Your Expensive Course Platform Features are Worthless Without This

Course creation platforms want to dazzle you with gamification, certificates, and fancy features, but here's what they're NOT telling you: none of that matters if your course design is cr@p.

I'm calling out the bells and whistles trap that platforms use to distract you from their fundamental design flaws. These platforms weren't built for how people actually learn, and adding a leaderboard won't fix unclear goals or missing scaffolding.

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I’m Dr. Catrina Mitchum, a learning designer and recovering academic that helps course creators craft courses like they give a sh*t by focusing on learning science based course design and course accessibility as foundations for client success so you can be successful, too.

Table of contents:
0:00 Platforms will sell you on gamification
0:10 The bells and whistles trap
0:40 Platforms aren't designed for how people learn
1:21 What platforms prioritize vs what learners need
2:02 Why all-in-one solutions fail
3:21 What features actually matter
4:27 How to evaluate platforms for YOUR course
5:19 Testing the user experience
6:49 Why platform choice comes AFTER course design

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