It's important to make sure your course is engaging for your students with a well-structured, practical, and rewarding learning experience. The most successful instructors spend time planning their course content before they start recording to ensure their course helps students achieve clear goals.
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Before you begin creating content for your course, it's important to determine who you are teaching and what your students will learn or be able to accomplish by the end of your course. Learn more about what questions to ask yourself about your learners and how to write clear learning objectives.
Deeplearning students love being hands-on with their learning: they want to practice what they've learned through exercises, activities, case studies, and more! There are lots of different types of practice activities you can add to your course to help create an engaging online learning experience.
Your course outline is the foundation for your course--this is where you decide how you will structure and organize your course content. We have an outline template to help you get started!
Once you know how your course will be structured, the next step is to prep for recording your lectures. Most instructors find that scripting each lecture (or writing bullet point notes) helps to reduce the amount of time spent recording and editing and increases the overall quality of their delivery.
Insider tip: Learn the recommended course creation process directly from the Deeplearning Instructor Team and experienced instructors by taking the Official Deeplearning Course, How to Create an Online Course.
A Deeplearning course can consist of a combination of videos, slides, text, quizzes, coding exercises, assignments, and practice tests. You can also add additional resources to your course, including: PDFs, links, audio files, etc. These components are structured into sections and lectures (sections are groups of lectures).
The only length requirement for a course is that it must be at least 30 minutes. Your course should be as long as it takes to fully teach your topic and allow your students to achieve the course goals. If you’re unsure, you can also take a look at other courses in your category to get a sense for the average course length of similar courses.
Course creation time varies greatly depending on the length of the course and an instructor's time commitment. Many of our instructors complete their courses in 30-45 days.
Yes! Deeplearning students love to practice and apply what they are learning. Practice activities can be anything that makes a student apply their learning, not just quizzes or worksheets. Deeplearning gives you tools to create quizzes, practice tests, coding exercises, and assignments in your course.
Courses must contain at least 30 minutes of content, include at least 5 separate lectures, and videos must be HD quality. See here for a complete list of the minimum course requirements.
