Getting Started with Coursetree

3-minute tutorial

1. Welcome to Coursetree

Because the world is changing fast, college degrees are no longer future-proof. A skill learned today may need an update within a few years — or even worse, could become irrelevant within a decade.

From now on, you are going to have to be learning throughout every point of your life — and it will be a chore, to know exactly what skills you need to learn:

• You’ll have to read the news to stay informed of the latest trends.
• Then, you’ll have to make a prediction and select a skill to learn.
• Then, you’ll have to go through search engines to find the best place to learn that skill from.

Coursetree makes everything easy by replacing the chores above with a free-to-use website that lets you explore and find online courses through skill trees that are always up to date.

2. What Is a Skill Tree?

Screenshot of the Business Executive coursetree as of 24th May 2020 sent by user DK. Here, he chose to specialize in strategic management, operations management with some skills in digital marketing. Nodes in orange indicate a completed skill.

A skill tree is a map of skills that are organized to remove the guesswork in learning. Instead of doing everything in your head, skill trees help you keep track of your skills and explore the different paths that you can take.

At Coursetree we call all of our skill trees “coursetrees” and they are organized to recommend you of which skills you should learn next. Although it is recommended that you follow the progression of the tree as it may show direct prerequisites, you are free to skip skills.

For example, here it is recommended that you learn “Consumer Behavior” before branding or advertising.

3. Node Scores

The node scoring system plays a big part in keeping our coursetrees up to date. Node scores (the fire icon under each node) represents the current demand for each skill. Ranked from 1 to 5, from very little demand to very high demand, node scores adapt and change according to the market.

“Managing Virtual Teams” used to have a node score of 3. Due to the situation with COVID-19, its score was immediately increased to 5 to reflect the increased demand.

Node scores are a great benchmark when deciding whether or not to learn a skill. To make this even more useful, we’re working very hard to get it to go a step further and be able to predict demand. We post updates on our Facebook Page.

4. Course Marketplace

When you click on a node, a list of courses for that node will appear on your left. That entire area is our course marketplace, where we list both free and paid online courses from around the internet. There, you’ll be able to jump directly between learning (on Coursera, edX, YouTube, etc.) and exploring on Coursetree without having to go through the chore of searching.

5. Marking a Node as Completed

Once you have learned a skill, you can mark a node as completed by following the image below. If you do not see the options, simply click on the node again.

Click on “completed” to mark a node as completed. Click again to undo.

Congratulations! You have learned everything you need to get started with Coursetree.

To continue, please go back to Coursetree and mark the node “Tutorial” as completed. If you have learned some skills in college or from a job, please go through and mark those nodes as completed as well. You can now close this page.