![]() I whittle it down to a coherent syllabus at a later stage. The idea is to cast the net as wide as possible initially, so I capture everything about a topic. I drop every idea into the Sheet, no matter how crazy it sounds. I read blog posts, watch YouTube videos, and usually pick up any relevant books that exist on the topic. Since it’s a technical video course, I’ll research the heck out of the subject to learn everything I can about the topic. On the content sheet, I build a list of potential topics to cover in the course. This spreadsheet starts life with two tabs: I create a new folder, with the course name, and add a blank spreadsheet, which becomes my central command center for the course. The first thing I’ll do is set up a home for the new course in my Google Drive, in this folder: Products > Courses > Courses 2022 Once I’ve chosen a new course to create, I move on to the research phase. This is informed by a number of factors, but mostly by what I think will be useful for my audience, and what I have the skill and interest to create at that point in time. But I record them so that I’m not carrying ideas around in my head, where I’m liable to forget them. The majority of these ideas will never see the light of day. It’s nothing fancy, just a simple Google Sheet with a list of ideas underneath my existing online courses: ![]() Whenever I think “oh, that would make a good course” or when I get an email from someone saying “please can you create a course about X”, I drop it into this list. ![]() I keep a running list of these course ideas. I think about technical video course creation in six distinct phases:Įvery course begins as an idea in the creator’s head, and this QUERY course was no exception. Along the way, I’ve made just about every mistake in the book, but I’ve now settled on a reliable framework for online course creation, the outline of which I share below. It’s my 14th online course and my 19th launch. Last week I launched a new Google Sheets course - The QUERY Function In Google Sheets - so I thought it would be interesting and helpful to share how such a course comes about. ![]()
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