Identify the area to cover in your course

You need to identify and plan your course. Identify what you will train based on your knowledge and experience. Come up with the course mode- which involves coming up with a method of training that best suits your learners. Choose whether to include a project in your course and this case, you have to prepare the project you wish to train and record various information to include in your project, challenges to expect when covering the project and how to solve them and other crucial information relating to the project.

In the planning stage, identify your audience. These are people who are best suited for your course and your target audience. In certain areas, you will need to have a course for different levels e.g., beginners, those already familiar (intermediates) or if suited for all levels, that is, beginners and intermediates.

After identifying the method of training, and audience and preparing a project that will be included as part of the course, then you will be ready to create the course outline where you list what will be covered. You divide your course into main parts and the content for each part. If there is a project, guided by the information recorded from prior planning, include it in the course outline. Course Outline will guide you when creating videos for your course. Course Outline will be the basis for the course curriculum which will be viewable by anyone accessing the website.

Organizing and testing your tools

After planning your course, you need to bring your tools together, set them and test them to ascertain that they will produce the best video output. These tools include screen recording tools, video editing tools- if need be, and any other tool required. If you are new to video creation through screen capturing, see recommended screen capturing tool and the recommended settings thereof.

The videos captured using the recommended video capturing tool above, do not require additional editing unless the tutor decides to do further editing tools (no recommended tool from us). It is also recommended that the tool chosen should be capable of filtering background noise if a tutor expects to be in a relatively noisy environment.

Identify Your Video Form for Your Course

After you have tested your tools, come up with a course video form that will work for you. The forms that recorded videos may take include one with no additions(just the screen captured), videos with text and/or image and/or image slideshow and/or webcam. Make sure the video form chosen integrates properly with the tools you have tested in step 2. Some tools support certain video forms while others don’t. (Recommended video Capture Tool above supports several video forms such as including texts within the final video, images and thumbnail video). (See more about video forms below)

Creation of videos for your course

After planning and identifying the tools and settings that are working for you, you will be able to create videos for your course. The creation of videos is very fast and interesting if you had thorough planning. These will be short videos, with as low as 2 minutes to about 25 minutes. However, there is no restriction but it is recommended that each video have targeted coverage and also not be more than 30 minutes- for the longest video. The course outline should help you create videos. Create a folder for the videos in your file explorer and after creating a video (before proceeding to the next), check it and skim through it to ensure it is properly produced, and ensure that it is smooth as well. When checking a video produced by the tools set up in step 2 above, ensure that:

1. the background noise- if any, is sufficiently cut, and the background noise filters added- if any, do not cut parts of your voice or change your voice quality.
2. quality of the video, to ensure the screen captured in the video is clear
3. video smoothness- ensure there are no instances of freezing/hanging of the recorded video.
4. what was required to be captured in the final video have been captured. After checking the video, remember to rename the video with an indication of the number of the video and what has been covered. E.g.,
   
   
   

   NB/- Depending on the type of tool you use to create your videos; it might be necessary to reduce the file size of the final video using compressing tools. This is because sometimes videos generated from screen capturing/ casting have large sizes. The large-sized files may be time-consuming to upload and there may be some restrictions on the time and size of upload for a single video. See recommended tool for compressing video files.

Adding Course Details on the TeIM website

These details will be visible to individuals who visit our website even before enrolling. Such details include course description, requirements, those suited for the course, the price for the course, Course duration etc.

Adding Course Lessons on the TeIM website

Create the various sections for your course and you will be ready to add lessons. After creating videos for your course, you will upload them from the Tutor Dashboard on the TeIM website. Add keynote text (main idea about the video or things to note etc.), the duration of the video and any other detail required. Each video with keynote text will form a lesson that will be part of a section/module. You will have the option to add an assessment at will.

Listing Course for Publishing

After you create all the lessons, you will need to send the course for checking so that the various requirements can be checked. If successful, your course will be published. If not, your course will be sent back to you with recommended modifications.

Note: The main reason for the rejection of a course will be the quality of the videos as the main channel of learning for video courses. To avoid rejection of a whole course due to defects in video requirements, use the test course feature that allows you to send initial test video(es) to us for checking and further recommendations will be done if your video falls below the requirements. (See guidelines on video requirements below)