The Startup Filmmaker’s Journey to Creating an Online Course.
Follow business-owner Michael as he takes you with him on his journey to create his own course. All the detail and tangible results, with real-time case study content.
Final Touches: Finalizing Course Assets and Loading Them Into Your LMS and Site (in 10 Easy Steps)
Woah, we’re almost at the end. This is the second-to-last post in our blog series on How to Create Your Own Online Course. I don’t know about you, but I know a lot more than I did when I started. Which I guess is good, since I’m technically supposed to be teaching you as I go! For anyone new...
Perfecting Your Course Videos: Editing for Engagement and Retention
Hello again! Here we are, entering the home stretch of our blog series on how to create your own online course. For anyone new to the discussion, I’m Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas, a co-founder of Fair Share Films. With Spotlightr’s help, I’m cataloging our journey creating our first online course, The...
How to Record The Video Modules for Your Online Course
A Real-Time Case Study on Video Recording, from a First Time Course Creator Welcome back to our blog series detailing how to create your own online course, featuring real-time testimony from me, Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas, a co-founder at Fair Share Films. Together with Spotlightr, I’m detailing our...
Camtasia vs. Screenflow for Video Course Creators
You Can’t Really Go Wrong With Either Choice, but One App Might Fit Better Depending On Your Needs When it comes to producing videos for online course, two of the most popular options for screen recording and video editing are Camtasia and ScreenFlow. Each has its strengths compared to the other....
What Is Visme Used For In Video Course Production
Visme Can Be A Powerful Tool for Creating a Great Course for Lower Up-front Costs Let’s say you’re thinking of creating your first video course, or even a second or third. Maybe you have a good idea on where to start with your content, but you want to test your ideas without breaking the bank....
How to Sell an Online Course
Course Creators Need a Marketing Plan to Sell Effectively Creating your online course is only half the battle. Selling it is a different story. You’ve come up with some fantastic online course ideas, picked the best one, packaged your expertise and are ready to monetize your course and share your...
Product Updates
Release Notes: July 2021
The dog days of summer are upon us and we've been busy as usual. Simplifying and reimagining some of our features has been one of our priorities for this quarter, so while changes we make can be small we believe that they will make those features easier to use for new users. Spotlightr has tons...
Release Notes: May 2021
In April and May we continued to improve the new player. Although we were anticipating having the old player available for a few more months, we came out ahead of schedule. So at the end of May we were able to sunset the old player options inside of customer accounts. Any videos...
Release Notes: June 2019
With the first half of 2019 coming to a close we wanted to identify some of the more comprehensive enhancements to the platform. That doesn't mean we ignored some of the smaller ones, as these in specific use-cases sometimes carry tremendous value with them. New Play...
Publishing with Embedly
We're very pleased to announce that Spotlightr oEmbeds are now supported on Embedly, the most utilized provider of third party embeds on content publisher platforms. This means that you will now be able to paste the Spotlightr share link on sites like Medium, Reddit,...
Release Notes: February 2019
2019 Started off strong with a major update to CTAs which introduced very powerful and adaptive Hotspots. We also followed through with improvements to CRM integrations by making it supper easy to tag your customers. We are also nearing the official release of the...