How To Create An Online Course With ChatGPT

Chris Badgett outlines a comprehensive, useful process for utilizing ChatGPT to create an online course that centers around your special skill.

He emphasizes that while depending exclusively on AI results in generic. Low-value course content. ChatGPT should enhance your creativity rather than replace it. In order to determine the course’s path. He starts by selecting a targeted, outcome-driven topic and creating a distinct student avatar.

The “Human Knowledge Dump,” a 20–100 page compilation of your thoughts, frameworks, notes, examples, and any pertinent research, is the foundation of his system. It provides ChatGPT with rich context, enabling it to produce material that genuinely sounds like you. Using this framework, ChatGPT assists in creating a solid course overview, well-structured lesson material. Scripts, slides, and talking points appropriate for various teaching modalities, including teleprompter delivery. Informal talking-head videos, and slide-based lessons.

For accessibility and clarity, Chris advises creating written courses first, then turning them into video material. Following the creation of the course material, ChatGPT may assist in creating the course name. Sales page text, short and long descriptions, and even a launch marketing strategy.

He ends by illustrating how to put everything together within LifterLMS, demonstrating how ChatGPT can greatly accelerate the construction of courses without compromising authenticity or quality when done correctly.

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Episode Transcript

Chris Badgett: You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking to create, launch, and scale a high value online training program. I’m your guide, Chris Badget. I’m the co-founder of LifterLMS, the most powerful learning management system for WordPress. State of the end, I’ve got something special for you. Enjoy the show.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of LMScast. I’m Chris Badgett, and today we’re doing a solo episode about how to create an online course with ChatGPT, and to do it in an effective non cr cringey way so you can move faster without losing your voice and while actually creating a valuable, unique course.

So the good news is. You’re listening to this or watching this right now in the podcast format. A lot of the things we’re gonna talk about here from an ideas and conceptual standpoint, we have created a full free course called Create an Online Course with ChatGPT that is available on the LifterLMS Academy.

So you can head over to academy dot lifter lms.com. And sign up for the free course called Create an Online Course with ChatGPT. It has video walkthroughs, video demos, all the prompts, templates that you can use to create an online course with ChatGPT. But first, it’s important to note that ChatGPT is not going to do the whole course for you.

If you try to do that it’s gonna come out generic. It won’t sound like you, you’ll lose your voice. But what ChatGPT is excellent at is being an assistant to you, a co-pilot to you. It will give you leverage, but you still have to create, and even just using all the templated prompts we use, you’re gonna create.

A much better online course. Faster using ChatGPT now to go over some of the secret sauce of how to use ChatGPT correctly. ChatGPT is great at structure filling in gaps in research iteration, rewriting concepts, filling in the blanks, giving you a sounding board to bounce ideas off of or provide new insights.

But it’s, if you don’t use it correctly, you’re just gonna end up with garbage in and then generic out. But the method that we teach in our free course called Create an Online Course with ChatGPT, we help you avoid all the mistakes of using ChatGPT in a suboptimal way. Basically what’s in the course is like seven kind of steps and ways of using ChatGPT.

So the first is around selecting a topic and outcome. Next is creating your student avatar, your ideal learner profile. The next is to do a human knowledge dump, which is the secret sauce that makes working with ChatGPT effective, and I’m gonna go over that in detail in a little bit here. Then you can leverage ChatGPT to create an effective well-written course outline.

Then you can actually use ChatGPT to create lesson, video scripts. Text content. Finally, you can optimize your course title and description or sales page content using ChatGPT. And then finally you can use ChatGPT to help you with your launch plan and marketing. So to get started. We actually have another course called the Perfect Offer Playbook.

It’s not free, but offer construction is the foundation of any successful course. So instead of going to ChatGPT and saying make me an online course about how to get better at marketing that’s just. You could do that prompt and it will give you a course outline and stuff like that.

That’s not really a strong offer. As an example you could do something more outcome focused how to get your first clients in seven days instead of marketing 1 0 1. But we’re starting to drill in on offer construction a little bit here. So part of the human work you have to do is to.

Figure out your, who you’re helping, how you help them, which is their, your unique mechanism and the result that they want. Now that sounds simple. And you’ll hear copywriters use frameworks like how to get X and Z amount of time with without Y objection, something like that. These concepts sound simple, but to truly create a great offer, you really need to understand who you’re serving.

What their hopes and dreams and pains are, and that’s all included in the free course we have on how to create an online course with ChatGPT. If you want to go deeper on offer construction, we have our perfect offer playbook because if you get the offer wrong, nothing else matters. And after that, after you get through some of these offer steps of understanding your student avatar.

The result they’re seeking and how your unique mechanism, which is a course and a certain training concept, is gonna help. You have to do what’s called a human knowledge dump. So you have to fight the urge to ask ChatGPT to do all the just come up with all the content on its own. That’s not how it works.

