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Teachable

Score6.4 out of 10

27 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Teachable?

Teachable in New York offers what they describe as a powerful, easy-to-use online course creation platform, designed to provide course creators everything needed to create, market, and sell their course online. Teachable's platform includes unlimited courses and unlimited students, to site customization and personal branding.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Teachable has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 27 ratings of Teachable's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Assignments

    Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Compliance management

    Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Course authoring

    Users can develop and assemble online learning content.

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Learning reporting & analytics

    Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning

    Utilizes SSO technology to ease the login process for users.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7.6

Reviews

What users are saying about Teachable.
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Solid solution that works well

Incentivized
Mike ClaytonView profile
Owner in Professional Services at OnlinePMCourses (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Teachable hosts my online school and some digital products. I have around 30 classes and products in total. It also manages all the e-commerce transactions that allow me to sell these both directly and through affiliates, and to account for sales taxes at the point of sale.

Pros

  • Hosting video-based training
  • Receiving and passing on payments and handling the slaes tax
  • Allowing me to work with affiliates

Cons

  • Communication with customers about changes to terms
  • Customer support is slow
  • Integration with Active Campaign

Return on Investment

  • This is the basis of my business.

Alternatives Considered

Kajabi

Other Software Used

ActiveCampaign, WordPress, Thrive Leads

Excellent platform to serve course content to your customers

Verified User
Employee in Marketing (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use Teachable for our online courses around topics like goal setting, productivity, and leadership. We also use it for the initial training, online exam, and ongoing updates to our certification programs. We also use it to give customers access to bonus content when they buy other products from us, such as online tutorials for our physical products.

Pros

  • Hosts digital content such as video & PDFs
  • Allows us to bundle multiple courses together
  • Has a decent Zapier connection to sync with our other platforms
  • Really easy to use

Cons

  • The affiliate part of the system isn't great
  • Needs a lot of work on the reporting side of things
  • Needs to give more control & insight into upcoming renewals, cancellations, and churn. Not super great at subscriptions.

Return on Investment

  • Positive: The built-in post-purchase upsells have allowed us to maximize our customer lifetime value
  • Positive: Switching to Teachable in 2018 was an enormous improvement over our previous in-house system in terms of the time & effort involved in launching new courses. This has saved us a lot of money.
  • Negative: Not having a clear picture of renewals/cancellations/failed payments for courses we have that use a membership-model has been a constant battle. We're now moving those subscriptions off of Teachable and onto alternative payment platforms, but continuing to use Teachable for the core content.

Alternatives Considered

LearnDash and Circle Community Platform

Other Software Used

Demio, Shopify Plus, Recharge, Asana, Rebuy Engine

Your partner for online courses!

Incentivized
Verified User
Representative in Human Resources (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Organizing the content into sections and lectures.
  • Uploading the content.
  • Navigating in the back office.
  • Ability to add bundle courses.

Cons

  • 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.

Other Software Used

WeVideo, Hubstaff, Wufoo

Return on Investment

  • Managed student volume.
  • Managed organized my content very well.

Alternatives Considered

Udemy for Business

Usability

Teachable - Stay away from the False Advertisement

Verified User
Professional (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Nothing

Cons

  • They FALSELY ADVERTISE their services.
  • They kicked us off their "unlimited" plan b/c we were using serving too many downloads?
  • They were terribly rude, cursing at us, threatening us, deleting our forum questions.
  • They have no unlimited plan and need to be sued in a court of law for their misleadings.

Return on Investment

  • We were out the money and time of loading all courses onto Teachable, paying their fees, and then having to scramble to transfer thousands of students to another platform and pay all the setups again.

Alternatives Considered

Thinkific

Other Software Used

Webflow, Thinkific, Slack