Creating interactive courses

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Interactive Courses

This type, of course, allows the tutor to have diversified ways of delivering skill and knowledge which enhance the creation of enriched courses. Text addition is the main way of delivering content and within the text, there are embedded YouTube and online videos, images, PDFs and links. To make the course livelier and more interactive, recorded videos can be added. Recorded videos can be used to illustrate concepts as well, where necessary. They are suitable for courses that have a lot of text. This text can be enriched with the embedment of Online videos, PDFs, Images, Links as well as recorded videos to ensure courses are livelier and more interactive as well as ensure illustration of concepts.

Process of Creating Interactive Courses

Interactive courses have more text with additional videos, images and other additions embedded. Before an interactive course is hosted and ready for enrollment, several processes need to be followed as follows:

  1. Course Identification and Planning

    The Tutor must identify the area they want to create a course in and then plan their course. Planning involves coming up with the course methodology, course outline, target learners, course description and other details.

  2. Course Preparation and drafting

    After identifying and planning your course, you need to prepare the materials forming your course. Mainly, the materials will be the texts, images, videos and other documents to embed into your course.

  3. Adding the course to the tutor dashboard

    After preparing your course or a part of it, the next step will be adding the course to the tutor dashboard. The course will be categorized into sections and you will also need to add an assessment for each section.

  4. Submitting your course for publishing to allow enrolments by interested learners.
Creating Recorded Videos to Include in an Interactive Course

Recorded videos for an interactive course are crucial in ensuring learners interact with the tutor and there of making learning livelier. This ensures that there is a contact between learners and tutors in interactive courses. A recorded video can appear anywhere within the course depending on its objective. A recorded video for an interactive course can appear to illustrate concepts. It can also appear, for example, at beginning of sections and/or sub-sections as an introduction. It can also appear towards the end of a course to aid in the ending of a section or sub-sections.

A tutor can create a video capturing their face and their background using a webcam. A tutor can also capture the screen of their computer in case a video is meant for illustrating a concept. View a video course guiding on the recommended tools for screen capturing video creation, compression and creating various video forms.

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