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Getting Started With Creating Your Course (Initial Setup)
Getting Started With Creating Your Course (Initial Setup)

Video walk-throughs of the major features of Teachery including Lessons, Payment Pages, Course Styling, and more.

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Whether you're just joining Teachery through our free 14-day trial, you're doing some hardcore lurking on our platform, OR you want a refresher on how Teachery works, this help doc is for you!

We've created walk-through videos for each major section/feature of Teachery. Here's an overview of what we'll cover (click any item to jump directly to it):

If you're looking for something other than these topics, use the search bar at the top of this page. If you can't find what you're looking for, feel free to contact us using the chat bubble at the bottom right of this page.




Your Teachery Dashboard ("Courses" page)

This is the hub of your Teachery account. When you log in to Teachery this is where you will land. You'll see these sections at a glance:

  • Your Courses (along with active students and simple course analytics)

  • Customer Activity (only displays after you get your first customer)

  • Manually Add a Customer (how to quickly manually add a user to your course)

  • Course Analytics (analytics of all your courses in one dashboard)

  • Purchased Courses (any courses you own from other Teachery creators)

 

Your Account ("Account" page): Plan, Information, Billing History, and Integrations

Your Teachery Plan, name, email address, password, billing history, Stripe connection, API key, and Mailchimp and ConvertKit integrations. Pretty straightforward, but let's dive into a bit more detail so you're completely familiar...

Note: Billing History only appears once you've picked a Teachery plan and paid your first payment.

 

Your Customer Activity ("Customers" page)

We display your 20 most recent customers and then you can search for any other customers to access their Customer Profile. You can also download your entire Customer List (CSV) in this area of Teachery.

📄 Read our help doc on Customer Actions (resending Welcome Emails, refunding customers, canceling/pausing subscriptions, or revoking customer access).

Customizing Your Course Overview Page (aka Course Dashboard)

Your Course Overview page is the first page a new customer will see when getting access to your course.

How does a customer get access to your course? Great question!

This page is great for welcoming your customer and offering a brief introduction to your course.

The Overview page is where you'll find the settings for these course features:

Reminder: We have two course templates. In the video below you'll see our Minimal Template in action!

 

Adding and Customizing Lessons and Lesson Content

Your lessons are arguably the most important part of your course! We've tried to give you a ton of flexibility when it comes to adding content to your lessons, while also keeping your lesson structure organized based on best practices for online learning.

📄 We have an in-depth help doc on Lessons and Lesson Content we recommend reading. 

📌 Note about copying + pasting from external sources (Word, Google Docs, Evernote, etc): Teachery will ALWAYS strip out text formatting from external sources. Please trust us when we say this is done for your overall benefit ❤️. Most text editing platforms inject a bunch of crappy code behind the scenes and it will quickly break your course. Plus, reformatting gives you a chance to up-level your Teachery skills!

The video below walks you through our lesson editor, check out our other help doc for things like adding images, uploading files, embedding videos, and more!

 

Styling Your Course (branding it all your own!)

One of the biggest features we pride ourselves on in Teachery is the ability to style your course to keep a similar look and feel to your website/business.

We have two course templates that will help keep your students engaged throughout your course, but we let you change the colors, fonts, headings, buttons, and more! 

We have multiple style editors to make the customization process as simple as possible. You can individually style your:

  • Overview Page

  • Course Lessons

  • Payment Pages

  • Landing Pages

  • Login Pages

  • Course Expiration Bar

📄 You can read our in-depth help doc on styling your course here (with examples and helpful styling resources).

Here's one of our walk-through videos, showing our Overview Style Editor in action:

 

Payment Pages (how someone purchases your course!)

Our payment pages are just as customizable as the lessons in your course, and we've optimized the payment page layouts for the highest sales conversion possible. We use Stripe to help process your student's payments and the setup is super simple (and your students will never know Stripe exists!)

Payment page features include (read our full Payment Page help doc here):

  • Custom branding

  • Countdown timer

  • Multiple currency support

  • Recurring payments (monthly or yearly)

  • Adding tracking or conversion code (like Facebook Pixels, et al)

  • Turning course sale notifications on/off

  • Connecting MailChimp or ConvertKit

We have a couple of additional help docs related to Payment Pages:

  

Landing Pages (aka Sales Pages)

Payment Pages are the way your student makes an actual purchase for your course while Landing Pages are the pages that lead someone to make a purchase.

We openly admit that our Landing Page template is not as flexible as companies that focus solely on Landing Page creation. However, our template has been thoroughly tested for an ideal structure and leading your customer through the buying journey of your course. 

Landing Pages can lead to Payment Pages or can be toggled to collect emails if your course isn't quite ready for purchase. 

📄 Read our full help doc on Landing Pages to learn more about what you can do with them along with additional recommendations.

   

Manage Course Options (aka Course Settings)

This is where you control a bunch of core course settings. Each course you create will have its own unique settings.

 

Course Links (quick access to helpful course URLs)

The Course Links page within your course is a friendly place to grab almost all important URLs associated with your course.

If you want to quickly find your Payment Page URLs, Landing Page URLs, or helpful URLs for your students (Login, Password Reset, Recurring Payment), this is the area for that!

   

👋 That covers the Getting Started Guide to using Teachery along with our main features!

We have a ton more to offer, including additional help docs on these popular features and topics:

Don't forget to use the search bar at the top of this page as well to search for any topic you might be looking for.

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