A Playbook that will help you develop an instructional course using video.

Making online courses requires many hours of effort, and could become an exhaustingly long process, especially when you make a large number of educational videos. How can you help make the process of creating and designing courses more simple? Stories.
   
    Elise London,  the resident expert in video who film every one of our on-site classes, as well as our marketing ones. The trick to create enjoyable virtual classes is by using stories that organize and communicate details.
   
    Being able to determine what is the central storyline of the problem of your course and arranging your content with the hero's narrative method of adventure is a great approach to change your program. Here's what you can accomplish to create the course, arrange it and create an online video training course that's successful. It includes all of the required equipment.

Jump ahead:

•       An ideal subject to make use of online as a teaching tool
•       Planning and designing your online classes you provide
•       Shooting your course video content
•       Do you want to design your own online course?

This is the ideal idea for your online class

There is no need to come up with an entirely new, innovative and outside-the-box concept to create your own online learning.
   
    Pick a subject which is popular. Knowing your company's goals and market target will help. Here's how:

Discover what's making waves.

Utilize the tools for measuring information such as Google Analytics to find high-performing writing works. Spot an ebook on one particular topic that performed very well? Consider expanding it into a detailed video course.
   
    Additionally, take a the time to look through your email list to unearth subjects that your subscribers want to understand more about, for online classes. You can also share the survey via social media (if there's an active public online) and also in the community you're active with.
   
    It is important to select an area in which the public is interested in.

Deepen your dive, don't widen it.

    What's the solution? Consider the challenges which people face in tackling a problem.
   
    If you want to know more, ask your:

• What difficulties are our readers confronting as they try to solve the issue?
• How do we deal with the overwhelming emotions? Do they need help overcoming?

When it comes to live streaming as an instance, it can help answer anxieties as people create their very debut live streaming. The training course covered in this course will cover "How you can quickly set up live streaming in order that you do not feel overwhelmed."

It is the best method you can apply to the title of the course you are taking.

As you think of names to name your class, think about how your audience feels in relation to the topic you're studying and incorporate that into the name.

The structure you plan for your online class

Elise recommends using hero's quest to define the route on the web. It's about:

• The problem faced by targeted students. Find these by asking appropriate questions regarding your course's content.
• Help them overcome challenges and figuring out solutions. It is here that you break down material into segments and videos that include each lesson responding to an question.
• providing them with the promised improvements. Offer them other tools such as checklists and templates to help students apply the lessons they have taken in.

Find out how you can identify your audience's questions and the desired outcomes to structure the course.

Ask your audience members questions about research

Instead of contemplating it, try these tips:

• Browse Reddit as well as Quora for a list of topics that are often asked.
• Surveys and calls with students to address questions directly.
• Call customers who make up sales and support teams to uncover common questions.
• Search for Bestsellers' indexes on Amazon to gain a better understanding of the issues they ask about the topic of education.

If you've hosted webinars on the topic of your class, you can look over participants' questions for more information that can help in conducting an investigation to conduct your own investigation.

The course's subject may be divided into buckets

Use your audience's concerns and questions to break your subject into narrative units which are built on one another in order to build the next step in the journey of learning.

"Instead of stating "We'll show users the use of an interactive program' (which is a broad, hard-to-wrap-my mind-around thing), say 'We're teaching beginner, intermediate advanced and advanced features.' This is the way to create a focus for the course that you're taking falls in one of these three categories." Elise London, Senior content production manager

Just say "disparate concepts" and put them into groups, so that when you're looking over the course from a distance the course seems easier to manage."

An idea for structuring the course

Be sure to outline the sequence of your classes to ensure that you're able to meet the needs of students throughout their learning journey. It's not uncommon to overload the classroom and cause confusion in students because of the danger of a flurry of information (a mental bias which assumes that the audience is as knowledgeable as you are). Make sure you review the plan of the course to ensure that the lesson is simple.

