Five tools for creating your own online tutorial

Online courses - so popular topic right now that to try his hand in it want very much. As experience shows, the most difficult - think of the course format, not to develop a program and does not even collect the participants. Most of the questions is the technical side: what services and programs you need to master in order to make quality first online class?

Here are some proven tools that allow you to spend a lesson online, make a video and turn it into a real product training online.

Lesson live

The most common solution for online broadcasts - this, of course, use the special platform for webinars. But a lot of areas, and some of what criteria to choose?

Key features vebinarnyh rooms are as follows: presentation, Chat, audio and video speaker, drawing. If you only need this option list, the site selection guided by the price, efficiency technical support, the ability to test (the presence demopaketa) and an intuitive interface for the speakers and participants.

But if you need the additional features - a demonstration of the screen, play video or audio clips, upload and download Materials participants, conducting interviews, gathering statistics, and so on - will learn these details in advance, as they are present in every service.

The ratio of "price / quality / functionality" I recommend a closer look eTutorium.

Pros:

• Good quality broadcast.
• Automatic recording and saving the webinar, the ability to download or watch it online (this option is not available on all platforms).
• Automatically save chat tape, the ability to download it.
• Excellent technical support 24/7.
• The opportunity to participate in a lesson with smartphones and tablets without having to install any software and applications.
• A variety of functions: drawing board, polls, Landing designer and platform to upload to other sites (that is, the broadcast can be made with your own page).

Minuses:

• The price is higher than the number of analogues.
• Service is not always adequately functioning in some browsers.

Other vebinarnye room, I would advise you to consider:
Pruffme, Wiziq (English), ClickMeeting.

Creating webinar recording ester or screen

Most rooms do vebinarnyh own recording of the lesson. However, technical problems are possible on any platform, so I advise you to always make a duplicate entry to send its participants or later be sold as a separate video tutorial.

Through Movavi Screen Capture Studio not only can record the entire screen, but also a part of it (for example, only the window with the presentation without chat), and after the video process.

Pros:

• Suffice friendly interface.
• The program can capture the entire screen, part of it, at the same time to write the screen and the camcorder.
• The ability to convert content to various video and audio formats.
• Video editing program.
• Compress files without losing quality.

Minus:

• The program is paid, although it is relatively inexpensive.

alternatives: Camtasia Studio (More expensive, but with great potential) CAM Studio (English, free) QuickTime (For Mac, comfortable, but with fewer features) iSpring Free Cam (Free and very simple).

Holding group classes (videoconferencing)

For full of online lessons you may need to format of the conference - the possibility of communication between the parties.

Some rooms offer vebinarnye format simulcasting a number of speakers, but rarely more than two. If you choose a standard web-room, pay attention to the description of the tariff on the number of speakers.

To communicate with a group of on-line, you can use Zoom.

Pros:

• Ability to communicate with the group without delay in the broadcast - and, perhaps, the absolute analogue I do not know.
• Free package that allows you to hold events for up to 40 minutes.
• Ability to create records and save it on your computer or in the cloud.

Minuses:

• All participants need to download a program broadcast on a computer or phone.
• The presentation is not loaded on the service, as shown by a demonstration screen, which is not very convenient for the speaker.

Alternatives: the good old Skype or YouTube Hangouts.

Pre-lesson record

If you do not plan to collect online group, and want to make the lesson initially recorded, in addition to the programs already described, you will need Loom - an extension for Chrome.

Its peculiarity is that the Loom does not record your computer screen, and the windows open in your browser google Chrome. Accordingly, if you plan to use in the lesson presentation, then engage to create a presentation «Google Documents" or open it in a browser.

Pros:

• No need to convert content, videos (pretty good quality) ready for viewing immediately.
• The ability to share a link to the video. It is not necessary to download it to your computer (download function is provided).
• The camera recording function - it will be seen your face (can be disabled if desired).
• Expanding free.

Minuses:

• Lack of video editing functions.
• Lack of opportunity to choose a separate area of ​​the screen or write something, do not open the browser.
• Having a single output file format - MP4.
• There is no possibility to remove service tool string.

Video processing or creating a lesson from the slide

If programs such as Camtasia Studio or Movavi Screen Capture you seem difficult (or expensive) and you do not need to do screen recording, but it requires processing of video, try YouTube Editor.

Pros:

• A large number of functions: you can crop video, to glue a few pieces to create a slideshow of photos or pictures from the presentation, there is a function of writing the text and selecting audio tracks.
• Intuitive interface.
• Service is free.

Minus:

• To process a file, it is necessary to fill in for your YouTube-channel. In order to download the result, some add-ins are needed.

These tools allow you to create your own online lessons for small or even zero investment. At the same time, once again, the market of online technologies is wide enough, on it there are a lot of interesting decisions with which you will surely get to know during the development of niche online learning.

October 26-27, Moscow will host the second conference on online education EdMarketLab. Knowledge in the field of training products will share the most famous Russian experts.

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