How to turn a 1-day workshop into an online course
How to select the material, examples and activities that belong in the online version.
A 1-day workshop often becomes 2 to 3 hours of online learning. A full day includes time that does not need to carry over: arrivals, introductions, breaks and group discussion. The online course can focus on the material learners need to understand and use.
Keep the trainer's experience
The trainer's judgement is a big part of the course: the examples that explain a rule, the stories that make it memorable and the mistakes they have seen people make. Much of this may not be in the slides. The Course Blueprint gives us time to draw it out.
Leave out the room logistics
We usually remove introductions, breaks and repeated explanations. Those parts help a group work together in person, but they do not all need to become online lessons.
Build around the decisions learners need to make
We start with the situations learners face at work. For each one, we identify what they need to notice, decide and do. That gives the online course a structure based on the work itself, rather than the order of the slide deck.
Each lesson focuses on 1 situation. The learner makes a choice, then sees the reasoning behind it. Depending on the subject, that might be a scenario, a sorting activity or a short knowledge check.
The final assessment checks whether learners can apply what they have covered. For every question shown, the question bank contains 3 questions, so a retake draws a fresh set.
The finished course
The finished course is shorter than the workshop, but still gives learners activities and an assessment. You can keep running the workshop for people who prefer to attend in person, and offer the online version to everyone else.