Create video lessons

1. Be sure to address your students' issues regarding the issue the video lessons can resolve.
2. Provide answers to the problem they're facing.
3. Summarize the video or offer alternative resources to help in making the changes they require.

Videos on script-on-demand

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Shooting your course video content

The tools are needed.

To get a top-quality manufacturing equipment kit and setup, you'll require:

•       Camera for a microphone (two at a minimum) along with a three or four-point illumination kit      
• Learning Management System (LMS). The program will store videos from the course and make it available for students. Examples are: Teachable, Podia, and Kajabi.
• . A free video platform that allows you to upload, edit and even add interactive elements to instructional videos. You can later upload to your LMS.
• Teleprompter. A device for display which displays scrolling text on a screen. This makes it simpler for those using screens to record videos.
• Music pedal. A low-cost, foot-operated piano with the ability to change the slide courses which are shown upon the monitor.

The perfect video production environment

Elise suggests:

1. Don't use fluorescent overhead lights.

The harsh shadows they cast can be a problem on your face. The light bulbs of fluorescent can flicker and occasionally create a greenish hue, in addition to affecting the quality of the stabilization of your video.

2. Recording even without light

The natural light patterns shift throughout the daylight. If you are recording for hours in a row the lighting quality of your video isn't as great as it did, Elise warns. Additionally, it could create difficulties if you opt to move sections of one video to one.

3. Set your cameras at different angles

A second camera won't "just make editing more interesting" (which is helpful even when you're working with scripts, if you can complete the entire task in one session.) But, it helps in breaking up the monotony of viewers looking at the instructor's face."
   
    "More important, a second camera is used to cover the cuts" Elise adds. "So when you realize that your statement does not appear to be able to be cut out in one go and you'd like to conceal the edit, the way in which you hide that edit can be done using B-roll, or cutting it out of an additional camera."

4. Clear and clutter-free background

Do not use bright colors, such as magenta, yellow and orange because they can create reflections within the color, and be distracting to viewers. Choose neutral backgrounds like gray, dark blue or soft white. They look stunning on the camera as well as are comfortable for the eyes.

Recording your online video course

Recording can be somewhat nerve-wracking. If you've put in the effort of planning and drafting the plan you want to document, there shouldn't be an issue.

5. Always utilize a teleprompter

Teleprompters are an excellent way to avoid being caught on screen when you attempt to recall what the next point is.
   
    The recording process is straightforward and can be used for editing, however "it will also allow keep your eyes on the camera while you stare at the screen on your teleprompter" Notes Elise.

6. Make use of the pedal to switch between slides

"Instead of having a mouse or keyboard you can see within your palm, you can utilize an instrument to alter the slides you're using. It's basically a USB Bluetooth keyboard with a left and right. Presenters do not have to search for the keyboard or mouse for the purpose of advancing through the gadget."

Edit the videos that you have with ease

Trim your hair to ensure clarity as well as to give you an exciting viewing experience using these expert recommendations:

7. Perform a thorough edit

8. Make use of B-roll clips to ensure the maximum participation

A way to break up monotony in a talk-head video is to switch between camera's at a periodic frequency.
   
    Furthermore, it's possible to incorporate animations, graphic slides or customized recordings or stock footage to provide a more immersive learning experience.

9. The layer of interactivity is

• Enjoy a build-your-own-learning path
• Visit video hotspots on the right to explore more educational sources
• Jump from sections most relevant to their needs (useful to create in-house videos onboarding)

This means that interactive videos increase viewer engagement, which results in improved retention. You can also evaluate your students' capabilities through creating video-based tests by using Interactive.

Are you equipped to design your online course?

The process of creating a video course in which is loved by your students is as easy as

• Specific about the issue you're trying to fix
• The information is transformed into a cohesive narrative
• After that, arrange your data so that is simple to understand and follow

With the right tools, you'll be able to ease the burden the process of creating high-quality videos that will provide a full-immersive learning experience.

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