In this product update, you’ll find new live session capabilities with Microsoft Teams integration, shareable and verifiable digital credentials powered by Accredible and Credly, simplified course creation (or migration!) with bulk content upload, and more.

Whether you’re a seasoned LearnWorlds user or just getting started, these new features will help you foster a smarter, more accessible, and interconnected learning experience for your audience.

Let’s explore how these tools can empower your academy and drive your mission forward

Simplify Live Sessions with Microsoft Teams in LearnWorlds

Managing live training across platforms often means juggling links, updates, and reminders. Plus, tracking attendance and ensuring all learners participate is a challenge.

In addition to our Zoom and Webex integration, we are introducing a new Microsoft Teams integration to offer you a streamlined, organized, and easily accessible training experience within LearnWorlds, and also connect seamlessly with a tool many of you are already using.

With seamless scheduling, automated reminders, and easy access to replays, your learners—whether customers or employees—can connect, engage, and learn without hassle.

Why it matters:

• Integrated Scheduling and Management: Organize live webinars, product demos, and Q&As directly within LearnWorlds.
• Replay Options for Flexibility: Learners who miss a session can catch up when it’s convenient for them, improving knowledge retention.
• Automated Attendance Tracking: Attendance data is tracked automatically within LearnWorlds, making it easy to follow up and stay compliant.

Host and manage Microsoft Teams live sessions within LearnWorlds, save time, and make sure your learners have all the information they need – without extra administrative effort.

Shareable & Verifiable Digital Credentials: Boost Credibility and Visibility

Traditional certificates work well, but verifiable, shareable credentials work… better! Learners today need something more dynamic than a static certificate—something they can showcase to validate their skills in a professional and credible way.

LearnWorlds’ integrations with Accredible and Credly allow you to issue branded digital certificates and badges that learners can instantly share on LinkedIn, in personal portfolios, or through email signatures.

These credentials don’t just confirm learning; they add value to learners’ careers, helping them stand out in today’s competitive market.

Each badge comes with a unique, verifiable URL, so prospective employers and colleagues can validate skills with one click, reinforcing your program’s quality and credibility.

Why It matters:

• For Learners: Digital credentials come with a unique, shareable URL, ideal for showcasing achievements on social platforms and professional networks. Learners can easily demonstrate their skills, earning criteria, and learning outcomes, making their accomplishments more credible and visible.
• Brand Awareness for Academy Owners: Digital credentials boost your brand’s visibility as learners share their achievements, turning them into ambassadors for your academy and building a strong sense of community among alumni.
• Enhanced Security and Credibility: Digital credentials enhance brand credibility by preventing fraud and ensuring that credentials can be easily verified by third parties, offering employers and peers a trusted way to confirm skills.

After completing your course, learners can proudly display their achievements with digital badges on LinkedIn or other networks, showcasing their skills to potential employers and creating visibility for your academy in the process.

With verifiable, shareable credentials, you elevate your academy’s reputation, attract new learners, and position your courses as a standout option in a crowded market.

Gain Eye-opening Insights on Course Engagement with the Activity Matrix

Understanding learners’ true course engagement and comparing it effectively has always been an area for growth. With the introduction of detailed, visualizable data, it’s now easier than ever to identify which activities can be enhanced and where learners might need extra support.

With the Activity Matrix, you can visualize individual progress, learning time, and activity metrics in one place. From pinpointing bottlenecks to tracking engagement trends, understanding and optimizing learner outcomes has never been easier.

Why It matters:

• Track Progress and Engagement: Get a clear view of participation, grades, and time spent on specific activities.
• Identify Areas for Improvement: Spot trends and bottlenecks to refine your courses for maximum impact.
• Actionable Insights for Better Learning: Use data to support struggling learners, refine content, and enhance course effectiveness.

Check the matrix to see which learning activities are engaging learners most—and which ones may need extra support. This kind of data helps you make targeted improvements, driving learner satisfaction and better results.

What does this mean for you? Simple, visual insights empower you to improve course design and provide targeted support, boosting learner satisfaction and engagement.

Bulk Course Content Upload for Fast Course Creation

Setting up new Course content or transferring Courses from other platforms could be time-consuming. Adding files manually, one by one, slows down your workflow and limits your ability to scale quickly.

Our Bulk Course Content Upload feature lets you upload multiple files or a ZIP Archive file at once, making it easier to set up and organize courses quickly.
Ideal for pre-existing, offline content, or when migrating from other platforms.

Why It matters:

• Quick Setup: Upload a ZIP Archive file or multiple individual files from your computer or cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive and easily build a complete course.
• Enhance Existing Courses: Add content to an existing course by uploading files in bulk from your computer or cloud services.
• Automated Conversion: Files are converted into course sections and learning activities and saved as drafts so you can organize and edit everything before publishing.

Simply select your content—whether stored in the cloud or on your computer—and watch it transform into a fully organized course with sections all at once.

With Bulk Course Content Upload, you can skip the manual work of populating and organizing your course content files and focus on delivering quality learning experiences.

Time to Boost Engagement and Simplify Learning

We’re excited to bring these updates to make your LearnWorlds academy even more powerful. Each feature provides new ways to simplify, scale, and succeed, whether you’re focusing on customer education, employee training, or boosting learner engagement.

Get ready to streamline your learning academy with these powerful updates! And if you’re not a customer yet, get started with a LearnWorlds 30-day free trial to see firsthand the possibilities it offers.

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Expanding your business offerings not only diversifies the learning experience for your audience but also creates multiple revenue streams, making your educational business more resilient and sustainable.

Offering a range of engaging learning experiences is key to staying relevant, connecting with more learners, and achieving your business goals.

But why should you expand your business offerings? Because building a diversified ecosystem allows you to grow income sources beyond courses, and helps you adapt to learners’ diverse preferences, leading to a stronger, more consistent revenue flow.

In this post, we’ll explore how three lucrative offerings—workshops, ebooks, and merchandise—can support your core educational products. We’ll also discuss practical monetization tactics you can put into action right from the start to achieve your business objectives.

The Power of a Diversified Product & Learning Ecosystem

Think of your educational ecosystem as a connected collection of products and services that work together to enhance your learners’ experience.

While an online course is often the core of this network, adding varied products like workshops, ebooks, and branded merchandise can help you cater to different learner preferences and build a more complete experience.

People learn in different ways

One of the popular theories, to this day, is the VARK model. This model identifies four types of learners: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing.

Most people are a combination of these four styles, but more times than not, they have a predominant style of learning. Each of these styles has a complementary way of teaching.

A diversified product & learning ecosystem helps you create more opportunities for engagement in alignment with the VARK model. For instance, visual learners may benefit more from ebooks that include charts and illustrations, whereas auditory learners may gain more value from live workshops.

According to the Learning Policy Institute, deeper learning approaches that focus on active participation (like workshops and other performance assessments) enhance students’ critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and overall engagement.

This type of learning, which can be more interactive than traditional passive methods, is aligned with the VARK model, benefiting both auditory and kinesthetic learners through real-time participation​.

Learners can attend your live workshops to ask questions in real time, read your ebooks for deep dives, or even buy branded merchandise that helps them feel more connected to your brand.

This kind of ecosystem turns your educational business into a vibrant learning hub, where students keep coming back for more.

How to Enrich & Expand Your Product & Learning Ecosystem

As we explained above, expanding your educational offerings is not just about adding more products—it’s about creating a learning environment where learners can find everything they need to grow.

Workshops, ebooks, and branded merchandise are the three most popular and profitable approaches to expand your learning ecosystem. In this article, we’ll explore each one in depth, offering practical tips to help you implement them effectively.

Workshops

Workshops are an excellent way to create a deeper level of engagement with your audience. They provide a chance for live interaction, allowing learners to ask questions, get immediate feedback, and build stronger connections with you and other participants.

Let’s say that you are an online health coach with a series of live workshops on wellness and stress management. You can use an LMS like LearnWorlds to host these workshops in an interactive format, allowing your clients to ask questions in real time and engage with the material actively.

Workshops can also be recorded and offered later as on-demand content, allowing learners who couldn’t attend live to benefit from the material. This extends the life of your content and creates additional revenue opportunities.

By recording these sessions and making them available on demand, you can increase your reach to those who couldn’t attend live and add an extra revenue stream by selling the recorded content at the same time.

Using a flexible learning management system like LearnWorlds, you can easily set up and host live workshops that add real-time value to your learners’ journey, fostering a community experience.

You can take it a step further and repurpose the content from these workshops—’squeezing the lemon,’ so to speak. You can turn key moments into short clips, teasers, or other engaging snippets, maximizing the value of your original content.

💁 How you can leverage workshops

As an online course creator, consider hosting a live Q&A workshop at the end of each course module. This allows learners to clarify doubts, receive direct support, and engage with you and their peers, creating a more interactive and rewarding learning environment.

Another great approach is to host a focused, hands-on workshop where learners can complete a project or exercise with you. This practical application encourages deeper learning and provides immediate value, boosting engagement and satisfaction.

Ebooks

Ebooks are especially effective for learners who prefer reading and writing as their primary style, which is part of the VARK model we mentioned earlier.

By including ebooks in your diversified learning ecosystem, you’re covering the learning preferences of those who benefit most from detailed written content. This ties into creating an inclusive educational environment where all learner types—visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing—can thrive.

Ebooks can serve as standalone products or as valuable learning materials for your courses.

Imagine releasing an ebook that accompanies your online course, offering further examples, exercises, or case studies to reinforce the content.

With LearnWorlds, you can create, integrate, and sell ebooks directly on your platform, adding another stream of income and learning resources.

For instance, if you’re an online course creator who teaches photography, you can utilize an LMS like LearnWorlds to create an ebook that supplements your main online course. Your ebook can include exclusive tips on photography settings, techniques, and case studies of your successful projects.

Ebooks can also serve as powerful lead magnets. By offering a free ebook in exchange for an email address, you can build your email list and nurture prospective learners through a sales funnel. This is a great way to introduce your teaching style and provide value before upselling them to a paid course.

You can offer your ebook as a companion to your photography course and use it as a lead magnet to capture potential students’ emails.

💁 How you can leverage ebooks

If you teach an online course on instructional design, you could create an ebook that dives into specific methods for developing effective learning experiences and new learning technologies, complete with additional exercises and real-life examples.

This ebook can be sold separately or bundled with your course, providing added value to l&d professionals who want to deepen their understanding of instructional strategies.

Keep in mind that when you create your ebook, it’s important to focus on a clear structure that logically organizes the content with a well-defined flow of chapters or sections. The ebook should provide practical value by including actionable insights, examples, and exercises that directly help the reader.

Engaging visuals, such as images, charts, and illustrations, can enhance the content, especially for visual learners. A readable design is key, so use clear headings, bullet points, and ample whitespace to make the information easy to digest.

Lastly, the content should be tailored to the target audience, addressing their specific needs and pain points, ensuring that it remains relevant and valuable to their goals.

Merchandise and Swag

Never underestimate the power of branded merchandise. It’s not just a logo on a shirt; it’s an extension of the learning journey that keeps your learners connected to your brand long after they’ve finished a course.

Merchandise serves as a physical reminder of the learning experience, creating an emotional bond between you and your learners.

Imagine your learners rocking exclusive “graduation gear” from your courses or pulling out a sleek branded notebook to jot down new insights.

So, here are a few tips to have fun with branded merchandise and swag!

Go for limited edition, maximum impact

Make it memorable! Offering limited-edition or themed swag can stir up excitement and give your learners something to show off.

Whether it’s a personalized notebook with their name or a “class of 2024” hoodie, exclusive merch makes learners feel like part of an elite club.

Offer selfie-worthy gear

People love sharing moments. Picture learners snapping photos with their “Course Champion” mugs or tech-savvy “Genius USBs.”

It’s a simple way to turn your learners into brand ambassadors without any extra effort.

Get creative with practicality

From notebooks featuring quotes that spark inspiration to fun items like VR headsets for high-tech courses, these aren’t just items—they’re experiences that learners will associate with your brand.

A quirky pen, a snazzy flash drive, or even a branded tote could become daily essentials, reminding them of their learning journey with you.

Bundle it up

Why stop at single items? Try pairing merch with courses. For example, offer a “Workshop Warrior” pack, complete with a branded journal, custom pen, and a digital certificate.

Or give “Power Learner” packs that include access to special sessions with exclusive swag.

💁 How you can leverage merchandise & swag

As a technology educator or online tech tutor specializing in new technologies, consider offering branded USB drives loaded with exclusive software tools, notebooks featuring tech-related inspirational quotes, or even VR headsets for advanced learning initiatives.

These items enhance the learning experience, serving as practical resources for your courses while acting as tangible reminders of your brand.

By forming partnerships with tech accessory companies, you can co-brand these products, which can further boost course completion rates, deepen learner engagement, and foster a sense of community among your students, making your brand a part of their everyday learning journey.

Extra Insights: More Practical Monetization Tactics

Monetization is at the core of building a successful and sustainable learning ecosystem, and it’s been a key theme throughout this article.

As we’ve discussed, a diversified learning ecosystem isn’t just about enriching the learning experience—it’s also a powerful way to drive significant revenue growth.

Now, let’s dive into some practical monetization tactics you can implement to maximize the value of your offerings and create lasting income streams.

Cross-Sell

Bundle your courses with additional products. Offer a course with a companion ebook with relevant content at a discounted rate. Cross-sell these products right on your LearnWorlds platform to add value to the learner and increase sales.

Sell more. Promote easier. Group smartly with LearnWorlds Course Bundles

Here’s how you can maximize your revenue while providing extra value to your learners. LearnWorlds makes bundling courses for cross-selling a breeze. With just a few simple steps, you can bundle multiple courses to increase sales and offer compelling value—all on one easy platform:

• Navigate to bundles: Go to Marketing → Bundles and click “Create Bundle.”
• Bundle details: Add a name, description, and thumbnail for your bundle to make it stand out.
• Add courses: Select the courses you want to include—these can be paid, private, or even coming soon.
• Set pricing: Offer a discounted price and create a payment plan if needed, making the bundle accessible for all learners.
• Publish & customize: Choose to publish immediately or save as a draft. Customize the bundle page layout and set where learners are directed after purchase.

Upsell

Encourage learners to upgrade to premium experiences. After purchasing a course, prompt learners to enroll in additional premium content, such as live workshops that dive deeper into specific hands-on aspects or offer personalized one-on-one coaching.

Create premium opportunities with LearnWorlds Upsell Features

Here’s how you can maximize your revenue while enhancing your learners’ experience. LearnWorlds makes upselling easy with its premium offerings:

• Identify opportunities for upselling: Choose key points in the learner’s journey, such as course completion or quiz success, to offer relevant premium content—like advanced workshops or one-on-one coaching.
• Create upsell offers: Navigate to the Marketing → Upsell section in LearnWorlds and click “Create Upsell Offer.” Define the premium offer, which can be a workshop, personalized coaching session, or exclusive access to expert content.
• Add to the checkout process: Integrate the upsell offer into your checkout or post-enrollment process, ensuring that learners are aware of additional opportunities to deepen their learning.
• Set pricing and discounts: Offer a special upsell price or discount to encourage learners to take advantage of advanced learning opportunities right away.
• Publish & promote: Announce the premium opportunities through email campaigns or notifications within the course to make sure learners know about them as soon as they complete specific milestones.

