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I will put it on Teachable. So it will be a paid course eventually, but not part of a degree. I think teachable gives certificates when you finish a course, but I don't know that those will be recognized anywhere. The point isn't a certificate, it's just learning the stuff.
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You likely want Teachable. You’ll add a link from your current website to the custom Teachable portal where SSO from Teachable will take care of everything (Payments, username, plans, etc.) They let you pick different models for charging for your course (subscription based, one-time fee, free, etc.).
https://teachable.com/pricing https://teachable.com/get/course-pricing-calculator
No affiliation, just think best SaaS solution out there. This is really easy to manage yourself; your web admin only needs to add a link and you do everything else from the Teachable portal. Don’t let anyone charge you tons of money for this.
Not sure if this would be relevant for your type of content, but https://teachable.com/ might be worth looking at. It's fully hosted, and they have different plans/pricing depending on what works for you.
Probably not. The reason why I say that is that you can basically create your own course site already using something like Teachable, which lets you create your own school. (and if you pay for it, use your own domain name). That's what we've been doing, we're making business/MBA related classes. We get to choose the look of the site, feature whatever courses we want, invite other instructors, etc. It's true that Teachable takes a cut of revenue, but it would probably be much more costly to set up a competitor. I'm in IT, and based on my experience putting together something identical to Udemy would be pretty expensive to do.
https://teachable.com/ (formerly fedora)
Helps you create a online course. Chances are you've probably seen a site using fedora/teachable if you've taken many online courses or checked them out.
I've never used the service/framework. Just seen it.
This is almost a static site (eg. Pelican) with an external testing tool (some SaaS) bolted on.
>I want to build a website for the class.
The question is - why? Is it because you need something truly custom, or you don't want to pay for SaaS options like Teachable, or is it because you want to try something new?
- If you want to get the most done for the least effort, pay for a SaaS tool that does all this for you
- If you want to save a little money, use Pelican to make a static site and use a SaaS tool for the testing
- If you still really want to use Django I recommend using django-allauth for the Google SSO and Wagtail for the content management stuff. I would be shocked if there wasn't a multi choice testing library for Django but if there isn't it's not too hard to design one - I wrote a guide on how to design an app to do exactly this.
I would step away from the programming and go for a walk. Then think about how you could implement your business simply without any tech.
1/ For your language learning business, can you publish the classes on YouTube and build your business that way?
2/ Could you use one of the training platforms such as teachable.com?
3/ Could you start with Zoom classes. No need for any fancy tech. Just charge people on EventBrite.com and then deliver classes on Zoom. Or Clubhouse.
The point is there are many options out there. Your job as an entrepreneur is to glue pre-existing things together. You don’t have to write code. Eventually when you start creating value and the money starts flowing in you can hire programmers to make things nicer. For the moment focus on using what exists to build out your idea.
Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss further.
What'll distinguish your online class from the others out there?
An online course takes students from point A to B, improving their skills quickly. So.. what is that skill that you can teach?
Check out teachable.com, they have some articles on how to create classes.
My advice as a professional is use something that already exists. Teachable sounds similar to what you need, I'm sure there's more.
If you use a developer to make things, you will probably need a developer to change things in the future. This is especially true if you're not able to compensate well. You don't get someone who is able to necessarily understand your needs (a flexible way of making changes on your own), you end up with someone who does the job in a way that probably doesn't make your life easier (e.g. you can change email frequency... if you go directly into the code).
To stress this from a business perspective as well (well, as much as I understand business)-- DIY means you lose the built-in following you may have from being on a platform, and you'll probably have to field requests about bugs or new functionalities. If you work with a service, they can do that for you, maybe even give you professional estimates of when they might have it. If you work with an individual person, there's no reason they won't blow smoke up your ass, and no guarantee they will be there for important bugs.
But, if you really must, there's also places like Upwork where you can find freelancers.
OH! I meant to tell you. If you're looking to get people to do quizzes, one option is to try out Teachable.com or something similar. You can let people join courses for free, and intersperse quizzes throughout, and then Teachable will forward them to the next video in a series. I'm not sure this counts towards the algorithm though.
Maybe you want to send them to a Sporcle quiz and see if people will even engage with them... to test the waters and see if there's demand.
> For e-books or a small number of videos, I'd recommend Gumroad. If you have a large video course, YouTube (with private videos) worked well for me. Another option is a fully-managed online course platform like Teachable.
Where is your content hosted?