That’s where you get garbage in generic out. The human knowledge dump, think of it like a Google document. The great thing about ChatGPT is you don’t have to be super organized. You can just start copying and pasting some of your content into this document, and ultimately what we want to end up with a human knowledge dump.

Somewhere around from 20 to a hundred pages of content. So in the human knowledge dump, this is about providing context for ChatGPT. So if whatever you’re teaching, I bet you have blog posts on the topic. Copy paste them into the Google document. If there’s like certain things that you really wanna cover in the course.

Type it out okay, I’m going to teach about this thing and I really want to teach it in this way through these kind of three phases or milestones, the core concepts or big ideas that underlie my methodology, which is also your unique mechanism are X, Y, and Z. And then you can also pull in external resources, be like, Hey, I’m really influenced by.

This influencer or this author, this subject matter expert, they have a core idea called X Here’s and then you copy like a piece of that content, put it into your human knowledge dump. If it’s a, it’s not like you’re stealing, it’s just like you’re doing research. ’cause you’re like, this is how research works.

Like when you write a nonfiction book you get sources and you do research. You put it all together into a book, but in this case, we’re putting a course. And of course when you mention somebody else’s ideas or philosophies or things like that, you can always give them credit when you teach.

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants and not just purely inventing from. A blank slate with no external influences. Put your external influences into the human knowledge dump. That’s the slowest part of creating an online course with ChatGPT. But it’s very important because what you’re doing is you’re asking ChatGPT to not just look at everything that it knows on what it’s been trained on, but you’re asking it to really focus in on.

The human knowledge dump as like a very important part. If not the primary part of the source material for your training. Now what you’ve done is you’ve focused the AI onto. What’s most important, what’s unique. How you think about things. What your unique course is about. Who it’s for and what your kind of unique takes or mechanisms are.

That’s the human knowledge dump. And once ChatGPT has that. By the way, in the free course on the Lifter Elements Academy. The prompts of you know how to do all these steps are there. Instead of just typing real quick, like this quick thing into ChatGPT, we have big prompts that you copy and paste in and replace the places with it with unique things about yours.

For example, the next step is creating a course outline. And we have a special prompt for you that you copy and paste into ChatGPT and then that you include your human knowledge dump, either as a copy paste or as a PDF, that ChatGPT can then ingest and then it can create a course outline. If you skip the human knowledge dump and you just say, create a course about x.

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Chris Badgett: You’re gonna get something really generic, but when you do the human knowledge dump step, you’re gonna get a great looking course outline that’s unique to you, that’s exciting and fun and targeted and good. So do that. A couple of pro tips when we’re doing this work with ChatGPT. I like to keep it all in one thread.

That way it has the context of everything you’ve discussed along the journey to creating the course. It has your human knowledge dump. Everything is in one thread, and when you’re doing something big with ChatGPT, like creating an entire online course, it’s important to stay organized and not end up on a million different threads and losing your place and doing things out of order and so on.

That’s why our course on how to create an online course with ChatGPT, it gives you all that structure so that your course can flow out quickly and also in the correct order without. Skipping steps. So once we have the course outline, this is a pro move right here where a lot of course creators want to create videos and they want to create if they’re gonna use ChatGPT, they’re gonna create either teleprompter reads or talking bullet points or things to put on a slide deck.

And you can do that. But I would encourage you, here’s my pro tip for you. To not skip the step of pretending that you’re doing a text only course, which can actually be fine. But one of the great things about ChatGPT is it’s awesome at text and humans are slow at writing text. So what I’m encourage you to do next, now that we have the course outline, all the context from the Human Knowledge dump clarity on our offer is that.

We create a text only version of the course. So if someone were simply going to read the course without watching videos or listening to things the course text is there. Now this is also good because people have different consumption styles. Some people like to watch videos. Some people like to listen.

Some people like to read. Some people like to get tactical and do worksheets and assignments and things like that, and you’re doing your students a great service by providing a text version of the course, even if you are most excited about making the videos and doing PowerPoint presentations or talking head or action motion videos.

Put the text content in there. And that’s something that used to take a lot of time that you can do quickly with ChatGPT. So imagine a lesson ultimately is gonna have a video the text. So maybe somebody’s can’t play the video there at work or they’re on a plane and they don’t have their earbuds or whatever, and they’re excited and they want to, keep going. They can just read. So it’s good to have and a lesson when you build your course with Lifter L Mask and have multimedia content inside of lessons. It’s also good, by the way, for accessibility. So some one of your students may be hearing impaired, and by having the readable version, it’s great.

The other great thing is. Once you’ve created the text content, and again, we have the prompt that you just copy and paste to do that in the flow in ChatGPT in the free course on the Lifter Elements Academy. You just need to follow the steps in the course. But once we have the lesson text content, if we’re gonna do video now we’re in a better position to do video production.

