What you’ll learn

3X’s longer than Last Year’s Free Course! Understand solutions to 40 common online teaching problems, including the following 40 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 in Order to Decide What to Teach

Tip #4: When to Stop Making a Course

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!)

Tip #16: Fast and Slow Navigation Options

Tip #17: Structuring the Logic of Your Course Outline

Tip #18: Immediate Value Added and Impact Strategy

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 the “Correct” Way

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 in Order to Perfect Your Videos+Best Practices

Tip #27: Using and Setting Up a Teleprompter

Tip #28: Removing Echoes

Tip #29: Health(ier) Desk Setup

Tip #30: Cosmetics + Looking Camera Ready

Tip #31: Looking Less Tired

Tip #32: Whiter Teeth

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

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)!

Requirements

• Nothing. This free course is for anyone that wants to teach online. I recommend taking the following free course before starting this free course: “40 Tips on Making a Great Online Course”

Description

[Optional Free Prerequisite Course: 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 in Order 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 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 in Order 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(ier) 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)!           

I will be making an annual free course like this one every year* that discusses solutions to problems I encountered during my year of creating courses so that you won’t have the same issues that I have had (and therefore you can work smarter and not harder). 

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.” 

Who this course is for:

• Anyone that wants to teach online. You don’t have to be a teacher; all of us have at least one skill that we can teach that can enhance the lives of many.