Increase Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)

Provide ongoing learning opportunities that evolve with your learners’ needs. After a learner completes a course, suggest additional resources, such as advanced workshops, ebooks, or new skill-based courses, to maintain engagement and continuously provide value.

How to increase CLV with LearnWorlds’ features

Maximize the value of each learner by providing continuous educational experiences with the following steps:

• Identify learner progress points: Use LearnWorlds’ analytics to identify critical points in the learner’s journey—such as course completion or skill assessments—when learners are most ready for advanced offerings.
• Set up tiered learning paths: Create learning paths that guide learners from beginner to advanced levels. For example, offer a “Beginner to Expert” bundle that includes progressively challenging courses, ebooks, and live workshops.
• Launch personalized recommendations: Automate recommendations for relevant products like ebooks or workshops after learners reach milestones. Use the LearnWorlds Marketing → Automations feature to send personalized recommendations and promotions based on learners’ interests.
• Incentivize engagement: Offer loyalty discounts or special access to premium content for repeat learners. This can include early access to new courses or exclusive live Q&A sessions with industry experts.
• Monitor engagement & optimize offers: Use LearnWorlds’ robust analytics tools to track which offers resonate most with your audience. Continuously refine your strategies based on learner engagement and preferences to boost CLV.

Strengthen your brand

Expanding your product offerings also means expanding your brand’s touchpoints. The more your learners interact with your brand, the stronger their connection becomes.

The more learners engage with your offerings—such as courses, workshops, ebooks—the stronger their connection becomes with your brand.

Think about successful brands that provide diverse content—they create a holistic experience, one that keeps people excited and involved. These consistent touchpoints not only improve brand recognition but also cultivate loyalty.

A 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer report shows that brands offering consistent and diverse experiences have a higher likelihood of retaining customers. Learners who feel that they have a variety of options will naturally keep coming back to see what’s next.

A diversified approach also helps you build a sense of community among your learners.

How to strengthen your brand with LearnWorlds’ features

Increase brand visibility and build loyalty with the following steps:

• Create multiple touchpoints: Diversify your offerings by incorporating various educational formats. For example, create live workshops, interactive ebooks, on-demand courses, and branded merchandise—all accessible through your LearnWorlds platform, built-in or via easy-to-implement integrations.
• Foster a sense of community: Build engagement by creating private groups for your learners. Use LearnWorlds’ built-in Community feature to set up discussion groups or forums for workshop attendees or course graduates to interact, share experiences, and connect with your brand even after course completion.
• Personalize communication: Use email campaigns to nurture your learners beyond the course material. Utilize LearnWorlds’ email automations to send personalized thank-you messages, course completion rewards, and exclusive offers for premium courses or merchandise.
• Leverage social media engagement: Encourage learners to share their learning experiences on social media by using branded hashtags or offering exclusive content for sharing posts. Promote success stories and learner-generated content on your social media channels to strengthen the connection between learners and your brand.
• Consistent visual identity: Ensure that all learning materials—from course slides to ebook covers—maintain a consistent brand identity. Use LearnWorlds’ website customization features to match the look and feel of your brand across all your educational content.

Creating A Diversified Product & Learning Ecosystem Doesn’t Have to Be Overwhelming

You can leverage LearnWorlds to set up and manage your educational ecosystem. With LearnWorlds, you have all the tools you need to bring these ideas to life.

You can host live workshops, build and integrate interactive ebooks seamlessly, and offer an eCommerce-like experience for merchandise by connecting your Shopify account.

LearnWorlds also offers robust tools like interactive video capabilities and assessments, which help to make workshops more engaging and ebooks more informative.

These features have been instrumental for many course creators in providing a rich, interactive experience that keeps learners returning for more.

Ready to Make Your Learning Ecosystem Shine?

The power of a diversified educational ecosystem is unmatched when it comes to maximizing your impact and revenue.

By offering varied learning formats—like workshops, ebooks, and merchandise—you’re not only expanding your revenue streams but also enhancing your learners’ journey and strengthening your brand.

Start today by using LearnWorlds to build a dynamic, cohesive educational experience that goes beyond courses. Ready to take the next step?

Explore how LearnWorlds can help you diversify your educational offerings and create a complete learning ecosystem. Start your 30-day free trial today or watch our demo to see how it all works!

FAQs

What is the learning ecosystem in education?

A learning ecosystem is a cohesive, interconnected environment of educational resources that supports holistic learning.

What is an eLearning ecosystem?

An eLearning ecosystem consists of digital tools and platforms that enable online learning experiences, such as courses, ebooks, webinars, live sessions, workshops, and more.

What are the elements of a learning ecosystem?

Elements include courses, ebooks, workshops, assessments, personalized feedback, and branded merchandise.

What is the main purpose of the learning and performance ecosystem?

The main purpose is to provide learners with continuous access to knowledge, support professional growth, and improve skills over time.

How do you build a learning ecosystem?

A learning ecosystem is built by integrating multiple formats like courses, live sessions, ebooks, and community activities, which collectively enrich the learner’s experience.

How does a well-designed learning ecosystem impact student engagement and success?

A well-designed ecosystem offers varied learning methods, meeting different preferences, increasing satisfaction, and promoting successful outcomes.

How can a course business create a more interactive and engaging learning experience?

Businesses can leverage workshops, interactive content, and community activities to keep learners engaged and active.

What are the benefits of a learning ecosystem?

Learning ecosystems offer flexible, varied formats that meet different learning needs, increasing engagement and retention.

When is a learning ecosystem helpful?

It is helpful when learners need flexible, personalized, or diverse content that supports various learning preferences and professional development.

How does a learning ecosystem support continuous professional development?

By offering varied resources that help learners stay updated and develop skills at their own pace.

How does a learning ecosystem support personalized education?

By having access to diverse formats like live sessions, ebooks, and interactive activities, learners can choose their preferred method to grasp concepts effectively.

How does a course business model impact the educational ecosystem?

It influences the variety of offerings—combining courses, workshops, and other products creates a more dynamic and valuable learner experience.

How does a learning ecosystem support professional development and continuous learning?

It provides a diverse range of learning opportunities like workshops, ebooks, and on-demand courses that foster ongoing growth.

How do you create an effective course for a business learning experience?

An effective course should align with the target audience’s needs, include interactive elements, and integrate real-life case studies to ensure relevance.

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The solution to your problem is something as simple as a course outline.

Creating a course outline will help you overcome your mental block and start building your online course.

In this article, we will guide you through the process of designing an online course outline following instructional design principles. We’ll also offer you 18 amazing course templates to spark your creativity.

💡 If you are more of a visual learner, watch the following video on how to create an online course from Idea to Outline with Rachel Reclam.

Table of contents

• 1What is a Course Outline?
  
• 2How to Write an Effective Course Outline: A Step-by-Step Guide
  
• 3Training Course Outline: How is it Different?
• 418 Course Outline Examples & Templates to Download
  

What is a Course Outline?

A course outline is a plan of the course that contains all the learning material, structured in the order you’ll use it in your online course. It can be in the form of a storyboard or a simple list.

A course outline usually includes the following:

• Course title
• Course description
• Course objectives
• Course requirements & prerequisites (if any)
• Learning activities per session
• Supporting learning material
• Milestones (assignment due dates, quizzes, final exams)
• Course schedule (if there are any live sessions)

An outline is not just a tool to create an optimal learning path but also a resource to share with your learners.

How to Write an Effective Course Outline: A Step-by-Step Guide

Let’s go over the steps you need to follow when creating an online course outline:

• Step #1: Build a Learner Profile
  
• Step #2: Write the Learning Objectives
  
• Step #3: Break Down the Course Into Sessions
• Step #4: Choose the Learning Activities
  
• Step #5: Plan for Interactivity
  
• Step #6: Include Knowledge Checkpoints
  

 

💁 The LearnWorlds WorkBook will guide you through all the necessary steps, offering additional items you can go through.

Step #1 – Build a Learner Profile

How well you know your target audience has a massive impact on student learning. The better you know the people who will be attending your course, the more beneficial the learning experience you can build for them.

A learner profile should include the following:

• Basic demographics
• Knowledge level
• Desired goals
• Learner’s pain points

Pre-assessments can help you determine the learners’ knowledge of the subject matter, while a survey can give you information regarding their demographics, their reason for taking the course, and potential roadblocks.

Step #2 – Write the Learning Objectives

Learning goals are broad, general statements of what we want our students to learn – they’re the end goal of the course, the bigger picture. For instance, if you’re teaching social skills, the learning goal is to improve the learners’ social skills. But that doesn’t really say much, right?

When creating your online course outline, break this broad goal down into learning objectives, which are specific and, whenever possible, measurable. So, in this case, ask yourself:

• What does improving social skills entail? What will learners be able to do after the course that they couldn’t do before?
• Carry out conversations with confidence.
• Make a great first impression.
• Master small talk.
• Feel more comfortable in a large group of people.

Write all these objectives and make sure to a) use them as a reference point when creating your content and assessments, and b) clearly mention them in your course description and syllabus.

Step #3 – Break Down the Course Into Modules

Now that you know the course objectives, the next step is to create your course modules, making it easy for learners to follow the course material. Keep in mind that you need to keep each module short and sweet and increase the level of difficulty gradually.

A helpful practice creating a topical outline of your course to organize subtopics under general topics. This way, you’re creating the backbone of your course and course structure, upon which you will create your course content.

🙋‍♂️In the LearnWorlds’ Course Creation Workbook, visit pages 7-8 to see how to create a topical outline.

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Step #4 – Choose the Learning Activities

What learning activities are you going to include in your course? Before choosing, think about the content you may already have and can repurpose. For example, you can use the highlights from an existing blog post to create PDF infographics. Or, you can also choose to repurpose selected content from your case studies, webinars, or emails.

Most importantly, before adding any activity to your lesson plan, think about whether it serves the learning objectives of the course. Anything that doesn’t directly support those objectives should be offered as additional/supportive learning resources.

Why? Bombarding the learners with a mountain of videos and eBooks will inevitably lead to cognitive overload.

🙋‍♂️LearnWorlds offers a wide variety of learning activities and formats to choose from, some of which you can also sell separately as digital products, like:

• Interactive videos
• eBooks
• Audio files & podcasts
• Live sessions
• Self-assessments, quizzes & exams
• SCORM packages

Step #5 – Plan for Interactivity

Remember that what separates a great and successful course from a good enough one is interactivity. This single “detail” can skyrocket not only learner engagement but also the effectiveness of the course, as it allows for in-depth conversations and meaningful connections.

If you can’t include real-time sessions, then at least make sure to build an online community and facilitate discussion groups. This way you will get to interact with your learners and enable them to communicate with one another and exchange knowledge directly.

💡Pro Tip: Using an online course platform that offers interactive features can help you achieve your desired result. Try LearnWorlds for free to test out its Interactive Video Editor and rich course-building capabtilities. 

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Step #6 – Include Knowledge Checkpoints

Last but not least, make sure to include several assessments throughout the course and for different purposes. Let us give you a few ideas:

• Non-graded quizzes: to help learners refresh, practice, and test their knowledge “safely” without it having an impact on their final grade. Including non-graded quizzes will also help you identify learners who need extra support.
• Self-assessments and self-reflection journals: to enable learners to reflect on their learning journey and figure out ways they can improve their learning processes.
• Graded assignments & exams, like written or video submissions: to accurately measure learner knowledge and offer a certificate of completion (or CPE credits).

💡Interested in taking your knowledge business a step further? Then our free webinar Use AI & Instructional Design to Supercharge Your Elearning is the right one for you! Watch the webinar now and learn how to harness AI with Instructional Design for more effective eLearning.

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Training Course Outline: How is it Different?

An online training course designed for employees, customers, or partners, like employee onboarding or customer education, is different from an online course addressed to a wide audience.

Goals are set based on company priorities and result tracking (on multiple levels we’ll explain below) is non-negotiable. Employee training is often mandatory and crucial. All this means that your outline might look a little different.

Assessment Evaluation

The first major difference is an assessment evaluation. If you are tasked with creating a training course, there is a good chance the company hiring you has already assessed their training needs and documented them.

If not, you should perform an assessment evaluation and identify the training needs of the company. These are similar to learning goals and objectives but focus specifically on the people or departments requesting the training to improve specific deficiencies.

Adult Learning Principles

Training is addressed to adults. They might be coming with some industry or work experience and will be looking to implement their newfound knowledge and skills in their work. As such, they have different preferences and needs than younger students.

Adult learning principles will help you make training more relevant to their needs:

• Prefer self-directed learning
• Draw on life experience to assist with learning
• Willingness to learn when transitioning into new roles
• Immediacy of applying the new knowledge to real-life situations and problems
• Internally instead of externally motivated

Remember to make the training more practical, using real-world examples and allowing learners to draw from their years of experience.

Training Evaluation & Tracking

Lastly, evaluating the results is a huge part of training. More often than not, it’s the key stakeholders who will decide the course prerequisites and how success is measured.

For example, compliance training might include a specific number of video watch hours and a final exam with a passing score of 80%. It’s also possible that you should include a certificate to award learners at the end of the course.

💡You might additionally need to collect grades, assignments, or physical examinations. Some advanced learning management systems, like LearnWorlds, include a gradebook or reporting features you will need to meet these requirements.

Include evaluation activities such as exams, on-site testing, scenarios, or other forms of evaluations to the course outline for training, and plan on certifications or reporting requirements.

18 Course Outline Examples & Templates to Download

The best way to create your own outline is to use a good example as a guide.
Our team of experts reviewed LearnWorlds’ course creators and prepared 18 course outline templates based on the most popular course types.

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Here is a sneak peek of the templates:

Assessment courses

These courses help you and your potential students assess their skills. This course type can also be used as a powerful lead magnet to gather students’ emails early in the process.

Presell courses

Presell courses serve as a storefront for an upcoming course. They can help you validate a course idea and build an email list of your potential students before officially releasing a course.

Orientation courses

An orientation course provides an overview of all your courses. They can build student engagement and interest. Don’t forget to add a walkthrough of your academy and the online community, as well as the instructor’s contact details.

Orientation courses can also help mobile app users onboard faster. Be sure to add an orientation-style course on your roadmap for user training!

Μini-courses

Mini-courses are versions of full-sized courses. Like presell and orientation courses, they serve as teasers that make students enroll in a course. However, in contrast to the other two categories, mini-courses provide real educational value: a full summary of what will be taught in the full-sized course.

Live courses

This course type includes mostly scheduled live sessions, which you can enrich with different types of material, like quizzes, discussions, transcripts, and downloadable PDF files. Live courses could also have office hours, during which learners can reach the instructor for questions, feedback, or support.

Workshops

Workshop courses consist of a series of videos where an instructor demonstrates practical tasks while describing the process for the students to follow through. Workshop courses are usually about arts and crafts, painting, sewing, fitness, content creation, etc. You can also share the top highlights of your event for your social media as part of your marketing strategy.

Professional training courses

Professional training courses aim to build knowledge, skills, and competence in a group of individuals or a team. Companies deploy employee training & development initiatives to improve employee performance, smooth out productivity issues, and enhance the soft skills of their workforce.

The “X days challenge” courses

Through an “X Days Challenge” course, an instructor guides the students through daily or weekly small achievements to reach a more challenging end goal at the end of the course. Deploying gamification gimmicks, like badges, is good practice in these courses, as they motivate and reward learners along the way.

A good example of a challenge course is “Create your first mandala painting in 14 days” or “Improve your sleeping habits in a month.”

