Teachable online courses Reviews

First, my review from July 2022 has been deleted. That’s just sad. (And now so has my review from Dec 2022)

Second, nothing has changed, so Teachable appears to be living up to what support shared with me via email in July 2022: “Our Product and Engineering teams are aware of the outstanding issues with Teachableonlinecourses and they've been keeping track of reports (like yours) as they come in. They've spent a considerable amount of time going through all the feedback and weighing all the options. We want to be fully open with you that we've decided to shift focus away from the iOS app to other priorities. Based on customer feedback, we've concluded it's best to devote our energies toward improving the core Teachable product and features. Following that, there are no current plans to update the iOS app and we don't anticipate being able to fix any outstanding issues at this time. I know that's not the news you were hoping to hear and we apologize for the disappointment.”

So there you have it. If logging in on your iPhone or iPad is broken for you like it is for me, then too bad so sad for you!

I’m trying to watch a course on MIDI composition using Cubase, so full screen on an iPad is mandatory. Teachableonlinecourses starts up center screen as small as an iPhone. Naturally when I go full screen on my iPad Pro, it’s totally fuzzy, the resolution isn’t scaling and I can’t locate the Quality button to get this to HD. I thought there’s no way they’d NOT offer Teachableonlinecourses in iPad resolution. WRONG. Even worse, no matter what Contact Us link you click, even on the webpage, they send the message to the COURSE CREATOR, Teachable doesn’t even have the integrity to handle support calls, especially THIS major fail. Same thing in the website, Teachable passes the buck.
List up Teachable: the two issues described above reveal a lot about your company. You won’t be here for the long run if you continue to drop the ball. I don’t buy the 5300 reviews and nearly 5 stars, there’s no way Teachableonlinecourses, beta at BEST, is getting such high praise.

Firstly it appears I missed the instructions on how to use Teachableonlinecourses enumerating it’s features. One who does not know the purpose/use of a thing is prone to misuse it. I must have missed an awful lot. Secondly, I did not find out until the last week of my course, that the E teacher app actually functions differently on my iPad that or my iPhone. I learned that certain questions posted on the iPad will only accessible from the iPhone and vice versa certain questions on the I phone were only accessible on the iPad. If there is a way to go back and access an introduction on how the eTeacher App works step by step, please send me an email link. This will help tremendously. I have other courses to take. Increased functionality will increase my level of achievement. Thank you.

This is my first review ever. Because this is crap. I’ve been working to develop a Teachable course, dowloaded Teachableonlinecourses to review the bonus training materials while on a flight. I got something that looks like circa 2015 iPhone app ported to an iPad...only shows in portrait, has the “1X”/“2X” button at bottom right for zooming in and out between iphone and ipad scale. I can’t speak for everyone, but the demographic I’m going for is likely to be on the road quite a lot, and (like me) looking to access course content offline in a reliable way. The rest of the Teachable experience has been solid, and polished. The lack of attention to the iOS interface gives pause. I have zero doubt it will end up costing sales. More concerning, the fact it is so out of date makes me worry about the rest of the platform.

Tha app itself is Ok , but due to a variety of problems the experience has been horrible .
1. Teachableonlinecourses won’t stop asking for feedback, sometimes a pop up can appear 2 times in the span of a minute (annoying when you paid 1000$ for a course )
2. Constant buffering when internet is a bit worse , where you tube still works protector fine even on high quality video settings
3. Sometimes the video stops playing and it won’t start playing again , then you have to close and reopen Teachableonlinecourses , and if a course has over 100 lectures you have to scroll all the way to the one you were at , which takes time especially , if this happens more than once during a lecture .
4. Crashing and not playing videos due to problems with servers( less often but happens to me couple times )

It’s a bummer that teachable created a platform where highly talented people can upload such wonderful content only to put next to no effort into the mobile app. Full of bugs errors if your lucky enough to get a video to load don’t try and skip ahead, there’s a good chance the entire app will lock up. The closed captioning often doesn’t fit in the screen leaving the beginnings and ending of sentences a mystery. An even bigger mystery is when audio from another video begins playing while you’re watching another. There’s no other video showing that it’s playing leaving the only solution of force closing Teachableonlinecourses and trying again. Please address the issues with Teachableonlinecourses. There is no way it passed any quality checks of any standard.

