Thinkific Plus Reviews & Product Details

I love that the course builder is so easy to follow, I can add content, check my students progress and now I can intergrate with other useful apps and.. my students have told me that they prefer Thinkific site platform than others. The custom service es so fast as well.

I do not know what to change! My experience has been so useful and positive.

I can send messages to my students and check their progress so easily.

I think the best aspect of Thinkific is the speed at which you can get an online training site launched. We actually launched 3 training sites to educate our customers, our agency partners and our staff and we migrated 24 courses, a ton of lessons and videos all in around 6 weeks. If you're looking for ease of use and speed to market Thinkific is the way to go. Oh and their team are just the best - real people that care about the customer's success deeply. That's gold.

There wasn't anything that we disliked about Thinkific,

We wanted to move from a self hosted LMS (and all the techstack admin that involved) to a SAAS LMS, and also we wanted to open the LMS up to the wider business. We've realised so many time saving benefits, and we've been able to distribute more of the learning functions and responsibilities across the wider business, rather than having one person having to do everything relating to learning. Its been a gamechanger for us.

It's so customizable - you can really use it for whatever you want and it's constantly improving.

I do wish that there were more user roles, but I know it's in the works.

I'm teaching Deaf children around the continent to do math using sign language!

The pricing tiers. You can start free while figuring it out. You can then make content, integrate it (through a. Link) with your website. Then take your message to the world.

It lacks payment options for other countries

I can teach my audience with ease and where they are at

I like the clean and intuitive design and the constant upgrades Thinkific provides.

Customer support can be annoying at times, giving blanket answers that do not address the question at hand. Also, the pushing of really needed features to their most expensive pricing tier, including white label.

With Thinkific, I'm able to centralize my students' management, allowing me to analyze students' needs, challenges and identifying areas of improvement.

I really Love the on demand video library.

Not having someone to pick up the phone and call for guidance.

I am empowered to educate the teaching professionals and specialists in bot the Golf and allied health and Rehabilitative industries.

Good service is most helpful about Thinkific.

The downside is they only support paying customers.

Distribution of my courses

I have been using Thinkific for just over two years. I feel that they understand me and my needs as an entrepreneur and new business owner. Thinkific understands my unique challenges and opportunities and advocates on my behalf by the intentional partnerships they form on my behalf. They clearly communicate how those partnerships are able to help my business without me having to spend hours researching available resources. The wealth of resources provided through "My Training" has helped walk me through concepts of marketing, course creation, and business concepts that have catapulted my business to success. I have personally recommended Thinkific to a number of people and strongly encouraged them to allow Thinkific to help them to either start their own business or take their business to the next level.

One area I would like to see improved would have to do with building the website. I found this to be a bit confusing. After many hours I did not feel that the website reflected what was in my head. Yet, I was not able to create a website that I felt was comparable to other Thinkific websites. I still am not sure how. I am left feeling a bit lost and feel that I need to hire a "Thinkific Expert" to create the site for me. I don't know that I would call this idea a "dislike" but rather a personal desire for Thinkific to implement. The "My Training" videos and "Help Center" are amazing. But, I would like an opportunity for live input. Meaning that I have an opportunity to share some ideas with Thinkific. I have several ideas that I believe could help Thinkific and in return would help me and my business. An area that I could be better helped by Thinkific has to do with equipment and post-production. I have to spend a lot of time on Youtube to try and figure out how to shoot video, edit video and the equipment needed. I would like for Thinkific to walk me through the possibilities, cost, and experience of building my mini-film studio in a way that makes me feel confident that I am able to produce world-class material. If Thinkific already does the things that I have previously mentioned please feel free to email me and let me know. As of writing this review I simply am not aware. Also, these things are not something that "bothers" me. In other words, I am simply giving some ideas where I think Thinkific could help me but not as a criticism.

