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.
The Launch: Sending Our Minimum Viable Product Out Into The World
Hey now! It’s go time. Welcome to last blog post in this series on How to Create Your Own Online Course. What a journey we’ve been on over these last months. Today, we finish up with the last crucial element of a successful course – the launch. If you’re showing up at the end of the party,...
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. In today’s post, I’ll be presenting some background information and best practices surrounding the video editing phase of course creation. Along the way, I’ll share some insights that...
Researching Lighting for iPhone videos? We Got You.
Whatever reasons you may have for choosing to shoot your course videos on an iPhone, you won’t get the quality you’re looking for with your footage if you don’t take time to consider how to light it. Your iPhone camera is a powerful piece of tech that’s immediately available to you. iPhone video...
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....
Product Updates
Release Notes: October 2020
Fall is centered around big changes with Spotlightr. That means completing our entire rebrand and continuing to make progress with our infrastructure changes. And with that we've introduced a new plan to the platform, the Polaris plan. The Startup and Enterprise plans are no longer available to...
Release Notes: August 2020
This summer was packed with big changes to our platform, including a complete re-brand and the beginnings of new infrastructure changes designed to improve overall performance in both the back-end and front-end. As we head into the fall we'll continue to work towards our new player and more...
Release Notes: April 2018
April efforts focused on two enhancements: performance optimization and a rework of overlays & annotation CTAs. These are major improvements which we've completed and are in the final phases of testing. Read below for more details regarding this updates and...
Release Notes: March 2018
Spring is just about here! We've made some nice improvements and we're also very pleased with the goals that we have set up for this next quarter coming up. There were a lot of modifications and improvements on existing features, as well as some new additionals. ...
Release Notes: February 2018
February was a busy month for the Spotlightr team. We have done a lot of improvements, established new support hours, added new BETA features and as per huge demand we brought you the affiliate program that you were all talking about so much. Let’s have a look and dig...