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My Honest Teachable Review In 2022: Features, Pricing, Pros, Cons, and Coupons 

You don’t have to look hard to find a Teachable review if you sell training courses or are thinking about selling any kind of online course. There are a lot of reviews of Teachable out there. This is the best one, in my opinion, because:

 

More than 20 years of experience in the e-learning industry, with a focus on businesses that sell education and courses (as opposed to, for example, corporate training departments, that do not have to convince their learners to buy)

 

A lot of experience designing, building, and putting in place platforms for digital courses (I was the founder and CEO of an e-learning platform and course development company)

 

More than a decade of experience tracking and researching online course platforms and helping organisations and individuals choose the right platform for selling online courses

 

Personal, hands-on experience making, selling, and delivering online learning experiences

 

I’ve been keeping a close eye on Teachable and other course platforms that have come out in the last few years. These platforms are much easier to use and cheaper than traditional learning management systems (LMSes). You can also use Teachable coupons to help you get started with pro plan.

 

They are great for solo edupreneurs and small companies that want to get into the booming online course business and earn smart passive income. I also think that, over time, they have a real chance of shaking up the market for traditional learning management systems.

 

Teachable Review: Overview

In general, Teachable is an easy-to-use, reliable teaching platform for people who own online businesses or want to start their own online school and sell courses. The interface is clean, so your students won’t have any trouble getting to your courses or moving around in them.

 

Teachable is not a learning management system that is more geared toward corporate learning or training for people outside of your company. A learning management system like this is going to be expensive, but Teachable isn’t too expensive and has more features that help you build and sell courses.

 

I think that its strength is the video content that it has. And Teachable is great when it comes to simple tools that help you sell your first online course. For example, its sales, checkout, and thank you pages can be changed to fit your needs.

 

Also, it’s important to know that Teachable is one of, if not the biggest, platform in its class. Given how many companies are trying to sell online course platforms, this is a very important point. In just a few years, many of them will be gone. I don’t think it will be Teachable.

 

In general, Teachable is a hard platform to beat for anyone who wants a solid, easy-to-use platform to make and sell online courses.

 

Now, let’s start to look more closely at the Teachable experience.

 

Building and Branding Online Course Site

 

My opinion is that even a great platform for online courses shouldn’t be your main website. (The only exception is if you use a platform like Kajabi that does everything for you.) Still, Teachable, like most platforms in its class, gives you a lot of ways to set up and brand the site where your course materials will live.

 

There are enough options and customization tools that if you are just starting out, you could use Teachable for your website for at least a while without having to learn too much. Here is a quick list of the most important things you can change.

 

Theme: The “Site” section of the Teachable admin panel has an easy-to-use interface for changing important parts of your course site’s branding. For example, you can add your logo, upload a background image (or choose from a number of stock images provided by Teachable), and change the fonts and colours that will be used throughout the site.

 

Even with these basic tools, you can put together a nice-looking website. More advanced users can also use the “Code Snippets” area to add their own CSS.

 

Custom Domain – An important part of long-term SEO success and growth is a custom domain. If you want to build a business to make and sell things online, a custom domain is a must. By default, your school’s address on Teachable will be a subdomain of Teachable.com, like learningrevolution.teachable.com.

 

However, you can add a custom domain to any paid Teachable plan (starting at $39 per month), like learn.learningrevolution.net. At the Professional level and above, you can also turn off the Teachable branding, which says “powered by Teachable” on every page of your site if you don’t turn it off.

 

Navigation and Pages: Teachable comes with some default links for navigation and some stock Web pages, which you can change. Teachable also makes it easy to add links to both the main menu and the menu at the bottom of the page. These can link to pages you make, and a very nice feature is that you can easily control whether logged-in users, logged-out users, or everyone can see the navigation items.

 

With these Teachable features, you can add as many pages as you want to your site and decide who can see them. However, there is no drop-down menu or navigation bar on the side. So, it doesn’t take long for your menus to look crowded.

 

Blog: Unlike many of its competitors, Teachable lets you add a blog to your school website. If you already have a blog somewhere else, this might not be important to you. 

 

However, if you don’t have a blog or just want a place to post content related to your courses, this can be very helpful. I’ve said many times that a good blog is one of the best things an edupreneur can make.

 

Custom Text: Teachable has the most options I’ve seen on any platform for changing the language of the system’s default text to the language you want. This includes everything from error messages to e-commerce links and course navigation buttons. There doesn’t seem to be much you can’t change to your preferred language.

 

Custom Code: As was said above, you can add custom CSS in Teachable’s Code Snippets area. For users who know what they’re doing, this is also where you can add HTML and Javascript to your head tag. If you have a Professional licence or higher, you can also use Teachable’s Power Editor to make a lot of changes to your Teachable theme. 

 

Note that Teachable says this feature’s documentation is still being worked on and that no help is given. So, if you go this way, you should be careful.

 

Creating Online Courses

 

As with any online course platform review, a good Teachable review should look at how easy it is to create online courses, training courses, and other learning experiences to help your online business.

 

Setting up online courses and course pages in Teachable is pretty easy, so even beginners can do it. This may be a relief for experienced course creators who are tired of dealing with platforms that are too complicated.

 

One of the first things that stood out to me when I looked at the Courses section of the administrative panel was how clear it was that Teachable was made to sell courses. As part of setting up a course, you have to give it a name and an instructor. You can also give each course you make a search engine optimised (SEO) URL, page title, and meta-description.

 

You can also easily upload a thumbnail image that will be shown in the catalogue and on the course interface, as well as a promotional video that can be shown on the sales page for the course.

 

You need something to sell before you can start selling. I think Teachable’s way of making courses is pretty simple, and it definitely favours on-demand, video-based courses. Still, this should be enough for most people who want to make online courses.

 

The sections of a course are where the lectures are held. As you set up the sections, you give them names like “Introduction” and “First Module.” If you want, you can use the Custom Text feature we talked about above to change the word “lecture” to something else. Lectures can include multimedia files (video, audio, PDF, etc. ), text you type directly into Teachable, quizzes, or any combination of these.

 

You can also embed live video streams or webinars directly into a lecture by using the “Add Code” option for Lectures. This is a nice option, but most course entrepreneurs probably won’t be able to use it because it’s too complicated. It would be nice to see a more user-friendly option for streaming video and Webinars.

 

Creating Quizzes in Teachable

 

Teachable lets you make simple quizzes with multiple choice questions. You can list as many options as Teachable lets you for simple quizzes with multiple choices. 

 

Any question you make can have as many possible answers as you want, and each question can have one or more correct answers. You also say whether or not a quiz will be graded. If it is, the scores can be seen in Teachable’s reporting area (more on that below).

 

All done. Teachable makes it easy to make quizzes, but keep in mind that you don’t have a lot of options. For example, there’s no way to tell students how their answer choices did or didn’t work. 

 

And you can’t use more advanced features like mixing up the questions or putting them in a question bank so you can use them in more than one quiz.

 

There is also no way to import a lot of quiz questions at once. So, if you already have a set of quiz questions you’ve been using, you’ll have to type each one into Teachable for each course in which you use it.