Your Complete Guide to Creating an Online Course That Provides Worth Learning Experience
Successful trainers take the time to plan their online courses before they record and present them. This is to ensure that the course is complete and meets the expectations of the students, and allows them to know the most important objectives and points that will be mentioned in the course.
According to the best practices and principles of instructional design, Thkee would like to share with you the steps for creating the ideal course. The resources needed in the Teaching Center will provide you with a structure to create a high-quality learning experience on our platform. As a reminder, you don’t have to follow this step-by-step process, we share it with you to guide you through the steps of creating your own course.
Step 1: Define your course topic and target students
Are you seeking to teach in a field that you are passionate about? Do you have enough information in it that enables you to provide its courses? It is necessary to prove that you are an expert in the field in which you will be providing the courses, and it is also important to know the most important points that students need in this field. So think about the target students and what they aspire to learn. You can then use the Marketplace Insights tool that helps you identify or validate a course topic based on market demand and competition.
Step 2: Create learning objectives
Based on the target audience that has been identified, think about what the target students will learn in your course. Determine each of the learning objectives for your course, and the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students will have after taking your course. This will help you focus on the course content and ensure that you achieve these goals.
Step 3: Outline course
Defining your course outline is its foundation. In this step, you decide how to structure and visualize your content to help your target students and if it will help them achieve their course objectives. It is important to include interactive activities such as quizzes, exercises, lab experiments, etc., so that students can apply what has been learned to test their knowledge.
Step 4: Plan practice activities and assessments
One of the best ways to engage students (in the learning process) is by having interactive activities and assessments in your course.
This way they can practice what you teach and start thinking about how they can apply what they learn in their lives. Thus, these exercises help the students to assess their knowledge and understanding.
Step 5: Produce content
Once you know the structure of your course, you will begin the next step of preparing to film your lectures. Depending on the teachers’ view, scripting or writing bulleted notes for each lecture helps reduce imaging time and thus better communicate information. This step also includes creating videos, writing articles, and searching for resources, exercises, and assessments that will be shared with students throughout the course.
Step 6: Publish your course
In this step, you will upload the course content to the Thkee platform and write a copy of the landing page of the course and the automatic messages. Each course offered is then reviewed by our team to ensure that the course meets our requirements before being published on the platform.
Step 7: Market course
Start marketing for your course! You can do this by sharing coupon codes with your friends and colleagues and getting feedback from them about your course. If you want to market more of your courses, you can take advantage of the Thkee Marketing Program, so that you will be able to take advantage of promotions at the platform level. This way, Thkeewill help you to spend more time on your content and less time marketing your own courses.
Step 8: Engage with students
Once you publish your own course, it’s your turn to interact with your students. Respond to their questions and inquiries, review their answers and opinions, and provide feedback on students’ assignments.
Step 9: Iterate on content
It is important to keep your course content fresh and up-to-date. Start by updating your course when it is affected by technological changes, when you receive feedback from students, or if you have new valuable content to share.
