Lessons

This covers adding the three types of lessons to chapters; text, uploading and embedding videos.

Adding lessons to your course.

Depending on the type of course you're building, you are able to add multiple types of lessons to the chapters within your course.

At any time while creating your lesson you feel you are in need of more room. Click the four-arrow icon in the top-right corner to expand the editor window.

1. Creating a Text Lesson

2. Uploading Video Lessons

3. Embedding Video Lessons

4. Notes for Customers

Adding a Text Lesson to your Course

1. Click the three-dot menu icon in the upper right hand corner of the content block. Choose Add Lesson from the drop-down menu. This will slide out the Create Lesson panel on the right hand side of your browser.

Options for creating a lesson

If you'd like to add an image to your text lesson. First, create and add the lesson, then you'll see the image icon displayed within the editor.

• Lesson Title: Be descriptive and compelling

• Content, or Description of the Lesson: Here is where you can go into detail about what you're covering in this lesson. Keep in mind Search Engines and what keywords may be searched to find this lesson.

• Media: Here you are able to keep this as a text lesson. We'll cover how to upload or embed a video below.

• Enable Free access: If you'd like to give a snippet away for free to give your audience a taste of what you will be covering. Users will not have to pay or login to view this piece of content if this is checked.

• Sign in Required: Check this if you'd like to have visitors to be signed into your site to access it.

Uploading a video to stream on your course

Before uploading your video to Mavenseed, here are some quick tips to ensure your video is ready for the spotlight:

• Keep the video in a 16:9 ratio. We've found 1920x1080 or 1280x720 to be the sweet spot,

• It's okay to compress it with h.264 or let Mavenseed do the compression for you. Keeping in mind the small the video you upload the less time you wait, and help us keep server storage mitigated,

• .mp4 and or .movs are preferred.

1. Click the three dot menu icon in the upper right hand corner of the content block. Choose Add Lesson from the drop-down menu. This will slide out the Create Lesson panel on the right hand side of your browser.

2. Similar to adding a text message add a Title and Description to the Video Lesson.

3. Choose Video as the media type. This will reveal the video uploader. Drag and drop your video file, or click Upload Video to browse to the location of the video on your computer.

Be sure not to close the window while you're uploading the video to Mavenseed. Once the encoding process starts, you may close the Add Lesson Panel.

4. After the video has begun encoding, click the Update Lesson button.

Creating a video lesson with an embedded video from Youtube or Vimeo

Embed a YT or Vimeo Video URL

• Click the three-dot menu icon in the upper right hand corner of the content block. Choose Add Lesson from the drop-down menu. This will slide out the Create Lesson panel on the right hand side of your browser.

• Similar to adding a text message add a Title and Description to the Video Lesson.

• Choose Embed as the media type. This will reveal the video URL field. Paste in your video URL into this field,

• Click Create & Add Lesson to finish.

Creating notes on a video lesson

Customers have the option to create, edit, and delete notes on uploaded videos. This is private and only viewable to the individual customer.

Currently, only uploaded videos have the option to save a time stamp on a location in the video, along with a clickable link to play from that point in the video that was stamped.