Teachable

Avantages

Very easy to set up courses, videos load fast and uptime is high

Inconvénients

All additional features added within the past 2 years have made the software less user friendly on the backend. Difficult dealing with customer support on lower tier plans.

Avantages

It is easy to set up and can save lots of time versus building a WordPress LMS. And it does give a good amount of functionality

Inconvénients

The biggest con was the support. When ever reporting bugs they always the same response "Its a browser issue" and blaming the browser for everything is irresponsible.

But the real big con is they can not be trusted. When I signed up the basic plan included Zapier connection which is important to sale course from personal websites. But then, without notice, they changed and only allowed Zapier integration with Professional plans.I didn't find out until new students couldn't access their course.

Teachable support didn't even know what happened when I contacted to say the integration stopped.

This is a big reason why I could never recommend Teachable in fact, I would warn others and go with another solution because they can't be trusted. Who knows the next change they make and how that will effect other's businesses.

Avantages

Easy and works out of the box and has its own search for all courses.

Inconvénients

It’s a bit too basic for my level. But for most works well.

Avantages

It's really easy to get up and started on Teachable - it's possible if you're not tech savvy (I got my cousin to try it) and really fast & simple if you are. Now that they're adding features comparable with more premium tools - like in affiliate management and customizable checkout pages, it's great to have everything in one spot.

Inconvénients

Its all-in-one nature does mean that sometimes you have a few things - like instant payouts - that are only on the largest plan/more expensive than with a niche tool's plan, but then you'd need to use multiple niche tools.

Avantages

Teachable really can help new teachers who would like to start selling their lessons, as they provide a great free plan. After someone start earning some money can upgrade to the next plans, getting the advantage of great extra features. I hope that they won't change their free plan with adding more limitations, as many other services have done in the past.

Inconvénients

I don't like the fact that many features are available only via the Zippier integration. That means, you need an extra tool to learn and you need am extra service to pay every month. At least, teachable should be able to let professionals create 2-3 upsell options, and more importantly to give the the ability to create membership plans for their courses, with a trial period that automatically would upgrade to the standard pricing plan. Now someone needs to duplicate the course, create two separate pricing plans, integrate with Zapier and create a route where when someone pass the trial period, zappier will delete him from one source and then enrolling him to the other. Too complicated.

Avantages

I love that Teachable handles all of the online payments, accepts all major credit cards, and handles any taxes necessary. I also love that they not only offer a platform to host your sites, but also include sales pages, check out pages, and thank you pages.

Inconvénients

I wish some of the reporting was easier to find and understand. It can be pretty difficult to break down income streams within the program. It can also be difficult to maneuver the backend of the site in general. I always struggle to find how to change preset text, as well as find more information about my students (like who completed the course and when, etc).

Avantages

Teachable offers all the essential features one needs to create and deliver an online course. The platform is super easy to use and it allows you to get started quickly. The pricing is beginner friendly and they even have a free plan.

Inconvénients

Teachable's website building capabilities are really limited at this point. So, unlike their competitors, they don't offer site themes and the page builder has limited customization options as well.

Avantages

Offers a free plan to try the basic features .

The interface is very intuitive and with supporting docs and responsive customer support , the learning curve is not steep at all . The course making interface is simple drag and drop editor and very easy to use .

The aesthetic look of the front end can be made as good as your creativity can take you .

Inconvénients

The content types that can be added are files , videos , quizzes , etc . Just like Udemy by and large . Nothing built on authoring tools like say, articulate can be hosted here . That's a big let down .

Avantages

Incredible customer service, drip content, beautiful platform, awesome reporting, great editing features, and a bunch of integrations.

Inconvénients

Ankur sometimes takes a while to get back to you. But he IS the CEO. I'm surprised he even answers our questions.

Avantages

Teachable is relatively easy to use both for setting up online courses and onboarding new team members.

Inconvénients

Some features relating to building the website have bugs which sometimes take time to resolve.

Avantages

It was pretty easy to set up your course, add video etc. I liked the courses on marketing/etc that they sent out weekly to join for free.

Inconvénients

Not very customizable, customer experience is just okay. Many were confused as to how to login etc initially. No autosave of your work, I lost hours to a system glitch where you press enter and it just deletes your course text and there's no autosave to backup to.

