Your course outline is ready, congratulations! With the structure of the course all set up, you just need to fill in appropriate course content to get your course going. To start adding content for your course, you will need to decide on a few factors like:
1. Choosing the form of course content: To make a truly engaging online course, use a blend of video lessons, images, audio, and text content. Include text content by categorizing them as recommended readings, and additional readings for each sub-section of the course. The text content can include webpages, books, articles, etc. To set the relevance of the text, include engaging videos and pictures that help understand the provided text. You can also use PowerPoint which you can accompany with explanatory audio or video explanation. To make good video content, keep a decent camera and video-editing software handy. You can also film your video lectures and add visual elements in them.
2. Curating the content: Once you have decided the form in which you want to present different components of the course, start curating content on your course page. You don’t need to worry about creating all the content of your online course before selling it. You can start in small batches by initially creating the content for the first 3-5 classes. You can curate the rest of the content and change the content mix if required based on student responses to initial classes.
3. Creating assessments: Every learner and teacher require an evaluation that indicates that learning has happened. This makes the curation of good assessments an imperative task. There is a range of qualitative and quantitative assessment tasks you can choose from. You can use automized pop quizzes, MCQs, or qualitative assignment submissions.
