Content Types

Content Types

• Courses: These are in-depth explorations of a specific topic, divided into multiple stages, each focusing on a core concept. They include videos and also include quizzes.

  • What is a Stage? A course is divided into several stages, each focusing on a single aspect of the course while teaching a core concept. A stage consists of multiple videos and possibly one or more quizzes, code challenges, and written instruction steps. You might think of a course as the entire book, while its stages are the chapters in the book.

• Workshops: These are shorter than courses, covering a smaller piece or a single aspect of a topic. Workshops provide detail on a smaller piece or subset of a topic area than courses do. They can also explain a single process, like installing or setting something up. Workshops consist of a single stage with videos but no quizzes. Usually under 20-30 minutes total.

• Practice: Courses or workshops intended to practice a specific set of learning objectives from a stage of a course. 

• Conference: Videos from past festivals hosted by Treehouse.

• Bonus Content: A collection of related videos / supplementary content that falls outside the structure of a course or worshop, e.g., an interview or a short-form video. 

• College Credit: A college-level course that is approved for 3 college credits by ACE and NCCRS. The course is usually in a Track format.

Content Inside Courses and Workshops

Besides containing videos, our Courses and Workshops can contain other types of content.

• Quizzes: Limited to Courses only. A quiz is placed at the end of a stage, or placed every 2-3 videos for longer stages. There are no quizzes in Workshops.

• Written Instruction Step (aka Instructions): A short written introduction or explanation that is a single page containing text or text + video. Written text can live in a Track, Techdegree, Course or Workshop, and is a step placed between videos. 

• Teacher’s Notes: Written notes that may appear below each video in a workshop or course. These notes are text related to what is taught in a video; they may link students to resources mentioned in your course or suggest further readings on a topic, trend, or practice. These helpful text-based notes are located below each video in a tab labeled "Teacher’s Notes".