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Module 5 of 7Lesson 1 of 3~12 min

Choose a platform against explicit criteria

Comparing course platforms on features often leads to the wrong choice. This lesson suggests starting from your own criteria, from audience to total cost and funding, then reviewing the main families of tools to pick the one that fits your audience and business model.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to choose a course platform against explicit criteria (audience, business model, funding, teaching features, total cost) and justify your choice.

Topics covered

  • e-learning platform
  • LMS
  • choosing a course platform
  • total cost

Where it fits

Choose a platform and publish by the rules

Which platform should you publish on, with which obligations, and how do you launch without mistakes?

Lessons in this module

  1. Choose a platform against explicit criteria (this lesson)
  2. Configure the platform and respect the legal framework
  3. Test with real learners, then launch

What you will learn in the course

This lesson is part of the course Design and launch an effective online course

  • Write the promise of a course (precise audience, problem, observable transformation, format) and decide whether an online format suits the subject.
  • Write 3 to 5 observable objectives, place them in the revised Bloom's taxonomy and align each one with an assessment and an activity (constructive alignment).
  • Design the plan of a module that applies research-backed principles (retrieval practice, spacing, worked examples, feedback), with justified formats, durations and checkpoints.
  • Write formative assessment questions at the apply, analyze or evaluate level, with distractors drawn from real mistakes and explanatory feedback.
  • Produce course content with an AI assistant using the 4Ds (delegation, description, discernment, diligence), with fact-checking and transparency towards learners.
  • Choose a platform against explicit criteria and identify the legal obligations and funding conditions (Qualiopi, CPF, withdrawal right, cookies) that apply to your project, then run a pilot test and the launch.
  • Diagnose, from learning data and feedback, which part of the course to improve first and choose a fix.

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