Why is Skool unique?
Community-centered learning.
Skool pricing
Prices start from $99 per month covering 1 group, all features, unlimited courses, and unlimited members
Feature 1: User experience of course builder
Skool’s dashboard is easy to navigate across four tabs, including community, classroom, calendar, members, and leaderboards.
Using the platform was a remarkably smooth experience, where the four tabs cater to diverse needs seamlessly.
The Community tab helps me immerse students in vibrant discussions and make key announcements, creating a genuine sense of community. Navigating through the Classroom tab felt intuitive, letting me create comprehensive courses, tack assignments, and get insightful progress updates.
The Calendar ensured I stayed organized, providing a visually appealing display of events and deadlines—syncing with my schedule effortlessly. The Members tab fosters connections, enhancing collaboration through detailed profiles.
But I found it rather out of place that Skool didn’t provide any backward navigation to return to the main dashboard when I navigated to my profile. I had to click the back navigation from my browser.
The leaderboard injects a fun, competitive spirit, though some may find it distracting from the main educational focus. Overall, Skool has nailed functionality and user-friendly design, though minor tweaks to the leaderboard’s prominence could enhance the platform’s educational focus.
Feature 2: Learner engagement tools
Skool helps you drive learner engagement with likes, points, levels, leaderboards, and prizes. The platform supports collaborative discussion forums, virtual classrooms, and multimedia content creation.
With features like real-time feedback and personalized learning paths, Skool fosters dynamic, interactive education experiences, enhancing student participation and comprehension in a technologically enriched learning environment.
However, this platform doesn’t have a quiz functionality, a highly desirable tool among course creators.
Feature 3: Marketing and payment features
Skool doesn’t have any native marketing features and doesn’t support native payment integrations. However, it offers webhooks from platforms like Zapier to connect Skool with third-party applications, including payment solutions like ThriveCart.
Feature 4: Scalability
Skool’s scalability isn’t immediately clear as they haven’t provided any information on how many students it can accommodate.
Feature 5: Affordability
For its price, Skool is affordable to most course creators, but I’ll consider this tool expensive because creators can access the same value it provides for cheaper on other platforms.
Feature 6: Unique features
The Community, Calendar, and Leaderboard features are unique, but they form the core of this product anyway.
Notes for declined software
This software is easily replaceable by more robust solutions. It offers a very scanty features list but might be an excellent fit if you need a tool that focuses squarely on community engagement.