Lesson 5.2: Planning Your Online Course
In this lesson, we’re going to plan out your course content.
We want to make sure everything is clear, well-organized, and easy for your students to understand.
By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a solid plan for what your course will look like and how you’ll deliver it.
You can Mix Formats for an Even Better result!
You don’t have to pick just one format. In fact, mixing 2–3 types can make your course more exciting and helpful.
For writing scripts:
- ChatGPT – You can use chatgpt to organize your thoughts and turn your ideas into a full lesson script. We already did that in an earlier lesson
- Google Docs or Notion – this is a Simple writing tools to plan and save your lesson content.
For recording video: you can use your phone, or a camera
- Loom – Great for screen recordings and webcam videos.
- Zoom – Yes, you can record yourself teaching, even without any students. For this you can use descript.
- You can use canva and you can also use OBS Studio – this A free tool for more advanced video recording.
For editing: you can use
- CapCut or iMovie – Easy tools to cut out mistakes and add simple effects.
- Descript – You can edit your video just by editing the words like a document.
And For audio only courses, you can use :
- Audacity – this is Free and easy to use.
- You can also use Anchor – If you want to turn your audio lessons into a podcast.
And For creating PDFs: you can use
- Canva – this is Super beginner-friendly. Canva has templates for workbooks, checklists, and more.
Don’t stress about being perfect. Your first course doesn’t need to be fancy.
Just be clear, helpful, and yourself.
Please download the Course Format Guide which contains a Checklist + Video Mix Example you can use