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Utilize YouTube to build an Online Course in Three Steps -

Oct 6, 2022

Course creation is as easy as clicking a button. Through's course Creation Wizard, it actually is as simple.

The Course Creation Wizard takes a YouTube playlist and creates the entire course by simply copying and pasting one URL and pressing load. It then builds an entire course that includes lessons on each video included in the playlist.

If you've ever thought of some other way to make money from your YouTube videos, this feature has been designed for you. The packaging of your videos to create a course is a perfect way to earn passive income. Using a YouTube playlist to create the foundation of your course offers many benefits, including:

  • There is less time for launching a course
  • Fast monetization of existing content
  • An already-established audience

Ready to explore this strategy to your own advantage? This is how you can create a course with an YouTube playlist in just three easy steps.

First step: outline your course using your already existing video content

If you do not have you have a YouTube playlist already created for your course idea it's time to create one. A good first step is to to go through the YouTube content and put them in a sequence of video. Be sure that the videos are in a compelling and correct order as a playlist.

If, for instance, you're running a YouTube series teaching users how to get started in investing, it might be beneficial to begin with a short video on how much you can invest. After that, you could move to opening your first account, picking an investment strategy then on to the next step. This is the order in which students are taught in the course.

As you can see below for our course, we've gone ahead and the videos have been numbered to simplify the process.

Step 2: Load videos into the Course Creator Wizard.

Be sure to grab the actual playlist URL and not the individual video URLs. When using YouTube the easiest method to accomplish this is to click"Share" or the "Share" button for the entire playlist and clicking "copy" to generate the link.

Pro TIP: The course creation wizard is compatible with public and private YouTube playlists. To build a course from private playlists, connect your Google account with the Google app. This allows you users to view the content of the playlist you have created one time only - no data is stored.

To use for the Course Create Wizard, navigate to LMS > Courses. Click to click the "Create from Video Playlist" link in the top of the right. Paste in your YouTube playlist in this area.

Click the Load the data for your playlist button. From here, choose your access settings to the course and click "create this course."

Step 3: Write Your Final Edits before You Launch Your Course

The default for each video is that it introduces a new lesson to the class. The text in each lesson is derived from the video's description. If you'd like to customize the text, you'll edit the post.

There are many more ways you can customize your Lesson webpages and convert lessons into a complete classroom experience:

  • Include Lesson Materials. Turn on "Lesson Materials" if you'd want to include materials such as notes from lectures or a transcript of the video.
  • Encourage participation. If you'd like learners to interact, you can enable comments on posts or even add a Bbpress forum to the course. Make individual threads for each lesson in order to promote discussions.
  • Create polls, quizzes and other quizzes. You can easily add a quiz at the end of every lesson using the quizzes feature. Or, take advantage of educational plugins like H5P to make quizzes or polls appear at the end of the video, resulting in a "pop question!"

Save Time Building Your Online Course with

The process of creating an online course could often be lengthy however,'s easy-to-use tools make it easy. Create an online course within minutes using the wizard for creating courses as well as a YouTube playlist.


     You'll be able to observe how fast and easy you can make it to test the demo. In the demonstration of the course creator, you can click "create using a video playlist" and test if you are able to create a course within less than one minute. What course do you want to make first?