Content dripping for your next technical course

Content dripping is an interesting technique to be implemented in your recorded and live courses. In this blog post let’s understand more about content dripping and how it can work.

Using fermion, you can easily implement content dripping in your recorded or live courses. This guide will help you do that.

What is content dripping?

Content dripping is a technique by which you can make certain topics in your course available only at a specific point in time.

Let’s understand this by an example.

Suppose you want to create a 3-month cohort on Frontend web development with the following constraints:

• Live classes on Saturday and Sunday at 8 PM
• Three coding lab assessments every week
• One new video every alternative day

If you think about it, the only thing you can traditionally schedule ahead of future in normal LMS is a live class. However, when you’re using Fermion, you get the option to make a course item available any time.

Here’s how your syllabus organization would look like on Fermion:

Now assume that you just started this cohort and do not want Lab on concept 2 to be available to the users just yet. They might get confused or just raise doubts which invariantly would be solved in a class they haven’t attended yet.

How would you solve that?

How to enable content dripping on Fermion?

For every course item, you can click on Modify Availability for that item.

Once you do that, you can configure the availability for the course item for a specific date and time.

What is the difference between “roughly available from” vs enabling content dripping?

When you’re creating a live cohort-based-course on Fermion, you have to organize everything in a week-by-week fashion. For a few course items, you may not want them to be “locked” till a certain date. However, you do want to make sure that they lie at a specific place in the week.

Let’s take an example. Here’s an example of a web 3 bootcamp on Fermion

Let’s say you are the instructor for the course. What if you want to provide access to the solidity notes all the time to the users, but not to the videos or quizzes around it? Disabling content dripping for solidity notes, and enabling it for everything else will solve it.

Furthermore, the date you assign to your course item (roughly available from) also determines the order in which the course item appears.

Note that for recorded courses there is no concept of “roughly available from” since for recorded courses you have to specify the day-from-enrollment when the user becomes eligible to access that particular course item.