Thinkific reviews

This is where I have my courses

Opmerkingen: Anytime I have a problem their tech support is great. And I haven't had any tech problems with the platform - my students are happy and use it easily.

Pluspunten:

When I was researching all the different software for course hosting, I liked that this had a place to upload documents in the discussions. That might be really important for people teaching code or other products. Then I'm glad I choose this one because others take a % of income AND you have to wait longer for money.

Minpunten:

The layout isn't as clean and modern as others - I'm hoping that will be updated at some point. It's a little ugly.

Suitable For All Levels

Opmerkingen: Thinkific has been perfect as a solution for my starting an online training product that also has spreadsheet tools included. My experience has been great. I have only once had to contact support and it turns out it was my error that was causing a visual issue, which was soon easily corrected, once I saw my error. They were quick to spot what I'd done and let me know.

Pluspunten:

That it's really comprehensive, yet still has a free to low-cost entry-level option. It's easy to use and looks visually great too with its customisable interface options. Oh and I love that you can i-frame other websites and URL's into your courses (this is great for spreadsheets and websites) - it saves a lot of time and energy, and updating! Oh, and it has / had a low payment processing fee structure.

Minpunten:

I haven't hit any issues with it yet so to date there's nothing I don't like about it.

Great Course Platform

Opmerkingen: Thinkific is much better than trying to remember to share Google Drive links with people to watch courses. It also looks much more professional.

Pluspunten:

Thinkfic integrates well with CRM systems which is so important to manage leads and data. It works well with Zapier as well which gives numerous possibilities.

Minpunten:

I wish some things were a bit more clear. It provides the ability to have courses that renew or memberships but doesn't do great on the backend of highlighting pros and cons of each.

Awful customer support, slow page load speed and terrible for SEO

Opmerkingen: I got the plus plan so that I have a "dedicated rep" who is almost always out of the office. Whenever I contact customer support because of a problem, which is several times a day, they "can't duplicate the issue" so they don't have a solution. The page load speed fails every test. When I contacted them for support on this issue, they recommend I have the site redesigned by a professional who could help with page load speed. I hired one of their "experts" to redesign the site, and her design does not look or feel any better than mine and also did not help with the page load speed so I'm out $40k for no reason.

Pluspunten:

I like that it is easy to use, it's easy to upload your course material and publish your course.

Minpunten:

My main issues with thinkific include very slow page load speed (which kills SEO rankings), dysfunction in the assignment feature (specifically, when clicking "next page" on the assignments, it takes you back to page 1 and you have to start all over), inability to edit a course landing page (my course has been published for 4 years and the URL is out in google so I don't want to recreate and for some reason we can no longer edit the page at all), and problems with user experience (students not being able to load a page, etc)

Using Thinkific has helped me grow my business!

Opmerkingen: LOVE thinkific!

Pluspunten:

It's so easy to use, has great tutorials and their support is amazing.

Minpunten:

It's gotten more technical over the years and really now a designer is needed to create beautiful landing pages unless you have time to figure it out.

The Best Online Course Creator

Opmerkingen: We started with an idea to help colleagues and turned it into a course. Thinkific allowed us to get our idea out of our heads and into reality, and a usable product people could buy & use.

Pluspunten:

Thinkific made it easy to create & host our digital course for financial advisors. With any platform there is a learning curve at the beginning. Thinkific's support team was always quick to reply and help us learn the ropes.

Minpunten:

I don't really have any complaints. It would be nice if the WYSIWYG editor were as good as Apple Pages, and turned out prettier text layouts in the templates. But, it's good enough.

Great tool. It would be just better if you build a mobile App for students.

Opmerkingen: I'm really enjoying the experience.

Pluspunten:

Having an API that facilitates the integration with our back office.

Minpunten:

Not having an app for the student experience.

Fun and Flexible Course Platform

Opmerkingen: I found Thinkific to be very satisfying. I had everything I needed to launch a single course on the free plan (one free single course), but I was looking for a fully-integrate funnel solution, so I went with a competitor that had that feature. But this will be very good for most users.

