Your partner for online courses!
Updated January 12, 2024
Your partner for online courses!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Teachable
At our organization we often receive applicants who think what we do is easy, but it's harder than what people think, so we decided to launch courses about it. We sell transcription courses through Teachable. Right now we have 10 courses and are looking to create and sell more. It's a good place to host our lectures, both text and videos. We have lots and lots of students using the platform right now.
- Organizing the content into sections and lectures.
- Uploading the content.
- Navigating in the back office.
- Ability to add bundle courses.
- When a student enrolls in a course, the default setting is to be "opted out of emails" which a lot of people oversee and don't deactivate. This makes it harder for us to communicate to the students through the platform, we have to do it outside the platform.
- The back office is hard to navigate when you are starting out, it gets ovewhelming, but you get to use to it after a while.
- When I have an issue, support doesn't answer right away. It could take a day before I hear from them.
Overall Satisfaction Continued
- Managed student volume.
- Managed organized my content very well.
The platform is more atractive than others. This one has more features and allows more control over your students. Plus is cheaper in the long run.
Do you think Teachable delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Teachable's feature set?
Yes
Did Teachable live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Teachable go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Teachable again?
Yes
Teachable Feature Ratings
Using Teachable
3 - The departments that use Teachable are:
-Billing
-Administrative
-Teacher/Tutor
The billing depart check payments every month.
Administratives check if there are any issues with a student.
Teacher/Tutors are the ones that use it the most. They create the content, upload it, revise/modify it and make sure there's no issues and that the courses are organic and follow a logical order.
-Billing
-Administrative
-Teacher/Tutor
The billing depart check payments every month.
Administratives check if there are any issues with a student.
Teacher/Tutors are the ones that use it the most. They create the content, upload it, revise/modify it and make sure there's no issues and that the courses are organic and follow a logical order.
1 - There's one teacher that knows Teachable funcionality to the core. Even if that person can't find a solution, their support system is always eager to help, although sometimes it could take up to a day to get an answer from them.
- Storing courses.
- Gather all the content.
- Organizing content into lectures.
- We've been able to sale bundle courses, combining them without having to duplicate.
- We can sell through the platform itself AND outside of it, augmenting our sales.
- Organizing the content is very easy, this allows us to modify a course in very few steps.
- We might use their mailing system in the future if some changes are made.
- We could create more courses and bundles.
- We could sell more courses through the platform, if the commissions were lower.
Evaluating Teachable and Competitors
- Cloud Solutions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
When we first started using Teachable we thought the Cloud Solution issue was gonna be the most important factor, but then we realized that the Ease of Use is Teachable's strongest point. It allows you to organize content into lectures, upload, delete, change, etc, very easily. It doesn't take up too much time to make a change in the content, and that's a very big plus.
I think we would still pick Teachable. Is very hard to know the internal functionality of a platform without seeing it work, but we are very pleased with the way this platform has solved our needs and we will continue to use in the future. We did consider other three platforms but we are glad we decided on this one.
Teachable Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Not sure - I didn't think we learned anything when we implemented.
- Not setting up the courses correctly.
- Not contemplating that people don't always read and take the courses seriously, so they skip things.
- Not knowing the system entirely.
Teachable Training
- No Training
Yes, it was easy to use without training. The first time you use it has some pop ups explaining little things and they are very helpful. But the product is very intuitive and doesn't need much training.
Configuring Teachable
Nothing to add. It's very easy to set up. Maybe some of the integrations should be used by an IT guy, other than that, it's easy to use.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface - We wanted to add our logo and our company colors. It was really easy to do.
Yes - we have added extensive custom code - At times we've added forms from Wufoo, and we've added to the lectures by inserting a custom code. Just created the form in Wufoo, copied the html code and paste it in a custom code field.
Can't think of anything else.
Teachable Support
Pros | Cons |
---|---|
Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Support understands my problem Support cares about my success | Slow Resolution Difficult to get immediate help Slow Initial Response |
No, we didn't. We have standard support. We didn't think we needed premium. I'm not sure if they offer it though.
I don't know if it's been exceptional. They've answered simple and more difficult questions.
Using Teachable
Pros | Cons |
---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Uploading content.
- Organizing content.
- Deleting content.
- Emailing students.
- N/A
- N/A
Yes, but I don't use it
Teachable Reliability
Integrating Teachable
- Wufoo
- Pdfs readers
- images and videos
- Mailchimp
I don't know about depth, but what we've integrated was easy to achieve.
- Not at the time.
Not at this time.
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Javascript widgets
Can't think of anything else.
Most integrations are easy to use, they don't require any special training, anyone can do it.
Relationship with Teachable
Didn't negotiate terms. We purchased directly.
No advice.
Upgrading Teachable
Yes - We went from the basic to the pro plan last year.
- We could add more courses.
- We could use their payment system.
- N/A.
- We were able to sell more courses.
- More sales.
- N/A.
Yes - From basic to pro.