Cohort Based Courses have taken online education by storm. If you’re someone who is planning to launch their own cohort, your time is now. However, as exciting as it may sound, launching and managing your cohort based course can be tricky.

Here are a few things you should keep in my mind when you’re planning to launch your Cohort Based Course -

1) Set your Goals/Targets

In order to set a goal/target for your cohort, you need to understand what are the goals of your target audience. This is very important as this is how you will be able to cater to their pain points.

Once you understand what your target audience needs, you can plan the course for your cohort. You can carry out extensive market research and surveys to know what the goals of your target audience are. Other than this, you can practice social listening to find out what are the pain points of your audience are and what are they saying about similar courses. 

2) Plan your curriculum

After you have set the target for your cohort, it’s time to plan the curriculum. You have to think about how to distribute the entire syllabus evenly and in a proper structure during the entire duration of the cohort.

Planning your curriculum also involves deciding the structure of your cohort. How many live classes/assignments/ pre-recorded lectures are required must be decided early on to maintain clarity and communicate the curriculum in an orderly way to your audience.

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3) Choose a platform

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The next step is to select a platform to manage and launch your cohort based course. With cohort based courses getting a lot of attention recently, there are several platforms that have come up that allow you to manage your cohort and it can be overwhelming to select one.

We have listed some of the top platforms to launch and manage your cohort based course along with relevant information about them. You can check out the list over here.

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4) Plan your distribution

Planning your distribution involves deciding how will you reach your target audience with the cohort. If you already have an online community/ audience, it can be a great channel to launch your cohort based course.

However, not everyone has an online audience available when launching a cohort based course. This is where platforms like Coursenest come in. You can list up your cohort based course and get directly discovered by thousands of interested people who are searching for a cohort to upskill themselves.

*Spoiler alert*

It’s absolutely free to list your cohort based course.

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5) Keep it engaging

One of the main advantages that cohort based courses have over traditional online courses is the higher completion rate which is due to a higher engagement rate. The students feel more accountable and get to engage with other like minded folks in the cohort.

Keeping your cohort based course more engaging is your responsibility as the leader of the cohort. You can do this by conducting competitions and events. You can assign team tasks if that is how your cohort is structured to increase the depth of engagement. 

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6) Build your community

It is super important to build a community around your cohort based course. You can start doing this by sharing content around the niche of your cohort. You can also share the student success stories who have attended your cohort.

10K Designers is a design cohort based course and they have done a great job in building a community around their cohort. You can check out its social handles to have an understanding of building out an audience around your cohort based course.

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Conclusion

Cohort based courses are on the rise. If you’re still skeptical about launching your own cohort based course, well, this is your sign. The tips mentioned in this article will definitely help you to get started with your journey as a cohort based course creator. 

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