How to Plan a Session with AI

Steppit is unique in its learning and teaching style and once you’ve mastered the basics, you can pretty much use it however you like. We’re going to help you make the most of the AI planning tool in this resource and show you how you can quickly get to that end goal of planning a session.

📢 TIP: A session is a lesson – the building blocks of your course – made up of videos and other media. To understand more about the language we use, be sure to check out our guide on Steppit Terminology.

In this stage of your online course building journey, you will need to have done these three things:

1. Upgraded to Steppit Pro to unlock the Pro Session Planner. This ensures you get access to all our incredible AI planning features.
2. Trained up your AI Assistant
3. Built your overarching course plan — remember, your course plan is your big idea, it is what your topic is all about. Each course is broken up into smaller sessions and units for bite-sized learning.

Finishing each of these elements is helpful to planning your first session. Having your assistant trained is particularly useful because it will ensure the AI technology is utilizing all the info you provided to write and plan your session. If you've not got a Pro subscription, we break down how you can plan a session without the AI tools here.

To get started, navigate to your course. Here, you’ll see listed all the units and individual sessions that the AI has created for you.

1. Select on any session that you would like to get started with. Click build.
2. Click "generate with my assistant."
3. A pop up will appear which will run you through a few questions that help you understand what you want to teach in this session. Choose either "practical activity" or "theoretical topic". Not sure which option to go with? Check out our resource on the difference between a practical and theoretical activity.
4. Hit "generate" to complete the session AI questionnaire.
5. Preview your session including all the steps, bits, and key points to cover. Hit "Finish" to complete your session creation. This will build your session with all the information it has shown you. To understand what makes up a session, see our how-to guide for planning your online course.
6. Your session will now appear in your session builder. Each of your steps are labeled clearly and if you click on it, it will expand to show the individual bits. To create content, click on a bit and a window will pop up. This is where you can record or upload videos, imagery, audio or text.
7. Lastly, a checklist will appear at the top of your session to help remind you what you need to do for each session for it to be marked as completed.

Uploading content is straightforward to do. You can add videos, audio and images to the sessions you teach in your course. Videos and audio files can be recorded directly through the Steppit platform, and the Steppit app makes it easier to quickly film and record content straight from your phone.

📢 TIP: For an in depth guide to creating and uploading content, head here.

Now that you've got an understanding of how to build your session with your AI planner, there are two things you can do.

1. Start filming 🤳🏼
2. Plan all your sessions ✍🏼

We recommend doing the first option because this allows you to get stuck into the filming process. It is also a great way for you to understand where your content fits best. Perhaps part way through filming, you realise your content could be fleshed out a bit further or that it needs to be sit as an entirely separate unit. You can then move content around with our drag and drop feature.

Once you have uploaded your video content, since you’re part of our PRO subscription, you’ll have access to our AI clip summariser. To generate a summary for your video…

1. If you are in Outline view: select your video and you’ll see a blank space at the bottom. Hit Summarize Video Clip. This will take in what your audio says and provide you with two to three sentences that summarizes what the video is all about. 
2. If you are in Stepper view: You’ll see boxes to the right of your video which say “Write a summary for this bit,” — select this and the video will pop up. Hit Summarize Video Clip. 

Providing a text to your students is a great way for them to get a bit of a summary of what you’ve said in the clip and allows them to quickly scan it for any key points you may have made. 

Steppit is designed to easily add, chop and change or remove content however you like if the AI assistant isn’t getting exactly what you want. The AI helps with speed and gives you a starting point and suggests ideas to you for your content; but at the end of the day, you are the teacher in command.

If you’re not yet on the wagon, make use of a one-week free trial of Steppit Pro and try out all of the above features to see if they’re for you.

Did you know you can request features and be a part of the immediate future of Steppit? Check out our product roadmap here and vote for your favourites to get them underway.

Need anything else or want to know more? Chat with us on Discord, we’re on hand right now to help.