Certification courses

Certification courses verify the skills and knowledge the learner has obtained in the course in the form of a (usually sharable and printable) certificate. They require learners to pass a final exam or perform a practical task demonstrating their skills. Certifications can be obtained from external governmental organizations or recognized entities.

Unsurprisingly, certification courses often have prerequisites and strict navigation; you can read more on the course navigation on LearnWorlds here.

Spotlight/Niche topic courses

Niche topics are created to teach particular skills. Instructors can create a whole academy with multiple niche courses and sell them in bundles to provide a more comprehensive learning experience while boosting their revenue.

Academic courses

Academic courses have the traditional structure that higher education institutions are following. This type of course usually consists of an introduction to the course and its learning outcomes, a short test or discussion to assess pre-existing knowledge, and multiple lectures (live or video) supported by written learning material, like handouts.

Drip-feed courses

In a drip-feed course, you organize the timely release of your content (section by section) so that it doesn’t become available to your students all at once. This comes with multiple benefits, such as avoiding overwhelming learners, ensuring they learn at a reasonable pace that boosts knowledge retention, and preventing them from downloading the course content all at once and asking for a refund.

Conceptual change courses

Conceptual change courses create a learning experience based on storytelling. These courses don’t intend to teach a skill but rather challenge the learner’s mentality and open them up to different perspectives. Conceptual change courses don’t have a fixed structure.

Hybrid courses

Hybrid courses combine the benefits of online learning with traditional in-class learning offering the flexibility of the first and the opportunity for practice and direct communication of the latter.

Series of “invited talks” courses

Courses made up of invited talks from guest speakers who are experts in the course topic are particularly engaging. A typical course of this sort could include a series of live webinars with key insights sent out to participants in the form of an eBook.

Selling digital goods or extra services

Online courses are not strictly used for teaching. An online course can be a suitable wrapper for your digital product or service, sold either as additional or standalone offerings. For example, you might be an online coach who sells a package of inspirational videos and eBooks separately in a course.

💡 If you are selling digital downloads, be sure to check out our guide as well.

Bonus courses

Bonus courses are usually short and offer some extra resources to students. They typically contain scarce resources, like a PDF, an exclusive interview, an exciting webinar, etc. What makes bonus courses popular is that they add value to your initial offering. They’re usually promoted as being free, which makes them even more appealing.

Complementary to physical products courses

A complementary course offers additional material to a product you sell through your website. Such complementary content can be information about that specific product or guidelines about how to use the product, similar to customer education.

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A course outline serves as the backbone of your online course. Creating one will help you simplify the content development process, allowing you to channel your energy into building your course, rather than struggling to organize scattered ideas.

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Further reading you might find interesting:

• How to Teach Online & Earn Money: Definitive Guide
• SCORM 101: The Definitive Guide to Choose a SCORM-Compliant LMS
• How Much Money Can You Make Selling Online Courses?
• The 19 Best Employee Online Training Software Tools (A Comparison Guide)
• What is an LMS (Learning Management System)?
• How To Start A Profitable Online Course Business From Scratch
• The Essential Guide on How to Create Cohort-Based Courses

FAQs

What does a course outline include?

A course outline should include a brief course description and the learning outcomes, outlining the topics covered in the course in the order in which they will be covered. It can also mention a list of required and recommended readings as well as assessments and exams.

What is the difference between a course outline and a course syllabus?

A course outline is a document that includes the basic components to be taught, such as learning activities, assessments, and evaluations of an online course. It is used to plan and organize the course creation process.

A course syllabus is built for the learner and includes all learning material (mandatory and optional), specific assignments, dates, grading standards, and rules of conduct & classroom policies defined by the instructor.

What is the purpose of a course outline?

The purpose of a course outline is to assist the instructor in creating and delivering the course by following a predetermined structure, planning activities, and creating the materials beforehand.

What are the benefits of a course outline?

A course outline helps the instructor avoid pitfalls while creating a course, from setting clear learning outcomes to including/creating the most suitable content, therefore speeding up the course creation process.

How do you write an outline for an online course?

To write an online course outline you need to follow these steps:

• Build learner profiles
• Write the learning objectives
• Break down the course into modules
• Choose the learning activities to include
• Plan for interactivity
• Include knowledge checkpoints

What are the components of an online course?

An online course might include the following:

• Video Lessons
• eBooks
• PDFs
• Slideshows, and PowerPoint Presentations
• Podcasts
• Discussion Forums
• Assessments and Final Exams
• Live Sessions

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The AI & Instructional Design Certification Workshop gives you hands-on experience with AI tools, guiding you in integrating AI seamlessly into your instructional design process.

If you’re eager to dive right in and skip the reading, click the link below to join the workshop for FREE and start your journey towards certification!

If you’re looking for the inside scoop, the real essence of it all, this blog post will dive into the practical benefits AI brings to instructional designers, drawing insights from the workshop.

We will cover AI’s role in course planning, content creation, assessment design, and feedback generation, while highlighting the unique advantages of AI for course creators.

Understanding the 5 Layers Framework for AI in Instructional Design

In the AI & Instructional Design Certification Workshop we introduce a structured approach called the 5 Layers Framework. This framework helps you understand and implement AI at every stage of the instructional design process.

Let’s explore each of these five layers:

By understanding and applying these five layers, course creators can leverage AI to make the instructional design process more efficient, effective, and engaging.

Whether you’re creating a course outline, drafting learning materials, designing assessments, or providing feedback, the 5 Layers Framework helps ensure that AI is seamlessly integrated into every step of the process.

Why AI is Crucial for Instructional Design

AI has become a vital tool for instructional designers, offering solutions that save time, reduce manual tasks, and create dynamic learning experiences.

Here’s how AI can transform your instructional design process:

1. Course Planning Made Easy: AI eliminates the tedious process of building a course from scratch by suggesting outlines, content types, and activity structures based on educational models and frameworks​.
2. Automated Content Creation: AI helps generate a variety of educational artifacts such as eBooks, quizzes, and even creative elements like stories and analogies, which can be used to enrich courses​.
3. Enhanced Engagement with Creative Techniques: AI introduces innovative methods, like role-playing and analogies, to make lessons more engaging and relatable to learners​.
4. Streamlined Assessment Design: AI can automatically generate assessments, including multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended questions, customized to your course content​.
5. Feedback and Evaluation: AI allows you to provide personalized, detailed feedback to learners without manually reviewing each submission​.

Let’s dive deeper into these benefits and how the AI & Instructional Design Certification Workshop equips you to harness these capabilities.

Course Planning Made Easy: AI as Your Co-Planner

One of the most time-consuming aspects of course creation is planning the structure. What should go into each section? How many activities should each module include? This is where AI steps in as your assistant.

With the AI-powered Course Planner, you can streamline this process by setting simple parameters like instructional models (e.g., Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction or Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory), activity types (e.g., videos, eBooks), and course levels (introductory, advanced, etc.).

AI then generates a detailed course outline, complete with activities and sections—all while maintaining flexibility for edits and customization.

This not only cuts down on planning time but also ensures your course structure aligns with pedagogical best practices—giving you more time to focus on delivering exceptional content.

💁 Here’s an example:

With the AI-powered Course Planner, you can easily create a course on instructional design models. By specifying that you want an introductory course with two sections and three activities per section, AI generates a course outline featuring an introduction to instructional design models, followed by their applications.

The generated activities are tailored to the course level, making it easy for you to customize as needed.

Creating Content at Scale

It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges for most course creators is consistently producing high-quality content.

Well, the AI & Instructional Design Certification Workshop shows how AI can help you generate learning materials, including text-based content, quizzes, and eBooks, that match the tone, style, and complexity you need.

With the AI-powered Ebook Writer, creating entire chapters, case studies, or even creative stories is just a few clicks away.

By defining the desired structure and tone, AI generates full ebook sections, including storytelling elements complete with characters and settings.

Imagine the time saved when AI helps you draft an engaging chapter on instructional design models in seconds, allowing you to focus on fine-tuning the content rather than starting from scratch.

💁 Here’s an example:

The Ebook Writer can create a full chapter on different instructional design models, including the ADDIE model, Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction, and Merrill’s Principles of Instruction.

You can set the tone to be attention-grabbing, making the content more engaging for novice learners.

This way, you can quickly generate structured content while maintaining control over its quality and presentation.

Automating Assessment Design

Assessments are crucial for evaluating learner progress, but creating them manually can be time-consuming. AI simplifies this process by generating customized assessments tailored to your course material​.

The integrated Assessment Designer allows you to create diverse types of questions—from multiple-choice to true/false to fill-in-the-blank.

💡Interested in the best types of assessments for online learning? We’ve got you covered in this article: What Are The Best Types of Assessments for Online Learning?

You can even specify the difficulty level or tie questions to an instructional theory like Bloom’s Taxonomy. AI generates both the questions and the feedback for correct or incorrect answers, providing immediate, contextual insights for learners.

This feature not only saves time but also ensures high-quality, pedagogically sound assessments that are crucial for effective learning.

💁 Here’s an example:

Using the Assessment Designer, you can generate multiple-choice questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy for a course on effective learning strategies.

AI will create questions at various cognitive levels—such as knowledge, comprehension, and application—along with detailed feedback for each answer.

This ensures that learners receive meaningful insights into their progress, making the assessment process both efficient and impactful.

Feedback Generation at Scale

Providing detailed feedback is one of the most challenging tasks for instructors, especially when handling a large group of learners. AI makes this process significantly more efficient.

The Feedback Generator tool allows you to provide personalized feedback by analyzing a student’s response and adjusting for tone, detail, and level of support.

Whether you need supportive, balanced, or rigorous feedback, AI can generate suggestions based on these parameters, allowing you to maintain consistent and thoughtful feedback across all your learners, without the manual workload.

💁 Here’s an example:

The Feedback Generator can be used to provide balanced and encouraging feedback for an open-ended assignment on instructional design.

By defining the feedback as “supportive” and “enthusiastic,” AI generates comments that highlight the learner’s strengths while offering suggestions for improvement, making the feedback both personalized and constructive.

Engaging Your Audience with AI-Generated Emails

Effective communication is key to maintaining learner engagement, and AI can assist here as well. The Email Creator helps you generate emails for course updates, announcements, or live session invitations.

For instance, if you want to promote a new course or event, you can set parameters like the goal of the email, tone (e.g., inviting), and call to action.

AI generates a personalized and engaging email draft, which you can easily customize to resonate with your audience.

This helps you save hours otherwise spent writing and formatting emails while ensuring the messaging is consistent and professional.

💁 Here’s an example:

The Email Creator can help draft an inviting email for a new live session.

By setting the tone to be enthusiastic and including a clear call to action like “Join us for an exciting learning experience,” AI crafts an engaging email that encourages learners to participate, making your communication both effective and efficient.

Enhancing Content with the AI Content Editor

Content creation doesn’t stop once you’ve written your material. Often, the text needs refining to better suit your tone, style, or brand voice. The Content Editor is designed to polish your content, offering options to rewrite, expand, or make your text more engaging​.

Whether you need to make a course description more humorous or more formal, or if you want to rephrase content to make it more impactful, AI provides these functions at your fingertips.

By offering options like “polish,” “expand,” or “rewrite,” the Content Editor ensures that your writing is clear, concise, and engaging, freeing up more of your time to focus on other aspects of course creation.

💁 Here’s an example:

The Content Editor can take a straightforward course description and make it more humorous to better connect with your audience.

For example, changing “This course covers the basics of instructional design” to “Get ready to dive into the exciting world of instructional design—no boring lectures here!” helps make the content more relatable and engaging.

Thinking Outside the Box with Creative Techniques

AI is not just a tool for automation; it’s also a creativity booster through techniques like analogies, role-play, and humor.

For instance, you can use AI to explain complex concepts in simple, relatable ways.

💁 Here’s an example:

An example is using an analogy from cooking to explain market segmentation: “Imagine you are a chef preparing a grand feast—you need to segment your guests into groups based on their preferences.”

This analogy makes the abstract concept of market segmentation more tangible and relatable to learners. AI can also generate engaging role-play activities, such as explaining active listening in the style of Jack Sparrow, making the learning experience more entertaining and memorable.

When teaching the concept of active listening, you can use AI to create a role-play scenario where Jack Sparrow explains it in his unique, humorous style. This approach not only makes the learning fun but also helps learners remember the concept better due to its engaging delivery.

AI Promotes Critical Thinking and Human Oversight

While AI is a powerful tool for streamlining course creation, it’s crucial to remember that it works best when paired with human oversight.

As noted in the workshop’s community, “AI can often produce hallucinations, and we should be encouraging people to do their due diligence to ensure the content is correct.”

AI may generate content quickly, but verifying that information is accurate and contextually appropriate is a critical part of the process.

Another community member who has already participated in the workshop highlighted this balance well: “AI is your writing partner, not your replacement. Don’t publish anything you haven’t checked/edited.” AI offers a fantastic first draft, but it’s the instructional designer’s job to ensure that the content is correct and aligned with course objectives.

By encouraging human oversight, AI also promotes critical thinking. A community member suggested that AI, when used effectively, can actually foster critical thinking by requiring instructional designers to refine and customize the generated content, ensuring it aligns with their voice and educational goals.

AI: Your Creative Partner in Transforming Instructional Design

The AI & Instructional Design Certification Workshop is designed to help you master the use of AI in every step of course creation.

From planning and content development to assessments and learner communication, AI acts as a powerful co-creator that reduces manual effort, improves efficiency, and enhances the learning experience.

With AI as your partner, you can focus more on delivering exceptional learning outcomes while the technology takes care of the heavy lifting.

Ready to take your instructional design skills to the next level?

Enroll in the AI & Instructional Design Certification Workshop today and start revolutionizing the way you create, deliver, and manage your courses. Join a growing community of instructional designers who are using AI to transform education.

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Watch our on-demand webinar to dive even deeper into these AI-driven strategies and learn how to take your campaign to the next level

Or just keep reading to uncover the secrets to a successful Black Friday campaign.

Brainstorm and conceptualize with AI

AI tools such as ChatGPT and MidJourney can make the brainstorming process seamless and creative, allowing you to explore multiple campaign ideas without the hassle.

Here’s how you can utilize AI for this step:

• Ideation with ChatGPT
  Use ChatGPT to generate campaign ideas that resonate with your audience. Simply prompt it with questions like, ‘What Black Friday offers might appeal to my target learners?’ or ‘How can I create urgency in my course promotions?’
• Visual conceptualization with MidJourney
  MidJourney is a great tool for generating visual concepts to accompany your ideas.
  For example, you can create mood boards or generate unique imagery that fits with the theme of your Black Friday campaign. Imagine having a set of visuals tailored to art, technical, or leadership courses—all conceptualized with simple AI prompts.
• Combine ideas
  You can also use AI to synthesize ideas from different campaigns. For instance, ask ChatGPT to combine creative offers and promotion types based on successful past campaigns.
  This will help you develop a holistic Black Friday strategy with a mix of tactics, all curated for maximum impact

Develop your Black Friday assets with AI

You can create high-quality marketing assets like sales pages, graphics, and email templates using AI, making the preparation process faster and more effective.
One of the most effective ways for you to elevate your Black Friday campaigns is by using AI tools to simplify content creation.

At LearnWorlds, we experimented with several AI tools, including MidJourney and ChatGPT, to generate the perfect assets for our Black Friday campaign.

