Wednesday Jul 13, 2011
3 Steps to creating your first course inside KOD
Congratulations! You have decided to support your organization by creating an online learning system or a helpdesk system so that training time and calls to your support desk can be reduced.
So where do you start?
At the beginning, no seriously, first you need to define what it is that you are creating only then can you go ahead and work out what to put in and also what to leave out.
Step 1: Defining the Course Purpose
What is your course trying to achieve? What should your learners go away being able to do now that they could not do before?
For example in Microsoft Word, you could say that you wanted to teach people how to use Word. But what does that really mean? Which parts of Word do they need to be able to use? Just some or everything? See the problem?
We need to be a little more specific here. How about
- “Our users will be able to format a document” – really is that it?
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Even more specific:
- “Our users will be able to produce a professional report including headers and footers, a table and great formatting.”
Now you are talking, we now have a specific and task based course aim which will make creating the course much easier as we can now figure out which content we need.
Step 2: Creating your Course Objectives
Now that you have a proper Course Aim you can begin to set the Learning Objectives. The Learning Objectives are the means to achieving the aim. So Learning Objectives for the Report example might be:
- Set up page margins
- Format text
- Add and delete text
- Add Headers and Footers
- Create a Table
Once you have the Learning Objectives you can begin to work out what content needs to be included. In our Word example, we would need to include all the Word features that will allow us to format text, create a table, set up margins and add headers and footers.
Step 3: Adding your Course Outline to KeyStone OnDemand
Once you have your Learning Objectives you can see quite easily which of them go together to create a fluid section and which Learning Objectives are worthy of lessons of their own.
Once you have decided this, you can create a Course Outline to act as your guide through the process.
So my Learning Objectives for this course are:
- Structure your session
- Course Aim
- Objectives to reach the aim
- Construct an Outline
- Create Categories
- Add Content
- Create an Article
- Upload an Article
- Create a Screencast
- Upload a Ready made Video
- Create a Great Introduction
- Create a Quiz
- Create a Course in KeyStone OnDemand
Now you can create a list of all the features you wish to include and begin to flesh out your content.
That outline is the first thing you’ll add to your KeyStone OnDemand course. At this point, you’re ready to click the Add New button the Menu bar and choose Course from the list. Once the course is named and a category has been chosen, you can begin to add placeholders for your course outline that will eventually be filled with your course content.
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