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Course Structure Guide
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Course Structure Overview
It has been shown that different people has different degrees of attention span, with age being the most obvious marker. Therefore, instructors should take this into consideration when planning and formulating your courses.
We suggest that a lesson should be between 20 and 30 minutes long followed by some activity like tests, quizzes or assignments.
Open Cert platform course format is arranged by sections comprising of lessons. A group of lessons are compiled under one section and a course can have as many sections as required to achieve its objectives and to give your students the value they look to gain from your course. Delivering on your promise to your students will make sure they are happy and satisfied with your course. It is of utmost importance that students feel that they get value for money in registering for your course and that is the best way to ensure that you get organic growth in your student numbers. The word of mouth recommendation is the best form of advertising any product can have.
Course Format
As an overview our course format is shown below; Example course – How To Play Chess
- Section One – Introduction
- Lesson One – Introduction and history of chess
- Section Two – What you will need
- Lesson One – Chess board and pieces
- Lesson Two – Different quality and brand
- Section Three – Knowing the pieces and how they move
- Lesson One – Description of the pieces
- Lesson Two – What the different pieces are and how they move
- Lesson Three – Strengths and weaknesses of each piece
- Test
- Section Four – How the pieces are arranged
- Lesson One – Arranging the board
- Section Five – Basic moves and play
- Lesson One – The first moves
- Lesson Two – Variations of moves
- Lesson Three – Attack and defence moves
- Quiz
- Section Six – Intermediate tactics
- Lesson One – The pawns of the game
- Lesson Two – The charge of the Knights
- Lesson Three – The wrath of the Bishops
- Section Seven – Advanced play and strategies
- Lesson One – How the professionals do it
- Lesson Two – Examples of the Grand Master
- Lesson Three – Moves to follow
- Lesson Four – Great games played by professionals
- Test
- Section Eight – Tips and conclusion
- Lesson One – Tips that you can try
- Lesson Two – Conclusion
The above is how a typical course looks like. As you can see, lessons are what contain the subject matter that you want to teach. Your videos are in these lessons and the number of lessons depends on how many sub-topics you want to cover in each section.
Sections are groups of lessons. Typically, each section should cover a different subject matter that you want to teach. You have the option to put tests or quizzes at the end of each section.
Your Landing Page
For your course landing page, we will need a few lines of information as well. This information will be displayed to visitors when they view your course.
The importance of this page cannot be stressed enough. So, the information has to be accurate and appealing to attract potential students to enroll in your course. This is your elevator pitch.
The following information is required for your landing page;
- A short list of about 5 benefits of your course
- A short description of the course
- A short introduction of yourself as the instructor
- A list of about 5 items for each of
- what’s included with your course
- what students expect to learn from your course
- what skills can they learn from it.
- A picture of yourself if you want to
We hope that the above has helped you to prepare your course otherwise do get in touch with us if you need further guidance how to prepare your course. You can also view other instructors’ courses or view the free courses to get an idea how they present their courses.
Obviously the more time you put into your planning of your course the better it will be. Have a lesson plan and format of our course before you start and don’t forget to prepare your script. This will make it much easier and smoother your video presentation will be. Most importantly, you need to make it easy for your students to follow your course.
Various other guides are available for our instructors, designed to help you make the best video lessons. Check them out.
