It’s here: Community has arrived at Teachable
When it comes to your business, we get it. It’s more than transactional—it’s personal. Your students are more than customers. They’re the people who keep you doing what you love. They inspire you each and every day.
That’s exactly why we’ve built a new way to create meaningful connections between your students (and them with you). Introducing community, our latest product offering. We’re offering this entirely new product type to all on our paid plans at no extra cost. Now you can build an online community for your students alongside your courses, coaching, digital downloads, and memberships. And you can enjoy this fully seamless digital experience, with just one login.
The community you want; the community they need
Imagine the community you wish you had when you were starting out in your niche or business. Now, you can provide that for your students. Your community allows students to post and reply to threads about your course and content in a safe, private environment.
Your community even allows students to go one step deeper in building a connection with you—and with each other.
Here’s what you can do with community on Teachable:
- Spark genuine connection—with your students and between your students—in a private online community that you control
- Cut down on excess software and prevent student confusion about where to log in with community and courses in one place
- Put conversation at the center of your students’ learning experience—it’s the best way to drive engagement
- Boost the value of your courses (and in turn, raise your course prices) with the added benefit of community for your students
The best part is, this community is all your own. You don’t need to rely on social platforms which your students might or might not be on.
Your students deserve the best. Community can unlock that.
A way to build your business
Not only does a community product enable genuine connection, but it also puts conversation at the center of your learning experience. And when you’re building a business of passion and authenticity, that matters.
For those who are already Teachable customers and are ready to add community to your school, you will now see “community beta” as a product you can add to your school. Setting up your community space is easy in Teachable. Check out our quick-start tutorial below on how to set up your community in 5 minutes.
Now that you can offer a community experience on Teachable, you can cut down on excess software and leverage one seamless login to unlock all your digital learning spaces.
Forget sending your students elsewhere (and dealing with login confusion) for community access. Forget relying on social media algorithms or ever-changing updates to grow a sense of trust with your audience. Teachable’s community provides a seamless experience for everyone taking your online courses and learning from you.
What’s more, by offering community as added value, you can update your course prices to reflect the benefit and enhanced experience that you’ll be offering.
You want your students to have the best learning experience. Community unlocks the potential for students to maximize learning from you—and from each other.
A powerful way to grow
Communities have become incredibly powerful places for creators to nurture their audiences, which ultimately leads to a deeper level of trust.
And trust is what helps a brand and business grow.
With a community, you can provide a place to further educate and help your students beyond your course or other product curriculum, meaning you can help them grow in their learning. In many cases, communities also allow you to better help your students by having the ability to serve them based on their specific needs. And most importantly, a community creates a safe place for your students to learn from each other, help each other, inspire one another!
Unlike many courses or pre-recorded content, communities are much more flexible and lively spaces for you to interact with your audience. But, however you choose to fit a community into your business, it’s important to remember that a community doesn’t run itself.
It’s important to set clear expectations and guidelines for how your community interacts with you and each other. One of the best tips we can give you when starting a community is to enter the community as an example of how you want your members to act. Start by modeling your ideal community member and in time, others will match and likely exceed your expectations!
When you build a foundation of trust and connection between students (and you!), you can witness growth all around.
Start a Teachable community today
You’ve already done the work of building your course and bringing in students. Now it’s time to enhance their learning and offer more value with community. Those on a paid Teachable plan can start building today at no extra cost. (Not on a Teachable plan? No problem, pick your plan here.)
Ready to get started? Start your community and kickstart a dedicated space for discussion and connection in five steps:
- Find “Community [BETA]” in the side navigation bar
- Click “Create your School Community”
- Select access level for students (all students or from select courses)
- Create categories for more focused learning
- Click “Enable Community”
Once enabled, your students have immediate access. Start building your thriving community today.
What are you waiting for? Explore all that community at Teachable has to offer.