Teachableonlinecourses will not sync with their website and remember where you left off on a video. Heck, it wont even remember where you left off on a video within Teachableonlinecourses if you accidentally close it. You have to pay close attention to the time stamp to try and scroll to that point in a video if you want to resume where you left off. Such a pain during longer 30 min lectures.

One bug it has is that it will revert your playback speed to 1x, even if your default is higher, if you close out of Teachableonlinecourses to respond to a message or lock your screen. I have my playback speed set to 1.5. Often times, I need to lock my screen to attend to something else, but when I reopen the lecture, the video plays at 1x. If I leave the video to check my settings, again Teachableonlinecourses is not capable of remembering where I left off and will restart the video from the beginning. Super frustrating.

They FINALLY added iPad support—and fixed many of the bugs I had issues with—so I have now been actively completing the course I paid for (which has 12 separate classes). Upon completing each class, I’m supposed to receive a certificate as each is labeled as a “certification course”… but, when completing my first class, there is no certificate to be had, just a “blank” certification button.

I have tried contacting support several times, but have received no response. Additionally, I have also never found to a way to contact chat support, and any other means besides e-mail. I do not want to complete the remaining 11 classes if I’m not going to receive certification for them.

I was really excited to finally get to work on this course, but now I feel more than a bit bamboozled. 🙄

Teachableonlinecourses was made for the smaller iPhone screen, and not for the iPad. It works, in that I can access all of my courses on Teachable, and can manage to go through the content. BUT because it is designed for the iPhone small screen, it requires several maneuvers to get the videos to fill the iPad’s larger screen in landscape, and then when video ends, you have to reverse those steps to get back to place where you can move to next course module.

Many of the courses I have contain lots of visual content, like how to use software apps or how to do art & painting. They are not something I can just listen to the audio, because the visual is critical to the learning process, and so being able to see the video content on the larger screen of an iPad is very important.

I see lots of comments that the developer is not making much effort to update Teachableonlinecourses - but lately it seems more content creators seem to be delivering their courses through Teachable. So if they do anything further (which they ought to), then supporting iPad should be a top priority!

I am trying to access my courses on my iPad to play the videos on the go on a bigger screen than on my phone, as well as to read the content on a tablet which is more the size of an actual book page than a phone will ever be, and I come to the disappointing surprise of the fact that the myTeachable app is not supported on the iPad at a native resolution. There is no iPad/universal iOS version of the myTeachable app! I had to download the phone version to at least access the content of my courses, but we all know how ugly iPhone apps look on an iPad. Please Teachable, get your act together and an iPad app should be one of your priorities. You're an educational company, come on! In the meantime I'm going to have to bear with this half-assed solution, but PLEASE MAKE THE IPAD APP ASAP!

The Teachable app doesn’t meet the standards I expect from a professional application.

Strengths:
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- Users can download purchased courses for offline viewing.

Shortcomings:
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- The main view of a course (showing all sections and associated media) doesn’t rotate to landscape view. While you can watch a video in landscape, you have to rotate back to portrait view when the video ends in order to view and select subsequent content.

- Teachableonlinecourses was designed solely for the iPhone. Viewing on an iPad is a substandard experience. While you can “double” Teachableonlinecourses size, doing so sacrifices resolution native to the iPad. If you choose not to “double” app size, then your viewport of the course is only iPhone sized, wasting much of the iPad’s screen real estate.

Overall:
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As a consumer of Teachable-hosted courses, I expect an app that takes advantage of not only iPhone, but also iPad capabilities.

If I were producing content for sale, I would search for another platform that not only allows offline viewing, but also better utilizes native technology.

I follow some great instructors that use the Teachable platform, so I put up with the clunky app. Biggest issue: there is no autoplay feature. What this means is that where you’re watching a series of videos within a course, it looks something like this: Chose lesson to watch 1) lesson is complete, click to close full screen 2) click to close video 3) click on “complete and continue” 4) new video opens 5) click the okay button 6) click “turn audio on” (it defaults to off?!?) 7) click box to open full screen It takes 7 steps to get to the next video and start playing again?!? Am autoplay option (and not defaulting to audio muted) would be a huge improvement.

