Remember back in school when you were taught something and you were given homework at the end? If you're teaching something over the internet, live, using a webinar, you should also give assignments to your students after your training is done. You taught them one simple thing. Now it's time for them to go out and apply it. But you are a much more interesting person than the teachers who taught you at school. And that means you should deliver challenges instead of homework.
What is a challenge? It's where you tell people what they should do next and if they don't do it, they're still in the class, they don't necessarily fail, but when they do it, they get some kind of reward. But just like homework, this is deadline based to make sure they do it right now.
If you're running a class inside a membership site on a private blog, create a separate blog post and then it explains an easy four-step action to take after that week's training.
If you're teaching a class about blogging, and the first class shows people how to get a blog set up, you might then ask people these four questions: Question 1: What URL will be a place to blog on? Question 2: What will be the name of this blog? (and) Question 3: What will be the first post in this blog? Question 4: What time and date will this blog be set up?
It's important that before you even worry about people completing the steps, you need them to commit to the steps and commit to the deadline before doing anything. That's why the last question in your series of four should always be "What time and date will this be finished by?" And you can even place restrictions such as require their deadline is within the next seven days. This is great if you're running a multi-week course because it ensures the people finish the challenge before the next module has begun.
After everyone commits to the challenge, create another blog post where people can come back and report on their results. They've already told you what URL the blog will be set up on so all they have to do is come back and post something such as "Done." or "I am done." as a comment in that special blog post. And now you have a list of everyone who has finished the assignment. Because you're running the class, you can always click and check to make sure all the blogs are set up and then leave those comments that are lying, but usually people will be honest because the other students check on each other's work.
And by completing those steps, you have now done a webinar challenge. You thought of an easy action to take directly related to this week's training in four steps, and get people to commit to the steps and deadline, and then report on their results.
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