Online Course Creation Masterclass: Fast Track Training

Assess demand for your topic by checking Kindle books, Google Trends, Bored Reader, and Meetup and Eventbrite activities, then translate your expertise into an online course.

Identify the minimum viable equipment to create artifacts on a personal computer using Google Docs. Store files on Google Drive and publish via a WordPress website with hosting and domain.

Organize information into presentation slides with blank slides and subheadings to separate ideas across Google Slides, PowerPoint, macOS, use an unbranded template, narrate with bullet points, spell check before presenting.

Organize slide content and speaker notes, narrate one point at a time, and animate each point with a click in PowerPoint or Google Slides for smooth recording.

Record your slide content in one take, clap to mark mistakes, back up two points, and re-narrate to edit out errors in Camtasia Studio for a polished project.

Record your slide presentations using built-in, PC, or browser-based tools that capture webcam and screen. Start recording, minimize the browser, and narrate your slides.

Demonstrate how to capture your screen with a browser-based recorder, optionally display your webcam, then download and import the video into Camtasia for editing.

Use OBS Studio to capture your webcam and your screen while recording. Set the video capture device, arrange capture order, and choose the output recording format for your instructional recordings.

Learn to use Stream Yard to record webcam and screen, create a broadcast, and download mp4 or audio files from a free or basic plan for editing.

Set up an external monitor with your laptop to run dual screens, place notes on one and record on the other, and set Windows resolution to 1920 by 180 pixels.

Record your online course audio with Audacity on your personal computer, click record, and clap three times to mark mistakes for easy editing in a single take.

Import your footage into Camtasia and place it on the timeline, then edit out mistakes, remove background noise, apply volume leveling, and export the final 1080p video.

Create contextual visuals from your video in real time with Camtasia, capturing screenshots along the timeline. Use batch frame shots to produce 10 evenly spaced images saved to a folder.

Create handout slides by inserting a photo album, selecting screenshots, and fitting each image to its own slide with a title slide, optional captions, black-and-white visuals, and a consistent theme.

Learn how to deliver written content to customers by saving or printing as pdf from Word or Google Docs, ensuring compatibility across word processing software.

Bundle your content into a zip or compressed file for download, then host or stream it on platforms such as Wistia, Vimeo, YouTube, or Teachable Gqom.

Upload your zip files to a hosting area to generate a downloadable link for buyers. Compare Google Drive, OneDrive, Media Fire, Dropbox, and Amazon S3 by bandwidth and throttling.

Explore delivering and selling online courses on Think, Epic, Teachable, and KGB, securing content with private access, logins, password-protected posts, and downloadable links.

Develop a sales process for digital products by integrating PayPal or shopping cart systems to accept payments and automatically deliver content links via Gumroad or your platform.

Develop a compelling sales page on Gum Road using copywriting to explain what customers get and why to buy, guided by David Fry's 12 step evergreen sales letter template.