Pluspunten:

It is very easy to get up and running with Thinkific. The course templates are a breeze to edit; users can easily see how to add and edit content, and the presentation is slick and professional.

Minpunten:

Thinkific does not have an integrated email marketing feature, but users can connect MailChimp, et al., with Zapier. The design templates look okay until the user starts to change fonts and adds more content, then they start to look like a Wordpress template. Not bad, but not slick.

Sturdy training platform

Opmerkingen: Happy, students seemed to get on wit it fine.

Pluspunten:

The way it structures lessons, with sublessons.

Minpunten:

Fiddling to put video content in. Can be fiddly to restructure a course if adding a lesson.

Simple way to get your eLearning platform set up

Pluspunten:

Easy to deploy, you can add quizzes to test for knowledge acquisition

Minpunten:

Free plan doesn't include a custom domain

With Thinkific as our Platform, we have successfully launched three very different online courses.

Opmerkingen: We are at the beginning stages of offering a high quality course to students from around the world.

Pluspunten:

We researched many Platforms before choosing Thinkific. We love that Thinkific is Canadian. We love the journey that students take from first encountering the site landing page, going to the course landing page and then immersing themselves in the course. I appreciate the helpful support from the Thinkific team. They do a great job of answering our many questions. I am fortunate that Thinkific rebuilt their course editing software quite soon after we began developing our course. Their new software is quite easy to use and easy to revise. I really like their flat-rate monthly subscription fee with no hidden costs.

Minpunten:

I wish students could purchase this course in the currency of their own country. I wish we could pay for our subscription in Canadian funds instead of American. We have had to purchase a separate Discussion Forum because their Disqus Plug In is a social media plug in that is not confidential, and their built in Discussion Forum is very awkward and poorly organized with no ability to search, edit, or even manage posts. Thinkific focuses much more on supporting marketing than on supporting online course development. We were fortunate that we had already taken two excellent courses in online course development that we could apply to the Thinkific Platform. Thinkific is less responsive to good ideas for improvement than I would like them to be. For example, despite many, many requests from many course developers it is still not possible for the course author to copy, paste and edit quizes and so there is a lot of unnecessary labour involved in inputting quizes

My experience with Thinkific

Pluspunten:

I like that it is simple, that they are quite transparant about their pricing and have an extensive help center. The Facebook group is also great for support. Making online courses comes with a lot of questions.

Minpunten:

Customization of the look & feel of online courses and landing pages is limited, as if payment options. For EU customers who are not accustomed to credit card / Paypal you need to integrate Shopify. This is possible, but connecting Shopify & Thinkific is not that great. Affiliate links don't work anymore and tracking sales becomes quite a bit harder.

Good for small, basic needs

Opmerkingen: Value for the money, attractive front end with little effort.

Pluspunten:

The way Thinkific presents content, from landing page to course completion page, is beautiful and appealing to the user. There are ample ways to connect with the user through various integrations if desired. It's also useful that you can customize the branding and even your own site theme if you have the available resources to do so! After switching from a sub-par LMS, our users are more engaged and more excited about signing in to consume our courses.

Minpunten:

Reporting leaves much to be desired - best count on using Zapier to pull data into a 3rd party for analyzing user progress and completion rates. It's also frustrating that I have to wait for some reports to be emailed to me after requesting them. Perhaps the most frustrating part is that the front-end is designed using Liquid, which is difficult for a novice with basic CSS / HTML knowledge to navigate in order to make small text changes across the site.

Easy to use but not as complete as other plattforms

Pluspunten:

Thinkific is very easy to use, I upload two courses in a few hours and learn how to use it very fast.

Minpunten:

I didn't like the courses landing pages, it would be great to have more flexibility on them.

Love it!

Opmerkingen: I got leads into students who enjoyed this platform. I really loved setting up courses and I think this is a great product.

Pluspunten:

I really like how easy this system is; they have done a lot to make their platform easy to use. The free plan is good. Pro's: Easy to use & navigate Helpful tutorials Helpful webinars and manuals to help you get the most and market your courses Clean crisp look Responsive for mobile, tablet, and pc's

Minpunten:

Pricing for me was the only con; I had purchased a lifetime subscription to another course building platform and decided to switch to that otherwise i'd still be using thinkific.