So video production you have a ton of options here and it depends on your style. So now that the lesson, you have the text content, you can also ask ChatGPT to create. My personal style that I like to do is now that we know what this lesson’s about, create me a bullet list outline. To just jog my memory, so when I’m talking direct to camera, I can reference my outline and then it comes out in a casual, naturally delivered way.

So ChatGPT will spit out that lesson’s outline for a talking head video so that I could record a video like I’m doing here, but have my notes to reference to keep me on pace. Another option you have is to actually create. Teleprompter read like some people really want the words perfect.

And ChatGPT can easily take the concept from the lesson that’s written more like for reading and give you a script that you can teach the, on top of that content. And you can do that with a teleprompter or, read it on the screen as you’re delivering the video. It can also help you with creating slides if you wanna do a slideshow presentation.

And in the course I also put a bonus lesson, and this isn’t I don’t really recommend this, but I just played around with this because I am just curious about ai. I actually cloned myself and made an AI version of myself that is not me, that can speak and deliver. In the course, I actually created a real course about course pricing, which you can take, and the lesson videos.

In that one, I actually used my AI clone to deliver the content. So the way that worked is I clone myself using a tool called 11 Labs. And then, when I was at the step in, in the, how to create an online course with ChatGPT where we’re making video content. I had it create a script. Then I had my AI clone actually deliver the content for that lesson.

Doing that, I didn’t just co. I didn’t do a bunch of copy pasting. And I would modify the scripts, make sure it was perfect.

Add some nuance, cover some things that ChatGPT didn’t come up with. I’m constantly interjecting myself as a human in the loop with that pro project. So I don’t recommend making an AI clone of yourself.

I was just doing it experimentally. But it is an option that you can do, which can speed up the process. But I personally like to have the, raw human element present. So that’s how you get to video. So the slowest parts of all this are creating the human know human knowledge dump. Then actually creating your lesson videos if you’re gonna do that, because that does take time.

But if you use ChatGPT to create an online course, you can you can get through this whole flow 10 times faster than the world, the way it used to exist in the world before ai. So that’s the video production part. Next. I personally like to name a course at the end because. After all this work and all this insight, I often will come up with a better name for the course than in my initial planning stage.

So we have a prompt in our free course to help you where you kind, you’re at the bottom of a long thread. You’ve been creating your course and it has all that context and you can ask it for name suggestions. And we have a specific prompt for that. As well as the course description, which a simple version is there’s two kinds of course descriptions.

There’s like a quick description ChatGPT can help with that. We have prompt for that, but it can also create an entire sales page for the course that’s designed to encourage people to purchase or if it’s free, enroll in the course and ChatGPT is excellent at that. Again, there’s some, you want to be a human in the loop and like constantly, interject and modify and edit, because remember, writing is equal parts, research, writing and editing.

So when you have ChatGPT as a course creator, assistant, you need to have that back and forth in the research. You need to have that back and forth in the writing. You need to have that back and forth in the editing where you’re interjecting yourself as a human in the loop. Then finally at this point, you’re done.

You created an online course with ChatGPT. When I did this, I created an entire course focused on course and co coaching program pricing how to create optimal pricing. But I was able to go through that whole process of creating the entire online course, which is really valuable in a single day.

And you can see that also over on academy dot lifter lms.com. That’s course is called the Course Pricing Focuser. So check that out. Then finally, once you’ve created all the raw materials. You have the text for these are the lesson names. And this is the syllabus, this is the course name. I have the words I want from my course description.

The next step is to simply put it on your website. Put it on your LMS website. Now, obviously LifterLMS is a great option for actually publishing your course. And having your learning management system and processing the payments and all that. We have tutorials on how to set all that up really quickly, which we actually showed step by step with no Step skipped in the how to create an online course with ChatGPT course.

So you can see how I moved everything from ChatGPT into my learning management system website powered by. LifterLMS. And then the next thing you need is to make sales, to generate revenue. We have a bonus lesson in how to do course marketing with ChatGPT and generate your first initial sales.

I’m not gonna go over that in this podcast episode. But you just need to find that one in the bonus lessons that are included in the course. How to create an online course with ChatGPT that’s at academy dot lifter lms.com. AI is great, but it’s not going to replace you. You wanna be careful to continuously remain involved, to be the driver, to not try to delegate too much to ChatGPT.

The wild thing about it is if you take our free course and you learn how to prompt correctly in the right order and do the human knowledge dump step, which really personalize it to you and how you think and stuff like that, you’re gonna end up with an amazing course in a very short amount of time.

Compared to how long it used to take. So use ChatGPT as an assistant not to do the job for you. Follow our process, and you are going to create an awesome online course using ChatGPT. I’m Chris. I hope to see you in the course. If you have any questions about any of that, just reach out to us and build your course site with WordPress and LifterLMS and leverage ChatGPT to be your co-pilot on the journey.

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