I am a Life Coaching specializing in something very unique. My expertise is something that could be used around the world. Thinkific has made it possible for me to reach out to many people. The ability for me to shoot videos has made it possible to duplicate my one-on-one coaching to reach many people. The benefits of reproducing myself have been personally challenging yet, exciting because I feel that Thinkific has given me powerful tools and a clear method to offer my teaching. Due to Thinkific, I have realized ways to take my coaching practice to the next level by offering group live zoom teachings. I have been pleasantly surprised by the effectiveness and success. The course I have created has become a powerful tool to meet the needs of individuals and families. The unique problem that I solve is helping Catholics to learn about healing and deliverance. I teach them how to apply biblical principles to their life, marriage, and business. I have witnessed a great number of people that have experienced true healing and freedom in their lives. Thinkific has made it possible for me to reach a much larger audience during a time of Covid. Personally, Covid has not affected my business due to meeting with people through Zoom but Thinkific has helped me to offer a group coaching experience right from their own homes.

I find the 'how to' videos extremely helpful. Very well thought out, presentation, content and structure

Because there are so many options, sometimes it takes me a while to find out how to do something

I believe Thinkific is a practical option for me to run online well-being workshops I think the 'how to' videos are the best I've seen so far regarding building online courses. The free option also gives me a practical opportunity to test everything out, before upgrading

Building the course is super user-friendly and it doesn't take much effort to make it look really good aesthetically. I love the community feature and that you can sort users into groups, and also message students from within the platform. Students are finding the course easy to use. The landing page builder is pretty intuitive and the templates are gorgeous. I've used Kajabi and Teachable, and they don't hold a candle to Thinkific. Plus, all of Thinkific's learning resources show that they know exactly what people will be asking about the platform. Their instructions and troubleshooting is very straightforward. I think the most important part is that they aren't shy about stating their platform's limitations which saves the user so much time researching and helps to manage our expectations.

I think there should be more customizability on what students can have access to in the course. For example, I'd like my students to always have access to the content but not be able to submit assignments or attend Zoom calls after 90-days. Right now, they either have full access or none at all. Maybe this could be a function of the drip feature? I would also like more nuanced features in the integrations with ActiveCampaign and Zoom. It'd also be handy to have an in-platform library of GIFs.

Providing a course that's on-brand and easy to access. I love that I can message students from within the platform but also tag and track activity with the ActiveCamapign integration. It's really handy having the Zoom integration, too.

Well crafted UX that keeps you focusing on your content.

Sometimes the unusual UX (like save button on the top right corner)

A stable platform for hosting e-learning content where I don't need to spend time with membership sections etc.

Customer service reps, tutorials and e-learning resources

The variable costs depending on students

Up sells and additional products are a challenge we are sorting out now. Scaling possibilities with thinkific like bundles and memberships

The sales page as it helps promotes courses or workshops that we would like to sell at a certain price and send customers only to that page.

Nothing that comes to mind. I DO LIKE IT A LOT!

I am a customer and a content producer, thinkific is my next move to launch my course which is being produced. I love the layout and the whole concept.

Thinkific was easy to use right from the start. I found it intuitive to import and organize content. Once my course was live, features I didn't expect to need like attendance and completion rates, turned out to be very helpful.

The cost is the only thing I can mention.

As an instructional coach, when things went virtual in March 2020 we had to scramble to support our teachers who were also scrambling. Professional learning that was mid-stream when we shutdown was too important to lose. But, no one had bandwidth to take on one more system to access it. I had taken a course through Thinkific and was impressed. Using it solved the problem of making professional learning logical and easily accessed for taxed teachers. It also means that offering the same workshop to new hires is a no-brainer!

