In this video, we are going to discuss about online course
creation process. This process consists of four components,
content creation skills required by course creator software
required by course creator, and course hosting options, the
platforms where you host your online courses. And we will only
discuss first three because the last component requires a
separate video, it is a detailed topic, I have used various
platforms and I will show you what is my experience and what
is my opinion about those platforms in the next video, and
we are starting right after this short period.
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course creation process will remain roughly the same type of
contents may vary depending on the online class format you are
going to use. And I have made a separate video discussing that
topic. How do online classes work, I will put a link at the
end of this video and you can watch but let us assume that you
have selected a particular online class format and you are
going to create contents now. So what type of contents you will
be creating. So the most popular type of content is the video
contents, then you might have to create some PDF files, some Word
document, some quizzes, some surveys. And the difference
between quizzes and a survey is that our quiz is a graded thing,
why the survey is an ungraded thing. And normally, you do
surveys at two stages of your online course the first survey
you should do and whatever is the size of your audience, you
first do a survey before you start developing a course
because course development is a lengthy process, it takes a lot
of effort. And you must understand that whether is that
whether or not there is a demand for the course whether your
audience is interested in your course at all or not, or
sometimes only to understand which angle you should give to
your course. So this is one type of survey. Now when you are
delivering a course you should understand that no tool can
enrich the experience of the student only you can as a
teacher. So therefore, you want to get some insight to your
course. Sometimes this is done by formative assessments during
the course. In particular, in the beginning of the course, you
put some survey to the students asking some questions. And the
purpose is to get insight why they are learning what they want
to learn. And when to get this insight then you can modify your
course. Because remember one thing that the main focus of
your course should always be learning objectives of your
students, your students must go from Level A to level B, if they
are beginners, your course is for beginners, they must go from
beginners to intermediate level. If your course is for advanced
students, they must go from intermediate to advanced because
we are teachers, our focus must always stay on the learning
objectives. There is no harm, no shame in making money, but money
will automatically come if your learning objectives are right,
you have right contents, and you are targeting the right
audience. Now for surveys. The tool which I would recommend is
Survey Monkey or Google Forms, I use Survey Monkey, I still use
free version. It also gives you some analysis of the survey
results. fantastic tool. But Google Forms can also be used, I
have a separate video on Google Forms as well. And for summative
assessments where you want to evaluate the performance of your
students, you should also conduct some quizzes. So quizzes
are also part of your contents. And not only just quizzes, but
you can also put these quizzes on our learning management
system in quiz banks. So you don't have to create the
questions again and again, if you are a math teacher, you can
put hundreds of questions on in the quiz bank and when you are
creating quizzes, you have a lot of flexibility and in most cases
your quizzes will automatically be graded by the learning
management system. So these are some types of the contents which
you should be creating. And know that point number two and three,
the skills required and the tools required will depend on
the type of content you want to create. For example, if you are
creating videos, then you must understand how our video editor
works and there is also some equipment required. If you want
For example, I use this camera in which I am recording this
video, I'm using Canon 70 d, a DSLR camera for recording this
video. So if you can buy a camera you should buy, but if
not, you can use your smartphone. And even if you
don't have a smartphone, you can record your lectures by using a
screen capture software such as OBS. OBS is a fantastic software
or PowerPoint. So I have videos for both of these software, how
to use OBS to record your screen, and also a video on how
to use PowerPoint. So you can watch those videos, but you can
create lectures even without a camera. So you need some video
editing skills, I use HitFilm Express, which is a free
software, it has a learning curve, it is very slow, it has
some drawbacks. And they are also frequently updating this
software every week or couple of weeks, you will have to update
again, which is a problematic thing. It wastes a lot of time
because they are in the development stage. But the good
thing is that it is free and it has all the required features.
So you have to learn skills about editing. And also you need
some skills about audio editing. audacity is the software which I
use. And I use Audacity to remove the noise from my videos.
And sometimes just to enhance the level of the sound no the
other skills you require are the use of some software, which you
might use in order to deliver the contents. No, these are the
software such as a learning management system, you must
understand how our learning management system works. What
are some of the features also online digital whiteboards, you
should at least understand the working of one digital
whiteboard, I normally recommend Microsoft whiteboard. But
classflow has a whiteboard as well, which is very good. So you
need some skills associated to these content delivery systems,
our learning management system or a whiteboard, or some video
conferencing system. Some also deliver lectures in Skype or
zoom if you are tutoring online, but I don't recommend tutoring
online because that is the most difficult way of teaching online
for teachers. And I have discussed this in in the video
which I will put in at the end. Then in order to create PDF
contents, you must know how a PDF generator work. For example,
latech, I am a big fan of letter, which is an open source
and free software. Otherwise, if you go for Adobe software, they
are extremely expensive. So therefore I don't recommend
those expensive software, I would recommend an open source
and free software related to create PDFs. So you need some
skills about this. You also need some skills how Google Forms
work are Google Documents work in general, because you will be
using Google Drive to store your contents, you will be using
Google Docs frequently. So you need some skills. So you should
understand how these cloud platforms work. So I think these
are some of the most important skills, which you should
understand. In some situation, you might need any mission
skills or to any merit things. But I would not recommend that,
that you put any missions in your courses, because any
missions take a lot of time. So I don't want you to waste time
in doing any missions if you want to learn learn simple
animations in PowerPoint. And that's it. Don't go for any
animation specific software because it will consume a lot of
time and it is not worth it. So no, these are some of the
software and some of the software skills which you need
in order to develop your course contents. And know the most
common question which you guys asked how I create this text
background behind me. So what I do is when I create my lectures,
I am standing in front of a green cloth. And when I take
this video to HitFilm I put the clip there, then I'll click on
effects. And then I type in the search area green screen, and
then I will see green screen somewhere on the sidebar. I
click on that green screen and I drag it to my clip and then I
release my mouse. So what happens is that it applies the
green screen filter to my clip and my background is removed.
Now I only have my body inside the frame. So then what I do, I
use my favorite tool canva.com I go there, I started design,
custom dimensions 1920 width 10 at height, and then I create an
image, a background image and some text. Then I take this
image to my HitFilm file, I insert a video track. underneath
my clip, I import the image. I put it on that track and I
stretch it underneath my hole clip and now I have a text
background. So this is how I create this. So next time if you
ask this question, I will send you to this video. And now in
the next video we will talk about what are your hosting
option. So I hope you like this video if so, please give it a
thumbs up. Thanks for watching and see you next time.