Teachable.com

Teachable.com Review

One of the most popular LMS systems currently available, Teachable is a leader in learning management.  Teachable makes it easy for anyone to transform their knowledge into an online learning program that they can sell.  Teachable is often mentioned in “How to make money online” articles as a great platform to launch a training program.  This is because it’s so easy to use, and packed with useful features.

The Teachable LMS is one of the easiest platforms for beginners because of its simple layout and tool design.  Just drag and drop your content and your training program will be ready in no time!

Teachable is a feature-rich LMS that makes it easy for beginners to set up and sell online training.  Founded by Ankur Nagpal in 2013, the company started as a one-man operation in a studio apartment.  Within just a few years, Teachable had grown into a successful LMS that allowed experts to build online training courses from home.  The company claims to have over 100,000 instructors generating over $500 million dollars in sales.

Need some examples to spark your creativity?  Teachable lists many school currently using the platform to sell all different types of training.  From how to spearfish, watercoloring, and acrylic pouring, instructors on Teachable “teach” just about everything!

LMS features:

The feature list on Teachable is extensive.  Everything is customizable and you can connect your own domain name directly to your teachable store.  Designing the front-facing website, and the learning programs is easy and fairly straight-forward.  Some additional features include:

• Sales Tracking – You have access to student insights and sales tracking on your admin dashboard.  This makes it very easy to manage your business and track the effectiveness of your advertising.
  
• Self-paced or Live Instruction – Teach the way that works best for you.  You can create a course and then let it run on autopilot, or you can teach in a live setting.  Everything is unlimited (video bandwidth, courses, and students) so you never need to worry about paying extra.
  
• Payments – Teachable makes it easy to get paid.  This might seem obvious for an LMS, but you’d be surprised by how many LMS systems limit your payment options.  With Teachable your can offer 1-time payments, subscriptions, bundles, and more.  You have access to coupons and advancing pricing options as well.  They also include a built-in affiliate marketing program, so you can have people promote your business for you!
  
• Security & Data – Teachable takes security seriously.  They offer hosting of your LMS so your data is always safe.  You own your data, you don’t turn over the rights to your training or your customers when you use Teachable.  They use a 2048-bit SSL certificate certificate for your domain, providing trust to your customers that their data is secure.

Customer Testimonials:

We found hundreds of reviews for Teachable online.  Most reviews were positive, however there were a few negative as well.  Lets look at several examples below:

Positive Reviews:
“It is great that you can create a course and put it on Teachable for free to test drive the platform and see if it will be a good fit for you and your students.”

“The payment gateway and ease of setting up courses. It is easy to get started and the onboarding example courses and content was very helpful.”

“Overall Teachable solved a revenue issue for us! We needed a place for people to go and purchase out products and downloadable services without having to start from scratch – which is quite costly – and Teachable allowed us to do that. It help us generate necessary revenue with ease.”

Negative Review:
“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.”