Building courses: Lyceum
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Course, chapter, lesson: how a course comes together, how text and video get in, and when it goes visible.
The parts of a course
A course consists of chapters, a chapter of lessons. A lesson carries text, a video or both. Course length is not a typed figure but the computed sum of all video durations, so it cannot go stale.
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Course, chapter, lessonA course's three levels, what belongs on each, and why course length is computed rather than typed.02
Text lessonsThe editor, what it can do and why a lesson need not be only a video.03
Video lessonsHow a video becomes a lesson, what happens during processing and how you see that it finished.04
Preview lessonShowing one lesson for free: the strongest lever a course catalogue has.05
Draft & publishingWhy a new lesson starts as a draft and what gets checked when publishing.