The Next Stage in Course Creation: Understanding Course Development
As you've learned about course design, it's time to move on to the next stage in the course creation process: course development. This is where your content developer will work with you to develop high-quality content for your course. In this lesson, we'll cover everything you need to know to take your course from handoff to launch.
Clarifying Expectations
First and foremost, it's essential to clarify expectations when it comes to your course content. As the course instructor, you are the subject matter expert, and you own the intellectual property of your course. This means that you will be responsible for creating all the content for your course, including slides, scripts, and exercises. You'll need to create the material in a way that is engaging and informative, while also ensuring that it meets DataCamp's content guidelines.
Producing Ready Content
DataCamp has a specific way of describing the state of being "production ready." This refers to the point at which your course content is complete and ready for students to take. To achieve this state, you'll need to create high-quality content that includes:
* Debugging code
* Fixing typos
* Formatting slides
* Exercises and resizing images
Getting Your Course into a State Ready to be Taken by DataCamp Students
To get your course into this state, you'll need to respect DataCamp's content guidelines. This will involve creating content that is clear, concise, and easy to understand. You'll also need to ensure that your course is frictionless, meaning that it flows smoothly from one lesson to the next.
Working with a Content Developer
Once your course content is production-ready, you'll be working with a content developer who will guide you through the development process. This person's job is to help ensure that your courses are of the highest possible quality. They will review your content throughout development and provide feedback on how it can be improved.
A Critical Component of Course Development
One critical component of this process is providing high-quality feedback. Your content developer will work with you to create a course development timeline that makes sense for both you and DataCamp. Once the timeline has been created, it's their responsibility to manage the course and ensure that it remains on track towards achieving the agreed-upon launch date.
Using Project Management Tools
To operate comfortably throughout the entire process, we use project management tools like Asana. This will help you keep track of course progress and ensure that deadlines are met.
DataCamp's Unique Selling Proposition
One of DataCamp's unique selling propositions is the feedback that students receive upon submitting an incorrect solution. You can see this in action on the slide where a student enters an incorrect submission and receives feedback as shown in orange on how they can edit their submission to solve the exercise. This interactive feedback is the result of submission correctness tests, or SC Ts, that are coded by DataCamp's content developers.
The Importance of Deadlines
Finally, your content developer will hold you accountable to meeting deadlines. This ensures that your course launches on time and that students receive high-quality content as soon as possible.
Diving into Exercises
Now that we've covered everything you need to know about course development, let's dive into a couple of exercises to round out Chapter one.
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for your course in practice this translates to creating the slides scripts and exercises that will make up your course including debugging code fixing typos formatting slides and exercises and resizing images in other words getting your course into a state ready to be taken by data camp students a state we like to call production ready frictionless way to arrive in this state is by respecting data camps content guidelines which you'll learn all about in a later chapter once your course content is production-ready you will be responsible for creating the audio recordings for the course just like this one now to dastan intimidating well enter a Content developer throughout the development process you will work with a member of our content development team whose job it is to guide you through the course development process and help ensure your courses of the highest possible quality a critical component of this involves reviewing your content throughout development and providing feedback on how it can be improved we're passionate about education and data science and are committed to helping you create high-quality content the amount of time it will take for your course to go from handoff to launch it is dependent on your schedule and how much time you can commit per week to creating your course at hand off your CD will work with you to create a course development timeline that makes sense for both you as well as data camp once the timeline has been created it is the CDs responsibility to manage the course to ensure that it remains on track towards achieving the agreed-upon launch date we use a project management tool called asana which you learn about in the next chapter to keep track of course progress in order to operate comfortably throughout the entire process and ensure your courses of the highest quality it's important to adhere to the agreed-upon timeline to the best of your ability this ensures your CD has enough time to review and provide feedback on the content and you have enough time to implement the feedback one of data Cam's unique selling propositions is the feedback that students receive upon submitting an incorrect solution you can see one example on the slide here where a student enters an incorrect submission and receives feedback as shown in orange on how they can edit their submission to solve the exercise this interactive feedback is the result of submission correctness tests or SC TS that are coded by CDs it is your CDs responsibility to write high-quality SC TS so that students taking your course receive a meaningful feedback the earlier you complete the exercises in your chapter the sooner we can begin writing the tests finally your CD is responsible for configuring data camps course launch system which will make your course available to over three million students here is a summary of the key responsibilities during course developments what you should take away from this is that as the course instructor you're responsible for creating your own course your content developer is not your assistant but will provide you with high-quality feedback and will write high quality s CTS to ensure that your course performs exceptionally well additionally your fountain developer will hold you accountable to meeting deadlines so that your course launches on time with all of that said let's dive into a couple of exercises now to round out Chapter one hope you have fun and we'll see you in the net\n"
