this post I will share with you the main techniques that I use to enhance each of the internal factors of a training that have helped me improve the results of my online courses.
How to improve online teaching
1. Record a short video tutorial of less than 5 minutes for each of your courses, introducing yourself and the course platform. Let them put a face and voice to you . Record the video on the first day of the course and publish it on the platform's homepage for students to view. It will be their first contact with you.
2. Personalize the virtual campus by providing valuable content that you consider relevant. In my courses, in addition to the video tutorial I mentioned, I include the following content (you can see examples at the end of this post).
Dynamic presentation with first steps to begin the course.
FAQ infographic with the most frequently asked questions about the course.
Dynamic schedule with important course dates (start of topics, exams).
Infographic with countdown and completion requirements (last week).
3. Personalize your contact templates . You don't need to innovate in every communication, but you do need to give it a personal touch. Many students have taken more courses with the same company and platform and have already read those same messages on more occasions.
welcome to tutoring an online course
Tips to improve interaction
4. Send a WhatsApp message on the first day of the course to all your students, introducing yourself and saying that you will call them in the following days to meet them and answer any questions they may have. This way, the student has the tutor's number on file and is more likely to answer the introductory phone call than if it were an unknown phone number.
5. Use the introductory call to get closer to the student and their motivations instead of explaining how the platform or course works (most of the time they don't have them in front of them when you make the call). Invite them to watch the video tutorial you've posted on the campus where you explain everything and thus avoid having to tell all the students the same thing in "robot" mode and you can personalize the conversation. Use the call to encourage them to contact you when necessary.
6. Respond to each thread in the presentation forum in a personalized and individualized manner.
7. Follow up with the student individually every week or 10 days depending on kuwait phone number the duration of the course. In this report, you present their progress, comparing it with the schedule so that the student knows if they need to hurry up or if they are up to date. Always try to end this follow-up communication with a “positive” message , congratulating them on their progress or encouraging them to make more effort to achieve their goals. Send this report through the platform’s email and WhatsApp to make sure they receive it.
Tips to improve your connection with current events
8. Complete the course documentation or update it through the forums. Annual reports or statistical data become obsolete very quickly. In some specialties, such as digital marketing, new tools and functionalities that are not included in the original course content and that need to be provided to students are continually emerging.
9. Link the topics you are studying to current events through debates. Links to news about the sector, interviews with experts, presentation of real and current case studies are some examples.
online teacher tutoring a course on the internet
Tips to improve feedback
10. Propose practical activities that allow students to check whether they “know how to do” what they have studied and provide clear and specific feedback to each student who presents the activity, with corrections and suggestions for improvement. Propose activities of various types to meet the different needs of students.
11. Provide quick and clear answers to questions, correct activities, energize forums and correct subjective exams, always providing valuable feedback and not generic answers .
I can only say that by applying this teletutoring methodology based on personalization, interaction, connection with current events (and reality) and feedback, I have managed to reach a figure of 85% of students who obtain the diploma in most of my courses. Mind you, not in all of them! Since there are factors that influence students over which we have no control as tutors. But I will also tell you that, on occasions, I have reached 100% and that, my colleagues, seemed impossible.
As a digital marketing specialist, I try to apply many of the tools and techniques that brands use with their users in the