Thinkific makes it fast and easy for everyone from beginners to experts to get courses out of their heads and onto the web. I especially appreciate the way the platform is optimized to promote learning. As an author, course creator and Thinkific expert, I help creative experts, entrepreneurs, innovators,and outside-the-box thinkers turn their unique intellectual property into high impact courses that deliver real transformation. I teach, coach, and consult in the areas of learning design and online course creation, and find that using Thinkific helps my students and clients get their courses set up easily, fast, and well. I also love the platform for presenting my own courses. I appreciate the way you can integrate a Thinkific school with your website in a way that is seamless, bringing the functionality and security features of a complete online school to your website. While there are many great course platforms out there, I find that Thinkific offers the best combination of functionality, easy of use, versatility, focus on learning design, security, and price, especially for experts and entrepreneurs who want to create courses for their own business without having to rely on an in-house IT department or security team.

I personally don't dislike anything about Thinkific, but as with all platforms, there are features that would make it even better. One improvement I would like to see would be a streamlined way for course participants to download and open PDF files. Another enhancement I would like to see, would be the addition of a learning object level beyond the current options of course level, chapter level, and lesson level. Thinkific is easy to use, but there can be a learning curve at first as users get used to how the interface works. If you think of the components of Thinkific as being like small building blocks that build on each other, rather than as being similar to the way things work in WordPress, it will be much easier to get the hang of things quickly.

Whether for myself or my clients, I've used (and helped many, many others use) Thinkific to create powerful learning in multiple ways. My Course Design Formula® Master Course uses a series of evergreen action plans (each of which is a separate short Thinkific course) bundled together within the context of a cohort-based main course, to provide a way for participants in my mastermind to get hands-on practice in applying the principles we discuss in our weekly live class meetings. I've helped clients create yearly subscription programs that drip out one month at a time and can be renewed for a second, third, or subsequent years if need be. I use Thinkific to create custom coaching areas for my long term coaching clients, and to help clients quickly see how their course idea is going to come together and take shape as a real course. The ability to copy lessons within a course (or from one course to another), and to copy whole courses, makes the platform very versatile. While you may not be able to do everything on Thinkific that a custom coder could set up, for me the ease and speed of use, enterprise-level security, supportive customer service, highly engaged community, and the many options provided by the ability to start by creating small building blocks and then combine them in various ways, are more valuable.

Unlimited course and students... no bandwidth limitations. Easy setup.. I launched the whole program in two days that was amazing. I just uploaded all my prerecorded videos and that's it few quizzes and assignment all done. More importantly I can have blended mode of training as well both live classes and on-demand classes. During COVID19 situation it was very hard for the travel and other arrangements but THINKIFIC solved those problems. With Course- admin feature I am now able to collaborate independently with many course creators in my platform itself. I liked the revenue sharing feature.

There is no dislike... but I like them to improve in user analytics side of the course. Now I think they have beta version, but more effective analytics will give us more control on the user engagement and experience. Frontend Customisation could be improved much more. Like introducing Liquid template or any other formatting method.

Before Thinkific I used to conduct in-person training programs, travelling places... My logistics overheads were huge but now I am able to training my course registrants from my home.

Friendly platform for first time online course users.

Confusion between the landing page and landing site, it took me a long to understand.

I can teach people everywhere with a single clic

I have 7 different courses that are taken in order and once my students enter one class, they know how to prepare for the other courses. I am able to use videos, documents, quizzes and more in each class. I can make each weekly lesson as short or as long and I want. I can even upload multiple (video and documents) in one lesson.

I have to run a report to find out who tested and who didn't. I can't look on the platform to see this information without running the report.

Thinkific allows me to teach what I promote on YouTube. With my classes on Thinkific, I have successfully graduated a class that had a 100% success rate on a national certification exam.

The system is very easy to use, customize and navigate It gives you total control

I think everything works with Thinkific. Maybe some additional discount

Reaching a global audience Ease of creating and publishing courses Automation

It's intuitive and has an exhaustive amount of features.

It doesn't have enough support for math courses

It helped me host my online course for math students in the Caribbean. It has great analytics features which helped me to remedy some issues with user engagement.