FAQs about Course Creation
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Q: How many Courses can I create? A: Currently you can create as many Courses as you like on our platform. We wouldn't encourage you to do so because it would become a mess for you in the first place. However, you can only ever have a maximum of 5 Single-session Courses and 5 Multi-session Courses activated at any one time. Whether they are listed or unlisted Courses, doesn't matter. This means that you can have maximum 10 Courses in total that are available for booking. Note i: You can only activate Courses that are moderated and approved by our Team. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: What are the steps to become a 5StarTeacher? A: 1. Create a profile as Teacher, Coach, Consultant or Expert. You need to have a Linkedin profile for this. 2. Verify your account. 3. Take our Pre-Teacher Training Quiz (easy) and agree to the terms and conditions. 4. Update your profile, (our system will guide you) 5. Create your first Single-session Course, 6. Create 50 Sessions available for booking, 7. Create a Personal Introduction Video, 8. Create a Course Introduction Video. When you are happy with your content, set each of these items to "Ready to go!" and your profile will go in our moderation queue. 9. Allow 48 hours for our team to check and moderate your profile and content. 10. If all is good, our CEO will book one of your Available Sessions to have a short interview with you. 11. And if that is all good: CONGRATULATIONS! You've just become an approved 5StarTeacher and you can start earning money from wherever you are in the world by sharing massive amounts of value via teaching, coaching, or advising 1-to-1 online, via screen sharing on our platform. Yay! Good to know: Check your profile page to see a comprehensible profile status card. (this is private info) Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: How do you review or moderate my Courses? A: Good question. We always say: do the right thing, every time. We believe that doing the right thing is to ensure that you don't trick people, that you don't scam them, that you don't write any English mistakes (use an Ai to correct your English if necessary), that you don't create low quality, not in your text, not in your videos, not in your images or thumbnails. And what about knowledge? Who are we to judge you on your knowledge of the subject you want to teach? Do we need an expert on our team for every possible subject or topic who is "more" experienced than you? We don't think so. Besides, that would be simply impossible. And what about degrees? Some teachers who have degrees are terrible teachers. Others who don't have degrees are some of the best. Therefore moderation is not a matter of knowledge or degrees. It is a matter of quality, experience, and commitment. And we agree, that is a subjective matter. But if we can't find that in your Course, it won't be approved. We are 5StarTeachers after all, not "4.9-star Teachers". So live up to it! And if it does happen that your Course can't be approved, our moderator will leave a comment for you on your Course on how to fix it. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: How many Courses can I activate? A: You can activate a maximum of 5 Single-session Courses and 5 Multi-session Courses at any one time. This means that you can have maximum 10 Courses in total that are available for booking. Some or all of these Courses can be set to "unlisted". If you choose that option, no one will find your Courses in our listing and search pages anymore. You would choose this option if you wanted to take 100% control of your own marketing efforts. This means, that you will have to share your Course links with your potential audience, e.g. on your social accounts. It could be a useful strategy to some 5StarTeachers who are, for example famous or very popular on the platform.
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Q: If I duplicate my Course, will it have to go back into moderation? A: Duplicating a Course is the easiest way to create a copy of an already approved Course. But you must select a different price. All Courses collect data so it's wise to not modify your Course but duplicate it and modify the duplicate instead. That way, you can easily do A/B testing. When you update certain fields on any approved Course, it will go back into moderation. The updated fields that will send your Course back into moderation are: - the title - the tag line - the subject - the Course type (if not Subject-only Course anymore) - the audience - the skill tags - the topic tags - the category - the English description - the English summary - any external links - any images - your own specific T&C (unless it's now blank) - your Course Intro Video Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: Can I use a book to teach? A: Of course. For some types of Courses, books are simply indispensable. If you are going to use a book to teach your Student, there are fields on your Course where you can upload a picture that "you" took of the book cover, where you can set the title and the ISBN of the book. Do mention in your description that having the book is a requirement, if you need them to own this book as well. This is a great strategy to attract more Students who are familiar with this book. Note: Uploading a picture you have taken of the a book cover and posting it here on your Course for the purpose of teaching and to encourage your Student to buy the book, is generally considered "fair use" under the copyright law. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: Can anyone book my Course? A: Only Students who have the required minimum English level, the required Student level and the required gender that you have set on your Course can book your Course. This is to avoid disappointment. Minimum English level Student level Gender We strongly believe that no one should be forced to teach people of a particular gender, accept any English level or Student level. And conversely, no one should be forced to learn from a Teacher if they do not agree with them based gender, language, degrees, expertise, skills or abilities. You are the center of our platform, whether you are a Teacher or a Student, you should be in control. And that's how it should be if we want you to have the happiest and best possible experience in learning whether it's on this platform or anywhere else.
