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.

How The Cone of Learning Leads To Video Course Success

How The Cone of Learning Leads To Video Course Success

Create More Effective Courses by Prioritizing Retention We’ll be honest. We’ve been helping course creators to deliver engaging video course content for a while now, and we just discovered the Cone of Learning. Even though it’s been around for decades 🙃. Other names given to this same concept...

How to Record Yourself Presenting a PowerPoint

How to Record Yourself Presenting a PowerPoint

Separate Your Video Course from The Pack with a Quality Video Presentation It’s a common practice now to see course creators and other online presenters delivering PowerPoint presentations via pre-recorded video. But what’s the exact process for doing this, efficiently and at the levels of quality...

Buying Guide: Video Editing Equipment for Course Creators

Buying Guide: Video Editing Equipment for Course Creators

Best Practices for Maximizing Your Investment You’ve tested a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) version of your course, and now you’re ready to “do it for real”. Or maybe you’re ready to translate a coaching program or a presentation into an actionable video course for serving your audience and growing...

Everything You Need To Know About LearnDash Video Hosting

Everything You Need To Know About LearnDash Video Hosting

What is video hosting and why do you need it? Video hosting is a third-party service that allows users to store and stream their videos for their online courses. The target audience can access the video content by visiting the host website.  In this case, the host website will be the one running...

The Complete Guide To The LearnDash Video Progression Feature

The Complete Guide To The LearnDash Video Progression Feature

(Updated October, 2023) Here at Spotlightr we get asked quite a bit about what LMS we recommend.  If you intend to build out a website complete with a course, then we currently recommend you use Wordpress and the LearnDash LMS plugin. Keep in mind we are not affiliates and we in no way benefit...

Connecting LearnDash to Ontraport: Common Questions & Use-Cases

Connecting LearnDash to Ontraport: Common Questions & Use-Cases

Connecting LearnDash to Ontraport is a popular option for teachers and educational content creators who want to automate some of their course sales and marketing. If you are already using Ontraport then you already know its capabilities. Ontraport is a popular marketing automation platform that...

Product Updates

Release Notes: February 2019

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 Chrome recording and video...

Release Notes: December 2018

Release Notes: December 2018

Throughout December we were finalizing all of the 2018 efforts, continued working on performance optimizations as well as laid out the plan for the first part of 2019.  We hope everyone had a great holiday season with friends and family and we wish you health and happiness for the new year! Main...

Release Notes: June

Release Notes: June

Summer is here and the Spotlightr team is ready.  June brings several major improvements and enhancements to how you use Spotlightr, including the addition of a Wordpress plugin as well as a few other feature enhancements which we describe below.  Here are some of the...

Release Notes: May

Release Notes: May

May has been a really productive month for the Spotlightr team as we continue to welcome customers migrating from version 3 to our new version 4, as well as new customers into the platform. We are excited to present to you some of the major additions and improvements...

Release Notes: April

Release Notes: April

We are going to start publishing our platform updates in this blog/article style going forward to make it easy for new and current customers to check on what's new and upcoming.  While our product board does show alot of this, we want to also include a place to show...