submit entries duration datetime.

10. Select start and end voting duration datetime.

11. Select timezone.

12. Tick to allow other members to vote for an entry without joining the contest.

13. Tick to set entries automatically approved.

14. Enter the number of maximum entries a participant can submit.

15. Enter contest tags.

16. Select privacy: every one, friends only or only me.

17. Mark as read and agree to the terms of service.

18. Save contest as draft.

19. Publish contest.

Categories are used mainly for separating the theme of a contest from one another and grouping them by certain criteria. In this tutorial, we will explain to you how to create, edit or delete a category.

1. Go to Admin Control Panel.
2. At Plugins Manager sidebar >> click on Contests.
3. Click on the Categories tab.

Contest categories will show the following information:

1. Category ID.

2. Category Name.

3. Order.

4. Category type.

5. Category parent.

6. Category is a header or not.

7. Active or not active category.

8. Count the number of contests.

ADD NEW CATEGORY

1. Click on Add New button to open Add New Category popup.

2. You can create header category or non-header category here.

2.1. Add a new header category:

• Enter Category name.
• Tick on Header box.
• Tick on Active box.
• Select the user roles can create contest into this category.

2.2. Add a new category:

• Enter Category name.
• Select parent category or not
• Enter description.
• Tick on Active box.
• Select the user roles can create contest into this category.

3. Click on Save button.

IMPORT CATEGORIES

1. Click on Import Categories button to open Import Categories popup.

2. Select the plugin you want to import categories from.

3. Click on Copy button.

SAVE ORDERS

1. At Order column, enter the number.

2. Click on Save Order button.

DELETE CATEGORY

At Actions column, click on Delete option to delete each category.

With the Elearning plugin, the course can be broken down into several lessons. This tutorial will show you how to add a lesson (Topic or Video or Quiz type) to your course.

At the Course detail page, click on Create New Entry button.

Go to Create New Entry page: Select a lesson type.

There are 3 different types of lessons in the E-learning plugin: Topic, Video and Quiz.

• Lesson type: Topic

Fill in the blank fields:

           (1) Enter title.

           (2) Enter details.

           (3) Click here to upload attachment files (photos, documents,..)

=> Click the Save button. The topic lesson has been added successfully.

          (1) Click here to return to Course Detail page.

          (2) Click here to update the course progress.

          (3) Lesson options: Edit Lesson/Delete Lesson.

          (4) Click here to add sub-topics to the lesson.

With Lesson Type: “Topic”, users can add Topic/Video/Quiz to the lesson. Click on Create Topic button => Go to Create Topic page.

The processes for creating a topic are similar to those for creating a lesson. 

           [1] Select topic type: Topic/Video/Quiz

           [2] Enter title.

           [3] Enter details.

           [4] Click here to upload attachment files (photos, documents,..)

=> Click the Save button.

• Lesson type: Video

There are two ways to include video in your course: Use video from Youtube/Vimeo or Upload Video file from computer/mobile device.

* Video from: Youtube/Vimeo

(1) Select video source: Youtube or Vimeo.

(2) Paste the URL

 => Click the Fetch Video button. The video lesson has been added successfully.

* Video from: Upload Video

(1) Enter the video title.

(2) Enter the description.

(3) Click here to upload video.

=> Click the Upload Queued Files button => Save button. The video lesson has been added successfully.

• Lesson type: Quiz

Fill in the blank fields:

1. Enter title.
2. Enter description.
3. Click here to upload attachment files (photos, documents,..)
4.  Enter the time or choose the unlimited time option.
5. Enter the pass score.

=> Click the Save button. The quiz lesson has been added successfully.

 After creation, the quiz will be in “un-published” state. You need to create at least two questions to publish the quiz.

Follow these steps to create quiz questions:

       (1) Click on option icon => Select Add Question => Go to Quiz Questions page.

       (2) Click on Create New Question button => show expand.

1.  Enter question.
2.  Enter answer.
3.  Drag and drop to change the order of answers.
4.  Tick here if the answer is correct.
5.  Click here to remove the answer.
6.  Click here to add new answer.

 => Click the Save button.

             1. Click here to save the order.

             2. Click here to return to Quiz Lesson Detail page.

             3. Drag and drop to change the order of questions.

             4. Quiz Question options: Edit question /Delete question.

After creating quiz questions, to “publish” the quiz follow the steps below:

       Step 1: At the Quiz Lesson Detail page, click the options icon.

       Step 2: Select “Publish Quiz” on the drop-down list.

       Step 3: Click the Publish button on the Confirm pop-up.

The Quiz lesson has been published successfully.

Hopefully, this article was helpful for you.

This article will show you how Site Admin can set courses as Featured courses by manual selection.

Step 1: (Back-end) Go to Elearning => Courses Manager tab

Step 2: Check on the course you want to feature.

Step 3: (Front-end) Users will see the Featured Courses widget on the Elearning page.