Are you a trainer or educational provider currently facing the challenge of digitalizing your day 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 advancing rapidly, even in the continuing education sector. This presents new challenges for you as a trainer or educational provider: day workshops are becoming less in demand, while digital concepts are increasingly sought after! In the first article on the digitalization of day workshops, you have already received ten valuable tips.

In this article, you will learn from 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 Day Workshops

1. Make asynchronous content mandatory

2. Provide your learners with a learning plan

3. Ensure varied learning units

4. Offer a platform for all learners to exchange ideas

5. Formulate the tasks clearly and distinctly

6. Check if the technology works

7. Do not use too many different tools

8. Schedule enough breaks

9. Set up regular office hours

10. Define small learning groups

Template: Schedule for Your Digital Day Workshop

Before you start creating your workshop course, you should complete the two preparation steps from the basic article:

1. Divide your face-to-face content into synchronous and asynchronous content

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

The schedule is, of course, dependent on you and your workshop content. In practice, a simple switch between online and face-to-face phases has proven effective. This model is referred to as “sandwich” in blended learning.

1. Online Course: Preparation for the face-to-face session. Here, you add documents, presentations, images, or videos related to the individual knowledge units. Your participants will work on this independently. Also, assign tasks to your participants as preparation for the face-to-face session.

2. Online Presence (Webinar): In the live sessions, you carry out all synchronous learning units: practical exercises, group activities, 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 help in the follow-up and reinforcement of what has been learned.

In practice, it now depends on how many face-to-face events you plan. Sometimes it makes sense or is requested by participants to split an eight-hour day workshop into several shorter webinars. For a webinar, the structure shown above is sufficient. For multiple webinars, you simply repeat the process accordingly many times.

Important Content for Starting and Concluding 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 are used and how do they work?

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

At the conclusion of the course, you should also plan at least one of the following elements:

1. Final Quiz: Offer your participants a short quiz to assess 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 can help you optimize your digital workshop for the next group of participants.

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

If you pay attention to the schedule and the additional content for the start and end, your template for a workshop with a webinar (still without content) on the blink.it platform might look like this:

Template Chapter: Day Workshop Digitalized as blink.it Course // Source: blink.it Learning Platform

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

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

Template with Content: Day Workshop Digitalized as blink.it Course // Source: blink.it Learning Platform

You can easily rebuild this template on your blink.it platform. The template works perfectly if you planned a pure day workshop with a webinar. You just need to fill it with your content now.

For more “face-to-face events” (webinars), you simply repeat chapter 2 (the theme) and chapter 3 (webinar) as many times as necessary until you have prepared and followed up all webinars. With blink.it, this is very easy: either create new tiles (“Blinks”), or simply copy existing Blinks.

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

1. Create a template like the one above on your blink.it platform. Copy the whole empty course before filling it with content. This way, you always have a blank template saved that you can copy again whenever you want to digitalize further workshops.

2. Fill your template not only 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 than seeing all tiles at the start. With blink.it, for instance, you can release the Blinks for follow-up only on the day of the webinar. Or you provide the “homework” for the next webinar only a week before the face-to-face session. This automatically builds learning breaks and gives the course more structure.

If you would like to use this template now and digitalize your day workshop with blink.it, try blink.it for free and without obligation with the admin demo: Get to know blink.it from a participant’s perspective in a sample course, receive a brief introduction to course creation, and then test blink.it in your own demo course!