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Learn why it's critical for courses to have specific delivery dates and consequences for missing those dates.

Content deadlines

A brief introduction to how we create courses at DataCamp.

Course Creation Process

Amy Peterson

Jasmin Ludolf

George Boorman

Everything you need to know about creating DataCamp courses.

Courses

How to install packages and their correct versions to ensure your project works on datacamp.com

Installing packages in the requirements files

Tips for writing clear and concise titles for your chapter descriptions.

Chapter titles: best practices

Learn how guidelines are applied differently on the different branches of your course

How and when course content guidelines are checked

What types of learning objective can be used for exercises?

Exercise-level learning objectives

Good practices on how and when to write functions in coding courses

How to teach writing functions

Learn about the planning process that builds the blueprints or specifications for your course.

Course design

Learn the role that Curriculum Managers, or CMs, play in creating DataCamp courses.

Curriculum Managers

Get an overview of the course README template that you will use during course design.

Course README template

Come up with problems that students will solve while taking your course.

Problem solving

Determining the techniques or concepts to teach in your course.

Teaching concepts

Write specific learning objectives to create a clear vision for your course.

Course-level learning objectives

Get help on creating analogies and heuristics for your course.

Analogies & heuristics

In tech, jargon is unavoidable. Make sure are clear and consistent when using tricky or new terminology in your DataCamp content.

Handling jargon

Thinking about the mistakes or misconceptions that people often have when learning the material in your course.

Student understanding and misconceptions

Consider the different technologies, packages, or functions you'd like to use in your course and whether it's too much (or too little).

Selecting packages

Read about the different roles that might be a good fit for your course.

Roles

Guidance for choosing roles, which helps gauge the difficulty level of your course.

Choosing roles

Learn what we mean by "capstone" exercises and why you're writing them during course design.

Building capstone exercises

Writing a sample lesson during course design is essential to ensure you understand the basic unit of a DataCamp course.

Sample Lesson

Learn the flow and structure of a course outline, which you help you build out your course during course design.

Course Outline

Write an exciting course description that attracts traffic to the page and encourages enrollment

Course descriptions: best practices

Determine the appropriate prerequisite DataCamp course for your DataCamp course, practice, or project.

Prerequisites

Learn about the handoff process that happens when course design is complete, and it's time to begin course development.

Handoff

Course Design

Debugging IDE potential issues

An overview on how to create modular content for datacamp.com

Modular content

IDE Exercises: Baking files in the image

What terminology will your students recognize?

Lesson or video?

A view of how the user experience may be different on mobile versus on desktop

Mobile vs. desktop

Learn how to create a multiple choice multiple answer exercise

"Multiple Choice Multiple Answers" Exercises

Learn how DataCamp's Content Developers take a course from design to launch.

Course development

Learn about one of DataCamp's newest exercise types, the IDE exercise.

Course "IDE" exercises

Learn the role that Content Developers, or CDs, play in creating DataCamp courses.

Content Developers

Learn about what a DataCamp lesson is and about the framework for creating an effective lesson.

What is a lesson?

Learn how to effectively show multiple plots in coding exercises.

Using multiple plots in an exercise

Learn about the available exercise types in DataCamp courses.

Exercise types

Course "Video" Exercises

Tips on how to write informative and engaging scripts for video exercises.

Scripts: Best Practices

Learn how to author the Solution and SCT blocks for a Drag and Drop exercise

Authoring Drag and Drop exercises

Guidance on creating slides for video exercises that effectively demonstrate learning objectives.

Slides: best practices

Learn about the different types of Drag and Drop exercises.

Course "Drag and Drop" exercises

Learn about the different parts of an IDE exercise and how those map to what a student sees on Campus.

IDE exercise anatomy

Learn about the different parts of a Drag and Drop exercise and how those map to what a student sees on Campus.

Drag and Drop exercise anatomy

When and how to include code in the exercise context.

How to write code in the exercise context?

Learn about the most common type of interactive exercise in DataCamp courses.

Course "Coding" exercises

Learn the different parts of a DataCamp Multiple Choice Single Answer exercise.

Course "Multiple Choice" Exercises

Learn what a Multiple Choice with Console exercise is and how it differs from a Multiple Choice exercise.

Course "Multiple Choice with Console" exercises

Learn about DataCamp's Iterative exercise type.

Course "Iterative" Exercises

Learn about DataCamp's Sequential exercise type.

Course "Sequential" exercises

Learn about the different parts of a coding exercise and how those map to what a learner sees on Campus.

Coding exercise anatomy

Tips for writing clear and concise titles for your exercises.

Exercise Titles: Best Practices

Pre-exercise code

Learn the best practices for contextualizing your exercises to build your course narrative.

Context: best practices

Some tips for writing good instructions in Coding, Iterative, and Sequential exercises.

Instructions: best practices

Learn some tips on how to write exercise hints that get learners closer to the solution without giving it away.

Hints: best practices

Tips and guidelines on writing exercise code optimized for DataCamp courses.

Exercise code: best practices

Some tips and tricks for writing insightful success messages.

Success messages: best practices

Learn our content guidelines, which help create the best possible user experience for DataCamp students.

Content Guidelines

Learn DataCamp's style guidelines, which helps keeps our product clean and consistent across the platform.

Style guidelines

Learn the purpose of chapter descriptions and where to find them on DataCamp.

Chapter Descriptions: Best Practices

Learn the appropriate workflow to get your course content reviewed by your Curriculum Manager or Content Developer.

Course review

Complete your course with a video exercise that recaps your course and discusses next steps.

Wrap-up video

Create screencasts to prepare for your upcoming audio recordings.

Screencasts

An overview of how to create quality audio recordings for your course.

Audio recordings

What are submission correctness tests (SCTs)? Who writes them?

Submission correctness tests

More details about how Submission Correctness Tests for interactive coding exercises work behind the scenes.

Submission correctness tests: deep dive

How to add animations to your slides in the course editor

Animating slides

Course Development

Learn about exercise guidelines for spreadsheets courses on DataCamp.

Spreadsheets content guidelines

Spreadsheets

A quick look at what's possible to teach in your SQL course, using either PostgreSQL or SQL Server.

What can you teach in your SQL course?

Create, initialize, and properly load your SQL Server database into the course editor and your exercises.

Setting up a SQL database for a SQL Server course

Create, initialize, and properly load your SQL database into the course editor and your exercises.

Setting up a SQL database for a PostgreSQL course

Learn effective ways of teaching SQL content in your course.

SQL lessons: best practices

How to use DataCamp's exercise types to teach SQL.

SQL exercises: best practices

Guidelines about SQL syntax and formatting in your DataCamp course.

SQL content guidelines

Formatting your SQL queries

Learn why DataCamp creates audio courses.

Audio courses

Learn why DataCamp is moving away from building only video courses.

Video courses

Course Launch

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