Plantoost VS make.courses

So for our company, an online education startup initially geared towards being a marketplace for online courses, we saw the need to pivot to a business model that is sustainable. For a while now, Plantoost was banking on transaction fees via instructors and turns out, it was tougher than anyone could ever imagine. The amount of effort to deal with instructors (who were non-paying users) alone was overwhelming, let... Source: almost 3 years ago

We're not interested in "scaling" but rather providing the right software so any serious course creator can scale themselves, and even more importantly: stay online for decades to come. We recommend non-serious course creators who are just experimenting to go to the easiest-to-use competitor, which I think is Teachable. For those with a lot of course material ready, or those with a lot of social media followers to... Source: over 1 year ago

This underscores the most obvious difference to me, but as answered to MisterBazz above, I need to publish something specifically differentiating make.courses and LMSs soon: Https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Canvas-Self-Hosted-Licensed/m-p/471128 It seems currently that they have a sort of up-sell where you can get started with the self-hosted version, but to get all of the features you... Source: over 1 year ago

Good question - we need to do a better job of differentiating make.courses from "LMSs" on our infosite. I will get back to you on a more detailed answer, but back when we began building make.courses we could not find any LMSs that could have hybrid drip feeding of videos and separately sell video modules within a single coherent student portal. Not to mention we were trying not to use PayPal, which I see Moodle... Source: over 1 year ago

We feel the internet is being increasingly consolidated into fewer powerful corporations and the customer is losing out. In the case of students trying to learn important material, we believe this is really crossing a line. We built make.courses for a friend who needed to guarantee his courses would stay online for decades rather than years - and who needed custom features that none of the cloud marketplace course... Source: over 1 year ago

I've been demoing this company's software for a course project for a while now and I felt the need to share. make.courses is a fledgling startup that has now surpassed feature parity with the likes of the popular cloud offerings of Udemy & Teachable. So far it can do everything I've seen in Udemy or Teachable, but its entirely self-hosted. The big difference is startup time (make.courses still requires... Source: over 1 year ago