Creating an online course requires careful preparation. What more if it’s your first online course you’re creating?

You have to keep in mind that you need to create a positive experience for your students and maximize your time focusing on your students and rather than redoing things that should have been clear, to begin with.

Here are 6 tips you should keep in mind when creating your online course.

Make it clear, concise, and complete

There is no more frustrating than attending an online class that is later to be found as incomplete, unclear and just a total waste of time.

You have to have every single thing laid out. Your course has to be very organized. Your materials should be readily available to your students. Moreover, clear instructions and proper placement of contents should be given attention so students would navigate through your course with ease.

Apportion your contents

Plan out your content and make sure that you break them into digestible parts rather than throwing off a heap of contents to your students.

Keep in mind that you need to consider how much work is feasible to expect from students while guaranteeing that you’re covering the essential content.

Give a variety of activities

Nobody wants a boring online class. Make sure you provide your students with different learning activities to keep your online class interactive and engaging for your students.

Live means FINAL

Remember before you make your online course live, you’ve already finalized everything from the introduction to the very last part.

Doing changes in the middle of the course will only provide confusion to your students and the worst would make your credibility drop.

Provide external resources

Give your students other resources they can explore and get ideas from outside your course. Either link to blogs, YouTube videos, forums, podcasts or eBooks or just anything that you think would help them as they progress with your course.

Fix technical issues

Make sure that you’ve already addressed all the technical issues you’ve encountered as you test your course and be proactive on what could be technical issues your students may encounter and give them a heads up.

There you have it. Have you created your online course already? Any tips you would love to add for the newbies?