With ChatGPT, our copywriters generated a series of flexible and compelling headlines to convey LearnWorlds’ value. The concept centered on “transformational savings” and the idea that LearnWorlds is “The LMS by e-learning experts for everything experts.”

We used MidJourney to create unique visual assets for our Black Friday theme, exploring prompts that helped us generate personalized graphics for different educational niches. This included creating graphics of the word “Friday” using different creative styles—e.g., using thick oil-based paint for art schools or electronic components for tech courses.

Here’s how you can utilize AI for this step:

• AI-driven copywriting
  Use ChatGPT to generate effective marketing copy that speaks directly to your audience. For example, ChatGPT can help you craft engaging headlines tailored to your target learners, like “Get Up to 50% Off—Take Your Career to New Heights with Our Online Courses!” or “Transform Your Skills and Save Big This Black Friday with Our Best-Selling Courses!” or even “Ready to Learn? Unlock Huge Savings This Black Friday!”
  ChatGPT can also help you create personalized content for different audience segments.
  • For example, for new users: “New to our platform? Get an exclusive 50% off your first course this Black Friday—limited time offer!”
  • For returning students: “Welcome back! This Black Friday, enjoy 40% off on our advanced courses and continue your learning journey.”
• Visual creation with MidJourney
  Use MidJourney to generate creative visuals that align with your course offerings, creating an appealing and consistent theme that makes your Black Friday campaign visually engaging and relatable to your course audience. Here are a few examples:
  • Art Courses: Ask MidJourney to create the word “Friday” using an artistic style, like thick brush strokes or oil-based paint. This resonates well with those interested in painting, drawing, or other visual arts.
  • Tech Courses: For tech-related courses, generate an image of “Friday” made of circuit boards or glowing electronic components to convey a modern, tech-savvy aesthetic.
  • Health & Wellness Courses: Use prompts like “the word ‘Friday’ formed by natural leaves and flowers, emphasizing calmness and growth,” to create visuals that align with well-being and mindfulness topics.
  • Cooking Courses: Generate images of kitchen utensils or dishes with the word “Sale” creatively integrated, adding an inviting, personal touch to your promotional materials.
  • Language Learning Courses: Ask MidJourney to create a collage of famous landmarks from around the world with the text “Unlock New Languages—Special Black Friday Offer!”

Craft your offering

Master the process of calculating and designing the optimal discounts and offers to captivate your audience and maximize your enrollments.

Here’s how you can utilize AI for this step:

• Define your target audience
  Identify who would benefit most from your courses during Black Friday. Are you targeting new learners, existing students, or corporate clients? Use AI to segment your audience effectively.
• Use AI for pricing insights
  Tools like ChatGPT can be used to brainstorm different discount levels and calculate how they could impact your sales. For example, you can ask, ‘What discount will maximize enrollments without sacrificing too much profit?’ AI can provide you with several pricing strategies based on the data you input.
• Create personalized offers
  Personalization is key. AI tools like ChatGPT can help generate personalized messages and offers tailored for different audience segments. This can include varying discounts for new users versus returning students, or creating bundles that are specifically designed based on course popularity.
• Test and iterate
  Leverage AI to create A/B testing strategies for your offers. For example, ChatGPT can help you devise multiple campaign versions, each with a different offer type—like discount percentage, bonus course content, or free trials. You can then test which one resonates the most with your target audience.
• Leverage urgency and scarcity
  Use AI to help craft urgent language that boosts conversions. Terms like ‘limited-time offer,’ ‘exclusive Black Friday discount,’ or ‘only available for 48 hours’ can be refined with AI’s help to match the tone and preferences of your audience.

Build a consistent theme with AI

MidJourney has become our go-to platform for creative visual assets. It provides a user-friendly way to search for images and explore prompts other creators have used.

During our Black Friday campaign, we made creative prompts like “3D render of the letter C made from thick oil paint, photographic quality, white background” to generate niche-specific visuals for schools that focus on painting, flower arranging, and more.

This approach gave us unique campaign visuals that perfectly represented different course offerings, and made each niche feel specifically catered to.

Imagine a flower arranging school using a beautifully rendered image of “Friday” adorned with flowers—it’s a personalized touch that connects instantly with potential learners.

Maintaining a consistent theme across your campaign is key to building recognition for your brand as a course creator. Using both MidJourney and ChatGPT, you can ensure your visuals and messaging align seamlessly.

Here’s how you can utilize AI for this step:

• Use prompts like “act as a graphic designer
  and suggest font pairings and colors for a Black Friday campaign,” you can generate cohesive styles across all touchpoints—from emails to landing pages.
• Use the fonts, colors, and graphic elements
  recommended by AI and apply them throughout your courses to maintain consistency. For example, we used a specific hex code color palette suggested by ChatGPT to ensure visual continuity.

LearnWorlds’ Flavor feature for campaign flexibility

For you as a course creator, the LearnWorlds Flavor feature, built-in the LearnWorlds no-code Website Builder, can be a standout tool during Black Friday. It allows you to clone and customize your school for a specific Black Friday theme without altering the original look of your academy.

Imagine instantly switching your course website to a Black Friday theme with special promotions—and then reverting it back once the campaign ends. With Flavor, this becomes incredibly easy, allowing you to make a high impact while staying efficient.

You can transform your landing pages, update logos, and add specific time-sensitive offers like “Flash Learn Frenzy: 20% off on courses.” This not only gives a festive Black Friday feel but also clearly communicates the limited-time deals.

Promote across channels

Get expert insights on promoting your offers through various channels—like email marketing and paid ads—to ensure your Black Friday campaign reaches the right people at the right time.

AI-driven email marketing can also be a game-changer for you during Black Friday. In the Black Friday webinar we recently hosted, Harmony from MailerLite shared how AI can be used to create and optimize email campaigns:

• Teaser emails
  Send teaser emails a week before Black Friday to build anticipation. These emails hint at upcoming offers and create excitement among your subscribers.
• Countdown and offer emails
  Use countdown timers and interactive elements to remind subscribers of the deals. On the morning of Black Friday, send your main offer email, with AI-generated subject lines to ensure high open rates.
• Reminder and last-chance emails
  Send multiple reminder emails to keep the campaign top of mind, and a final “last chance” email to create urgency as the sale nears its end.

Using AI for personalizing subject lines and content can significantly boost engagement and conversion rates.

Leverage social media and paid advertising

You can also use AI to enhance your social media and paid ad Black Friday campaigns. During our LearnWorlds Black Friday campaign, experts like Mari Smith, shared insights on AI-driven optimization for Meta and Google Ads:

• Meta advantage audience
  Use this AI feature to automatically find your ideal audience for campaigns. This is particularly useful for Instagram and Facebook ads, ensuring you reach your target demographics effectively.
• AI-generated ad copy
  Meta can provide multiple versions of your ad copy, allowing you to test what resonates most with your audience, while Google’s generative AI feature creates tailored images and videos for your campaigns. These capabilities enable course creators to create compelling ads without needing deep expertise in performance marketing.

Conduct post-campaign analysis

Once your Black Friday campaign is over, it’s crucial for you to analyze the results using AI tools. AI can help conduct post-campaign analysis and measure KPIs:

• Google Analytics and LearnWorlds integration
  Extract data from Google Analytics and LearnWorlds and use ChatGPT to combine and analyze these datasets. This can give you insights into metrics like revenue uplift, conversion rates, average revenue per user, and new customer acquisition.
• AI-generated reports
  Ask ChatGPT to act as a data analyst and generate meaningful KPIs from your campaign data. This might include calculating the percentage increase in monthly revenue, new customer rate, and more, providing you with a thorough understanding of your campaign performance.

Ready to make this Black Friday a turning point?

From content creation and visual design to paid ads and email sequences, AI tools can simplify the workflow, save time, and drive impactful results, helping you streamline the Black Friday campaign process.

Now it’s your turn. Leverage these AI tools and techniques to elevate your Black Friday campaign and maximize your course sales.

Want to see these tips in action? Watch our on-demand webinar for a step-by-step walkthrough and even more expert insights.

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So, how can you stand out from this crowd and create a learning experience that is as valuable as it is entertaining?

We’ve got one word for you – masterclass.

A masterclass is one of the most attractive offers you can make in today’s creator economy, where knowledge is fast, informal, and easily accessible.

In this article, you will learn all you need to know about a masterclass, from planning and creating to hosting one successfully. We’ll also see 5 examples of successful master classes, so you have a better idea of what they look like in action!

What is a Masterclass?

A masterclass is a high-quality and relatively brief learning experience jam-packed with in-depth knowledge. During a masterclass, an expert instructor offers hands-on learning to a group of students. 

Usually, the participants have good prior knowledge of the subject, but it’s not uncommon to offer a masterclass for first-timers as well.

🎶 While the first master class took place in music education, today, master classes are held throughout various disciplines.
🧑‍🏫The original term is ‘master class.’ Masterclass.com has popularized the alternative version, ‘masterclass.’

How to Plan a Masterclass: Where to Start

Delivering a master class requires vast knowledge, deep understanding, and also careful preparation. Before you do anything, you need to think about:

• Why create a master class?
• Who is it for?
• What should it include?
• How much does it cost?
• How long should it be?

The best way to create a successful masterclass is to plan every detail. Answering these questions can help you prepare and gather all the necessary resources.

Why create a masterclass?

Creating a masterclass can seem time-consuming, but the benefits for you and your learners are many and worthwhile.

A masterclass is an excellent additional source of revenue and a way to build engagement and loyalty with your students and attract new audiences. Although you already need to be an expert to hold one, a successful masterclass can help you improve your reputation and further establish your expertise in your field.

As for the students, a masterclass helps them share their knowledge, express their opinions, get direct feedback, and perfect their skills.

The goal of this special learning event is to bring all the aspects, activities, and tools together to create an effective and aspiring environment that allows learners to be heard. No other educational experience creates such a focused learning experience.

Who is a masterclass for?

Masterclasses are typically targeted at individuals who already have foundational knowledge or experience in the subject and are looking to elevate their expertise. These include:

Professionals seeking to refine or update their skills.

Aspiring experts who want to deepen their understanding of a specialized area.

Enthusiasts who are passionate about learning from a top expert.

Students looking for advanced education or mentorship.

Creatives and artists who want to learn from successful professionals in their field.

Finding out as much as you can about your target audience – your learners – can help you prepare your educational materials and masterclass content accordingly.

To ensure learners will benefit from your masterclass, you need to present information relevant to them and complementary to what they already know. This means you must choose whether you want to create a masterclass for beginners or advanced students.

Most of them will be highly motivated learners, excited about a topic, and eager to deepen their knowledge. This enthusiasm sets the ground for an engaging and interactive experience, but at the same time, it implies they will have high expectations from you.

What should a masterclass include?

A masterclass can take various forms, including a standalone event, a series of sessions, video lessons, workshops, or even an online course.

Regardless of the format, it is typically designed to be completed within a short, concentrated time frame. 

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These are the key elements of a masterclass:

• It is taught by an expert
• It is short and focused
• It carries more niche value

Having said that, the instructional material and content can be determined and delivered accordingly to fit your learners’ needs.

At this point, it is important to decide what you want your learners to achieve by the end of the event. Try to get into the details,  pick specific questions you want it to answer, and create content that gives a comprehensive knowledge of a niche topic.

To do this, set up a learning goal and structure your masterclass around it.

Popular types of content to use:

• Video tutorials
• Live or pre-recorded webinars
• Blog posts or ebooks
• Audio (podcasts)
• Workbooks & Worksheets/Checklists
• Slideshow/PowerPoint Presentations
• Assessments (quizzes, exams, learning activities)
• LinkedIn or Facebook group (community support)

The content can be presented through a series of video tutorials, Slideshow/PowerPoint presentations, live or pre-recorded webinars, or any other way that suits your learning objectives as long as it allows you to have regular check-ins (or short breaks) with your learners.

How much does a masterclass cost?

A masterclass is a premium product that differs from a single course and offers much more to students than a single webinar. While there is no ready-made recipe for pricing it, it’s important to avoid charging a low price. Low price equals low expectations.

Instead, the price should reflect your worth as an expert and the value learners will get from the experience. All the behind-the-scenes preparation work you’ve done must also be taken into consideration.

Another idea is to check how much similar courses in your niche cost, so you set your price within the average range. 

💁 Check our guide on How to Set the Right Price for Your Online Course.

How long should a masterclass last?

The masterclass can take up as long as you want but it is recommended that you keep it below 3 hours. According to Business Insider, courses on MasterClass.com are about 3 hours on average with each individual lesson ranging from 2 to 5 minutes.

Microlearning seems to be the most appropriate instructional method to deliver your content effectively. With this method, you structure your course into brief lessons or activities that typically last less than 7 minutes. Breaking down the content into small chunks helps learners assimilate the information better and maintain their focus.

Let’s see an indicative outline:

1. Class and instructor/expert Intro – (10 minutes)
2. Main learning content: class lessons + examples (45 minutes)
3. Student participation/activities: one-to-one work or group discussion (30 minutes)
4. Live Q & A (20 minutes)
5. Assessment: timed quiz or exam (30 minutes)
6. Assessment results + feedback (10 minutes)
7. Next Steps (5 minutes)

Total time: 2,5 hours

Generally, it’s a good idea to prepare a draft plan and revise it as you go. Once you have decided what you want it to include, send it out to your attendees to help them prepare for the lesson as well.

💁Want an effective course outline? Make sure you get these templates.

How to Create Your Masterclass: 5 Steps

If you’re serious about creating a successful masterclass, having a solid plan is essential. 

The step-by-step guide we’ve prepared for you below will help you design a structured and engaging learning experience that delivers real value from beginning to end.

Step 1: Come Up With A Topic

Just like you would do when building your online course, first, you need to research the subject you want to teach. Identify popular topics in your niche that you feel confident you can teach.

💡Example: If you were to offer a masterclass on cooking, focus on an area of cooking like restaurant cooking, or a specific type of cuisine. Then you can come up with recipes, implement them, and offer tips on essential cooking techniques as you go. 

Or you might want to focus on a more popular topic, like vegan cooking. Make sure you check the demand for specific keywords on tools like Google Trends and Ahrefs.

Doing so will allow you to determine which are the topics your learners want to learn more about. Alternatively, you can conduct surveys to gather feedback and their interest in niche topics.

💁 Need help? Check out these 183 profitable course ideas.

Step 2: Give Your Masterclass A Name And Structure

Since your masterclass is essentially a product you want to sell, you need to consider the marketing aspects early in the process.

Coming up with a suitable name will help you create buzz and attract the right audience for the right reasons, therefore increasing enrollment. It will also help learners understand what exactly it’s about and get excited.

The name of your masterclass needs to be short, strong, enticing, and to the point. It shouldn’t mislead the audience or leave them wondering.

Here are a few examples of successful titles:

1. Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home (from Gordon Ramsay)
2. The Runner’s Mindset (from Joan Benoit Samuelson)
3. The Power of Empathy (from Pharrell Williams and Noted Co-Instructors)
4. Building a Fashion Brand (from Diane Von Furstenberg)
5. Crush Your Organic Social Media Strategy (from Mari Smith)
6. Increase your Facebook Following In 10 Days (from Sarah Cordiner)

Such titles give learners just enough information and context that ignite their curiosity to check it out.

Apart from the name, you must also create a brief description and offer a preview of the course content.

