My friend Amanda Horvath dropped a really good video on Facebook yesterday about breaking your course up into sprints. I tried the marathon approach back in December and burned out. I regathered my energy sometime during the pandemic (its all a blur now). I finally have (most of) the content done for the course and September was the retarget date for launching the course.
I excitedly opened my Thinkific account and started uploading my content, all 230 files (videos, ebooks, mp3s, PDFs, etc). And that's when it hit me that it would take days to upload all this content. At first I just went to the bulk uploader and added all my files. And then watched each of the crawl along uploading. And then before any of them even got to 25%, FireFox crashed.
At this point I decided to upload my videos a few at a time. Right now I'm uploading chapter 6 (of 12) right now. The other problem was that I had all of my files laid out in Dropbox (I upgraded so I have enough space to host all my course files and the original cut videos). There is a neat feature where you can move entire folders or individual files up to the cloud and they will be downloaded when you try to open them. The problem was, my MacBook only has a 500 GiB hard drive, so all of my video was up in the cloud.
So now I was downloading video from the Dropbox cloud so I could upload it to Thinkific. At the same time, my four children are schooling from home, so four Zoom calls in addition to me downloading and uploading. Lets just say everything was slower than it should have been.
So as tedious as it was to record and edit almost 200 videos, it is almost as tedious to upload them.
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