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Q: What screen sharing methods can we use? A: You have to set at least 1 "Classroom Option" on every Course that you activate. Use a "Classroom Option" that you can use and love using. Currently you can choose from the following: Zoom, FaceTime, macOS Screen Sharing, Google Meet, MS Teams, and StreamYard. When they book your Course, they can only select 1 Classroom Option from the ones you have chosen. Our recommendation for "screen sharing" is Zoom. But note that you, the Teacher, must have a paid subscription with Zoom in order to teach 1-hour Sessions. You can set multiple "Classroom Options" as a strategy to reach a larger audience if you are willing to use these Classroom Options. Good to know: Students can search Courses based on these Classroom Options. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: Can I offer a Course free of charge? A: Yes, you can offer a Course free of charge but only for a limited number of times. On the Course edit page, add your own coupon code in the field "Free Course Coupon Code". This works only for Single-session Courses. Case: Note i: The Student can book this Course for free only once. If they bought this Course before and paid for it, they can still book this one for free using the correct coupon code. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: Can I add translations to my Course description? A: Yes, you can. Up to 4 translations. This is a great strategy to target a specific audience. You add the translations in the field "Description Other Languages". When you do, make sure that the first text is the 2-letter code of the translated language. Then select these 2 letters and choose the option "language" from the formatting menu. Hit enter and write your translation in the text field. Once you save it, it will show up as a tab for the user to click on. Note: All Courses load in English first. If you wish the Course translation to appear as the primary language upon loading the page, copy the link of the Course and add: ?lang=FR at the end of the link so that it looks something like this: https://5starteachers.net/myCourseLinkGoesHere?lang=FR This will now show in French upon loading and if you use Safari's Reader, you will see the Reader in French. Cool, huh? Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: Can I work with influencers on this platform? A: Yes you can and you should! We built a 100% transparent feature for you to cooperate with Influencers so that you can get exposure in their circles, i.e. a market in which you currently have no connections. You don't need to be the marketing expert. Let others do that for you and focus on what you do best, that's our suggestion. Here are the steps:
Good to know about Coupon Codes from Influencers Courses can have multiple influencer email addresses and coupon codes. If you had set a Free Course Coupon Code to offer Students a free Single-session Course and you add Coupon Codes from Influencers, your Free Course Coupon Code will be removed automatically. Case: You have a "listed" Single-session Course that you offer at the regular price of USD 100. To work together with an influencer, you "duplicate" this Course and set the Course price on the duplicate to USD 50, for example. You add the Influencer's email address and the agreed upon coupon code and save it. This Course duplicate is now exactly the same except that it is now available at USD 50. It is also "unlisted" and only bookable with the coupon code from the Influencer. When the Influencer can successfully influence people in their circles to book and buy your Course via the link and the coupon code, they have now bought the Course at a 50% discount because everyone else is paying USD 100. The reason why you should duplicate your Course, is so that you can always compare the data between the two Courses, the one with the coupon code and the one without, or in case you just wanted to try out a different price for a specific Course without coupon code or influencer. We wanted our Teachers to be able to keep their Course data to analyse their marketing efforts at any time so they can adjust based on data.
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Q: What are unlisted Courses and who can see them? A: An "unlisted" Course is a Course that will not show up in any of our listings on the platform. This means that no one can search them. They should not be picked up by search engines like Google but if you switch too often from "listed" to "unlisted" and back, we cannot guarantee that the search engines won't pick it up. When your Course is "unlisted", people who have the correct link to your Course can see it and book it. That's why it's so useful for marketing your Course using influencers or in your own social circles. And if you are a famous person or a popular Teacher on our platform, you can easily set all your Courses to "unlisted" so that only the ones who have your Course links, can book you. Helpful? Anyone, Teachers |
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Q: What does the Course field "allow repeated bookings" do? A: "Allow repeated bookings" is a checkbox. When you check it, you allow Students to book that Course over and over again. Once you uncheck it, anyone who has bought that Course with you before, will not be able to book this Course again. This is often a great strategy to create recurring customers by requiring them to take on a greater commitment i.e. to buy the Multi-session version of this Course. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: Will Students message me before they buy my Course? A: No. Out of the question. Why not? No back-and-forth sales conversations before they buy on our platform. They either buy, or they don't. Just like on Amazon. Helpful? Teachers |
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Q: How can I attract more Students to buy my Courses on 5StarTeachers? A: Good question! Our platform allows each Teacher to create different marketing strategies for each Course. The first and foremost thing is to create each Course with 5-star content: a great Course Introduction Video, description, title, tag line, tags, images, video thumbnail, etc. Besides that, you can:
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Q: Can I set my own price per Course? A: You decide what price to set on your Courses based on our provided "price options". Case: Case: Case: Wouldn't you agree? Here are our current price options for: Single-session Courses: Multi-session Courses of 4 Sessions: Multi-session Courses of 12 Sessions: Multi-session Courses of 24 Sessions: Note: All Sessions are set for 1 hour.
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