Avantages

There's a lot of things to like about Teachable. You can host your content, have it locked for only paid customers, and lots of reporting tools to see how your students are doing. There's plenty of integrations as well, and you can modify the landing pages/sales pages/course pages. It's awesome.

Inconvénients

There's not really much that I don't like about Teachable. I do wish they offered some features like free trials of our courses, but it's not a major con. The work around would be to provide a free course, that funnels into a paid course.

Avantages

You can create very nice looking courses and have access to all the features students might expect.

Inconvénients

Like any similar software, there is a steep learning curve. It isn't so difficult, but at the beginning there are inevitably many questions until one gets used to the interface. Teachable's support was very unhelpful in the early stages.

Avantages

It's really easy to create courses, tests and to integrate other softwares to the app.
Teachable is really famous in the world of e learning. That helps me get a lot of clients.
I can teach from home!

Inconvénients

You need a lot of time to prepare courses and tests. The learning curve is really big, but it worths it.

Avantages

* I love how easy it is to make an online course
* I love having a branded course and they make it easy

Inconvénients

* I don't like how every Teachable course looks identical minus the colour scheme and logo.
* I wish it wasn't so obvious I use Teachable over other softwares

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Teachable 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Teachable

Avantages

I loved the ability to watch trainings on my own time, and have access to it at 4 am on a saturday in April, or at 2 pm on a wednesday in May.

Inconvénients

The least favorite part was definitely that some video quality seemed to be worse, the videos at times took forever to load, and i found myself wishing that there were just links to take me to youtube or something that already had the video platform there.

Avantages

I love the customer support and how long you are able to try out the platform before making a commitment.

Inconvénients

I wanted to love and use this platform but it was not user friendly and some of the policies didn’t sit well with me.

Avantages

A complete LMS platform, a lot of features and custom designs you can use, you can actually build the whole website using teachable with the e-learning part integrated into it

Inconvénients

The price, it's really high, of course, you can use it for free but the commissions are high

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Teachable

Avantages

I started using because at the time it was the only platform I was aware of. It's simple to use even for a non tech person.

Inconvénients

Price, if I wanted all of the bells & whistles then it's pricey when you are just starting.

Avantages

If you are looking to create courses or to grow your online business Teachable is the place to be. I have been using this platform to host my courses and it has been super great. I love how you can create sales pages for each of your courses to help boost sales.

Inconvénients

The only con about Teachable is that they recently changed how their creators can design their sales pages for their courses. This can be a learning curve if you don't know much about web designing.

Avantages

Great user experience. Creating courses is incredibly easy and the interface is beautiful and pleasant to use.

Inconvénients

API access requires a much higher tier in subscription which is inaccessible for smaller businesses

Avantages

Easy to use, The admin dashboard is easy and pretty straightforward, I like the "How do I" drop-down button as it's really helpful when stuck. I like the fact that the dashboard provides links to tutorials on how to create a course and how to customize the look and feel of your website/classroom.
What I really loved was that the information part of the course creation process is a lot like Skillshare and Udemy, that made me relax as it was a familiar system.

Inconvénients

The emails. I'd prefer they stick to sending an email one or twice a month or even three. Last month alone I received 12 emails from them. That's a bit too much for me.
Sadly, the link to the tutorial on how to customize the look and feel of the classroom is broken.
Thinkific's free plan offers more than Teachable free plan.

Avantages

I am a language teacher so I need a platform to teach without any worry, Teachable gave me the chance to do it. The first time I used this software was amazing and I fall instantly in love with it because I can have everything organized when I teach my courses. A good thing about this is that you can create all the online courses you want to, even can create some free courses. This allows you to share all the content you need for your classes, you can use GoogleDrive or any other cloud storage site. Also you can create quizzes and evaluations for your classes, forums and give certificates to the participants. The feature that I liked the most is that you have your own domain with the name you select. This is perfect to me!

Inconvénients

The thing that I didn't like is the payment. At the beginning I thought it was a little expensive, but then I realized that it totally worth it so is not an issue anymore.

