A few session notes. A lesson I can teach from.
The useful part was already in the notes: what I wanted to happen, what I changed and how the players responded. Adding the explanation behind those decisions gave the lesson its substance. Knola helped turn that material into a presentation.
For your lesson, the starting point could be the workshop you delivered, a process you explain to clients or an example you use when coaching. Choose one thing you can already explain well.
The notes I started with
I volunteer with an under-10 football team. We played a small-sided 4v4 game on a wide pitch, with a main goal at one end and a line of cones at the other. I wanted to work on transitions: how the players reacted when their role changed between defending and attacking.
These are the useful observations from my session notes, edited for clarity:
Getting across the cone line was too easy, so I changed the task: the defending team had to stop the ball dead on the line.
After that change, I saw passes going forward to players already close to the line, rather than players simply running the ball towards it. That encouraged the forward movement and use of space I was looking for.
Players initially paused at the line as if they had scored. Prompting the next transition immediately, without a pause to regroup, created more situations where players had to recover quickly.
There is a useful lesson here: look at the behaviour an activity is producing, change a rule and watch what happens next.
That gives another coach something to think about in their own sessions. It also gives the AI something specific to work with.
Choose one thing the lesson should teach
For these notes, a focused lesson would be:
Adjusting a coaching activity when players aren't practising what you intended.
The learner's outcome:
By the end, another coach should be able to identify a mismatch between the aim of an activity and what players are doing, then choose an adjustment and observe the response.
This is a suggested teaching brief based on my observations. It keeps the lesson focused on a decision another coach can apply, without trying to cover everything about transitions in football.
If your notes come from a workshop or client session, use the same question: What should someone be able to do differently after this lesson?
Turn those notes into a lesson presentation
Step 1: Give the lesson an outline
Start with the intended learner, the outcome and the relevant notes. In my creator account, I add a new lesson to the course, open Build slides for this lesson and paste the notes into Lesson notes. The notes become the outline the presentation is built from.
Here is a short outline you can adapt:
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Lesson: Adjusting an activity to encourage the intended behaviour For: A grassroots football coach Outcome: Recognise when an activity isn't producing the intended behaviour, make an adjustment and observe how players respond. Cover: 1. What I wanted players to practise: transitions and finding space forward. 2. What I noticed: getting across the cone line was too easy. 3. What I changed: players had to stop the ball dead on the line. 4. What I observed: forward passes to players already near the line. 5. The second adjustment: remove the pause and prompt an immediate transition. 6. The coaching takeaway: watch the behaviour, adjust and observe again. Use this as a real session example. Do not invent extra rules or results.
Step 2: Add the explanation that isn't in the notes
Short notes usually tell you what happened. Your experience supplies the explanation: why you changed something, what you were watching for and what you would tell another person trying it.
In the walkthrough I choose Complete beginners as the audience, then use Wispr Flow to dictate that extra context into the Anything to lean into? field. You can type it instead. Voice dictation is simply a way to get your explanation into the field without having to polish a script first.
Use these questions to guide what you add:
- What was I trying to help someone learn?
- What did I notice that made me change my approach?
- Why did I choose that adjustment?
- What happened after the change?
- What should the learner look for when applying this idea?
For this coaching example, explain the difference between reaching the line easily and making space available for a forward pass. Explain why the pause after reaching the line interrupted the transition you wanted players to practise.
Describe what you actually observed. If a detail is missing, add it yourself before asking AI to explain it.
Step 3: Generate the presentation
Use the outline and your added teaching context to create the lesson presentation in Knola. In the walkthrough I add Keep it practical as the angle, then click generate.
The useful transformation is from personal reminders into an explanation another person can follow: the aim, the problem, the adjustment and the result.
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Step 4: Review it as the person who taught the session
Read the slides as though you were explaining them to the intended learner. Check that the sequence makes sense, the language sounds natural and the claims match your notes.
For this example, I would check that the presentation preserves both changes: stopping the ball on the line and removing the pause before the next transition. I would also make sure it describes what happened in this session, rather than implying that longer passes are always the right choice.
If a slide needs more explanation, add your own. If it introduces an unsupported rule, correct it. In the walkthrough I open Edit slides and drag in a dimensions block to show the pitch layout. AI can help organise your teaching material; your judgement makes it useful.
Step 5: Decide how you want to use the lesson
A reviewed presentation gives you something to teach from. You could record an explanation over the slides, use it in a live session or develop it into a lesson within a larger course. In the walkthrough I open Present full-screen and the Notes panel, which holds a speaker script for each slide and can sit outside a screen recording as a teleprompter.
You could also build a free resource around it. First, make sure it delivers a complete, useful takeaway for the people you want to reach. Preparing the presentation and publishing a course or lead magnet are separate steps.