When creating your content, keep in mind the following:

Create content around the learning objectives: What have you promised your learners? Identify your learning objectives and ensure that each piece of content you add will bring learners close to them.

Decide how long each session will be: Depending on the content, a masterclass usually ranges from 2 to 5 hours. If you’re planning a live event, break it down into 30-45 minute classes with breaks, so students can get some rest and regroup.

Break down the session into activities: Decide on activities that help you develop your ideas and content and can also engage learners. Calculate the time spent on discussion, individual and group exercises, and a Q&A session.

Think about the next move: Consider what’s the next step your students will take once they finish the masterclass. Do you want them to sign up for another course? Join your membership site? Follow you on social media? Direct them accordingly at the end of the class.

Step 3: Create The Content

Next, you will need to create the content that you are going to include in the masterclass.

Get our workbook to help you create your outline and content:

At this point, you must decide how you want to design and deliver the content so that your learners can get the most out of it.

The best way to do this, especially with online education, is by creating short videos (learn all the secrets for engaging videos from successful YouTube creators!) where you explain key concepts and break down each topic. These videos can be followed by PFDs, an eBook, or instructor notes that complement the lesson.

These are some benefits of using video in learning:

• It is one of the most persuasive types of content
• It addresses different learning needs (visual, auditory, kinesthetic)
• It allows learning on the go
• It supports on-demand, bite-sized microlearning
• It is a cost-effective elearning solution

There are many ways to teach and present information through video, and this will depend on the instructional style you choose to follow.

If you’re offering a live event with a hands-on demonstration, prepare your presentation beforehand. Choose the content you’ll work with, be it cooking recipes or copywriting techniques, and practice demonstrating step-by-step what you’re doing while sharing tips and secrets.

💁 Need help? Find out how to create educational videos from start to finish.

Step 4: Decide on a Business Model

Your entire sales funnel must guide prospective learners to sign up for your masterclass. If you want people to join, you must find the business model that will appeal to them the most.

• Will you give your learners lifetime access to your content?
• Will it be a one-time product you are selling for a limited time?
• Is it going to be part of your wider business promotional strategy?
• Do you want to build more awareness for your small business?

For example, if you’re an established figure that regularly hosts such events and produces different types of content, then a membership site where learners will pay a monthly or yearly subscription for unlimited access to all content would make the most sense for you. A membership site would additionally help you strengthen your community and bring your audience together.

Step 5: How to Promote and Sell Your Masterclass

Once you prepare the content for your masterclass and put a price on it, it’s time to start promoting it. When it comes to marketing, there are several channels to try.

These are the best ways to spread the word:

Create a landing page
With a professional landing page in place, people are more likely to discover your masterclass and enroll in it. If you already have a website, it should be really easy for you to create another page dedicated to your masterclass. Give as much information as you can, create a lead magnet (like an eBook), and allow people to register through an opt-in form.

Developing a pre-launch strategy is pretty common and effective, as it helps build some hype and gets people to sign up for the event in advance.

Promote on social media
Apart from promoting your masterclass on your social media channels, you can also expand your reach by participating in community groups relevant to your niche. Through these groups, you can answer audience questions and post content you’ve created to showcase your expertise. Of course, the ultimate goal is to invite people to join your event to learn more about the topic.

Use email marketing
If you don’t have one yet, it’s time to start creating an email list. With an email list, you get to build a subscriber list and keep nurturing these leads with relevant information through email. Apart from sharing your monthly newsletter, you can offer regular updates on your business or industry news and inform them about new products.

For best results, build an email sequence and prepare your subscribers for the launch of your masterclass. Create a promo video for your masterclass, list the benefits of joining in, and get them on board.

How to Host and Market Your Masterclass

To host your masterclass, you will need to have some key tools and a hosting platform in your inventory.

Depending on the type of content you are planning to create for the masterclass, you will need a different set of tools.

For example, if you want to conduct a live masterclass for free try Facebook or YouTube Live.

If you don’t mind spending some money on a web conferencing or webinar platform, then check out Zoom Premium, GoToWebinar, WebinarJam, or ClickMeeting to name a few.

💡For best results, you can invest in an LMS or an online learning platform.

With an all-in-one solution like LearnWorlds, you can host and deliver your masterclass through one dedicated platform, whether you want it to be a real-time event or an asynchronous online course.

Enjoy features like video-hosting, integration with Zoom or Webex, eCommerce, marketing tools, bundles & subscriptions, interactive content, and more, with LearnWorlds ticking all the boxes for a top masterclass experience!

Successful Online Masterclass Examples

Before you start creating your masterclass, you might want to check some of the most successful and popular examples out there.

This should help you gather some ideas about how to construct your landing page and also ensure that you offer your learners the best tools and resources for success.

Example 1: ICEP Hotel School

The ICEP Hotel School allows its students to dive deeply into the sweet culinary world of hotels. It comes with several courses offering guided and practical online learning experiences but also on-site baking masterclasses conducted by internationally renowned chefs.

Image Source: ICEP Hotel School

Most of their masterclasses require online registrations, include intensive pastry training, and a certificate of completion, and last up to three days.

Example 2: Upskill

Upskill teaches learners various subjects that fall under the professional development umbrella. With live events, masterclasses, training resources, and on-demand content, Upskill helps its students develop their technical and professional skills and achieve more in their careers. Their online content includes videos, eBooks, audio, notes, assessments, and certificates.

Image Source: Upskill

From ethics to emotional intelligence, leadership, and communication, the school has many live events and masterclasses lined up.

For each masterclass, prospective learners can get more information about its key outcomes, who can join, how it can help with CPD accreditation, and which competencies they can learn and develop from the training.

Example 3: Udemy

As an online course marketplace, Udemy is packed with online courses offered by various experts, instructors, and industry professionals. Among the online learning content it provides, there are also many masterclasses on popular topics like digital marketing, web development, business analysis, social media, and more.

In the following example, Udemy presents lots of information regarding the training. It offers a simple – yet effective course description with a detailed outline of the learning outcomes, along with the instructor’s name.

Image Source: Udemy

You can also see what the course includes e.g. a total of 52 hours of on-demand video, 22 articles, 26 downloadable resources, access on mobile and TV, and a certificate of completion.

Example 4: Lewis Howes Podcasts

Lewis Howes offers a different type of masterclass that is entirely audio-based through his series of podcasts. As Lewis interviews industry leaders for The School of Greatness, he records podcast episodes his audience can listen to for free. This is an excellent example that shows how you can create a masterclass series using only podcasts.

In the ‘A Masterclass in Monetizing Your Side Hustle & Personal Brand’ podcast, Lewis has a discussion with Rory Vaden – the world’s leader in the study of Reputation Strategy, who explains mistakes to avoid and best practices to sell when monetizing your side hustle. This episode is the final of a four-episode series on the topic.

Example 5: Course Masters

Notice how the course page mentions the specific learning objectives, the duration of the course (also divided by parts in the course outline), and the difficulty and access levels. Being a free class, the page has a sidebar featuring direct links to the course content while the duration of each module is clearly visible.

How to Create Your Own Masterclass With LearnWorlds

LearnWorlds comes with all the tools instructors need to create, market, and sell online courses, and it can help you create your own masterclass in no time.

Let’s find out how you can do this using the LearnWorlds platform step by step:

Step 1: Sign up and log in to your LearnWorlds school

Once you have created an account with LearnWorlds, you will be able to log in and access your school Dashboard. 

From there, you need to go to the ‘Courses’ Tab on the left-side navigation menu and click the ‘Create Course’ button.

Step 2: Create your online course

Go through the course creation wizard and choose a title for your course. 

Come up with a URL for your course, and select the type of access you want for your course (Paid, Draft, Coming Soon, Free or Private).

Give it a price, upload an image for it, and write a brief description. Finally, choose your preferred course page format.

Step 3: Add content to your course

Once you complete the course wizard, you can start adding learning content to your course. From here, you need to decide how you want to add content e.g. build from scratch, produce with AI, or import content. 

💡You can also choose to either drip-feed your course or not. 

Once you choose your preferred content creation option, go ahead and give a title to your first section, a description, choose the type of access, and click ‘Save’. Doing so will take you to the Course Outline.

A good choice is to add a brief video introducing yourself (e.g. a recorded YouTube video, where you let them know who you are and what you do).

Then, you can start adding learning activities and presenting information through an interactive video, eBook, PDF, Soundcloud and audio clip, or a SCORM package right away.

To start adding learning activities, click on ‘Add Activity,’ and under the ‘Multimedia’ tab, choose the type of content you want, write down the learning activity title, and click ‘Save’.

Step 4: Create an ebook learning activity

The best way to present text-based information is by creating an eBook. Follow the same process as adding an activity, but this time click on the ebook tab, and then ‘Save’.

To add learning material to your eBook, you can either upload an MS Word file directly or start building content from scratch and inserting more elements to it from the right-hand side menu. 

💡You can also use our very own AI Assistant to help you out.

Choose from headings, text, images, columns, and educational blocks, embed content and links, or customize it further using HTML.

Repeat the process to add more learning activities and downloadable resources for your learners e.g. PDFs.

Step 5: Set up a live lesson
If you want to conduct your masterclass in real-time so that you can enjoy communicating directly with your students, you need to set up a live session.

To do this, click on ‘Add Activity again, but this time go to the ‘Live Session’ tab. From there you have 3 options – either to schedule a live Zoom Meeting, Zoom Webinar, or Webex Meeting.

Choose what you prefer and connect the corresponding tool with your LearnWorlds account.

💡Through the Zoom integration, you can start using Zoom, but first, follow these instructions to sync it with your LearnWorlds account. 

Ready to Create an Online Masterclass?

The success of a masterclass depends very much on your own instructional style, knowledge, and ability to transmit your enthusiasm and passion for what you do.

Focusing on the potential it offers, you can invest more of your time and money in it to offer a unique learning experience to your learners. While creating a masterclass will undoubtedly need much effort on your behalf, the benefits it carries for your business are all worth it.

So, are you ready to create your first online masterclass?

LearnWorlds is not your typical online course platform. Create interactive video content, host live events, sell digital downloadables, build an online community, and so much more to engage your audience while offering them top-notch learning experiences.

Get your free 30-day trial with LearnWorlds, and let us know how it goes!

Further reading you might find interesting:

• How to Teach Online & Earn Money: Definitive Guide
• How to Create and Sell Profitable Online Courses: Step-by-Step Guide
• How Much Money Can You Make Selling Online Courses?
• How to Sell Online Courses On Your Shopify Store (Guide)
• Introducing the Most Advanced Online School Site Builder
• 18 Amazing Outline Templates to use in Course Design
• Starting an Online Course Business from Scratch

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But how do you make training truly engaging and productive? One of the top e-learning strategies is microlearning—delivering bite-sized, easily digestible content that suits today’s busy learners. Videos are an ideal format for micro-learning, capable of breaking down complex concepts into simple, engaging learning experiences.

As a powerful medium in e-learning, videos enhance understanding and retention. With the rise of interactive videos, employee training has become even more effective. In this guide, we’ll explore why video should be a cornerstone of your training strategy and provide a few real-life examples showing how to implement it.

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Why Use Training Videos in Employee Training?

Training videos offer significant advantages in employee training, making them a valuable tool for organizations across various industries.

Scalability and Reusability: Once created, training videos can be used repeatedly across different departments or training sessions, saving time and resources.

On-Demand Access: Employees can revisit videos at their convenience, ensuring they can review and reinforce learning whenever needed.

Cost-Effective: Compared to on-site training, videos are more affordable, especially when split into short, digestible modules that cater to different learning paces.

Higher Retention Rates: Training videos increase information retention by providing visual and auditory reinforcement, making it easier for employees to remember key concepts.

Clarity for Complex Products: Videos can effectively demonstrate how to use products or systems that are too large or complex to train on in person, ensuring clear and consistent instruction.

Incorporating training videos into your employee onboarding process enhances learning and provides a flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient solution for your ongoing training needs.

Different Types of Training Videos

Training videos are a powerful tool for delivering knowledge and skills in an engaging and efficient manner. They come in various styles as well to meet different training requirements.

Here are some key types of training videos that are used often:

• Animated training videos
• Live-action videos
• Slide presentations
• Screen recordings
• Work Productivity videos
• Explainer videos
• Selfie-videos
• Tutorial videos
  

Choosing the right type of training video is crucial for delivering effective training.

Of course, each style has its strengths, making it easier to match the video format to your training objectives, business goals, and audience needs.

Successful Examples of Training Videos

Now let’s explore some examples of effective training videos that can inspire and guide your own video creation efforts.

Example 1: Simple slide presentation training

Slide presentations (usually made in PowerPoint) are one of the most popular and easy-to-create lecture styles. The presenter is either absent or present with their voice. Slide presentations can become very engaging if you put a lot of work into designing each of the slides carefully.

Slide presentations can also be overlapped by the instructor’s presence (here’s an example) or be split into a screen that also shows the instructor:

Example 2: Screencasts

Screen-casts, also known as video screen captures, are the most suitable means to teach computer software. They consist of “the capture all of the action on a computer screen” format and often contain audio narration.

Creating a screencast helps technical instructors show off their work. Instructors can also create this type of video to demonstrate the proper procedure to solve a problem. Here is an excellent article with tips and techniques for creating winning screencasts.

💁How to make screencasts the right way.

The screen movement can either be static or dynamic (follow the cursor). A screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on a computer screen, enhanced with audio narration, so the agency is quite strong.

Example 3: Teaching masterful techniques

Wondering what’s the best way to use video to train employees? 

If you own a coffee shop, teaching new hires how to create the best coffee is essential. This video clocks in at less than three minutes, but it gives you a close-up look at the technique of making the perfect latte. With such videos, you don’t have to look for a high-level pro who offers in-person training only.

Example 4: Interactive video training

Interactive videos offer immersive training experiences. The viewer is put into the role of an active participant. This is easily achieved through various interactive buttons and labels.

The viewer interacts with several objects, inside the video and reads information about them, and selects the right objects in the scene when asked. Also, the viewer has the choice to navigate several parts of the video content with navigation buttons and answer questionnaires inside the video. In the latter case, the video stops, and the user interacts with a question. Then, the video gives feedback according to the user’s choice.

Very popular are also videos where you have to decide what you are going to do. In this case, we are talking about branched videos, where the viewer sees a different version of it according to their path choices. You can see an example here.

Example 5: Animation training Videos

Animated video lectures are becoming more popular, allowing learners to learn in a fun and relaxing way. Animations are very similar to the cartoons we used to watch in our youngest age and maybe that is what makes them so engaging:

Giving glimpses of such situations helps people first to understand the issue, and then how to deal with it.

In this type of lecture, the main protagonist is the media presented while the instructor plays an assistive role with a voice-over (most of the time). The most popular tools for creating animations are Animaker and Vyond.

Example 6: Live action with animation

Videos that combine animation with real video are fascinating.

Animated heroes in videos make a huge impact. Rather than narrated videos, it is better to create animations that make the viewer feel an expert is preaching them. An authoritative tone isn’t always the most persuasive.

Also, handwriting boards are very popular:

In this type of lecture, the viewer sees the words being written at the moment of speech. Here, you can also include whiteboard animations (which are available on most video animation platforms). The instructor can choose if a hand will be visible or not.

Example 7: Selfie videos

Selfie videos are much more lively and engaging, and they make the background much more interesting for the viewer. They can serve numerous purposes from traditional lectures with the presence in full screen to extended field trips.