Avantages

What I like most about Teachable is that this platform is well organized and its structure courses so simple that couldn't be down in any other way better. I like that it counts my learning progress in the upper left corner. And I like that Teacher lessons show what data it contains like video, a document to download, pictures etc. Nice feature when I'm going through the course the lessons that I went through I marked completed and that's why I know exactly where I left my learning process. Also, one of the greatest differences of the platform is that interface which allows you to focus on the main thing - learning the course and there is nothing that will bother you or took your intention away from it. Just press the fullscreen button and start learning. No interfering elements are involved.

Inconvénients

Cons... I cannot think of any of it right now, because I don't see them. I don't use Teachable platform for distributing my own content just as a learner when I enrolled in somebody else course, but I know for a fact that Teachable despite its simplicity and well-organized structure also provides its own web host, payment processor and if you will put your free course on teachable it will not take any fees from you for peoples enrollments.

Avantages

I like that this is very easy to use and user friendly. I found it quite easy to use when creating courses.

Inconvénients

Even with the Power Editor, the design features for sales pages could be better.

Avantages

They make it super affordable to get started, moreso than most other decent platforms. I also like how much training and help they give, and that their structure is pretty easy to understand.

Inconvénients

I don't like how similar it is in style to Udemy. Udemy seems to be the platform that real online course marketers love to hate, so mimicking their style seems to undermine their expertise.

Avantages

I tried Teachable after deciding against a course plugin for my Wordpress site. I appreciate that the learning curve is not steep and that the course setup process is easy.

Inconvénients

Moving around in the course builder is not as smooth as I'd like compared to other course builders. The basic plan options are limited compared to the upper plans, so I'm not getting the need for transaction fees too.

Avantages

It's bright and engaging. Pricing okay. Help tutorial videos.

Inconvénients

Not user-friendly, too many back links and limited design features. Too pricey compared to other platforms. I did not stick with using this platform even after attending trainings.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Teachable 

Logiciel antérieur 

Avantages

Modern and simple interface to work with. Everything is self-explanatory. But there are also plenty of help links and tips in the interfaces to guide you as well. You can also email support for help.

You can create an online course hosted on Teachable servers once you have all your content readily created and uploaded. By content, I mean docs, guides, links to videos or actual videos to be uploaded themselves and images.

Everything is intuitive for me to explore and experiment. Teachable has got a standard templating system which I found to be simple and easy for me to set up a course at my own time own target.

Inconvénients

The only con is the pricing! It's going to be expensive to sustain for a year which you can get all the premium features plus all the bundle up training courses that Teachable offers. To maximise your value for money, you may sign up for a paid account during their promotional period, which are usually from the free webinars.

Avantages

Teachable is so easy to use and offers a flexible way to get courses online.

Inconvénients

I would like to add SCORM compliant elements to courses which is not an option in Teachable.

Avantages

Teachable is a great product to use when trying to create an online forum for students!

Inconvénients

It is a little pricy so it can be difficult for smaller schools to afford.

Avantages

How easy it is to use. It was simple to make videos and get them up. I was able to create a course in less than a day.

Inconvénients

It can be really challenging to get around the dashboard.

Avantages

Clean and intuitive interface. Enough customization options to brand your frontend account. Custom domain or subdomain option. Integrates with other popular services like MailChimp and ConverktKit. Can upload videos, audios, and PDFs. Streamlined presentation for multiple courses. Provides upset options and plenty of funnel points to engage with customers throughout the signup and course process.

Inconvénients

Customer support is subpar and provides a lot of scripted responses. Login issues if you do not allow websites to track or remember your device.

Avantages

It is easy to use and they provide lots of webinars and training. The training is not only focused on user interface, but also entrepreneurial skills.

Inconvénients

Not much. It could be cheaper. I like that they have a three-tiered program but even these could each be cheaper. Maybe a payoff in the end for the company would be a better strategy.

Avantages

Teachable is a user-friendly and beautifully designed platform for online courses. Their blog and their Facebook group have great information and tutorials on how to create an online course and how to market it. Their customer support is top notch. Using Teachable helped to take some of the stress out of creating an online course.

Inconvénients

The platform is pricey but you can use the free version but there is a higher fee for each transaction and you won't have a custom URL.

