Frequently Asked Questions By Educators
Answers to common questions from those who have collaborated with us to provide educational contents are provided here.
Our course player is designed to have courses play out in large modules or Chapters, with each Chapter consisting of several smaller Lessons. All students enrolled in any of our courses will have to complete all of the Lessons of a specific Chapter to be able to move on and gain access to the next Chapter and its Lessons.
Your course should include as many formats as you need to cover the depth of your content and expertise. All lessons require our educators to record themselves presenting their course, whether through talking or presenting a slideshow. This can be done in a single run or in parts, but the end result will need to be split into chunks regardless. If you are recording it in one session, you may cut up your video and have each clip as a single lesson. If you record it in multiple sessions, each session would count as a lesson. The videos would then be uploaded to our course player in the order you specify.
We recommend you to title all your uploads for your course content in the following format:
"Instructor Last Name or Initials - Course Title - Chapter # - Lesson # - Video or Document Name"
If this is too lengthy then please try to at least include some form of:
Course Title - Chapter # - Lesson #
This enables our administrative team to better identify and sort your uploads together.
Each Lesson in your course should be roughly 10-20 minutes long to ensure a healthy balance of engagement and coverage of the topic as it pertains to the Chapter.
You may go over this time recommendation if necessary, but please keep in mind that having more lessons overall helps break up your course content into digestible pieces that will be better for your students' pacing and understanding.
The length of your course is very context-dependent and based on your own preferences as the course creator. Items such as homework assignments, quizzes, readings, and additional resource downloads will contribute to the time it takes for a student to complete your course, so please keep these in mind when planning out your outline.
For a smaller course that touches on a basic level understanding of a particular subject, we recommend a length of about 1 - 2 hours.
A more intermediate level course would likely clock in at around 3 - 7 hours.
Anything more advanced in nature we envision taking anywhere from 8 - 15 hours.
You do not need to have the equivalent of a small film studio to present yourself in your course. As long as you have a webcam and a decent microphone, you will be able to offer your students a feasible learning experience.
An example of what we are looking for could include you giving a PowerPoint presentation on ZOOM via sharing your screen in a private meeting session. You would then record it using Zoom or another software. Please have your face as the instructor visible to your audience somehow. We recommend using OBS, a free open-source recording software, which you can download at https://obsproject.com/.
- COURSE NAME OR TITLE (MAX 60 Characters if possible)
- COURSE LENGTH
- COURSE SHORT DESCRIPTION (MAX 250 Characters)
- COURSE LONG DESCRIPTION (Must be different from above short description with more detail)
- COURSE KEYWORDS (words to describe your course and for social media, e.g. dental, surgery, implant, digital, finance, etc.)
- COURSE PRICE RANGE (we will discuss this further with you once the course is finalized)
- WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR (e.g., general dentists who are looking for x)
- WHAT STUDENTS WILL LEARN (In bullet point form)
The price for your course can be provided to us at any point before or after your course is fully recorded and handed in to us. We understand it can change depending on what you as the educator feel is reasonable for the amount of content you have.
The video(s) along with any accompanying picture or text files, required readings or articles, links, etc. should be emailed (for smaller files, text, links) or put into some kind of cloud service folder (for larger files and the videos) such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or DropBox where we can access them easily.
You may deliver your content to us once it is fully completed or as each lesson is finished. Once we have some of your initial content along with all relevant marketing details (see previous FAQ item) then our team will go ahead and create a landing page for your course.
Any net revenue that you are entitled to as a collaborating Advancemy educator (65% of net revenue) will be paid out to you within 30 days time from the most recent period in which a sale of one of your courses was made.
For example, if your course had students enrolled in January, you would receive payment by the end of the following month in February.
You must sign up for a Paypal account to receive payment from us.
