There are a lot of moving parts involved in producing a course. For every hour I spend recording video, there are probably another 3 or 4 hours of supplemental work: preparing outlines, making slides, uploading videos, putting everything on the website, creating the handbook, and preparing the ZIP files so folks can download the videos. Even though I've automated a lot of it, sometimes I simply forget a step. One of those things has been putting the ZIP file together.

Not everybody downloads the ZIP file because they're pretty big. This one's about 500 MB, for example. But a vocal few always remind me, "Hey, you forgot to put the ZIP file up," because they like to download them and watch them on a plane, train, or automobile. Not while you're driving, hopefully.

I've been working on automating more of these processes so that, when I finish a class, I can click a button and have everything upload automatically. Today I built that button. Now, when I finish a class, I click one button and it makes the ZIP file, uploads it, puts it on the website, and posts a note here letting everyone know it's ready.

Now I just have to click that button 10 more times to get the rest of these ZIP files online. Thanks for bearing with me.

Great. I have been manually downloading the videos and even creating the ZIP file just so my library isn't missing any, so I understand that it takes a while to get it done.

I like to watch the videos on my TV which is considerably larger than my monitors.
It also means I can have the video playing on my TV, the Access UI on my main monitor and the VB Editor on my secondary monitor.