Avantages

Easy to use to create a new course and upload the content.

Help develop your brand

Flexible Price Ranges - Offers different price ranges, union of courses, promotional codes and coupons and recurring subscriptions.

If your proposal is giving out you could use free version

Inconvénients

You need more advanced learning tools, are very basic. Dont have possibilities of doing live workshops or setting learning goals. Also does not have projects and portfolios for courses.

Lack of integration - Although Teachable covers the basics, there are areas in the integration that need improvement, is very much based on Zapler

Avantages

I like this software and how I can create courses and content for other people. The site has loads of information and they will also email you simple articles to help you with creating content. I like the helpful tips and how useful they are. I also like how I can put my information on slides, so I can create my courses. I have loads of ideas, so I want to make courses for people to understand. This site has tools that I can add to my content course slides which allows me to be creative for each one.

Inconvénients

It can overwhelm someone at first especially if you just started. The site has loads of areas and boxes. I wish they would minimize just some of the work areas for people who just started with the site. The dashboard main area to do my work on just seems a bit overwhelming. It would be nice if the area didn't have so much on it and the person could click to decrease some of the options on the dashboard fast.

Avantages

It's easy to use, the platform is simple and straight forwards although you don't have much control.

Inconvénients

My students are from the UK, they pay in GBP, I am also in the UK, I receive my money in GBP.
Since teachable is a US based company, when you pay in GBP, they convert it into dollars, then in order to pay me, they convert those dollars back to GBP, which messes up your income.
You'll end up having two customers who bought the same course, but because the exchange rate changes so frequently you receive different amount for both of them, and when you have lots of students you can really loose track as to how many students you sold the course to, and how well you did business wise.

Avantages

Teachable has a great user interface that makes it attractive to users.

Inconvénients

It was a little hard to navigate all of the features but once I learned the software it was easy to use.

Avantages

Teachable is a great course creation platform that incorporates both course structure, sales and marketing, and payment processing. It's a one-stop shop, and there's even a free version for those getting started. Paid plans come with helpful training materials and there's lots of guidance not just on using the platform but on marketing courses.

Inconvénients

The software sometimes stops slightly short of user friendly. More worrying at the time of writing is that the platform seems to suffer occasional downtime, most significantly on Black Friday, which will have inevitably lost course creators money.

Avantages

I found for all beginners wanting to break into Elearning that the ease of using the platform was incredible.

Inconvénients

I found that some of the courses like in a lot of Elearning platforms to be overly basic or wholly unnecessary.

Avantages

Teachable makes it easy to set up a course in a small amount of time. The sites look professional when creating them, adding to the customer experience. Additional options are available with each plan level. They also now offer secured site certificates on your sites at no additional cost.

Inconvénients

Pricing on higher level packages could be better so more people can access and showcase their content skills in the form of courses.

Avantages

Setting up a course was simple following their step-by-step process.

Inconvénients

I think they could do major improvements to the affiliate program software.

Avantages

It easy to use with lots of functions. You can set up multiple schools which is great if your in multiple niches.

Inconvénients

The two things i like least about this product is the price and how there is no bundle if making multiple schools.

Avantages

The support is very good, with a lot of instructional videos.

Inconvénients

The dashboard isn't very detailed, and it takes some time to get to know where to find the elements I need to work on.

Avantages

What I like the most about this product is the ease of adding new chapters, creating quizzes and editing content.

Inconvénients

What I like the least is that I have two accounts with Teachable and when I log in, it always tries to connect my other login in with the wrong account

Avantages

The platform looks super professional, it's very easy to create professional and high-quality video courses for online clients.

Inconvénients

I would add an option to create a video course you don't really want to sell, just to send to registered customers. Also, the navigation on the website is pretty difficult.

Avantages

The courses and ideas available on Teachable cover everything I need to create my own online course. I wasn't sure where to start, but Teachable makes it much more achievable.

Inconvénients

While there weren't exact examples for my industry, there's enough overlap from their general advice to help me out.

Avantages

- very very easy to learn and use
- a free plan to try
- letterally in minutes you can create a course and sell it
- i guess is the best way to publish a course for a non-tech people

Inconvénients

- high commission for the transactions
- the best features for business only in the most expensive plan