Have you ever considered using creator platforms to create online courses as a way to develop passive income? Initially, you need to invest time and effort in course creation, but once completed, the remaining process can be automated.
If you are planning to create your online course, you may face a choice: whether to collaborate directly with online teaching platforms or to build your online course independently. The benefits of using creator platforms to set up your online course are as follows:
- Full control over course content and pricing: Independently decide the content and pricing of your online course.
- Complete ownership of student and member lists: No need to share sensitive data with the platform.
- No revenue sharing with the platform: Retain all income without sharing with third parties.
- Flexible promotion strategies: Choose the promotion method that best suits your course.
Next, we will introduce four creator platforms suitable for online teaching, including two Chinese-supported platforms and two international platforms, to help you find the platform that best suits your needs.
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RakoSell
RakoSell offers comprehensive system features suitable for creators other than teachers. RakoSell helps you establish your own personal teaching website. The user interface for setting up online teaching platforms is simple and clear, with a professionally designed website suitable for teachers who prefer a less complicated or feature-rich interface. RakoSell's membership function allows teachers to effectively promote their courses, and the platform supports both Chinese and English interfaces, allowing users to easily switch between the two languages.
What sets RakoSell apart is its emphasis on features beyond course creation, such as "membership subscriptions," "product sales," and "SEO (Search Engine Optimization)." The comprehensive features make it suitable for teachers looking to diversify.
RakoSell offers various pricing plans, including a zero-month basic entry plan with no monthly fee, and RakoSell only charges a 4% processing fee per transaction, making it suitable for novice teachers to try out. Once you accumulate a significant number of student purchases, you can switch to a monthly payment model, priced at only NT$1700. Additionally, various tools are available for creators to choose from.
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Teaches Fun Courses
Teaches Fun Courses, like Hahow, assists in course creation, fundraising, and marketing. It is also a platform that helps teachers establish their own online teaching brand. Unlike Hahow and Udemy, Teaches Fun Courses provides teachers with student lists. Teaches Fun Courses offers a paid course consulting service to help novice teachers better prepare for course creation, and it connects with social media to facilitate teacher promotion.
As a consignment platform, Teaches Fun Courses is relatively expensive. Teaches Fun Courses has four pricing plans, with monthly and annual payment options. Depending on the pricing plan, Teaches Fun Courses charges a monthly fee plus a 0% to 20% revenue sharing fee. In terms of platform setup, the commission is relatively high. For example, with annual payment, the basic plan is NT$890 per month plus a 20% revenue sharing fee, and with 0% revenue sharing, it will cost NT$6,000 per month.
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Teachable
Teachable is the world's most widely used platform for setting up online courses, offering a variety of stylish course interface templates. Because Teachable is currently the most famous international platform for online teaching, all interfaces are in English. While Chinese users can manually set up their interface, the drawback is that it is very time-consuming, and the interface cannot be easily switched between two languages. For teachers and students primarily using Chinese, we do not recommend the Teachable platform. It's better to choose a system that is easy for both teachers and students to use in both the front and back ends.
Teachable has four pricing plans. For annual payment, the Free plan charges a 10% processing fee with no monthly fee, making it suitable for novice teachers. The Pro plan, on the other hand, has a monthly fee of USD$159 (about NT$4973). In terms of payment processing, Teachable is not a cost-effective choice. Regardless of which Teachable pricing plan you use, any payment processing incurs fees. For more details, you can refer to the previous article "2021 Teachable Thinkific Taiwan Payment Solutions."
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Thinkific
Thinkific is also a well-known international platform for setting up online courses, second only to Teachable. Its interface and features are comparable to Teachable. In Thinkific, you can choose from six course templates to create your online course, such as mini-courses, flagship courses, and pre-sale courses. Unlike Teachable, Thinkific's student interface can be selected in more than nine languages, making it convenient for students of different nationalities to use. Teachers do not need to manually translate the front-end language.
Thinkific's pricing plans are the only ones in this article without a revenue sharing model for platform setup. They have four pricing plans, all based on a monthly fee model. Prices range from USD$0 to USD$160, with the Free plan available for free trial, limiting the number of courses. The Basic plan, which does not limit the number of courses, is only USD$39 (about NT$1095) per month. In terms of payment processing, because it is a foreign company, like Teachable, all payment processing incurs fees.
These are the recommended platforms for setting up online teaching. We hope this information helps educators better understand different online course platforms. In terms of functionality, all four platforms can easily create online courses, and the considerations should be the additional features and pricing of the platform.
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