Selfie videos are speaker-centric, and the presenter may be interspersed with slides, animations, other videos, images, etc.

Example 8: Conversation-style videos

Creating videos where two or more people discuss a topic and present valuable conclusions is a very engaging and authentic way to convey essential messages. At the same time, it is the most effective way to emphasize the people in a lecture video.

Just make sure the conversation is substantial and has something great to offer. The footage may sometimes be adorned with slides, annotations, and keywords.

Example 9: Short videos focusing on one skill

An employee training video doesn’t have to be super long to be effective. With short videos, you can give a few tips with close-up shots to show your students how to learn a new skill.

For example, an explainer video about how to deal with angry customers does the job in less than 90 seconds. Here’s another one that is under 5 minutes:

Generally, in terms of video length, the sweet spot is no more than 2 minutes. Longer than that and you risk losing your viewers’ attention.

How to Make Great Training Videos for Your Employees: A Step-by-Step Process

Whether you are onboarding new employees or upskilling your current team, following a structured process of creating your own training videos is essential. 

Doing so will also help you ensure they are impactful and deliver the desired results.

Step 1: Define Your Objectives

Before you start recording, you need to clearly define what you want to achieve with your training video. Are you looking to teach a specific skill, communicate a policy, or provide an overview of a new system? Knowing your objectives will guide your content creation, ensuring that every part of the video aligns with your end goals.

Step 2: Understand Your Audience

Your training video should be tailored to the needs and preferences of your employees. Consider their current knowledge level, learning styles, and any potential challenges they might face. This understanding will help you decide on the video’s tone and the complexity of the content.

Step 3: Script and Storyboard

Once you have your objectives and audience in mind, start scripting your video.  A well-written script keeps your message clear and focused. Along with the video script, create a storyboard to visualize the flow of the video. This helps in planning visuals, transitions, and any on-screen text or graphics that will support the narrative.

If you need video templates there are plenty of tools that offer them. Try Canva or Envato Elements.

Step 4: Production and Editing

Now, it’s time to bring your script to life. Use quality equipment when recording videos, to ensure good lighting and sound. Look for a video editor as well and during editing keep your video concise and engaging by cutting out any fluff and using visuals that complement the content. 

You can add overlays and additional interactive elements like quizzes or prompts to keep viewers engaged with the training materials and reinforce learning.

💁 Need a video editing tool? Check this list of best training video tools to find the video editing software that matches your needs.

💡To create interactive videos from scratch and add all the elements you need, make sure you check out our very own Interactive Video Editor. Add pop-ups, questions, CTA buttons, watermarks, subtitles, transcripts, embedded content, and more!

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Step 5: Review and Revise

Before finalizing your video, review it with a test audience or subject matter experts to ensure accuracy and effectiveness. Gather feedback and make any necessary revisions. This step is crucial in refining your video to ensure it meets its objectives and resonates with your audience.

Step 6: Share and Distribute Your Video

Once your training video is polished and ready to go, the next step is to ensure it reaches your employees effectively. Choose the right platforms and channels based on your employees’ or team members’ preferences—whether it’s through an internal Learning Management System (LMS), email, or a company intranet. 

Simply download your video files from the training video software you are using, then share them via a link or embed them directly into your communication channels. 

You can choose to upload them on Vimeo, YouTube, or other social media platforms directly. Just make sure the videos are easily accessible while providing options for different formats and are compatible with various devices. 

Tips for Effective Training Video Production

Creating impactful training videos requires more than just pressing the record button. To ensure your videos are effective and successful, it’s essential to follow best practices in video production. 

Below are some practical tips to help you produce high-quality training videos.

Ensure your videos are highly engaging

Your video needs to be as appealing as possible. There are numerous ways to do this. You might want to try to add aural features to highlight and reinforce important points. But, you should also learn how to draw attention to video lectures. 

The critical problem of learning with video lectures is the learners’ sense of distance between you and them. Emotion can shorten the distance. The emotion expressed by the instructor’s facial expressions creates the perception of closeness. Namely, it could overcome learners’ feelings of isolation.

Keep them short and to the point

Most people don’t watch videos for longer than 6 minutes. So, it is better to keep the idea of a short attention stream in mind the next time you create a training video.

Instead of long droning videos, use short videos.

Break them down into small chunks

By using small chunks of video content, trainees can see what information will be covered in each video segment. Your learners will understand what each video covers and won’t be forced to scan through an hour-long video to return to the information.

Edit the videos thoroughly

The real work continues after the video has been recorded, thus at the post-production stage. Usually, for high-quality corporate training videos, it takes between 30-60 minutes to edit each minute. 

Luckily, nowadays, video production is not just a privilege for professionals. Impressive techniques that are popular amongst experienced moviemakers have become available to beginners too. You can find affordable software and easy-to-use apps to unleash your creativity.

Compress the videos

Using high-definition videos might not be great when someone is watching from a mobile device or a non-high-speed internet connection. It’s better to compress videos before uploading them to your chosen LMS.

Compressed videos take less time to load and are more accessible even when employees choose to attend the training program on the go.

Monitor the video performance

By tracking key engagement metrics, such as views, completion rates, and user feedback, you can gain valuable insights into how well your videos are resonating with your employees. Such data is crucial for refining your training approach and making adjustments to future videos.

Wrapping Up

When it comes to training videos, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Different types of videos serve different purposes, from onboarding new employees to explaining complex concepts or reinforcing company policies. 

Before you even begin creating your videos, you will need to consider your lecture style. Are you going to use a slide presentation, create an animation, or a selfie-style video?

Choosing your instructional video style is essential, as this will inform your lesson plan, dialogue, and video editing process. If you want to learn more about training videos, read our Video-Based Learning ebook or visit our unique online course in our Academy!

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Whether you’re creating a screencast for YouTube, a classroom, or an online course, these videos are one of the most effective ways to produce engaging “how-to” content.

In this article, we have reviewed the latest research and best practices on how to create high-quality screencasts, ensuring you deliver valuable content and knowledge to your audience.

What is a Screencast?

Screencasts otherwise known as ‘screen capture videos’ or ‘screen recordings’ are recordings of computer screen activity, which often contain audio narration. They are an easy way to create walk-throughs, how-to video tutorials, and other educational videos, and are widely used as a learning tool.

A screencast features various elements like text, images, and mouse movements on top of audio, allowing online instructors to present adequate learning scenarios.

Some of the subjects that can be taught through screencasts are:

• Computer applications
• Software demonstrations
• Computer-based procedures
• How to navigate a website
• Step-by-step problem solving
• Answers in frequently asked questions
• Complex concepts
• Diagrams, pictures or simulations
• Recording lectures from presentations (PowerPoint, Keynote etc)

Screencasts may be the best choice, in comparison to using simple screenshots in a slide presentation if you want to accomplish any of the above tasks. Let’s see why…

What are the Benefits of Using Screencasts?

In many scientific studies concerning screencasts (eg., Palaigeorgiou, and Despotakis, 2010) learners have liked the authentic nature of screencasts and said that screencasts increased their application-specific confidence, and helped them be more confident about the knowledge provided in the lesson.

Undoubtedly, screencasts have a significant advantage since learning becomes less impersonal and creates a sense of social presence that can’t be found in traditional books.

Perhaps, the most important benefit is that they provide worked-out examples, where the learning content is featured within an authentic context.

In their study, Palaigeorgiou and Despotakis (2010) support that screencasts offer the following:

• Learners develop a better mental model of human-interface interactions.
• An ‘agency’ effect is created, namely, the impression of self-executing the task presented.
• Initial learning is fast since students do not spend time interpreting the steps as is required for the comprehension of textual instructions.
• There is an immediate example on the lesson’s subject instead of asking a student to imagine a situation, and, hence, unproductive cognitive load while skipping between different sources (e.g., from books to the computer) is circumvented.
• A user learns by observing the desired behavior of an expert, and, consequently, it aids learners with low self-efficacy in exploring the demonstrated behaviors.

There are multiple benefits to using screencasts and demonstrating the lessons in this way. If you are second-guessing yourself though, you might want to consider the following advantages.

Here’s what screencasts can do for you:

• Provide demonstration of complex processes
• Allow self-paced learning and additional flexibility
• Ensure consistent delivery of instruction to all learners
• Deliver reusable content that can be played multiple times
• Enhance retention and understanding of the material
• Help broaden your audience reach
• Offer real-time feedback
• Improve personalized learning

In some cases, screencasts can also serve as valuable documentation for troubleshooting, especially in customer support, and when onboarding new employees or students to your course.

However, not all screencasts are of equal quality and educational value. This largely depends on the screencast recording tool you are using and what you can do with it. More on this later.

What are the Main Components of a Screencast?

Sugar, Brown, and Luterbach (2010) analyzed the components of screencasts and found that they mainly consist of:

• A bumber: Α statement at the beginning or end of a broadcast. (e.g., “Hi, this is your instructor from…class.”)
• Screen movement: The screen movement can either be static, maintaining a constant frame in which the cursor moves within that frame or dynamic when the screencast follows the cursor.
• Narration: Some screencasts’ audio commentary is an explicit description of a procedure that coincides with what is displayed on the screen. This description can either be explicit or implicit.

To get an idea of this audio commentary, here are a few examples of both explicit and implicit descriptions.

Explicit description examples

Example for a Word Processor:

• “Click on File in the top-left corner, then select New Document.”
• “Type your document title in the header section, and press Enter.”

Example for Spreadsheet Software:

• “Select cell A1 by clicking on it, then type ‘Sales Data’.”
• “Click on the Formulas tab, then choose Insert Function.”

Example for Graphic Design Software:

• “Click on the Rectangle Tool in the toolbar, then drag to draw a rectangle on the canvas.”
• “Select the text tool, click on the canvas, and type your desired text.”

Implicit description examples

Example for a Word Processor:

• “Start a new document.”
• “Add a title to your page.”

Example for Spreadsheet Software:

• “Enter your data in the spreadsheet.”
• “Use a function to calculate the total.”

Example for Graphic Design Software:

• “Draw a shape on the canvas.”
• “Add some text to your design.”

The majority of screencasts include a combination of both of these narration formats. Of course, there are screencasts with no narration at all.

However, it is preferable to use narration because it can make your content more powerful, engaging, and personal. Most of the studies (eg., Ali, Samsudin, Hassan, and Sidek, 2011) agree, saying that screencasts with narration are significantly more effective than screencasts without narration in enhancing students’ learning performance.

How to Design an Effective Screencast: Best Tips for Success

Bad screencasts can hurt the learners’ satisfaction and even worse the quality of learning.

For example, screencasts are ineffective when:

• They have inflexible content structures and prevent exploratory learning.
• They have browsing difficulties and provide a predetermined pace of information.
• They lead to a delusion of skills and are not suitable for learning advanced operations.

Is there a way to prevent these disadvantages?

Most screencasts we’ve seen provide the same experience that pushes viewers into passivity and often leads to superficial learning with learners forgetting what has been demonstrated in the first place.

Researchers in screencast design though, found that there are specific design guidelines that can be applied to provide more active video consumption.

Here is a summary of those guidelines:

1. Add interactivity to your videos

To maximize the impact of your video content, you need to allow learners to have control over the presented material. Therefore, adding interactivity that helps them become more engaged with the experience is a crucial component of screencasting design.

With interactivity, representational holding is reduced as smaller chunks of information have to be processed in the working memory (Ertelt, 2007).

• How can you achieve that? Give learners control over the pace and direction of the succession of frames. For example, give them the ability to change the playback speed and also add skip forward buttons, to let users avoid certain parts of the video. While explaining difficult procedures provide pause buttons inside the video frame to give a greater sense of control.
• Create a table of contents for easy content access, especially in videos with many procedural examples.
• Give learners the capability to change the viewpoint or to zoom in, so that phenomena can be explored from different perspectives.
• Create breaks to give the ability to have five-second pauses. This can be achieved by adding overlays summarizing the steps explained in a certain example.
• Incorporate context-related pointer keywords within the video. These can be discrete action steps appearing inside the video. Make sure to use those keywords also as hypervideo links.
• Add questions that will create a dialectical relationship between you and your learners.

2. Keep videos short

One of the most challenging design tasks is creating meaningful videos for lengthy processes that can’t be covered in a single video. Breaking down the content into shorter videos not only makes scripting easier but also enhances clarity and retention for the viewer.

Shorter screencasts, focus on one concept, hence reducing learners’ cognitive load as well.

So, here’s what you can do for your screencasts:

• Create short videos with a clear beginning and end.
• Keep videos as short as possible. A length of 15 to 60 seconds is optimal for keeping the user engaged and minimizing what needs to be remembered. For screencasts, a two-minute video is long enough to explain a specific procedure.
• Alternatively, introduce physical changes on the screen or add intentional pauses – such as temporarily dimming the screen, to create distinct segments within the video.

These small adjustments can help to structure the content, guiding viewers through the material in a more organized and impactful way.

3. Craft your titles carefully

Carefully crafted titles are key to making your content easy to find and navigate. By using clear and accurate labels, you provide learners with quick access to the information they need.

Here are some tips on making this happen:

• Organize your content chronologically, alphabetically, or topically.
• Adopt a conversational tone in your titles to help learners draw connections between videos or screenshots.
• Keep titles concise while clearly conveying the learning objective of each video.
• Maintain consistency by presenting similar types of information in the same location and format across your videos. This consistency allows learners to develop a mental framework for navigating your content, making it easier for them to find and understand the material.

4. Offer illustrated tutorials at the end of your lecture

Designers should consider the “expertise reversal principle,” which suggests that screencasts effective for novices during the initial learning phase may lose their effectiveness—or even hinder recall—once learners have a foundational understanding of the material.

To help ensure that learners retain the information provided, consider the following strategies:

Use Simplified Videos: Provide videos that focus solely on a sequence of screenshots of the key actions performed, or offer a filtered view that highlights only the actions not previously covered in earlier videos.

Transition to Illustrated Tutorials: As learners develop a solid understanding of the procedures, replace detailed screencasts with illustrated tutorials. Research by Novakovic, Milic, and Milosavljevic (2013), has shown that illustrated tutorials are more effective for helping learners recall already acquired procedures during later stages.

5. Give learners practice opportunities

Practice is the key to improving the transfer and application of knowledge. The success of learning is closely tied to the amount and quality of practice. When it comes to procedural knowledge, the likelihood of forgetting how to perform tasks increases with the number of steps involved.

Encourage your learners to actively repeat the procedures demonstrated, and whenever possible, provide immediate feedback. Assign them specific tasks that require applying what they’ve learned, rather than just mechanically following the steps.

Additionally, incorporate spaced practice into your lessons, as it is one of the most well-established principles in psychology for enhancing learning. Urge learners to revisit and repeat a procedure at various points throughout the course, using task completion exercises.

This approach reinforces their understanding and builds confidence in their ability to perform the procedure independently.

6. Give knowledge-encoding opportunities

Learners seek opportunities to encode knowledge through activities that boost their confidence and help them better organize the material. To support this, consider the following strategies:

Create Post-Screencast Questionnaires: Design questionnaires to assess learners’ understanding of the content immediately after the screencast. This not only reinforces key concepts but also provides valuable feedback on their comprehension.

Offer Multiple Views of the Content: Enhance practice by providing various formats of the material, such as concise, printable summaries, e-books, or downloadable resources. These alternatives allow learners to review and engage with the content in different ways.

