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A little perspective for course creators

Set the course.

Lesson ideas, examples, exercises, and rough notes. Give them a place in Deckko, a visual planning tool that helps you see the pieces and work through how they fit together.

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Free to start. No credit card required.

See the pieces.
Find your direction.

LESSON IDEA

Something to explain.

EXAMPLE

Make it click.

EXERCISE

Put it into practice.

NOTES

A thought to keep.

Inside Deckko

A place for the pieces.
A structure to build on.

Choose a starting point, bring your thinking into view, and keep the work you’re developing together.

01 · Start with a structure

You don’t have to start with a blank board.

Explore Course / Workshop templates including Merrill’s First Principles, Backward Design, and ADDIE. Each option explains its purpose, when to use it, and what you’ll create.

Prefer to find your own way? Start blank.

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Deckko course and workshop templates including Merrill’s First Principles, Backward Design, and ADDIE.

02 · See the details together

Give each piece a picture and a note.

Visual cards bring sketches, written notes, and colored labels into one board. See the idea alongside the words that explain it.

For course work, that could mean a concept you’re exploring, an example to illustrate it, or notes for an exercise.

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A Deckko board displaying sketches, written notes, and colored labels across visual cards.

03 · Return to your work

Your course is one part of what you’re creating.

Keep separate boards for different projects and find them from your board library. Search your boards, open templates, or start a new board.

Your course outline, tutorial, newsletter series, and other work can each have a place.

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Deckko’s board library showing projects including a course outline, tutorial, and newsletter series.

From scattered thoughts to a shared view

See what you have.
Explore what comes next.

Sometimes the next step gets clearer when you can stop holding all the pieces in your head.

Bring related ideas together

Put a lesson idea beside an example or an exercise. Consider the connections while the material is still taking shape.

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Give unfinished thoughts room

A question, a short note, a possibility. You can start thinking visually before you have a polished outline.

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Find something to move forward

Look across your ideas and decide what deserves more attention, what needs a rethink, and what can wait.

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Before you begin

A few things you might be wondering.

Start small. You can work out the details as your ideas develop.

No. Start with a lesson idea, short notes, or a rough outline. You’re giving yourself a place to think through the material.

Yes. Use a board to explore a lesson you want to revisit, examples you could add, or ideas for improving existing material.

Deckko is built for visual thinkers who want to see the whole picture before creating or improving their content. It isn’t focused on video production.

Use it to map out raw ideas, notes, courses, social media content, or anything else you’re developing in a visual format. Bring the pieces together, explore how they connect, and work out what needs to change before you build out the content itself.

Deckko is a visual planning and board-building tool. You make the teaching decisions and use your course platform to deliver the finished material.

Yes. Deckko includes Course / Workshop structures such as Merrill’s First Principles, Backward Design, and ADDIE. You can also skip the templates and start blank.

Choose one thing you want to work through: a lesson idea, a concept that needs a better example, or a collection of notes you want to see together.

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Make a little room for the next idea

Start with one idea worth working through.

Bring a lesson idea, a rough outline, or a collection of notes. Give yourself a place to see what could come next.

Build My Board

Free to start. No credit card required.

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