“Another” 40 Tips on Making a Great Online Course

Welcome to “ANOTHER” 40 Tips on Making a Great Online Course. This is a free course to help you save time and money when creating your online courses. Learn from my mistakes. Creating an online course is easier than you think; in this course, I will humbly teach you how to work smarter (not harder) by discussing 40 [ADDITIONAL*] tips/best practices I have learned the hard way teaching online over the past 12 months.

The Topics and Tips that we will Cover Include:

What Should You Teach Tips:

• Tip #1: Make “PASSIONATE” Course Placeholders to Help You Decide What to Teach
• Tip #2: “Educational Darwinism” (Read Other Course Reviews Before Making Your Course)
• Tip #3: Using Udemy’s Insight Tool to Decide What to Teach
• Tip #4: When to Stop Making a Course

Content: Innovative & Helpful Course Content Creation Tips:    

• Tip #5: Consistent and “Creative” Content Theme
• Tip #6: Idea Generation
• Tip #7: Multiple File Formats
• Tip #8: Question Anticipation
• Tip #9: Using Props
• Tip #10: Making Your Course International
• Tip #11: Creating Innovative Exercises
• Tip #12: Calculating the Length of Your Lessons
• Tip #13: Scripting Your Course
• Tip #14: Spurts of Inspiration
• Tip #15: Write Confidently from Your Heart (Be Different and Unique and Free!)

Course Structure Tips:

• Tip #16: Fast and Slow Navigation Options
• Tip #17: Structuring the Logic of Your Course Outline
• Tip #18: Immediate Value Added and Impact Strategy

Design Tips: Visual Design Idea Tips:

• Tip #19: Design for Mobile
• Tip #20: Screen Casting Using QuickTime [Mac Only]
• Tip #21: Screen Casting Using PowerPoint [Windows Only]
• Tip #22: Providing Internet Links as Resources in the “Correct” Way

Setting Up Equipment Tips:

• Tip #23: Intro. to Setting Up Your Equipment, Recording, and Editing from Scratch
• Tip #24: Setting Up the Camera, Lights, Microphone, and Computer
• Tip #25: Recording the Video, Editing the Video, and Uploading it to Udemy
• Tip #26: Getting Help from Udemy to Perfect Your Videos+Best Practices
• Tip #27: Using and Setting Up a Teleprompter
• Tip #28: Removing Echoes

Appearance and Health Tips While Creating Courses Tips: 

• Tip #29: Health(it) Desk Setup
• Tip #30: Cosmetics + Looking Camera Ready
• Tip #31: Looking Less Tired
• Tip #32: Whiter Teeth

Delivery Tips:

• Tip #33: Get In “Your” Friendly Personable Zone to Teach
• Tip #34: Staying Upbeat When Teaching
• Tip #35: Use Language That Won’t Get Lost in Translation & Easier to Understand

Additional Editing Tips:

• Tip #36: Leave Room for Captions
• Tip #37: Adding and Customizing Images for Your Lessons with PowerPoint
• Tip #38: Selecting/Adding Music to Your Lessons
• Tip #39: Making a Video + Animation + Adding Pictures + Music from Scratch
• Tip #40: How I Made and Edited the Previous Lecture (Fun)!

Please learn from my many mistakes teaching online, so I can save you time and money. In this course are 40 mistakes I made and I want you to learn from my many failures so you can get your course up and running quickly. Making an online course is so much easier than you think as you already have everything single thing that you need to build something far bigger than yourself. : )

Thanks!
Chris

Closed captions have been added to all lessons in this course.

* [Optional] Please also watch last year’s course by searching Udemy for the free course called: “40 Tips on Making a Great Online Course.”