Learn all about Pre-Recorded Online Courses at ThinkVidya!

With the objective of helping out teachers/institutes to reach a wide range of students, ThinkVidya has introduced ‘Pre-recorded Online Courses’ feature on its platform. Now teachers/institutes can record their courses and get them uploaded on ThinkVidya and also earn when someone purchases those courses!

Do you have any skill or expertise and like to teach? Great! Lots of people are willing to learn from you and pay for it. Teachers are making a lot of money via recorded courses all over the world. Create your recorded course now, share your knowledge with a lot of people online and make money! 

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How can You create them?

Things you Need to create Recorded courses:

  • Laptop/PC
  • Microphone
  • Free Software’s
  • Quiet Room
  • Webcam (optional)
  • Internet Connection (optional)
  • Video or mobile camera (optional)
  • Pen tablet (optional)

Laptop/PC

Laptop/PC:

  • You can either use laptop or pc
  • Need not have a high end configuration

 

Microphone: Microphone

  • Use either table top mic OR mic with headphone OR just normal smartphone mic
  • Decent headphones with mic ranges from Rs. 500 to 2000.
  • You can buy table top mic from iball (M27). Available online at around Rs. 300.

Free Software’s:Free Software's

  • Windows Presentations
  • Keynote
  • Prezi
  • Camstudio
  • Screencast-o-matic
  • Screenr
  • Zoomit
  • Any video Convertor
  • Windows Movie Maker

Quiet Room: Quiet Room

  • Use the smaller quite room for recording to avoid any background noises.

Internet Connection (Optional): Internet Connection

  • You mainly Need internet to download software’s
  • You don’t need it much at the time of recording a course

Webcam (Optional):Webcam

  • Either use internal webcam or external webcam.
  • Decent webcam ranges from  Rs. 500 to 1000. You can easily buy it online.

Video or mobile camera (Optional):Video or mobile camera

  • You can either use a camcoder or Dslr or digital camera or even smart phone.
  • Use a laple/clip mic or a normal smartphone mic along with these devices for clear audio.

Pen tablet (Optional): Pen Tablet

  • You can either buy wacom bamboo pen tablet or any of the iball pen tablet. Decent pen tablet ranges from Rs. 2000 to 5000.
  • It gives you better control than mouse.
  • Helpful when you are teaching subjects which involves lot of equations & diagrams.

Steps Involved:

  • Step 1. Course content Structuring
  • Step 2. Recording the course
  • Step 3. Video Editing
  • Step 4. Resizing Videos
  • Step 5. Selling the Course 

Step 1. Course content Structuring:

  • Divide your course into different chapters
  • Divide each chapter in small modules
  • Create  a module that you can cover in a 5 to 15 minutes video.
  • You can use one of the following tool to create your course presentation
    -Microsoft Presentation
    -Google Presentation
    -Prezi
    -Keynote

Example:
Lets take a very simple example of creating a course on “How to buy a right mobile phone.”

Chapter1: Discover right Mobile Phone

  • Module1: Make a list of must have features
  • Module2: Read reviews online
  • Module3: Get Reviews from friends

Chapter2: Where to order it from

  • Module1: Compare price online
  • Module2:  Looks for discounts or coupon codes
  • Module3: Find the price at local store

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Step 2. Recording the course

This Includes:

  • Screen Recording
  • Video Camera Recording
  • Voice Recording
  • Annotation on Screen

Screen Recording:

Screenr – Windows, Mac
Screencast-o-matic – Windows, Mac
Camtasia (Paid)– Windows, Mac
Camstudio – Windows

Best Settings – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjCrNseVV3g
Apple QuickTime – Mac

Example of Courses with Screen recording

Can be done via:

  • Webcam
  • Camera – Camcorder or digital Camera
  • Phone/Tablet Recording

Its good to buy a camera tripod stand if you are planning to create a course through camcorder, digital camera or mobile phone camera. Tripods gives your video stability. There are different tripod stands for camcorder, mobile phone & tablets. You can buy it from any good camera shop or order it online.

Another important thing you will need is cordless lapel mic for better sound clarity.
Example of Courses with Camera Recording:

With Webcam + Screen Recording Software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_0o7VGl8k

Voice Recording:

When creating course using Screen recording:

– All screen recording software do the video & audio recording at the same time. You just need to use an external mic for better sound quality. Either a table mic or smartphone headphone with mic

– Also remember to use a quite room for recording

When creating a course using camcorder, digital camera, mobile or tablet camera:

– You would need a cordless lapel mic. It comes with transmitter & receiver set. Mic with transmitter you put it on your shirt & trasmitter in your pocket. Receiver is attached on camera. Decent lapel mic cost your around Rs. 2000.

