Udemy course production at speed with dashboards -Unofficial

Name: Udemy course production at speed with dashboards -Unofficial
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Learn to mind map, learn Xmind (free software), and then build an awesome dashboard for your video course production

Created byColin Holding

Last updated 4/2016

English

What you'll learn

Understand the benefits of mind mapping
How to create and use a mind map
Understand how a mind map can be converted to a production dashboard
Install Xmind - the free mind mapping software
Comfortably navigate and use XMind
Add data, change look & feel, include images and icons, add hyperlinks in Xmind
Understand the course creation process in Udemy
Create a fully functional dashboard for video production using a mind map
Organise production files and software in a logical structure.
Have 'one click' access to all resources required for a video production

Course content

8 sections • 34 lectures • 2h 30m total length

Welcome1:06
A Welcome to the course - very exciting to have you on board - I hope you enjoy the course and feel free at any time to ask questions or start discussions.
Navigating the Udemy course2:45
A short video on how to navigate the course on the Udemy web site - where things are, how to go through the lectures, how to ask questions or give feedback and also how to easily take notes.
An overview of the course and curriculum3:08
An overview of the whole course - the sections and lectures and what we will be covering. By the end of this lecture you should have a good idea of what to look forward to.
What you will know by the end of the course1:58
Having had an overview of what's in the course - this lecture is more specific about what you can expect to have learnt, and the skills you will have aquired, by the end of the course.

Starting a new Xmind project2:15
Starting at the beginning with creating a new mind map project.
Entering Data and Content3:48
Once we have a new project, it is time to see how you get your ideas onto the mind map. We will cover the fastest way to add data and text and see how the information eminates out from the central topic.
Navigation and Look and Feel8:09
This video covers some of the look and feel customisation, colors, backgrounds, lines etc. and also navigation - zooming in and out and selecting areas for a more detailed look.
Insert Images & Markers2:50
Inserting images into your mind map is a great way to liven the map up and make the nodes intuitive and self explanatory. Markers are useful for speedy and obvious highlighting of nodes and data also making the mind map easy to understand and intuitive
Grouping and Summaries3:36
Nodes and data can be visually grouped or summarized to make it more obvious for the audience how things relate to each other
Drilling into detail3:54
A mind map can be viewed at the top level but very often we might need to view a particular section in isolation and with greater detail and clarity. This is where we can drill into certain sections and they almost become their own central topic mind map.
Hyperlinks - Web and Files6:08
Hyperlinks are super important for an effective production dashboard. Hyperlinks are really just shortcut icons to different objects or locations whether they be files, directories or web links
Hyperlinks - Internal nodes2:42
Hyperlinks can also be used to navigate quickly around your mind map. If you have a fairly complex mind map with many layers of detail - internal hyperlinks can be incredibly useful to provide speedy navigation around the map.
XMind Professional3:19
A quick lecture on XMind professional - whilst most of this course, and the construction of the dashboard is easily achieved with the free version of Xmind - there are some cool features in the professional version.
The Gantt chart (Pro)11:46
One feature included in the professional version of Xmind is Task info and the Gantt chart - very useful for project management as you will see.
Entering data and nodes on you mind map

Choosing what course to teach5:42
How to use the mind map to brainstorm and organise your thoughts - particularly in the context of trying to choose what course to teach. Mind mapping is awesome.
Stepping through the creation process6:32
This is a quick run through of the process of creating a course on the Udemy website. It is useful to understand this process so we can map it back to the dashboard which can become a great tool and production template.

Building the dashboard - Introduction1:14
The introduction to the section on building the dashboard.
Start new mind map project4:21
To start creating the dashboard for the course, we will start by creating a new Xmind project.
Resources8:02
Every production will have a myriad of resources, files, editing software, web resources etc. In this section we will set up the resources section of our dashboard
Drilling into the detail5:26
The dashboard can be viewed at different levels of detail. There is the least detailed over view or in this section we will learn how to drill down into greater detail on a particular section.
Course Title - brainstorming7:38
Mind mapping is awesome for brainstorming. In this lecture we will brainstorm the course title
Planning your course5:20
All projects need planning - a mind map dashboard is a great place to plan
Planning - the 1 minute roadmap1:07
A speeded up construction of the roadmap
Markers and Fast keys5:11
Adding markers makes the dashboard more intuitive, visual and quicker to navigate. Xmind has many fast keys to speed up your work. They are also customisable - so you can add your own favourites.
The Curriculum - Part 17:23
The curriculum section is the guts of the dashboard - this is where you plan your sections and lectures and then attach resources to these nodes. This is part 1 of 2.
The Curriculum - Part 210:08
A continuation from Part 1 - of constructing the curriculum and all the associated files.
Directory structure and files5:51
All your production files will be stored somewhere, a hard drive of some description. In this lecture we will link your dashboard to the files and directories for easy, one-click access.
From Dashboard to Udemy published course8:14
This is where we take all the information, descriptions, titles and files from our dashboard and map it onto the Udemy course creation website.
You'll see how organised and in control we are of all our resources required for publishing the course.
The dashboard template0:09

Requirements

How to turn on and basically navigate a computer
Maybe the absolute basics of producing a video
Have an appreciation of how easy it is to waste precious time trying to locate resources on their computer/web

Description

“This course is not sponsored or affiliated with Udemy, Inc.” .

This course is about saving time, frustration and heartache when producing a Udemy course. Foe anyone who has already created a course on Udemy, you know what I'm talking about.

The key is to be organised, to understand all the different facets of producing a course, the planning the course structure, what to include and almost more importantly what to exclude. Then you need to decide on the presentation formats - is it all talking head, maybe screen capture, white board animation or a mixture of all of these. Once the decision is made, what hardware and software is needed.

Then there are the files. Every course generates many many files and many are pretty bloated.

So how can a mind map help? Well when it comes to a visual representation of lots and lots of information - with a single access point - then mind mapping is king.

What is also very cool is that students will not only learn how to mind map but will also get a crash course in an awesome piece of free software. The crash course could be a Udemy course on it's own but here it's bundled into the complete dashboard course.

Whilst the course is geared around creating a dashboard for the creation of a Udemy course (because it fits so well) but actually the dashboard can be used for any video production or a production of any kind where you need all the information at your fingertips.

Students will be amazed by how amazing mind mapping can be for organisation and productivity... no more searching for the elusive file you created last week - or that great web link that you forgot to bookmark.

The course is short and sharp ... back to back it could be completed in a few hours. I would suggest you take it a little slower and try out on your own copy of Xmind each of the stages of the course.

You will need no prerequisite skills, just a computer or device to do the course, a bit of imagination and a yearning for learning.

Enjoy...

Who this course is for:

Anyone who would benefit from a fast, intuitive dashboard for any kind of production
If you are tired of wasting time trying to find stuff on your computer
Anyone interested in mind mapping as an organisational tool - and would appreciate seeing it in action
Anyone interested in understanding the power of having an easy to read, visual, graphical presentation of their key resources for a project

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Introduction4 lectures • 9min

Mind Mapping1 lecture • 3min

Installing Xmind1 lecture • 2min

A crash course in Xmind10 lectures • 48min

Conceiving your Udemy course2 lectures • 12min

Organising your project1 lecture • 5min

Building the dashboard13 lectures • 1hr 10min

And Finally2 lectures • 1min

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