I bought a course for almost $300, the desktop browser interface is smooth, clean and works great! Teachableonlinecourses... still smooth clean but doesn't work as well. There is no iPad version, on iPhone you cant skip or go back 10-30 seconds unless you download the video in which the apple's player takes over, which brings me to the next and biggest issue... i feel like Teachableonlinecourses has a mind of its own, ive downloaded sections to listen offline and sometimes i come back to it and apparently the downloads got deleted, so i have to download them again but when this happens it doesnt download quickly... it does its little loading animation but once it reaches the end it just stays there for a good minute and then you get the checkmark, in that period you cant go anywhere else without having to restart the download... its happened several times even as im watching offline, one lesson is download then i move on to the next and it starts running on my data. Please... fix this...

They finally solved some of the login and course download problems I was experiencing, so updated my review to four stars.

Teachableonlinecourses functions for the most part to provide an easy way to listen/watch classes. You won’t get the full functionality that you would from the website with regard to attachments and other supplementary materials.

However, Teachableonlinecourses still doesn’t have an iPad and other PiP or Lock Screen viewing features that it should by now. Once Teachableonlinecourses is brought up to current standards, I can give it five stars.

How great to have all the lessons of a course I’ve enrolled-in, in one spot! Much easier than opening an Internet browser, going to my instructor’s website, and entering my user name and password. Here, you just open Teachableonlinecourses and the lessons are right there in an easily navigable directory, including past lessons. The two weak spots all relate to video playback: first, I recommend a “back/forward 15 seconds” feature, like on Podcast apps and most movie streaming apps, so we can easily find the exact spot we want when rewinding/fast-forwarding. Second and thirdly, how about a “full screen” mode and a view which becomes horizontal when I rotate my smartphone that way, rather than being stuck with a vertical view regardless of my phone’s orientation? (Other features which the “streaming video” apps already have.) All in all, a very handy app, and one I appreciate. Its convenience and ease-of-use motivates me to be a disciplined student and continue my scheduled course lessons, as I should.

Pretty nice setup to understand progress and class structure. I was nervous, to say the least, about using this, but it’s been excellent so far! The only issues I have had with it is on the lectures, occasionally the time will say, for example, 1:45 for a video length. The actual length of the video may occasionally be 1:01:45 in length. And the only other issue is on the live class lectures, more than one class is on each lecture. Other than those issues, which may just be the school and not Teachableonlinecourses , I have had an excellent time learning through Teachable!

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Online lessons was a necessary move to continue teaching music lessons during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This course assisted me in the transition from in-person lessons to online lessons. The recommendations, tools and structured information saved me hours of research, and I am utterly grateful for this resource. I highly recommend the course to help enhance your teaching experience and to expand your borders. A good portion of the information is also helpful for in-person lessons, such as digital assignments and integrating mobile device apps. Whether you are full-time online or not, I highly recommend it!

I just finished aj&smart design sprints and I’m really glad I was able to use this platform. The ui clearly indicates what I’ve accomplished and picks back up where I left off, even if it’s in the middle of a video. The streaming is always fast. I would like to ask the development team to prioritize making Teachableonlinecourses work better in iPad! Because I love that I can use Teachableonlinecourses to learn offline. The web version works great in iPad and Teachableonlinecourses works great on my phone.

The 1 Star is for Teachableonlinecourses , not for Teachable. I’ve been trying to log in to my account using Teachableonlinecourses and I just get log in failed. I normally use Teachable on my PC or laptop, but sometimes need the convenience of using my cell phone or iPad. Using Teachableonlinecourses hasn’t worked. Going through the browser however works perfectly fine. I can either create or take a course while on the run. Something I prefer not to do, but the world is often indifferent to our preferences. I just can’t use Teachableonlinecourses to do it. Bottom line, Teachable is awesome, Teachableonlinecourses , not so much.