Create own Microsoft Office tutorial or not?

Hi fellows,

I'm working as a digital education librarian at a university in China. One of my responsibilities is to create e-learning courses. I found that our faculty and students would have different problems when using office tools. I'm planning to create online tutorials to present some common tricks and skills on the office tools.

Should I just create my own tutorial videos or collect the existing resources online? Look forward to your suggestions. ：）

4 Replies

Matthew Bibby
Hero

1 year ago10/08/19 at 2:41 am (UTC)

There is lots of training on how to use Office out there. Why reinvent the wheel?

Joanne Chen
Hero

1 year ago10/08/19 at 6:55 am (UTC)

I concur Matthew. Rather than create new videos, it is more efficiency spending time on planning what and how to immediately provide the source they need when the needs occured.

1 year ago10/08/19 at 7:51 am (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, Joanne. The first thing I'm worried about is the copyright issue. If I directly use the tutorial videos created by someone else, will that be copyright infringement? The second one is that I want to make the course design looks consistent instead of a combination of difference sources, but I'm not sure if the consistency matters in this case.

Matthew Bibby
Hero

1 year ago10/08/19 at 8:00 am (UTC)

You don't need to use others' content improperly. There are lots of ready-made courses that you can access via platforms like Open Sesame or LinkedIn Learning.