Are you a trainer or educational provider currently facing the challenge of digitizing your daily workshops? In this article, we present a practical example with a schedule that you can use as a template to easily and quickly create your own workshop course:

Digitalization is progressing rapidly, even in the further education sector. This brings new challenges for you as a trainer or educational provider: daily workshops are becoming less in demand, while digital concepts are becoming more popular! In the first article on the digitalization of daily workshops, you already received ten valuable tips.

In this article, you will learn through a practical example how to implement the tips in practice and create your own online workshop course with blink.it. You can then use this example as a template or schedule for your own digital workshop.

Recap: 10 Tips for the Digitalization of Daily Workshops

1. Make asynchronous content mandatory

2. Provide your learners with a learning plan

3. Ensure diverse learning units

4. Offer an exchange platform for all learners

5. Clearly and distinctly formulate the task

6. Check if the technology works

7. Use not too many different tools

8. Plan sufficient breaks

9. Establish regular office hours

10. Set small learning groups

Template: Schedule for Your Digital Daily Workshop

Before you begin creating your workshop course, you should complete the two preparatory steps from the base article:

1. Classify your in-person content into synchronous and asynchronous content

2. Develop a schedule for the online phase(s)

The schedule naturally depends on you and your workshop content. In practice, a simple switch between online and in-person phases has proven effective. This model is called “sandwich” in blended learning.

1. Online Course: Preparation for the in-person session. Here, you include documents, presentations, images, or videos for the specific knowledge content. Your participants will work on these independently. Also provide your participants with tasks to prepare for the in-person session.

2. Online Presence (Webinar): In the live sessions, you carry out all synchronous learning units: practical exercises, group exercises, discussion rounds, …

3. Online Course: For follow-up, protocols of the webinar are suitable, for example. Transfer exercises for everyday life or short quizzes on the content of the webinar also help with follow-up and consolidation of what has been learned.

Important Content for Starting and Wrapping Up Your Digital Workshop

Before the first thematic learning content, you should definitely include two important chapters at the beginning of the course:

1. Introduction: Answer the following questions here: Who are you? What is the course about? How does the course proceed? When does what take place? What tools will be used and how do they work?

2. Link Collection: Include all links that are important for your participants here. For example, all links to the webinars/in-person phases.

At the end of the course, you should also plan to include at least one of the following elements:

1. Final Quiz: Offer your participants a short quiz to test their knowledge from the entire workshop. With blink.it, you can also offer a certificate upon passing the exam.

2. Feedback: Ask your participants for personal feedback on the content and the online course in a short survey. This will help you optimize your digital workshop for the next group of participants.

Schedule for Your Workshop Course with blink.it (Template)

If you follow the schedule and the additional content for starting and ending, your template for a workshop with a webinar (still without content) on the blink.it platform will look something like this:

Template Chapter: Digitized Daily Workshop as a blink.it Course // Source: blink.it Learning Platform

The course for your daily workshop fundamentally consists of 4 modules (“chapters”): The introduction (1), a thematic module (2), your in-person phase (or the follow-up) (3), and the conclusion at the end of the course (4).

With the individual learning content (“Blinks”), your workshop template will then look like this:

Template with Content: Digitized Daily Workshop as a blink.it Course // Source: blink.it Learning Platform

You can simply rebuild this template on your blink.it platform. The template works perfectly if you have planned a pure daily workshop with a webinar. You just have to fill it with your content.

Do you want to experience blink.it from a participant's perspective? Then join our free sample course and see for yourself how a digital daily workshop could look.

With more “in-person events” (webinars), you simply repeat Chapter 2 (Topic) and Chapter 3 (Webinar) as often as needed until you have prepared and followed up all webinars. With blink.it, this is very simple: either you create new tiles (“Blinks”), or you just copy existing Blinks.

3 Tips for Digital Daily Workshops on the blink.it Platform:

1. Create a template like the one above on your blink.it platform. Copy the entire empty course before you fill it with content. This way, you always have a blank template saved that you can copy whenever you want to digitize more workshops.

2. Not only fill your template with content, but also with preview images and other elements that make the course more appealing. You can find more tips for this in this article: In 4 Steps from Boring Online Course to Successful Highlight.

3. Time your content! This makes it clearer for your participants rather than seeing all tiles at the start. With blink.it, you can release the Blinks for follow-up, for example, only on the day of the webinar. Or you can provide the “homework” for the next webinar only a week before the in-person phase. This automatically builds in learning breaks and gives the course more structure.

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