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How To Deliver Online Courses

This guide is loaded with tips and tricks for delivering online courses like a pro, and you can dive right in today! Whether you're a seasoned online educator looking to level up or a newbie ready to rock your online class, we're here to help you make your online courses engaging and awesome.

25 Mar 2021 by Rocco Brudno

The most engaging online courses are still ineffective if they aren’t easily delivered to your audience. But that shouldn’t scare you from sharing knowledge and growing your audience engagement. Online course delivery methods can be simple and don’t necessarily require a suite of tools to accomplish.

Our team created this guide to help you understand how to deliver online courses, tests, and create a knowledge hub. We’ll also cover some of the benefits of training delivery methods in the flow of work. Let’s dive in!

Online course delivery practices

The goal of online course delivery providing access to knowledge you want to share with your audience. Online course creation software tools often have built-in learner management and delivery functions to make this process easy. And often, it’s only a matter of entering an email or creating an online course enrollment link to share and you’re off to delivering content.

If you’re just starting out with understanding online course delivery, there are usually three practices we recommend to everyone:

  • Understanding the online course delivery method you’ll be using (i.e. manually sending it, sharing it via email or communication channels, etc).

  • Learning who your online course audience is that will experience the content.

  • Planning the process for course delivery (i.e. steps from start to finish).

One thing to consider is fully planning out who your courses are being delivered to and where they’ll be delivered. Sometimes it can be easy to sort learners for group enrollment or you can deliver content based on platforms your learners use often.

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A great way to start delivering training content is to create learner personas, learner groups, and training pathways. These three categories help you plan where training should be delivered and who will get it based on individual or team needs.

Planning a process for online course delivery can also help you see each point from start to finish. This can help you refine steps that don’t work and repeat the steps that are successful.

For online course content delivery options, choose one that’s consistent with how your learners engage in their day. If you’re setting up online course delivery for customers, consider email or social media platforms. For delivering training to remote employees for onboarding, try delivering training in the flow of work. Lastly, consider creating a resource hub to store your online courses and then deliver content links to your learners to access when convenient for them.

How to deliver online courses

Practice and organization are your best friends for delivering online courses. By categorizing what online course content you have, you can easily share it from that same space you created it. Once you have your online course content sorted properly and an idea of who you’re delivering it to, you can start sharing knowledge. And by testing delivery processes with sample groups, you can repeat the process until you’ve worked out the kinks.

Some great ways to leverage online course creation software for delivery methods are onboarding, customer engagement, and creating a self-access knowledge hub. Below, we’ll explore these three examples to help you understand how to deliver online courses today.

Training delivery methods for remote employee onboarding

One of the easiest ways to deliver training for remote employees that just started is by sharing an online course pack. Think of this as a “day 1” or “first-month” collection of knowledge new hires need to know. This is a great example if you have similar online courses for all of your audience, but want to include additional content specific to certain groups.

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Consider how onboarding new team members require basic company training as well as their role and department training. The company info will remain the same, but you’ll want to diverge training content based on individual knowledge requirements.

When an employee is hired on with your firm, the best way to deliver an online course for onboarding is to group them into your training platform. From here, you just need to make a few clicks to send them general onboarding and role-specific training. Schedule it to be sent on their first day and set due dates/times for when they need to complete it. The best part? Once these training delivery methods are functioning, you can automate them for future hires.

Delivering online courses to boost customer engagement

Customer engagement channels such as social media marketing or customer training are great ways for an organization to increase brand recognition. By delivering online courses externally, you can share knowledge, experience, and measure interactions with your content.

Customer training

Training customers on how to maximize the value of your offering strengthens their relationship with your organization. Customer training also builds powerful brand awareness. Think of how companies like IBM offer product knowledge training for their software. This accelerates a customer’s time-to-value with a SaaS product especially.

Time-to-value is crucial for customers with SaaS products that require intensive onboarding to fully utilize. Typeform found that effective product training can reduce the time customers receive ROI on a SaaS by as much as 70%! That means if you can deliver SaaS product knowledge to customers, you can accelerate pipeline velocity for new customers and prevent churn. You’ll also reduce your customer onboarding costs because they’ll need less time to utilize your offering.

Social media courses

For social media marketing with online courses, we have one brand everyone knows: Buzzfeed. Over the last decade, Buzzfeed has demonstrated how powerful creating quizzes and interactive content can be for audience engagement. This content enables your audience to engage with it, allowing them to test the knowledge on a topic, interact with elements that are touch-friendly on mobile, or play fun games.

By leveraging an online training platform to deliver these types of online courses, you can get immediate data on any interaction. This is helpful for a variety of social media initiatives including:

  • Building email lists

  • Acquiring leads

  • Split-testing content formats

  • Capturing audience insights

You’re also able to leverage a single platform for online course creation that would normally require four or more pieces of software to achieve similar results. This saves time and makes social media courses more accessible to create and deliver for anyone that might lack prior experience.

How to deliver online courses as a knowledge hub

Creating a singular place to house online courses that are easily accessible to your audience is an effective online course delivery method. And all you need to ensure a successful course content hub is the ability to enable self-enrollment. If this is a feature you have in your online course creation software, then you’ll be able to share content with a single click.

The reason online courses catalogs work is that they remove the friction that separates direct training from social learning. You still get insights into learner interactions, but you don’t need to administer the enrollment process. Self-enrollment also allows learners to actively pursue their learning, enabling autonomous training moments. And best of all, they can share it—making referrals a powerful aspect of this content delivery method.

This online course hub can be a set of online courses around common topics like sales practices, professional development, product updates, and any other useful information. The point is to create a space that allows for completely open accessibility so your audience can refer back to these online courses whenever they need it. Sharing a resource URL link with your audience or attaching it somewhere easily found guarantees your audience will engage with it.

If you want to monetize your online courses, creating a content hub with automated checkout process is the way to go. You can integrate an online course creation tool with eCommerce to set most of this up in minutes. Best of all, you’re able to choose how the online courses are packaged. You can sell them individually or group them based on topic or create a series that stretches over a period of time.

Your path to effective online course delivery

We hope this guide gave you some starting ideas on how to deliver online courses to your audience. If you want to try out creating and delivering engaging content with an all-in-one online course creation tool, give Coassemble a try! Whether you want to build your online course from scratch using our Course Builder or start with one of our pre-built templates, Coassemble is free for you to try and we're pretty sure you'll like what you see 😉


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