This article explains the key features of the LearnDesk and the differences in comparison to other marketplaces and self-hosting. LearnDesk tackles key problems that teachers face and is better for teachers for the following reasons:
- Industry-leading Teaching Software: LearnDesk's industry-leading all-in-one teaching software enables the effective running of live classes, management of bookings, collection of payments, and selling of a variety of content. The software can help teachers sign students up quickly, increase revenue, improve student outcomes, save time, and save money. See the video on this page to better understand live class capabilities: Overview of Live Classes. Sign up for a free demo of LearnDesk features to learn about all capabilities: LearnDesk Demo.
- Industry-leading Marketplace Payout Rate: We pay a 100% revenue share to our teachers. In comparison, existing marketplaces pay between 5% and 50% to teachers. Thus, the LearnDesk is as financially rewarding as self-hosting while offering you all the benefits of a marketplace.
- Multi-format Learning: Learning happens via many mediums. We have added support for teachers to teach that goes beyond traditional video-based eLearning. These include live classes, video classes, audio-only classes, rich-text learning content, quiz-only content, and learning content in the form of downloadable files, etc. Teachers are the best judge for what is good for students and our platform gives the capabilities for teachers to provide content in various formats to students.
- Open Pricing: Instructors can set their own prices, up to $25,000 per item. By being able to set their own prices, teachers can charge for classes/content based on the value they provide to their customers.
- Flexible Pricing Options: Teachers have various ways to price their content. These include one-time payments, subscriptions, and payment plans. The subscription option provides you the ability to charge on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. This enables the teachers to charge students using the pricing options that are the best fit for their content.
- Multi-currency Support: We support content pricing in the most popular currencies in the world. Teachers can set prices for the same content in different currencies. This enables teachers to design specialized content for various geographies. Location-based pricing options are currently available only for Premium Sellers.
- Sale of Instructional Resources: Teaching involves a lot of steps from material preparation, to delivery, to student engagement. We have added capabilities for teachers to sell instructional materials to other teachers. These can be in the form of digital downloadable files such as PDFs, PPTs, etc. This allows teachers to monetize the time spent in material creation and share them with others who are not experts in instructional material preparation.
- Bundles: Our platform provides the ability for you to combine multiple classes or resources and offer them as a single bundle to students. Bundles make it convenient for students to buy multiple classes together as a single checkout. It allows teachers to cross-sell and increase their revenue.
- On-boarding Support: We understand that your time is valuable. You may not want to participate in a new platform because of the time it takes to create classes and upload content. We can help with the process by migrating your content from other platforms.
- Marketplace: LearnDesk supports instructors by driving a significant amount of traffic to the platform via content marketing, targeted ad placements, social media marketing, and email marketing. Our marketplace currently has more than 8 million monthly visitors. Being on our marketplace gives instructors access to a large captive audience interested in learning online.
- Catalog Sales Program: LearnDesk supports learning material sales efforts through our catalog sales program. Under this program, our sales team reaches out to institutions and companies to bulk-license classes/content for their members and employees.
- Teacher Training Programs: One of the important problems that instructors face is marketing their content and conveying its value. We work with instructors to help them overcome this critical challenge. You can learn to market your online learning content, discover paying customers, collect leads, and run successful campaigns that will bring in the results. LearnDesk guides teachers to build a marketing/pricing strategy that works for your business.