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Getting started

From an idea to a lesson your students can practise

Nine steps. The first five are things you already do as a video creator, with a few habits added. The rest turn the video into a lesson.

The workflow

  1. Plan the lesson

    Decide the language the video speaks and the kind of lesson. Split the script into practice units: one sentence, one thought.

    Choose a kind of lesson

  2. Record the video

    Speak naturally, and leave a short breath of silence between sentences. Keep music out of the practice sections.

    Video guide

  3. Edit

    Do not cut sentences tight against each other, and keep transitions and sound effects away from sentence boundaries. Then lock the edit.

  4. Upload to YouTube

    Publish on your own channel as usual. The video link is how students and the lesson find each other.

  5. Create the subtitles or lesson

    Time each sentence, add its translation, give every sentence a permanent ID, and add quiz questions if you have them.

  6. Register the video in Teacher Studio Planned

    Paste the YouTube link and upload the lesson. Until Teacher Studio exists, skip this step: you share the lesson file itself.

  7. Preview

    Load the lesson in the extension on your published video and practise it as a student would.

  8. Publish

    Confirm that you have the rights to the material, and make the lesson available. From here on, sentence IDs must not change.

  9. Share with students

    Send the YouTube link (and, today, the lesson file). Students open the video and start practising.

Lock the final video edit before creating final timestamps.

A lesson is a list of times in your video. If you trim two seconds from the intro after timing the sentences, every sentence after that point is two seconds off, and each one has to be timed again. Finish the edit, export, upload, and only then write the final times.

Three things to decide before you film

  • Which language the video speaks

    One video, one spoken language. An English lesson speaks English; a Korean lesson speaks Korean. If you teach both, make two videos.

  • Which kind of lesson

    Shadowing, Recall and Random need clean sentences. Quiz and Branching also need question and explanation clips, which you must film.

  • How sentences are numbered

    Each sentence gets an ID that never changes. Students’ favorites and mastered marks are attached to it.

Why sentence IDs must stay the same

A student’s favorites, mastered marks and practice counts are saved per sentence ID. Quiz questions and their branches point at sentence IDs too. If you renumber a published lesson, students’ progress lands on the wrong sentences and branches jump to the wrong clip. Correcting a typo or adjusting a time is fine; give a new sentence a new ID, and never reuse an old one.

Next: choose a recipe

Each recipe shows how to film and edit for one kind of lesson.

Shadowing

Students listen and repeat.

The video needsClean sentence audio

See the recipe

Recall

Students see or hear one language and produce the target language.

The video needsA clean start on every answer

See the recipe

Random practice

Students practise a sentence bank in shuffled order.

The video needsSentences that stand on their own

See the recipe

Quiz

Students choose answers directly over the video.

The video needsA question clip and feedback clips

See the recipe

Branching quiz

Each choice can jump to a different video explanation.

The video needsA separate explanation for each answer

See the recipe

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