What if you have questions that aren’t answered by the course description or any place inside the course detail page? Always contact the lecturer if you don’t totally understand what you are getting into. Whenever you see a course for sale, you will also see an area that says “Ask Lecturer a Question” in course detail page.
It is the student’s responsibility to be very clear. What if your enroll a course, and you discover that it’s something you don’t like? Unfortunately, you didn’t ask any questions before you enroll so it’s tough luck. You didn’t do your homework and now you have to live with the consequences.
The point of this chapter is to understand the student’s experience. If you are quite understand the whole process of student’s view points, it is not necessary to enroll a course actually before you start to open a course.
The important point here is to analyze the enrolling (buying) process to see what you need to do in order to be an effective course provider.Review of all the categories on ForteMall, unless you already are passionate about something and plan to specialize in this. It won’t take that long because you will be able to dismiss most of the categories without even thinking about it.
Don’t spend hours doing this. Just take a quick survey. Keep an open mind. If you take the time to do this exercise, you will know more about successful course selling than most people who have been teaching online for years. Most people don’t bother with this step. They just use the “hit-and-miss” method.