How to validate a course idea: a guide
Guide for course creators
For course creators and coaches who want first time creators on their list.
Challenge
Record your first lesson in five days
How to use this challenge
Share it with experts who have planned a course for years. Recording one lesson is the hardest step, and you help them take it.
What is inside
How the challenge worksThe one people already ask you about.
Day one: pick the first lessonList five questions: That people ask you most.
Day two: plan the lessonOpening: Who the lesson is for and what they will be able to do.
Day three: set up to recordCamera: Your phone at eye level on a stack of books.
Day four: recordDo one take: Without stopping to fix small slips.
Day five: finish and shareTrim the start and end: With your phone's editor.
A simple lesson planOpening
Three title ideas for your own version
Record your first lesson in five days
The first lesson challenge
Five days to your first course lesson
Where to promote it
Your newslettera post for experts thinking about a coursea reply to someone stuck on planning
What goes in a first lesson challenge?
How the challenge works, a task for each day from topic to sharing, and a simple lesson plan.
Make this challenge your own
The sample above is a real page. Press Use this template, sign up, and it appears in your account with this text and look, ready to edit. Change the words, add your own details and publish it.
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Pick one, change the words, publish.
Free to start. No credit card.