Time: Students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolling on this course. The estimated time for completing this course is three months. Please notice, that the first nonstop start is on 3 February 2025.
Please notice that Xamk’s lecturers do not assess completed courses nor enter the course assessments in Xamk’s record of credits (Peppi) during their non-teaching periods. Completed courses will not be assessed between 2 June and 17 August 2025.
Place: Online studies
Extent: 5 ECTS credits
Number of study places: 200
Target group: Everyone interested in the topic
Lecturer: Miia Liukkonen
Please notice that from September 1, 2024 onwards, only students with a Finnish social security number (i.e. a personal identity code) can start their studies on Xamk Pulse’s courses. You can read more here.
Credited in degree at Xamk: All Bachelor level degrees
Area of competence mentioned in Curriculum: Optional studies
Enrolment by: 28 December 2025. This is a nonstop start and students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolling on this course.
Price: EUR 15 / credit. You can read more about our payment policy here.
Please note that enrolment for Xamk Pulse studies is binding, and it is not possible to cancel a student place free of charge. When you enroll on the course, you have to make the course payment. The payment will not be refunded even if you discontinue your studies. However, if you will not be starting your studies, please let us know in good time so that we can remove you from the course. This way, there will not be a record of an incomplete course in your information in Peppi. Cancellation must be sent to openstudies@xamk.fi.
Note that you can enrol for Open UAS studies at the maximum of 50 ECTS credits per semester. One person’s enrolments exceeding 50 ECTS credits are deleted in the enrolment order. Paying attention to this is important when planning your studies.
Please also notice that
Xamk degree students cannot enrol on Open UAS courses.
Path students enrol at Peppi or Tuudo only for the courses included in path studies.
Please check your invitation letter for more detailed instructions on your own path studies.
Learning outcomes:
After completing this course, you are able to build a custom website with WordPress for multiple purposes.
More detailed, you:
- know how to install WordPress in a local development environment and get familiar with its dashboard and features
- are able to install and customize themes
- learn to install useful plugins
- learn to use the pages and posts
- learn to customize navigation menus and widgets
- know the difference and the use of a static and a blog website
- get also familiar how to customize additional CSS (and to understand HTML on the way)
NB! You don’t need coding skills for this course – you won’t learn it in this course either!
Contents and methods:
This course is divided into small sections, where you will be introduced to WordPress step by step. You will work your way through the sections in the order displayed on the course platform.
Each section includes learning material such as videos, lessons and exams which will help you to execute the learning assignments. The learning assignments are hands-on tasks where you will learn to use WordPress features and gradually create a website. The exams are there to make sure you are familiar with the basis of each sections’ content. You can apply this knowledge straight to your workflow.
This course is a self-study course, which you can carry out independently and at your own pace (within the overall time limits of the course, which is 90 days).
The course is divided into sections by topics, each containing learning assignment and an exam. All sections are visible, and you can complete the learning assignments and exams within the overall duration of the course. The course has a recommended order and schedule for completion, which will be displayed in your calendar.
More detailed instructions will be provided at the beginning of the course.
The total workload for the course is approximately 135 hours, depending on your prior knowledge and interest in the subject.
Study material:
All the study material will be found on a course platform and is accessible to students throughout the course.
Assesment methods and criteria:
Learning assignments will be evaluated with points. Scale 0-3 points:
- 3 points (PASS) Excellent work. Instructions followed. Fully meets competency requirement.
- 2 points (PASS) Good work. Instructions followed mostly, but some shortcomings on implementation. Meets enough of the competency requirement to adequately perform the assignment.
- 1 point (PASS) Satisfactory. Instructions partially followed. Deficient implementation and/or doesn't meet enough competency requirements to perform the assignment.
- 0 points (FAILED) Unacceptable. Instructions not followed. Doesn't meet the competency requirement.
Exams will be evaluated in pass/fail scale and must be completed and passed to proceed on the course platform.
To pass this course, you’ll need to submit all the assignments and gather enough points from them.
Assessment scale:
Accepted / Failed
The Transcript of records will be delivered automatically by email in PDF form. You can read more about the the Transcript of records on: Information on Open UAS, Xamk Pulse studies.
This course is based on the curricula of Xamk's degree programmes and the Finnish credits are fully compatible with the ECTS.
Additional information on enrolment:
Xamk Pulse, openstudies@xamk.fi.
Terms of cancellation:
You can start this nonstop start course within a week after enrolling. Enrolments on nonstop start courses cannot be cancelled free of charge. Cancellation by email to openstudies@xamk.fi.
Before the course starts, you'll receive an invitation by email to this course.
Please note that there can be changes in the course details in terms of the timetable and teachers, for example.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences is audited by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC).