FAQs about Course Creation
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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 Course in our listing and search pages anymore. 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. Note i: You can only activate Courses that are moderated and approved by our Team. Note ii: If you don't have enough "Available Sessions" for the next 30 days, all your Courses will automatically be deactivated. Helpful? Teachers |
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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 can book your Course if they have the required minimum English level, the required Student level and the required gender that you have set on your Course. This is to avoid disappointment. Minimum English level: If the Student doesn't speak your native language and can't speak English at a level that you require, that's a serious problem. By default the minimum English level is "Beginner" but you can set it as you like. Student level: By default the Student Level is "Adult". If you want to teach under 18s (kids), you must upload a valid Certificate of Good Conduct on your profile and have it approved by our team. Your CGC is kept private but the Student will see that we approved your CGC. Say you wanted to specifically teach Students of a particular Student Level e.g. Primary 6 because you want to teach them English in preparation for their English Secondary School Interview, that should be possible. Then Students with a different level, cannot book your Course. Gender: By default the gender for your Course is set to "any" but you if you only wanted to teach "females", you'd set it to "female any". Then Students who are males, cannot book your Course. And if you only wanted to teach people from the LGBTQ+ community, you'd set it to LGTBTQ+. Helpful? Teachers |
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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 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. 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. 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: Imagine you've set a coupon code on your Single-session Course. Your coupon code must be a string of characters without spaces. You activate this Course and promote it in your social circles with a link to the Course and the coupon code. A potential customer saw your social post and decides to use the link. They click the "Book now" button on your Course and proceed to the Course booking page. There they have to click the plus icon to enter the coupon code you posted. When they finalise the booking process, as per usual, there will be no payment and their Course becomes immediately active. They can now book a Session for this Course by booking one of your Available Sessions. Note i: The Student can buy 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. Note ii: if you don't want to offer this Course anymore with the coupon code, simply edit your Course and remove it. 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. Helpful? Teachers |
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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. Why not? We do things differently. And we don't want to waste anyone's time. Your "paid" Single-session Course is the best opportunity to show your customer what value you are offering and the best opportunity for your customer (the Student) to experience you as a teacher, coach, consultant or expert in the field. So make sure that you have created a 5-star value Course with an attractive title, a concise and clear Course description and a confident Course Intro Video which will function as your sales pitch. And if that is all 5-star quality, we're sure they will buy. 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 "price options" we provide. Case: a math teacher values his time at USD 50/hr. He should be able to set that price. Case: another math teacher values her time at USD 150/hr. She should be able to set that price. Case: a business consultant values her time at USD 500/hr. She should be able to set that price. You should be able to set your price, wouldn't you agree? Okay, we work with price options to make things easy to compare. Price options for Single-session Courses: USD 25/hr, USD 35/hr, USD 50/hr, USD 75/hr, USD 100/hr, USD 125/hr, USD 150/hr, USD 200/hr, USD 250/hr, USD 300/hr, USD 350/hr, USD 400/hr, USD 450/hr and , USD 500/hr. Price options for 4-session Courses: USD 43/hr, USD 60/hr, USD 88/hr. Price options for 12-session Courses: USD 38/hr, USD 55/hr, USD 74/hr. Price options for 24-session Courses: USD 35/hr, USD 48/hr, USD 63/hr. Note: All Sessions are set for 1 hour. Helpful? Teachers |