Incorporate Multimodal Learning: Present the material through various modes—text, audio, and video—to cater to diverse learning preferences. Different forms of organization, like mind maps or infographics, can also help learners structure their understanding more effectively, enabling them to achieve multiple study goals simultaneously.

7. Give explicit time requirements

Provide learners with a clear connection between their learning objectives and the estimated time required to achieve them. This approach encourages learners to organize their study plans effectively, helping them to schedule their study sessions for long-term success.

At the start of the course, offer a support tool that guides learners in creating personalized study plans. This tool should consider their learning objectives and the time they have available, empowering them to manage their progress and stay on track throughout the course.

8. Apply the multimedia design principles

Research on learning from multimedia indicates specific principles, which guide instructors when it comes to creating an effective multimedia message design. In the table below you can see how multimedia design principles can be applied in screencasts.

Examples are taken from Razak’s, and ALI’s (2016) study.

Other multimedia principles we have already mentioned are:

• The segmenting principle (providing short chunks of information).
• The worked-out example principle.
• The animation and interactivity principle.

9. Make learners more active

Self-regulated learning is a growing field of educational research, which seeks how students can become more active in the learning process, by creating learning goals, inferring meanings, and applying strategies.

In self-regulated learning conditions, learners are capable of monitoring, controlling, and regulating aspects of their cognition.

Loch and McLoughlin (2011) have proposed specific guidelines, with which an instructor can foster each stage of learners’ self-regulation through screencasts:

10. Take care of the narrative you develop

To keep your learners engaged, avoid the monotony of a single voice throughout your content. Relying on just one presenter can make demonstrations feel repetitive and dull. Instead, incorporate a variety of presenters with different styles and perspectives. This diversity maintains interest and enriches the learning experience by offering multiple viewpoints.

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When presenting, aim for simplicity and clarity as well. Speak directly and conversationally, using an active voice and positive statements. Keeping your sentences straightforward and easy to follow will help massively.

On top of this, focus on providing procedural information rather than conceptual details. Learners typically watch “how-to” videos to understand the specific steps needed to complete a task.

So, your video should guide them through the process, enabling them to achieve the task quickly and effectively. Introduce conceptual information only when it is essential for understanding the procedure at hand.

7 Steps for an Effective Instructional Screencast Design

Now that we’ve seen the most popular design guidelines for screencast production, let me help you apply them to create your screencast by following seven simple steps.

Whether you are creating this screencast to showcase in a classroom, use it as part of an online course, educate your customers, or simply create a YouTube video, this is how it’s done.

Step 1: Study others

Begin by watching a variety of screencasts created by others. Observing both well-executed and poorly-designed examples will provide valuable insights into what works and what doesn’t.

This analysis can help you identify best practices and common pitfalls, which can inform the design of your own screencasts.

As you study these examples, consider the following:

• Content Organization: How is the information structured? Is the flow logical and easy to follow?
• Visual and Audio Quality: Are the visuals clear and engaging? Is the audio crisp and free of distractions?
• Interactivity: Does the screencast include interactive elements that engage the viewer? If so, how effective are they?
• Pacing: Is the pace appropriate for the content? Does the screencast move too quickly or too slowly?
• User Engagement: How does the screencast keep viewers engaged? Does it use storytelling, questions, or prompts to maintain interest?

By critically evaluating these aspects, you can develop a clearer vision of what makes a screencast effective and apply these lessons to your work.

Step 2: Prepare Thoroughly

Invest time in your preparation to make sure you have all the resources and equipment you need. First and foremost, focus all your efforts on finding a high-quality screencast tool.

Best Screencast Software to Choose From

There are many screen recording software in the market that can help you create screencasts. You can choose based on your budget (free, paid, premium) or the functionality and features you need.

Here are a few examples:

• Screencast-o-matic
• Camtasia
• Filmora SCRN
• Apple QuickTime Player
• Screenr
• PowerPoint even has its own recording function helping you turn your to make your PowerPoint presentations into screencasts. Find out how here.

Other tools like Loom and Nimbus are handy as well, especially if you are using Google Chrome because they are available as Chrome extensions.

Choose the tool that works best for you, and always edit the result. You may opt-in for the software that also serves as a video editing tool or connects with a video editor to speed up the process.

💁 Check out our list of the 36 best training video software here.

💡LearnWorlds’ interactive video player can help you add interactivity to your screencasts. You can add annotations, pop-ups, clickable buttons, questions, watermarks, table of contents, subtitles, or even show interactive transcriptions extracted automatically from your videos!

Other Tools to Consider

What’s great about screencasts is that they don’t require much equipment to begin with. A computer – either a Windows PC or an Apple Mac that connects with your chosen screencast video software, and an optional webcam will do the trick.

However, you want your screencasts to have top audio quality and eliminate background noise as much as possible to avoid distractions. Investing in a good microphone can make a difference here, and the good news is that you don’t need to buy an expensive one.

Instead of relying on your computer’s internal microphone, get headphones with a built-in microphone and you are good to go.

Step 3: Plan your content

Planning the content for your screencast includes three main subjects: a) What you want to achieve through your screencasts, b) how you will narrate your demonstrations, and c) what interactivity features you are going to use.

The questions below will help you understand these three elements:

What are your learning goals and content?

Create a clear plan with your learning goals and objectives.

How will you achieve those objectives through your screencasts?

What will your script/narration be for each screencast?

Create clear and concise story scripts or storyboards for the screencasts that are going to be recorded.

Which will your bumper be?

How many narrators will you have?

Will you appear in the video?

How explicit or implicit will the script be?

How will your mouse movement be?

What practical examples will you include in your description?

How will you help relate tasks between videos?

What kind of questions or statements are you going to use to make learners more active? (see the table about active learning)

What interactivity features will you add to each video?

Will you give learners a table of contents?

Will you give learners the capability to change the video’s viewpoint?

Will you insert questions inside the video?

Where will you insert breaks, pointer phrases, and highlights?

If you are a novice screencast creator you may need a few hours to create your first screencast, but this time should reduce significantly with experience.

Step 4: Start recording

Once you are ready, you can record your screencast. Choose whether you want to record your entire screen (full desktop), a specific browser tab, or your webcam.

Before you hit the ‘Record’ button, configure your system audio and do a test run to see if your video and audio are working properly. If you are planning to use any drawing tools have them ready as well.

Preferably, record audio during screen capturing. In case you are not giving out any voiceover instructions, add some music to play along in the background.

During the recording, your mouse movements should be slower than usual when something is being pointed out. These need to be controlled to avoid becoming annoying and distracting to the viewer.

If an error occurs in a sentence, sometimes it is better to pause and repeat the entire sentence without stopping the recording and edit later (cut out the bad parts) than restart the recording from the beginning (Mohorovičić, 2012).

Step 5: Edit your screencast video

As previously mentioned, a screen recorder with a built-in video editor can help you easily edit videos. With it, you can add the interactive elements you want, craft your titles carefully, and apply segmentation wherever needed.

You can also choose to cut parts of your video to make your screen capture as professional as it can be e.g. to correct a mistake you made or to remove any app notifications that might have popped up on screen during the recording.

Remember to create videos that last no longer than two minutes. Otherwise, make sure to create intentional and meaningful pauses in between segments.

Step 6: Save and share your screencast

Once editing is done, make sure you save your finished screencast. That is to not risk losing it after putting so much effort into creating it.

Most screencast tools will allow you to share your screencast via email or upload it to your Google Drive, which is great. Once you are ready to show it to your audience, you can choose to upload it on Vimeo or YouTube or embed the video file in your course content right away.

Step 7: Offer assistive learning material

Finally, if you want your screencast to perform well, you have to accompany it with meaningful activities that will boost your video’s effectiveness.

Here are some activities that you can make use of to accompany your screencast:

Activity #1: Personalized learning plans

At the beginning of your course offer a support tool for creating study plans based on what you want your learners to achieve and the time suggested.

Activity #2: Create presentations and e-books

Prepare slide presentations or e-books containing screenshots of the procedures you have taught. Ideally, prepare such an e-book for reach screencast.

Activity #3: Offer repeating and meaningful tasks

Give learners practice opportunities. Prompt them at the end of a complex task to repeat the procedure, this time giving them a meaningful task that would add some fun to the process.

Activity #4: Try questionaries and exams

Offer knowledge-encoding opportunities through questionnaires and exams to allow learners to test their knowledge evaluating what they’ve learned so far.

Ready to Use Screencasts to Educate Your Learners?

With all this preparation, you can be confident that your screencasts will have the greatest impact on your learners!

By following these steps, you’ll effectively reduce cognitive load and transform your videos into concise, digestible bits of information that boost engagement and participation.

Remember to continually reflect on your work, gather feedback from your learners, and refine your screencasts with each iteration!

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Research on Screencasts & Further Study

[1] Loch, B., & McLoughlin, C. (2011). An instructional design model for screencasting: Engaging students in self-regulated learning.

[2] Novakovic, D. R. A. G. O. L. J. U. B., Milic, N., & Milosavljevic, B. (2013). Animated vs. illustrated software tutorials: Screencasts for acquisition and screenshots for recalling. International Journal of Engineering Education, 29(4), 1013-1023.

[3] Mohorovičić, S. (2012, May). Creation and use of screencasts in higher education. In MIPRO, 2012 Proceedings of the 35th International Convention (pp. 1293-1298). IEEE.

[4] Oehrli, J. A., Piacentine, J., Peters, A., & Nanamaker, B. (2011, March). Do screencasts really work? Assessing student learning through instructional screencasts. In ACRL 2011 Conference Proceedings (Vol. 30, pp. 127-44). Philadelphia: Chandos.

[5] Ali, A. Z. M., Samsudin, K., Hassan, M., & Sidek, S. F. (2011). Does screencast teaching software application needs narration for effective learning?. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 10(3).

[6] van der Meij, H., & van der Meij, J. (2013). Eight guidelines for the design of instructional videos for software training. Technical communication, 60(3), 205-228.

[7] Despotakis, T. C., Palaigeorgiou, G. E., & Tsoukalas, I. A. (2007). Students’ attitudes towards animated demonstrations as computer learning tools. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 10(1).

[8] Plaisant, C., & Shneiderman, B. (2005, September). Show me! Guidelines for producing recorded demonstrations. In Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2005 IEEE Symposium on (pp. 171-178). IEEE.

[9]Ertelt, A. (2007). On-screen videos as an effective learning tool. The Effect of Instructional Design Variants and Practice on Learning Achievements, Retention, Transfer and Motivation. Dissertationsschrift, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

[10] Palaigeorgiou, G., & Despotakis, T. (2010). Known and unknown weaknesses in software animated demonstrations (screencasts): A study in self-paced learning settings. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 9, 81-98.

[11] RAZAK, M. R. A., & ALI, A. Z. M. (2016). Instructional Screencast: A Research Conceptual Framework. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 17(2).

[12] Sugar, W., Brown, A., & Luterbach, K. (2010). Examining the anatomy of a screencast: Uncovering common elements and instructional strategies. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 11(3), 1-20.

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It is an incredibly useful tool for both elearning and offline lessons. With a lesson plan, you can create a more effective training session, increase student understanding, and provide better learning experiences guided by the lesson objectives.

All educators must know how to create a lesson plan to ensure their learning sessions run smoothly. Depending on the students they teach and the timeline they have on their hands, educators set learning objectives, break the material up into sections, and choose learning activities that will be suitable for each trainee.

What is a Lesson Plan?

A lesson plan is a detailed step-by-step guide for educators providing materials to learners to accomplish their learning goals during the course.

It outlines the teacher’s objectives for the student’s accomplishments, the material to cover, and the delivery methods, including assignments, exams, and other evaluation forms.

A lesson plan is not a to-do list; it’s a strategic document that considers your students’ needs, your teaching style, and the subject matter at hand.

The key components of a lesson plan typically include:

• Learning objectives
• Materials and resources needed
• The lesson procedure (including introduction, main activities, and conclusion)
• Assessment methods
• Time allocations for each part of the lesson
• Content formats or media (text, video, quizzes, etc.)

The Learning Objectives

The foundation of any effective lesson plan is a set of clear, specific learning objectives. These objectives answer the question: “What should students know or be able to do by the end of this lesson?”

Make sure the learning objectives are SMART:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable by all students
• Relevant to your students
• Time-based, aligning with your syllabus

It’s crucial to align these objectives with the overall learning outcomes for the course or unit. When setting these objectives, consider your students’ prior knowledge and needs.

Are you building on previously learned skills or introducing entirely new concepts?

Understanding where your students come from helps you set realistic and meaningful objectives. Lesson plans for training may have different learning objectives, such as compliance or work-related skills, over teaching lesson plans that may have a goal of memorizing knowledge.

Planning the Lesson Structure

Planning a lesson structure is like creating a road map for your class time. A typical lesson structure includes an introduction, main activities, and a conclusion.

The top three items to include in your lesson plan for each activity are learning objectives, timing, and materials you’ll use. Your lesson plans may vary depending on the time limit and how many students are in a class.

A simple example of a lesson plan is the following:

• Introduction (5-7 minutes): Get your students interested in what will happen in the class during a lesson; ask a question, come up with a creative name for your lesson, or provide them with some reviews so that they can get involved in the learning process.
• Presentation (up to 10 minutes): Create the need for students to learn what you will present.
• Procedure (the remaining class time): Prepare lesson materials, such as digital handouts, videos, visuals, textbooks, and some software platforms, that you’ll use with students to learn the topic.
• Practice (10-15 minutes): Think about exercises and other activities your students will practice in the lesson with you, individually or in group activities.
• Review and assessment (5 minutes): Consider how you will finish a lesson; write the takeaways for students to summarize their new knowledge.

Designing the Learning Activities

Learning activities are an essential part of your lesson. Make sure to include various kinds of activities to accommodate the different learning styles in the classroom, like:

Lecture: A lecture involves a teacher speaking to students about a specific topic, providing information, explanations, and sometimes visual aids to help students understand the material.

Presentations: Presentations allow students or teachers to share information on a topic using slides, images, and sometimes videos to make the content engaging and easier to understand.

Discussions: Discussions encourage students to talk about a topic in a group, sharing their ideas, opinions, and questions, which helps deepen their understanding and develop critical thinking skills.

Roleplay: Roleplay involves students acting out scenarios or characters to explore different perspectives and practice skills in a realistic context, making learning more interactive and engaging.

Case studies: Case studies examine real-life situations or problems, allowing learners to analyze, discuss, and learn from actual examples, helping them apply theoretical knowledge to practical situations.

Group assignments: Group assignments require students to work together on a task or project, promoting teamwork, communication, and collaboration while tackling a shared goal.

Quizzes/skill tests: Quizzes and skill tests are short assessments that help measure students’ understanding and retention of the material.

Additional reading resources: Additional reading resources are extra materials like books, articles, or online content that provide more information on a topic.

When teaching online, you can include activities suitable for online learning like:

Videos: Pre-recorded lectures or presentations students can watch at their own pace. For example, you can record your powerpoint presentation.

Social activities: Instead of group assignments, students can interact through the community of the LMS.

Live lessons: Live classes and workshops through Zoom, WebEx, or similar software can substitute for some live lessons and create a stronger connection than self-paced videos.

Office hours: Setting aside time for questions, whether that’s a live chat, phone call, or video call, the lecturer is available to students taking an asynchronous class.

