ArtsyCourseExperts Tech Podcast

One way to make online courses more accessible and affordable for your students is to offer course payment plan options. Payment plans allow students to spread out the cost of the online course over a period of time if they can’t pay for the full amount upfront. This can be especially helpful for students who may not have the financial resources to pay the full amount before they learn the new hig...

Descript is a video editing tool that allows users to edit audio and text transcriptions of their videos. It also includes features such as automatic transcription, editing transcriptions directly, and automatically eliminating unwanted words from your video while producing a smooth output. It is designed to make it easier to edit videos just by editing your words. In this lesson, we will look at...

Introduction Getting started with your first creative course can feel overwhelming. There are a lot of moving pieces, and it can be frustrating trying to keep track of them all. Add that to the fact that some of us aren’t teachers by trade, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. Luckily, the educators that came before us have already carved out the tricks of the trade when it comes to creating qual...

A title slide lets students know what is coming in the lesson and lets them mentally get ready to receive the information from the teacher. This lesson has a bunch of tips on how to make great title slides for your online courses. Here are some potential problems course creators could face if they don’t use title slides: • Your students will not have a context so they will be able to digest the ne...

Ikigai, which means reason for being, is a concept believed to be why Japanese people live longer and happier lives. This lesson explains how to use ikigai when creating your course business. Here are some potential problems if you don’t consider Ikigai when planning your course business: • You could have a hobby that you can teach as a skill, but you won’t be able to use it to solve problems and...

After you create your online course, the next step is to get prospects to engage with and ultimately purchase it. Creating an ad is one of the best ways to market to your students. This lesson teaches you what you need when creating an ad. Here are some typical problems if creators don’t use ads for their online courses: It would be challenging to reach out to prospects when nobody knows about you...

Stripe is likely every course creator’s favorite payment service provider. It lets you accept payment from various methods and offers lower fees and many more features than other platforms. Here are some important tips to help you with Stripe: • Integrate your different systems with Stripe so you can unify all your financial records • Create payment links to add to websites or send email invoices...

You want to share your skill with people and make money from it, so you’ve decided to create a course online. Starting a course is easy, but may be challenging to finish. This lesson shows you how to manage your time and set your course goals. Here are some key tips to help you finish your online course: • Manage your time properly, set a timetable, and stick to it • Organize your workspace, and m...

How to host your video lessons on a server for your online course. Including how to think about quality, quantity, cost, management, security, accessibility, and other important business factors. Here are a few of the most important tips when thinking about how your videos are hosted:: • If you’re a beginner teacher, then start with an integrated video file experience • As you grow your total cour...

Teachers and coaches can utilize a SWOT Analysis to think about new courses and businesses to consider. The analysis can also reveal how to tweak existing businesses to survive problems and threats. Here are a few of the most important tips for analyzing your situation with SWOT: • Assess the main creative skills and expertise that you teach • Assess your secondary generic skills like writing, pro...

Online teachers, coaches, and community leaders should manage their team and clients with user role system settings so that users only have access to what is necessary, paid for, or free. Here are a few of the most important tips for using user roles in your businesses: • Come up with a few key user roles that you reuse • Avoid assigning users custom permissions • Map team members to custom roles...

Students may feel buyer’s remorse after purchasing a new course, but in this lesson we'll review tactics that course business owners can use to win over new customers and reduce the number of refund requests. Here are some of the most important tricks to avoid buyer's remorse: • Explain precisely who this is for on your sales page • Make sure students know they can take their time learning • Answe...

Use microlearning to help your students learn and use specific skills quickly and without any distractions. We’ll go over the benefits and how to actually structure your micro lessons. Here are some of the key ideas to teach using microlearning: • Use a hook to get students interested in what you are about to teach • Teach one small, specific, and useful skill in your lesson • Demonstrate how to u...

Learn how to use captions and subtitles with your video lessons to help students with accessibility and languages. Here are some of the key attributes of captions and subtitles: • Dynamic vs Burned • Accessibility & Foreign Learners • View Settings vs By Video  • Auto Generated vs Typed • Dynamic vs Static Colors • Dynamic vs Static Font Sizes • Dynamic vs Static Screen Position For more...

Learn how the ADDIE instructional model can help you design effective online courses for your creative students. Here are some of the key steps for using ADDIE in your courses: • Use the analysis phase to research student gaps and goals • The design phase will help you outline the right content for your students • Move into the development phase to create and flesh out the specific content and sup...

Course creators don’t have to build and manage online courses all by themselves. In this lesson, you’ll learn about different kinds of outsourcing to help you offer amazing courses while saving time and money. Here are some of the key reasons to outsource course work: • You need time off • Your opportunity costs are too high • You don't have the skills • You can't handle the quantity of work • You...

Creative students want to hear updates from teachers about new courses, resources, and tips, but sometimes teachers forget to update their prior students. Here are some of the key ways for keeping your students updated: • Course system messages • Emails • Social • Podcasts • Videos • Community For more detailed information and other tips check out our article at: https://www.artsycourseexperts.com...

This article helps online course creators learn how selling services with Monthly Recurring Revenues (MRR) like communities or coaching can help stabilize monthly income and grow total earnings.   Here are some of the key topics covered:  • Course businesses revenues can fluctuate  • The downside of businesses with variable earnings  • Subscription businesses earn money every m...

As an online teacher, how can you answer your many students in a fast, accurate, and detailed way? This article goes over different options to provide great support while also thinking about time and profitability.   Here are some essential tips for thinking about your course support:  • Think like a Service Level Agreement (SLA) - Price, Duration, Uptime,...  • What speed do you pr...

Teachers that create and use online course resources like guides help students faster and earn more money. This lesson summarizes how to create a guide for your course. Here are some of the key tips for creating resources: Brainstorm on ideas Break your guide into sub-topics Leverage content from your course Add supporting photos and graphics Edit your course resources Put your bonus into a PDF Ad...

Hey Creative Teachers, In this lesson, we'll go over auto play and auto complete  • Auto start when students start or clicks on lesson  • Auto complete when students end lessons and update progress  • Accessibility benefits  • Good default settings in the LMS and for student profiles For more details and other tips check out our article at:  https://www.artsycourseexperts....

Hey Creative Teachers,   In this lesson, we'll talk about how teachers and students can benefit from lessons with large primary content as well as seeing the teacher in a smaller secondary video window called Picture In Picture.  • Second video position  • Size of Picture in Picture  • Teacher video backgrounds  • Shape of teacher screen  • Production complexity &nbsp...

Hi welcome to our ArtsyCourseExperts Podcast We help creative teachers - build, operate, and grow their online courses Our focus is exclusively on the arts, helping teachers that teach design, makers, fashion, writing, performing, and A/V. We work, research, and teach about course platforms like Thinkific, Teachable, Kajabi, and other Learning Management Systems. This podcast will provide quick le...

Hey Creative Teachers, In this lesson, we'll learn about Canva.  It's is a free, simple, and powerful tool that creative teachers can use to create course graphics and illustrations for your lessons and materials. For more details and other tips check out our article at:  https://www.artsycourseexperts.com/canva-for-lesson-illustrations/ Subscribe to this podcast if you want more course...