Tripod Stands:

Tripod Stand

 Cordless Lapel Mic:

Cordless Lapel Mic

 

Mic & Transmitter:

Mic & Transmitter

 

Receiver:

Receiver

Annotation on Screen:

•For Windows – Zoomit

•For Mac – Ink2go

Zoomit control:

  • Zoom – Alt + w
  • LiveZoom – Ctrl + 4
  • Draw – Ctrl + 2
  • Draw after zoom – Left mouse Button
  • Pen Width – Ctrl + Mouse wheel up or Down
  • Pen Color – r(Red) g(Green) b(Blue) o(Orange) y(Yellow) p(Pink)
  • Straight Line – Shift Key
  • Rectangle – Control Key
  • Ellipse – Tab Key
  • Arrow – Shift + Control Key
  • Sketch Pad – w(white) k(black)
  • Exit Sketch Pad – Right Mouse Button twice
  • Exit Drawing Mode – Right Mouse Button<
  • Tpye mode – t once you r in drawing mode
  • Exit Typing mode – Esc or Left mouse button

Step 3. Video Editing

Edit your video recording to remove parts you don’t want Or to add background music

Windows movie maker – For Windows
iMovie – For Mac
Other tools:

http://www.wevideo.com
https://www.youtube.com
http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad
https://www.filelab.com/video-editor
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-free-video-editing-software/

Step 4. Resizing Videos:

Reduce the size of video lessons so that they can be easily uploaded or transferred over internet.

Any Video Converter:

For Windows:
For Mac: 

How to sell them?

  • You can sell your video courses at www.thinkvidya.com
  • Create a course page, upload videos & start selling your courses at a price decided by you.
  • Examples of some Recorded courses on ThinkVidya.com:

Create a Beautiful Website In a Few Hours…
Create Your Teaching Mobile App Without Coding…

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Browse through Pratik Soni’s links below to learn how to create your pre-recorded classes and teach online:

Here are some useful articles on Online Recorded courses:

10 Responses to Learn all about Pre-Recorded Online Courses at ThinkVidya!

  1. taran says:
    March 22, 2014 at 9:20 am
    Are there students available for Medical,Non Medical, Diploma or Engg in Civil or Mech?
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  2. Dr M.Z.Shah says:
    March 22, 2014 at 11:27 am
    dear all, i am runnning institute, SNM ACADEMY in BHOPAL (M.P) we have most probably all under graduations and graduations and master degrees and many diplomas in fire safty, I.T, managements and paramedicals etc through distance education. i want crowd for addmission in different courses in distance mode. but i am taking B.ed and M.ed classes as regular mode, now you advise me what to do, and what you can do for us to get more students, waiting to hear from you soon, i tried but could not complete form why?????? i dont know. regards
    Reply
    • ThinkVidya Support says:
      March 25, 2014 at 11:49 am
      Hello Dr M.Z.Shah! You may visit the following link & create a copany/Institute account with us, so that we can send you the details of potential students, who have enquired about the various Diploma, graduations and master degrees courses. Please send us your contact number through e-mail, so that one of will contact you and provide more information. You can even contact us on 09590014159 - Mon-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm (OR) support@thinkvidya.com Trainer: http://www.thinkvidya.com/join-thinkvidya/309140?_type=TRAINER&
      Reply
  3. Dushyant Pradhan says:
    March 22, 2014 at 5:07 pm
    Hi there!! I am a Metallurgical engineer from IIT Bombay in the process of creating a series of lectures in audio format on Chemistry for the students of Engineering entrance. I have one query. Once I send the audio file to teach@thinkvidya.com I lose its possession. Please clarify your procedure of fixing the price of the content and the way of routing of the payments. In short, please clarify your way of handling that intellectual property and the measures you take to ensure that IP will not be commercially exploited by third person.
    Reply
    • ThinkVidya Support says:
      March 25, 2014 at 11:44 am
      Hello Dushyant Pradhan! Please send us an e-mail at support@thinkvidya.com including your contact number. We shall give you the complete information on how we promote your online course. You would not lose its possession or misuse of it.
      Reply
  4. Sudhir Mishra says:
    April 3, 2014 at 4:04 pm
    I write about online course is is great.
    Reply
  5. Klaudia says:
    May 14, 2014 at 9:47 pm
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    Reply
  6. kishor Nathani says:
    July 9, 2014 at 1:52 pm
    It seems that with interest,and repeating the steps shown....one can surely make online demonstration class.....of course, i myself will soon apply on me to create online demo course.......thanks a lot for the guidance.
    Reply
  7. Zelda says:
    September 24, 2014 at 3:15 pm
    I must thank you for the efforts you have putt in writing this site
    Reply

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