If you’ve been teaching online for some time now, creating your cohort-based course must’ve come to your mind and why shouldn’t it. CBCs allow you to engage at a higher level with your students and create a community-based learning environment.

Due to the rise of Cohort Based Courses, multiple platforms have come up which allow you to create and manage your CBC from a single place. With so many options available, each having its own features, choosing the right one becomes overwhelming.

Here’s a list of top 6 platforms that allow you to create and manage your Cohort Based Course with ease -

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1) Maven

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Maven is founded by Gagan Bayani (Founder of Udemy), Wes Kao (Founder of altMBA), and Shreyans Bhansali (Founder of Socratic).

Maven allows you to build a Cohort Based Course on their platform. Even if you have never created a CBC before, you can join their accelerator for building CBCs. It is a 3-week intense program where you’re taught how to create a CBC step by step. You also get feedback from top coaches and get to network with fellow cohort creators.

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2) Teachfloor

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Teachfloor allows you to create and manage your cohort based course from a single dashboard. It comes with various integrations such as Zoom for live classes, Stripe for collecting payments, and much more. They’ve launched in more than 50 countries, have 3000+ happy customers, and provide 24x7 support.

Their pricing starts from $99 (Charged monthly) or $49 (Charged annually).

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3) Graphy

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Graphy is a product by Unacademy that allows you to grow your audience, and host cohort-based courses.

You can set up your website without coding using their platform with a custom subdomain. It allows as many students as you want to teach in your cohort. You can also send email newsletters to your audience. They have an in-built tool that allows you to conduct online live classes.

They only charge when you make money. They charge 5% platform fees on successful enrollments in your cohort based course.

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4) Virtually

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Similar to Teachfloor, this allows you to create and manage your cohort with integrations such as Zoom for live classes, Stripe for payments, etc. Other than these, they have other integrations, such as Google Sheets, Slack, Mailchimp, Airtable, Zapier, and much more.

Popular cohort based courses like Write of Passage by David Perell and Ali Abdal’s youtube academy have been created using Virtually.

They have different plans as per your need starting from $50/ month.

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5) Disco

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Disco allows you to build your cohort’s landing page, manage payments and your cohort through a single platform. It also has integrations like Zoom and Slack.

Just like Maven, they also have an accelerator program for course creators which is 4 weeks long. You learn how to design your cohort, marketing and have access to an influential community of peers to learn and grow with.

6) Discord

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If you like to build and manage things from scratch, you can use Discord to host your Cohort Based Course. You can create various channels for different topics such as general discussions, doubts, etc. You can find various videos on Youtube explaining how to create a Discord server.

However, this can be slightly difficult to manage if the batch size of your cohort is too big since you’ll have to do a lot of management manually. But, if you’re on a budget, you can surely go for this option as creating a Discord server is free which means you can start your cohort-based course without any costs.

If you chose Discord, you’ll need a landing page as well for your cohort. Coursenest has some of the top cohort based courses across the internet. You can check them out for inspiration for your landing page. 

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