New Online Course Platform!

I haven't posted anything about the Covid 19 pandemic. To be honest I was afraid that most of it would just be too negative and whining therefore my silence on the matter. However, here's something that been a positive over this difficult period. I've been spending my time building a brand new online course delivery platform! 😀 The reason being that I need to prepare my business for all eventualities in the future. Currently it looks like in-school support and face to face courses are going to be few and far between this side of the new year. No one can predict what's going to happen week by week at the moment and things could possibly get worse again before they get better. Therefore the need for the platform to help me to work with schools and teachers at a distance.

To be honest I've been doing this for a couple of years with my Digital Den platform. Primary schools who have subscribed get access to a structured approach to delivering DCF skills and coding from nursery to year 6. Activities are focused generally on the use of cloud based applications from Google, Microsoft, Just2easy and Purple Mash, along with reference to iPad applications especially for developing creativity. There are over 160 help videos showing teachers how to use a particular application in the context of the skill being covered. So, teachers can get access to some online application training. However, the platform is quite 'clunky' to maintain and doesn't work at all well on a variety of the digital devices. Also, I need something that can deliver online courses. Courses that can be easily created with the right e-learning tools and a simple method of receiving payment. After a little research I plumbed for a course delivery platform called Thinkific, which I'm really impressed with. I've spent several weeks transferring and where needed, updating content from The Digital Den. Importantly I'm also going to be making online courses that schools will be able to purchase. Can also integrate Zoom (which I've also subscribed to) into the courses. It's not quite ready to launch yet but will be for the beginning of September. It's going to be a busy couple of weeks.

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