
Execute a simple plan, record lectures quickly without slides, and add the magic to create standout, professional courses that engage students and boost completion.
Elevate your lectures with face-to-camera delivery, live demonstrations, and on-screen highlights. Use screen captures, zoom, arrows, and blur to guide attention, following three steps: equipment, planning, and recording.
Discover affordable gear and setup tips to create professional courses, using screen cast o matic, a blue yeti microphone, a boom, a pop filter, and the logitech 922 pro webcam.
Create a simple plan of prompts to guide your course talks without a script. Leverage your subject expertise to speak naturally, in the right order, with examples and stories.
Create a course outline as a simple shopping list of topics, subtopics, and key points, with demonstrations, examples, and stories to engage students.
Learn to create a course outline and plan with a mind map, via a demonstration of steps from selecting a subject to editing and formatting, plus effective topic organization.
Discover a proven four-step structure for lectures: grab them, state your main point, provide explanation, and finish off, using your outline, examples, and demonstrations to engage students.
Capture students' attention at the start of every lecture by presenting clear benefits and potential losses, motivating them to watch the entire course and improve outcomes.
Get to the point quickly after grabbing interest by stating the main point in one sentence, then outline the next step to keep learners engaged.
Explain clearly by demonstrating, using examples, stories, or analogies to show how each step works, ensuring the audience understands why and how to apply it.
End lectures with a clear reminder, following four steps: grab interest by stating benefits, present the key point, illustrate with examples or analogies, and remind learners of what they learned.
Master easy, relaxed lecture recording by focusing on two essential setup steps, using one-take methods, and improving camera presence with affordable lighting tips.
Relax and master one take recording by talking to one person, imagining a friend, and treating every lecture as practice to remove nerves and improve clarity.
Overcome fear of being on camera and learn to look good on camera with simple lighting, natural daylight, and the rule of thirds for better framing.
Demonstrate what you're teaching on camera to help students understand and engage, showing live examples from cooking, gardening, or programming while you explain.
End your recordings with a brief 2–3 second pause while facing the camera before stopping. This makes trimming the end, especially sections where you lean forward, much easier.
Add the magic to your course lectures by using moving visuals, short video clips, zoom, blur, subtitles, and clear on-screen highlights to boost engagement, attention, and word-of-mouth sales.
Cut the end of your lecture to remove unintentional actions, leaving a 1 to 2 second pause. Edit with a fade out to finish cleanly, avoiding keyboard movements.
Use on-screen text to display key takeaways and points one at a time during your lecture, avoiding scripts, to reinforce learning through listening and reading.
Demonstrate adding and positioning on-screen text with screen custom magic to synchronize appearance with each point, including fade in/out, and ensure visibility by adjusting size, color, background, and placement.
Add short, relevant clips to your lectures to boost professionalism and keep students engaged, following the four-second rule.
Learn to enhance lectures with short video clips, typically four seconds long, inserted about every ten seconds, using overlay or replace options, and pausing to avoid blinks.
Learn to engage students with live video clips instead of still photographs, and to insert, overlay, resize, and position images in screencastomatic with duration controls.
Learn how to keep students' attention by integrating engaging view changes, short clips, and on-screen text to reinforce key points. Apply the four second rule to vary angles with zooms and selective camera shifts, showing different perspectives (mouth, top half, full face) without overdoing it.
Direct students' gaze in video lectures with arrows, highlights, and zoom to emphasize on-screen features. Implement arrows, highlights, and zoom using overlay tools to guide viewers across your content.
Protect identities and sensitive details in screen-cast videos by applying a blur overlay you can resize and move to cover the screen or login fields.
Learn to structure demonstrations with an on-camera introduction (no more than 30 seconds) and a demonstration no more than ten minutes, then insert the intro into the screencast video.
Follow three steps: plan your course, record your course, and add the magic to engage and make lectures memorable.
This is a revolutionary method. Create courses that keep students watching.
I'm going to turn you into a course creation expert.
- Learn how to create professional courses that stand out against most other courses.
- Create engaging courses students are more likely to complete.
- Students will love your courses and are highly likely to tell others to join.
My name is Ian Stables. I've created more than 20 courses on Udemy. I currently have more than 32,000 students.
The majority of courses are either entire slide shows, talking head throughout, or a combination of these. The definition of boring is: The same thing over and over again. This may be the reason students don't finish courses. People don't learn well when bored.
Your courses need to be engaging. They have to keep student's interested.
This course will show you how to create engaging courses. With the use of variety, the mind of your student will be kept engaged. By using the same methods television use, you can keep your student's interest. This is the reason television keeps us glued to the screen.
It used to take me a long time to create a course.
First there was the course plan. Trying to make sure everything was included.
Then there would be all the slides to create, searching for pictures, adding the animation, and so on.
The recording came next. This was often a series of many retakes. I'd practice a few times and then go for the actual recording. Many times, I'd make mistakes and have to start again. Very agonising.
After all this, I'd end up with a course very similar to most others out there.
I looked for ways to make the process easier and to get a better result. I read many books, took courses, watched hours of Youtube videos.
After some time, I got the brain wave I was looking for. I was excited. At last, I had found a better way to create professional courses that would keep the interest of my students.
All I do now, is create a simple plan, start recording, and then add the magic. The end result is a professional looking course that is engaging to students.
Your are about to learn a three-step course creation method. You will be able to create professional courses that grab attention. You'll also be able to do it easier and quicker.
The three steps are:
1. Plan
2. Record
3. Add the magic
You will not need to spend a long time creating a slide show. No need to create any slides with this method. (Unless you want to.)
I'll also share with you all the tips and tricks I've discovered.
- Quality equipment and software at low prices
- My simple lighting cure
- My super quick way to plan courses
- My simple way to relax on camera
- How I always know what to say (Without a script)
- The trick to one take lecture recordings
- How to make lectures engaging and professional
Let me show you how to create professional online courses that stand out from most courses out there.
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