Great question Chris. I was just thinking about this today too. I’m particularly wondering whether there are options for community building (forums and other social elements) with Teachable (or Thinkific).

Can you create a community with them? Or would you have to have a main site, link to Teachable / Thinkific for course materials and then have a different area with a different plugin / community building service? If there was a way to build community within Teachable, with the gamification elements they’re adding it would be a more persuasive route for me, whereas currently it feels like Social Learner is the only route that gives me what I’m looking for. Like Chris I’d be curious to see what’s driving others towards Teachable or Thinkific in making sure I pick the right platform for me.

Thanks for starting this thread Chris!

🙂

I think I’m leaning towards teachable. Andy in one of your earlier posts you mentioned teachable was going to be introducing badges, do you know if that is available yet?

I like how I get an email from you guys every time I complete a checkpoint. Wondering if there is a way to implement that if my course is on teachable. Would love to send my “players” a “game piece” each time they finish a module.

I was also hopping to have each module sponsored, for example when they complete a module they they will be sent a promo code for something….% off wedding invitations…or whatever the lesson pertains to. Wondering the best way to automate that?

Thanks!

Shannon

That’s super helpful, thank you Andy!