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Our standards and submitting your course for review
In order to ensure that our students have a great learning experience, we have a created a quality review process for all new courses.
When you start building your course we'll create a course roadmap for you that will detail the specific standards. Once your course is ready to be published, you can submit your course for review.
There are 3 important standards to keep in mind:
Courses should contain at least 30 minutes of video content
Courses should be well structured to deliver on learning objectives.
Audio should be clear and intelligible; Video should be clear and high-definition.
HeatSpring will evaluate your course and provide feedback. Once your course is approved, it will be published and can be discovered in the HeatSpring marketplace.
Short Course Standards
Content
On a topic within one of HeatSpring's top level course subjects (e.g. solar, wind, green building, storage, microgrid, energy etc) or a topic related to an existing HeatSpring course.
Provides participants with accurate, up-to-date, and actionable information, knowledge, and skills
Contains specific, technical, real-world information (as opposed to general or theoretical information)
Should have one specific audience in mind (and specify their pre-existing knowledge, skills, level of experience, etc. on the sales page)
Is primarily original material that is not publicly-available anywhere else
Must include at least one supporting assignment. Some instructors include lots of these, examples include readings, links to publicly-available resources, or tools (e.g. Excel calculators)
May include a quiz to test participants’ understanding of the material
May include discussion questions (if the instructor would like to encourage interaction on the discussion board)
Should sound like the viewer is in a quiet room listening to the instructor
Should not have background noise (e.g. dog barking, whirring fan, static, other voices, rustling of clothing, traffic sounds, phone or desktop notifications)
Instructor should mute any phone or desktop notifications before recording