Wow sorry that you are dealing with this...take it from a almost 50 year old who stayed waaayyyy too long in bad jobs because I was loyal and dedicated and didn't want to leave the owner high and dry even though it was a bad situation. - If you're in this dead in job or working for a boss that doesn't value you, please take my advice! I learned the hard way..if the job is affecting your health, your relationships and you don't even like the job..just leave! There are plenty of good jobs and decent bosses out there that will value all that you bring even if you are young and still learning, attitude and work ethic go a very long way.
If you are interested in learning bookkeeping, I really like Veronica Wasek's 5MD academy on teachable.com - she has some paid courses but a few are free. Also, you can sign up as a QuickBooks online (QBO) pro advisor, get a free Accountant QBO Advanced account and start doing your own books to get familiar with the software and watch all the training videos they have. You can even get certified at no cost and you'll learn a lot from doing your own bookkeeping (I'm just talking about tracking your checking account, credit card spending ,etc. and learning the workflow). Please don't waste time learning their ancient and dysfunctional ways...sure you may pick up some basic concepts but your time would be better spent learning something concrete and current that you can take to another employer. I wish you all the BEST!
I can share my experience in building and selling Hypersistence Optimizer for almost a year now.
Hypersistence Optimizer is a tool that can auto-detect JPA and Hibernate issues during testing so that you can optimize up your application long before it gets deployed into production.
I chose a commercial license and there are two license options:
- an Individual license which can be used only by the person who made the purchase. This one costs exactly 50% per year.
- several Group licenses for 5, 10 or 15 developers.
I've been using Teachable previously for selling my book and courses, and since it supports subscriptions, I decided to sell this tool via Teachable as well. So, Teachable handles all financial aspects (e.g., VAT) and takes care of unenrolling in case the subscription is not renewed.
The product has an internal license that's created using a private key and the application can decrypt it using the public key. The license contains a validity timestamp that allows the product to be used for 400 days since the version was built. As long as you have an active subscription, you can download any new version, so the validity period is renewed. If you don't renew the product, it will eventually stop working.
Now, there's also a trial version for the tool. Initially, I offered a full-featured version of the tool, but, after three months, I realized that no one was required to buy the product since they can just fix all their problems using the trial version. So, I created a new branch for the trial version which can now tell you if you have performance problems but without telling you where the problems are located. Since I made this change, the product has started selling :)
If you have any questions, let me know, and I'll gladly answer them for you.
Take your classes and develop a course you can sell. Offer some live stream to answer questions while building videos of those to add to the course.
https://teachable.com/ I notice Meet Kevin (Real Estate Broker/Agent/Investor) uses it for his courses.
this could mean passive income too.
Here's a free guide to finding a remote job that includes specific websites, job boards, and other places where you can find remote job opportunities.
As far as the second part of your question, "I want to be able to do this with the art skills I already have."
Without knowing much about you, that's difficult to answer. The obvious link between being an artist and working online is graphic design, but I don't know if that's something you could do or want to do. Another option is to teach online. You could teach art. Here are some examples of courses people have created on Teachable. I see one for Digital Scrapbooking, another for watercolor brush lettering.
You could also teach English, assuming it's your native language.
Look at other platforms where you can set the price. I believe that Udemy sets the price for you AND take a major cut. Have a look at Teachable.com, very useful site with a nice structure to setup a course
Quick question. Is there a specific name for a customer dashboard? I'm thinking about getting one built for my business but I'm not sure if that is the right term. What I'd want is for my customer to be able to login and they could assign tasks or build forms. Something close to teachable.com or safetyculture.com/iauditor/ but it wouldn't be quite as involved.
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Quick question. Is there a specific name for a customer dashboard? I'm thinking about getting one built for my business but I'm not sure if that is the right term. What I'd want is for my customer to be able to login and they could assign tasks or build forms. Something close to teachable.com or safetyculture.com/iauditor/ but it wouldn't be quite as involved.
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https://teachable.com - Thats probably the best platform for this.
As for developing content, I think you'll have to aim to have a PDF, and video as part of your course work. Maybe a PDF handout from MS Word, a powerpoint for the slides, plus video recording + audio from the presenter.
Teachable also allows for multiple course authors, and payments to them.
You can use one of these types of platforms: https://teachable.com/ https://www.udemy.com/
If you build a membership site on wordpress I would suggest just using OptimizePress.
Overall, I think Teachable.com might be what you're looking for.
If you don't have your own audience/platform then Udemy is great.
If you have your own audience then teachable.com or a self-hosted wordpress site with an LMS plugin such as lifterLMS may be a better option.
You aren't locked in to any one choice. Start with Udemy, then when you build your platform take the course off Udemy and host it on your own site.
Follow some good ones for inspiration. Here are a few from my "swipe file."
My favourite book on copywriting is Maria Veloso's "Web Copy that Sells."
PM me if you would like me to go through the mind map I created from her book.