Hansomekelly

Opmerkingen: Covers literally all of my needs and services

Pluspunten:

The different type of quizzes that I can offer

Minpunten:

The growth package monthly payment per student

Thinkific is a fantastic online learning platform

Opmerkingen: We are growing into an international learning community with the help of Thinkific.

Pluspunten:

Versatile, well organized, easy to learn. Free until you get going.

Minpunten:

- Terrible discussion forum (we wish they would link up with website tool box). - Their pricing plans have changed in ways that don't work well for us and they have not been responsive to our feedback.

Tech Support Needs Improvement!

Opmerkingen: The software is alright. I have a major problem with tech support. First, they throw articles at you. I understand it can be annoying to get the same question over and over, but when I’m replying to a thread I don’t want another random tech agent replying by dismissing me with more articles when we already established their articles do not resolve the issue. They are definitely not on the same page and you get replies from a different person each time even though you’re dealing with the same issue. Also, they cannot help with billing updates which is absurd.

Pluspunten:

It’s pretty simple and basic so it’s easy-ish for a beginner.

Minpunten:

It could use more ease of functionality. When building a landing page you have to search for certain aspects that you want to change when it should all be right there. Tech support needs a MAJOR overhaul.

Very easy to use and complete education framework

Opmerkingen: Very good, the platform was easy to learn and set up and the students are very pleased with their learning experience.

Pluspunten:

Very complete set of features. Everything that you need is in one place. Available on all platforms.

Minpunten:

Better video management. Better progress track tools for administrators

Any school or academy will fit right into Thinkific

Opmerkingen: I love the team behind thinkific as well, the weekly information to use the software, to hint out what is working at the time. Designs tutorials on any of the tasks needed to launch a successful online course.

Pluspunten:

I love the drag and drop options. The ease of use and bulk importers. I have such a great contact to my students and abundant options to get my teachings across. The editors are functional and best of all: The designs are professional and looks like a Tesla ;) I have room for up to 2gb videos! That is hosting and being serious to support online education. Did I mention it is Per Video!!

Minpunten:

There is one thing I'd like to see different on Thinkific. My ability to have more sub-modules in each Chapter of my courses. That's it. Otherwise, I have nothing to say.

Thinkific Has A Lot Going For It

Pluspunten:

The look presented to students, and options for directing their learning process is thoughtful and creative. When I have a question that the help file can't answer, the live chat has been helpful a number of times.

Minpunten:

Some options are "all or nothing", in other words, I can't customize to individuals as much as I might like.

Just focus on creating content and leave the rest to Thinkific

Pluspunten:

If you're coming from WordPress ecosystem, you know the pain. Keep on adding plugins-after-plugins and keep paying for them yearly and keep maintaining them, patching security holes that pop up often. If then you get some time, then create content for your members. With Thinkific, you need not worry about the umpteen admin issues of WordPress at all; just focus on content creation and leave the rest to the Thinkific platform. Hassle free piece of LMS.

Minpunten:

- They may want to look into the pricing structure. - For those educaters who can't accept Stripe for some reason, try to come up with a model whereby you accept payment on our behalf and then send our payments later on.

Helped me step up my game!

Opmerkingen: I loved it, if not for the bilingual problem I would have stayed.

Pluspunten:

Learning Thinkific was really ease, and I also took advantage of their mentoring. The payment integration was self-explanatory as well.

Minpunten:

Several desirable features were only available in the bigger plan, for example group emailing. I was also not too happy with the user reports / quizz reports. Not being able to adapt language presets was also a problem.

Think thinkific

Opmerkingen: Overall positive but worthwhile investing in customer support in the southern hemisphere

Pluspunten:

It was easy to use and navigate and a popular tool for people to share their knowledge online.

Minpunten:

The international connect to customer support with time zone differences between Canada and Australia.

Very good

Opmerkingen: It is one of the best platform for educator

Pluspunten:

The quizzes and ease to upload video lecture

Minpunten:

No cons, it is very good, and provide best platform for educator