Teachable vs Udemy

Teachable

Teachable is a platform that helps the individuals in creating and selling the online courses to the students and audience. Students and audience can virtually choose the courses according to their requirement. At teachable, it is believed that every person is having some experience and expertise skills that can play an important role in teaching others. Through teachable and individual can easily create an aesthetically-pleasing course website through which he can share the knowledge and details with others.

The best part about teachable is that the individual only needs to focus on creating on the course. While the other factors including the back and work and other coding and designing can easily get handled by them. Through teachable, the user finally gets a course optimised website.  The website needs very little configurations and also the user can easily personalize it according to the demand and the requirements. Even with the help of Power Editor, the user can easily personalize the website.

Features of Teachable:

By using teachable, students can easily sign up for the school and can go through the curriculum and class previews. Letter on students and audience can also purchase your course easily. Along with that there is also another feature of teachable that provides the users to mention their comments or send emails regarding their queries. There is a discussion forum also available through which students and other audience can communicate with the user and other people who are involved in the community as per their requirements. Teacher will also provides the feature of moderating the comments before presenting it in public.  Apart from this, there are several other amazing features of teachable that include:

·       Affiliate marketing

·       reward program

·       Coupons and promotions

·       Encouragement for higher enrollment

·       For own branding, customizations are also available.

·       Domain name support

·       Free domain

·       Drag-and-drop builder

·       For sending mail to the targeted audience, Email list segmentation feature also available

·       First touch and last touch attribution

·       Determination regarding student conversion

·       Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive can get used to import the contacts

·       For reaching the international students, the feature of Language modification also available

·       Learning management

·       Marketing tools and integrations

·       Multiple instructor support

·       Payment gateways

·       Different Pricing options available like subscriptions, payment plans and bundled courses

·       Full refunds or partial refunds

·       Responsiveness for all devices including the desktops, smartphones and tablets

·       Integration of Zapier,

·       Connection with various support tools like Zendesk

Through teachable, the user will get the chance to create and sell the courses in the form of every type of media like audio, PDF, txt, presentation, image or videos. In order to check the progress and performance of the students the users can also create quiz and tests and exams. Additionally, the same quizzes and other factors can be used to reinforce the lessons and information summarising. Teachable also provides the benefit of Designing the home page, lectures and sales page according to the requirement of the users.  After completion of the course, the users or the instructors can also revert their students by providing them unique and customise the certificates for each course.

In order to collect feedback regarding the course, you can also use Google opt-in forms or surveys.  Through such matters, you can easily get to know about the experience and thoughts of the students through which you can easily improve your working and course. Additionally, there are some built-in reporting tools available by using which you can take a snapshot of the insights and detailed data of the students.  Through this, you can also easily avail information regarding your revenue.

Teachable Support

On the homepage of teacher well, there is a popup that provides an offer regarding free download of the course creation book. The course creation books help the individuals in creating the interviews, slides and video content for generating or building up their courses. Additionally, there is a separate library having all the essential details regarding creation of the courses. In order to keep the Student data and course is safe the teachable platform also provides the website backup facility. The teachable team always monitors every activity happening on the platform and in case any sort of problem occurs at salts it right away. In teachable, the individuals also get automatic and immediate updates.  The user does not need to update manually.

Teachable Pricing

There are four main plans provided by teachable including the free plan, basic plan, professional plan and the business plan. Every plan supports numerous courses, students, hosting and videos. If you want to attract more and more customers for students to your course then there is no need to worry about the plan you are choosing. You can easily tool the plan according to your budget and requirements.

·       Free plan: $ 0 month

·       Basic plan: $ 49 per month

·       Professional plan: $ 99 per month

·       Premier: $ 499 per month

Udemy:

Udemy is software that allows the users to create the courses and share their skill with others including the students. Additionally, users can also prefer udemy for exploring their hobbies with others. Through this software, one cannot only share the information with others but can also allow feedbacks to perform better. There are many people who used to create udemy courses with the motive to give their career for the advancement. The user can easily plan out the course with the help of Microsoft Office tools and Google docs. With the help of udemy the user can also get to know about the procedure through which we can create his own courses and share it with others.

Features of Udemy:

With the help of you day me the individuals can easily motivate the audience and students to have interaction with the course is by adding assignments, quizzes and exercises and tests to the curriculum. Along with this, there is an amazing feature of udemy that provides the messaging facility through which the individual can easily convey messages regarding the course announcements and can also hold the question and answer in sessions. Being the instructor, you can also chat with the students and solve their problems by answering their questions and providing them information regarding the course material.

There are several other features of udemy that includes:

·       Goals of the courses

·       Targeting the students

·       Messaging the students directly

·       Promotional emails

·       Course announcement and other important details can be sent through mails

·       Question and answer dash board

·       Fast response

·       Easy payment criteria by using Pioneer and paypal

Udemy Support

If you want to have some expert assistance while creating your course then you can easily to the udemy community. There are several Facebook groups and other social groups that will help you in creating connections with the instructors.  Such instructors will help you  in designing your course with more perfection and expertise. The best part about udemy support team is that it is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. In order to talk with the support team you need to generate a ticket.

Udemy Pricing

The best part about udemy course is that you do not need to pay any fees for creating or hosting your course.  Additionally, there is no such limits that how many courses and individual can host at a time. However, there is a revenue share program.

Comparison table

Factors	Udemy	Teachable
Best Price Competitiveness	Udemy is less Expensive  than teachable	Teachable is quite expensive as compared to Udemy.
Best Free Use Support	Udemy does support free to use	Teachable may not support free to use
Best Course Auditing Policies	Udemy does allow course audits	Teachable may not allow course audits
Best Free Trial Availability	Udemy may not offer free trials	Teachable does offer free trials
Best Free Use Support	Udemy does support free to use.	Teachable may not support free to use
Best Website Security & Privacy Policies	Udemy does offer website security & privacy.	Teachable does offer website security & privacy
Best Pricing Information	Udemy may not offer price transparency	Teachable does offer price transparency
Best Course Auditing Policies	allow course audits	may not allow course audits
Best Free Return Policies	Udemy does offer free returns & exchanges	Teachable does not offer free returns & exchanges
Best Official Coupons Support	Udemy does offer official coupons pag	Teachable may not offer official coupons page
Best Cyber Monday Page	Offered by Udemy	Teachable does not offer
Best Teacher Discount Policies	Avaikable at Udemy	Not available at Teachable
Best Affiliate Programs	Available	Not available
Best Loyalty Programs	Provided	Not Provided
Best International Shipping Policies	does offer	does not offer
Best Sales and Promotions	provbided	Not available

 

After comparing both Udemy and Teachable, It is concluded that Udemy is must better than Teachable and other such platforms. We are not stating that Teachable is not a great platform but if a user is willing to have some advancements then he/she must go for Teachable platform.