Does Sclipo help me find new students & make money?

No!… and yes!

Sclipo is not a market place, it is a web learning application. Our value proposition is to provide tools that are easy and affordable compared to a traditional Learning Management System (LMS) that requires teachers to pay for hosting, IT professionals, extensive training, etc..

Sclipo offers primarily instructional tools and also those that help promote teaching activities (see info on tools & tutorials below). As a consequence, we do not take commissions. We charge a flat fee. Think of Sclipo like it was a building that provides you a space and tools to teach. If you make lots of money, great! We won’t charge you more rent.

That said, there are Academies on Sclipo who get tens of thousands of visits (and a manifold return on their subscription payment with just one student). This is because their courses and content are very good (and Sclipo very affordable). To spread the word, successful teachers (and their students!) use the tools provided with the Web Academy: they use the Invitation tool, they embed content on blogs, post it to Facebook, share it on Twitter, etc. As a consequence, Google indexes these Web Academies and their content very well.

If you were to set up your LMS, you would still have to promote it just like your Sclipo Web Academy or your blog. Just because Blogger hosts millions of blogs does not assure you any readers, doesn’t it? Yet, Sclipo offers an important benefit: Web Academies and its content are indexed (unless marked as secret) by search engines. This means, anybody can find your Academy through for example Google. You can, of course, limit access to authorized people – your students and teachers. A LMS, in contrast, is a walled garden! No one without a login has access to its content – including Google.

Related info:
* Tutorial: Tools to promote a Course
* Tutorial: Tools to promote a Live Session
* How does Sclipo help me find new students & make money?

Happy teaching & promoting!