While designing your lesson plan, consider whether you are teaching in a classroom or online or planning a mix of the two. While activities will vary in different settings, you need to keep your learners’ attention equally well in both settings.

Assessment and Evaluation Activities

Assessments help you understand whether your students have achieved the learning objectives and inform your future teaching. They can be smaller knowledge checks like quizzes or more demanding like an assignment or an exam.

Assessments are a very important learning tool as they assist with knowledge retention and test progress.

One type of evaluation is formative assessments, those are ongoing checks for understanding and include:

• Quick quizzes
• Exit tickets
• Observation of student work
• Class discussions

Summative assessments, on the other hand, evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit. These could be:

• Tests or exams
• Projects
• Presentations

Many educators like to use rubrics to evaluate students’ work. Rubrics help evaluate students while being consistent in grading.

Example of a Rubric, Source

Reviewing and Refining the Lesson Plan

A lesson plan is never finished, and even online courses need reviewing an updating every few months.

You will find yourself coming back and updating various parts. Especially if you are writing a lesson plan for corporate training, where new skills and requirements are constantly being revised, you might end up reviewing your lesson plans often.

You will need to

• Double-check alignment with curriculum standards
• Add new skills or evaluate previous lessons
• Ensuring a logical flow of activities
• Verifying that all necessary materials are prepared
• Updating content to match requirements for compliance

Gaining feedback is also important. You can have feedback forms at the end of your lesson for students, or you can ask colleagues to offer feedback before publishing it.

Conclusion

Creating an effective lesson plan is both an art and a science. It requires careful thought, creativity, and a deep understanding of your students’ needs.

By following the steps outlined in this guide, you’ll be well on your way to crafting lesson plans that engage your students and achieve your learning objectives.

Remember, the goal isn’t perfection but continuous improvement. Each lesson you teach is an opportunity to refine your planning skills, so don’t be afraid to experiment with new ideas and approaches. With practice and reflection, you’ll develop a planning process that works for you and your students.

Now, armed with these strategies, it’s time to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and start planning your next great lesson.

P.S.: You can create your outline directly on LearnWorlds and use the AI Assistant to help plan your next online course. With LearnWorlds’ 30-day free trial, you can create your online course faster.

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Just like every other educator out there, you need to come up with a lesson plan to help you give a basic structure of the class or the live session you will be delivering to your learners.

Effective lesson plans begin with having some learning objectives in place, which can help you organize your instructional materials and teacher resources and prepare the best learning activities for your students.

Whether you are a new teacher in primary education (at a pre-k or elementary or middle school) or a business trainer at a middle-sized company or a large enterprise with special education and training needs, you need a good lesson plan at hand to deliver effective and engaging learning.

In this article, you will learn how to create a good lesson plan and will get access to free printable lesson plan templates that you can use right away.

Let’s go!

What is a Lesson Plan?

A lesson plan is a detailed guide that outlines the instructional objectives, content, activities, materials, and assessment methods for a specific teaching session or unit. It serves as a roadmap for educators to organize and structure their teaching, ensuring that learning goals are met effectively within a given timeframe.

A good lesson plan typically includes:

1. Learning objectives: Clear, measurable goals for what students should know or be able to do by the end of the lesson.
2. Required material and resources: A list of resources needed, such as textbooks, handouts, or technology.
3. Timeline/duration: A breakdown of how time will be allocated to different activities.
4. Teaching methods and strategies: Methods the teacher will use to convey information, such as lectures, demonstrations, or group discussions.
5. Student activities and engagement opportunities: Tasks or exercises students will complete to engage with the material.
6. Assessment or evaluation techniques: Methods to check student understanding, like quizzes, discussions, or assignments.

A well-crafted lesson plan that includes this information can help you stay organized and focused while remaining flexible enough to adapt to your students’ needs.

What are the Different Types of Lesson Plans?

Many types of lesson plans allow you to structure your class material and make your students’ learning more effective. Creating a lesson planner just for a single session, e.g., for a one-off activity for a small group, may take up to a whole day, a week, a month, or constitute an entire course.

Luckily though, blank lesson plan templates can be of huge help here!

They can help categorize a lesson plan as either detailed, semi-detailed, or understanding by design (UbD) and tell you a bit more about each one’s characteristics:

• Detailed: a detailed plan includes what you will teach, presenting both the teacher planner and student activities.
• Semi-detailed: a semi-detailed plan is less complex and offers a general game plan of what you want to cover on a particular day or parts of the lesson.
• Understanding by design (UbD): this is more of a reversed engineering model, as it focuses on evaluating the outcomes before creating curriculum units for students.

A well-structured lesson plan template is immensely significant, whether for a school classroom or a business training session, as it serves as the cornerstone for effective teaching and learning.

First and foremost, such a template provides a clear roadmap for trainers, ensuring that they cover all essential topics and objectives in a systematic and organized manner. This helps to maintain consistency in training delivery across different sessions and trainers.  Training sessions may become disjointed without a structured plan, leading to knowledge gaps and less clarity among employees.

Moreover, a well-designed training lesson plan template promotes effective learning outcomes. It allows trainers to align their content with specific learning objectives and desired competencies, which in turn helps employees grasp and retain information more efficiently.

This structured approach also facilitates assessments and evaluations, making it easier to gauge the effectiveness of the training program. In essence, a business that invests in creating and utilizing a well-structured training lesson plan template is more likely to see improved employee performance, reduced onboarding time, and enhanced overall productivity, ultimately contributing to its long-term success in a competitive marketplace.

Most Common Lesson Plan Formats 

While every teacher or instructor has their unique approach, certain lesson plan types have emerged as go-to formats across various educational settings. 

This section will explore the most widely used lesson plan structures, each offering distinct advantages for different learning objectives and teaching styles. 

In doing so, it also features some great education lesson plan examples:

Example #1: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Lesson Plan

A daily, weekly, or monthly lesson plan outlines all the activities you plan to do and all the content you have lined up until the end of the day, week, or month.

The lesson plan starts by listing the focus and goals of the course/lesson, as shown in the daily lesson plan example below. At the end of each class, the lesson plan prepares students for the next class and lists any assessments that need to be completed, such as exercises, chapter exams, projects, etc.

This type of lesson plan falls into the detailed lesson plan structure and can help you maintain a routine and keep track of your teaching schedule while conforming to any state standards. It’s also handy for distance learning.

Here’s an example of a weekly lesson plan:

And, here’s an example of a monthly lesson plan:

Best for:

• Elementary school teachers planning regular instruction
• Language course instructors offering daily lessons
• Corporate trainers organizing short-term employee development programs

Example #2: Unit Lesson Plan

Another way to plan your instruction is by using a unit lesson plan. With unit planning, you list all lesson objectives along with a projected completion time frame. Each unit offers certain activities and learning experiences using many types of learning that make up a systematic method of instruction on a subject matter (e.g., social studies, physical science, and so on).

Check out this example of a unit lesson plan:

Although unit lesson plans tend to follow a systematic approach, there is some flexibility in what is covered each day. As such, it falls in the semi-detailed lesson plan structure.

Best for:

• High school teachers covering a specific unit in a subject (e.g., Algebra in Maths, World War II in history)
• College professors planning a multi-week module within a semester
• Vocational trainers designing a comprehensive skill-building program

Example #3: Topic or Subject Lesson Plan

This lesson plan is structured around a specific topic or subject and falls in the detailed lesson plan format. Whether this is Science, Maths, English, Music, Art, or any other specialty, it can be used to offer thorough knowledge in a specific academic subject or a professional niche.

It is a versatile lesson plan that can be applied to various educational contexts, including homeschooling. It can help teach common core subjects and provide a structure for parents or tutors teaching children at home.

It also applies to language instruction, particularly useful for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL), and foreign language education, teaching popular languages such as Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, German, Japanese, and others.

Best for:

• Guest lecturers preparing for a one-time presentation
• Conference speakers organizing their talk
• Tutors focusing on a particular concept or subject area

Example #4: Elearning Lesson Plan

An elearning lesson plan offers a structure that is broken down into smaller parts that help students make sense of the information presented. It can either be detailed or semi-detailed.

However, since online lessons don’t have the immediacy of classroom lessons, a teacher must do a lot to convey this. You can use a simple lesson plan structure (like the example below), but make a note to incorporate various interactive media, such as visuals, video, and audio, in your activities to help students get the most out of the lesson and keep them engaged at all times.

Best for:

• Online course creators structuring self-paced modules
• Corporate trainers developing remote learning programs
• Educational technology companies designing interactive digital lessons

As you can see, each lesson plan is different, and as a teacher, you need to experiment with other formats to find out which works best for you and matches your teaching style.

Other Key Things to Consider: Education Level & Standards

While at it, you must also consider the learning curriculum. This needs to be appropriate for the grade level you are teaching and should align with the geographical standards set by the country where you teach.

Perhaps you can be more specific here as well, targeting a certain student age group and crafting any of the following:

• Pre-school lesson plan

A preschool lesson plan should be flexible and engaging for the youngest children (3-5 years) not attending school. It consists of activities designed to work throughout the lesson, with the understanding that timing may vary due to the children’s age. 

Resources can be diverse and adaptable, allowing for spontaneity and adjustment based on the children’s interests and attention spans. The focus should be on creating a fun, nurturing environment that promotes early learning through play, exploration, and social interaction.

• Kindergarten lesson plan

Similarly to preschoolers, kindergarten students (4-6 years) will need much attention. You can work with the standard lesson plan template, but you must be creative and flexible to adjust your plan on the day to ensure continuous participation. 

At the same time, you must align your lesson activities with the core subjects they need to become more familiar with, e.g., math and language arts, science, music, physical education, etc. The goal is to introduce fundamental academic concepts while fostering a love for learning and supporting overall development.

• Elementary lesson plan

Elementary school lesson plans (for ages 6-11) are structured and subject-focused, aligning with grade-level standards. They balance whole-class, small-group, and individual activities across core subjects. 

Plans integrate technology and hands-on experiences to enhance engagement. Regular assessments and differentiated instruction accommodate diverse learning styles. A typical lesson includes a warm-up, main presentation, guided practice, independent/group work, and assessment wrap-up.

• High school lesson plan

High school plans (for ages 14-18) are complex and subject-specific, emphasizing critical thinking and career preparation. They incorporate diverse teaching methods, including lectures, discussions, projects, and labs. Plans often integrate current events, digital resources, and cross-curricular connections. 

They provide opportunities for student-led learning and independent research. Lessons may span multiple days and include regular assessments. A typical structure includes a warm-up, review, introduction of new content, guided practice, independent work, and a wrap-up with assessment.

In addition to the education level aspect, you should align your educational content with the geographical standards of the country where you teach.

For example, if you are a K-12 (elementary to high school) teacher and live in the US, you must ensure your teaching materials meet the Common Core* standards.

*Common Core is a set of high-quality standards used in maths and English language arts/literacy (ELA), and they outline what a student needs to know and be able to do at the end of each level.

The Basic Components of Lesson Planning

As we’ve explained, a lesson plan is the teacher’s guide for running a lesson. It includes the lesson goal(s)—what the students need to learn by the end of the class—and the method that describes how the goal will be achieved.

It also includes the way of measuring how the goal was achieved, usually through a test, a worksheet activity, or homework.

A lesson plan ensures that you approach the teaching process effectively and is summed up with the following steps:

Step 1: Set the learning objectives

First, you will need to set the lesson objectives. Ensure these are clear and follow a logical order that is easy to understand and helps students identify meaningful concepts and ideas.

A learning objective is what you want students to learn by the end of the class. Communicating the importance of the lesson you are teaching and focusing on your learning objectives will encourage students to put in the time and effort required.

Step 2: Identify the needs of the students

Let students know what you expect from them; however, make sure you are prepared to help them along the way. Every student is different, and some might need more encouragement or assistance from you than others.

Make time for such interventions or check-ins in your lesson plan. This will motivate them to actually go through the lesson, ask questions, follow your guidelines, and finally complete the assessments (e.g., any assignments you have prepared) more easily.

Step 3: Plan your teaching material

Most teachers may take this for granted, but creating a list of all the necessary teaching resources you will need can help you be more prepared.

From stationary like a pen or paper to technology equipment like laptops, software, or gamified learning tools like apps or any educational website, all these can help you get the most out of what you intend to do with your teaching.

Step 4: Present the outline of the lesson

Your goal throughout the lesson is to keep students engaged. A lesson outline can help them develop a context around the subject you are teaching, letting them know what is coming next, and encourage them to relate to the learning materials.

Don’t forget to draw relevant examples of events or develop creative activities that spark interest and attention.

Step 5: Instruct the lesson

It’s time to start teaching after you have come up with the material you want to instruct. As you go through the lesson plan, follow the order and present the resources you need, but also make sure to involve students in this process.

For example, if you are following a math lesson plan, ask a few students to participate by solving a problem or ask a student a specific question.

You may use as much multimedia as you want to facilitate engagement and give a wealth of examples students can relate to easily – from simple PowerPoint Slides to exciting graphics on a computer. What’s important here is presenting information in a meaningful way.

Step 6: Give students time to practice

Once you finish your instruction, it’s the students’ turn to take the lead. Ask them to show what they have learned through practice.

To help them out, start with guided practice, allowing students to make sense of the information they have just received. Then, follow with the collaborative process, letting students work in groups to explore the main concepts. 

Finally, finish with independent practice, giving each student time to work independently through an assignment (e.g., worksheet, essay).

Step 7: Do a wrap-up

As the lesson ends, give an overview of what has been discussed and what students have learned. Ask them to identify the key takeaways of the lesson, announcing the main ideas and conclusions. Assign homework duties and give them a preview of the next lesson to prepare them.

Step 8: Evaluate the lesson

Once the lesson is over, determine whether the learning objectives have been met, and ensure that students have understood what you taught through a small quiz, test, or exam. The results should give you enough insight into students’ understanding and will help you decide whether the class needs a review or not so that you are ready to move on to the next lesson.

Best Customizable Lesson Plan Templates [Editable Format]

Just like there are many types of lesson plans, there are also many ways to create them.

We have prepared a comprehensive set of unique lesson plan templates in PDF format to help you gather some inspiration to structure your own lesson plan. You can choose to use them right away or customizing them further to suit your needs.

Inside the PDF, you will find the following lesson plan templates:

• Daily Lesson Plan Template
• Weekly Lesson Plan Template
• Monthly Lesson Plan Template
• Unit Lesson Plan Template
• Common Core Plan Template
• ESL Lesson Plan Template
• Simple Lesson Plan Template

These are all editable lesson plan templates you can easily access, adjust, or save for later. 

PS: We’ve already included the templates for you in the article to check out firsthand.

Every template in this list works as a guiding framework for addressing important lesson information such as learning materials used, essential questions, learning goals, activities, evaluation, feedback, and more!

Choose the sample lesson plan that you prefer and make any adjustments to suit your instructional style.

Alternatively, you can find free lesson plan templates on Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Google Slides, Google Docs or in tools like Canva and Venngage, to name a few, or even create yours from scratch using Microsoft Word.

Ready to Plan Your Next Lesson?

When it comes to elearning, creating a clear-structured lesson plan is always helpful. It enables optimized classroom management, sets the mood, introduces the lesson’s learning objectives, and prepares you and your students for success!

Having access to sample lesson plan templates can also make the creation process easier and quicker. So, take advantage of our free printable lesson plan templates to guide your online instruction and assemble your next well-crafted lesson plan.

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