How to Make Online Courses

Ann K. Emery

Last updated:

Mar 4th, 2025

Related resources:

Courses, Entrepreneurship, YouTube Videos

I just finished re-recording Dashboard Design!

I’ve had 10,000+ students in my online courses since 2018, and I get a lot of questions about this process, like…

How did you turn your keynote into a full-length online course?

How did you turn your private, on-site workshop into an asynchronous online course?

In this video, you’ll go behind the scenes and learn about the course creation process.

What’s Inside

First, you’ll see the student’s perspective:

0:00 Intro
0:31 Student Perspective: Inside the Videos and Lessons via Teachable
2:25 Student Perspective: Private Community via LinkedIn
2:38 Student Perspective: Weekly Messages via Kit
3:39 Student Perspective: Live Office Hours via Zoom

Then, you’ll learn about the instructor’s perspective:

5:10 Instructor Perspective: Step 1 – Make the Content
6:54 Instructor Perspective: Step 2 – Record (via Camtasia)
7:15 Instructor Perspective: Step 3 – Edit
7:35 Instructor Perspective: Step 4 – Upload (e.g., captions and transcripts via Descript)
9:36 Instructor Perspective: Step 5 – Get People to Register
10:45 Who’s Involved (Outsourcing)
11:43 How Long it Takes

Resources Mentioned

More about Ann K. Emery
Ann K. Emery is a sought-after speaker who is determined to get your data out of spreadsheets and into stakeholders’ hands. Each year, she leads more than 100 workshops, webinars, and keynotes for thousands of people around the globe. Her design consultancy also overhauls graphs, publications, and slideshows with the goal of making technical information easier to understand for non-technical audiences.

Spreadsheets to Stories
Weekly Newsletter

You’ll receive:

how-to tutorials about data management, analysis, visualization, and storytelling;

spreadsheets to download so you can try it yourself; and

the latest info about our online courses.

Our weekly newsletter is shared with a community of 8,000 professionals.