Nowadays, a significant part of our life is digital, mostly spent online. We work online, we communicate online, we have fun online, we share online. Actually, we share a lot online – from work files to family photos - but most of all we share knowledge.

A great video training course starts with great planning. If you manage to get the first steps of creating a course right, you are sure to have a better result. In this article, you will find the best practices and tips to create the best possible structure for your course, and a course structure template to make it easier for you.

One of the most common misconceptions about video training is that it is too expensive to produce videos with professional quality. In this article, you can see an example of a set of equipment for under 1.500€, that you can easily assemble and disassemble as needed in a quiet room, to record high quality training videos.

You can create a great role-play video with real actors or animated characters, but no role-play video can work the way you intend it to without a fair amount of planning, some brainstorming and an effective script.

Screencasts are one of the most popular and interesting ways of showing people how to use software and digital applications. They are also quite handy when we want to show how to follow a procedure that involves different stages.

The recording day can be very stressful for the presenters, especially if they are shy, have little or no experience, or are working with you for the first time. This guide will help them feel more comfortable and know what to do and what to expect on the day before, and day of the recording. 

If we were to choose one single takeaway for you to remember from this article, it would be the following: Design can make or break an online learning experience. Unfortunately, visual design is often an afterthought in online courses, which results in ineffective learning experiences and poorly used training budget.

One of the steps of a great training programme is to prioritize the course production pipeline in an effective and efficient way. This template will help do that.

It is highly unlikely that you will have all the budget and resources you need to create at once every course in your training roadmap at once. This is why knowing how to prioritize your course production pipeline is so important.

Our digital learning solutions team has put together a handy step by step guide that outlines the 8 steps you need to follow to create an effective video training course.