June 5th, 2019 | Updated on June 28th, 2022
Ever since the internet spread its wings the windows of growth opened for individuals. Thanks to the internet you could now learn better things and video posting would ensure that everything could be seen and tried without any worries.
In fact, it did not take much time for service providers to start offering online courses. Most users found it extremely convenient as they could now access difficult courses also from their home without any problems.
However, not all of such offerings are trustworthy and we compiled a list of 10 best online course software’s which are actually worth the time.
Thus we took the pain of understanding each one of them so that we could increase your awareness as well. Go on and grasp the benefits and shortcomings of each so that you can use the best one for your advantage later.
1. Adobe Captivate
Only Adobe gives everyone — from emerging artists to global brands — everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.
Use Adobe Acrobat DC to scan, edit, sign, and review documents from anywhere. Get all the creative tools and services your business needs, plus features that make it easy to share and collaborate anywhere.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Captivate is pretty easy to learn. I pretty much taught myself how to use it and don’t have any big issues with it. I like that it publishes directly into Adobe Captivate Prime (our LMS). There are quite a few nice features that get added with each upgrade.
Cons: Sometimes the software crashes. I have to work with big files on my desktop rather than on my network drive. I had some files become corrupt from the application freezing. It would be nice if Adobe gave free upgrades rather than charging to upgrade every couple years. I would also like to have more pre-built templates for gaming. Most of the options available aren’t ideal.
Overall: I’m happy with this software. It allows me to easily import PowerPoint slides, develop elearning courses from scratch, and record audio. I have continued to use it over competing applications because it’s so easy to use.
2. Thinkific
Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses. Its mission is no less than to revolutionize the way people learn and earn online by giving them the tools they need to turn their expertise into a sustainable business that impacts both them and their audience.
Thinkific allows you to make decisions about your course business based on what’s best for you and your particular audience. It’s easy to customize every piece of the platform to match your brand, so you can continue to scale without missing a beat.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
The premade templates make it easy to create quickly and easily. There are many different options of types of lessons you can create and even with the free version, you are able to put together a comprehensive course that flows nicely. Students are introduced on how to use the course before it even starting, making it a better experience for them and more likely to recommend the course created.
What do you dislike?
There could be more options to customize the design and elements of the course in a user friendly way that even those who are not great with design can handle.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Needing a easy way for those who are not great technically to navigate the course, Thinkific was able to provide an user friendly design for students of the course and for the instructor.
3. Google Open Online Education
A student’s K-12 experience has a profound impact on the future. Google for Education shareable devices and collaborative tools help teachers prepare all students with new, more engaging ways to learn the skills they need to succeed.
4. LearnDash
With LearnDash, you have more control over your learners and courses than nearly any learning management system on the market. Grouping users, altering progression, clearing data, re-printing achievements, revoking access – you can do it all!
LearnDash is taking cutting edge elearning methodology and infusing it into WordPress. More than just a plugin, it provides practical and experience driven guidance for individuals and organizations interested in setting up online courses.
With LearnDash, you have more control over your learners and courses than nearly any learning management system on the market. Grouping users, altering progression, clearing data, re-printing achievements, revoking access – you can do it all.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
Learndash is like the Boeing 737 Max, it gives a good idea of how flying feels. Yet boarding and crossing fingers hoping nothing will ever happen is probably not such a relaxed way of traveling. The best thing is that one knows exactly what to look for in other airplanes.
What do you dislike?
Again, like the Boeing 737 Max, it is probably a good product when it is working properly. In our case re-login for students was impossible. Students/customers could easily purchase the product and register. Yet once logged out and trying to log in the whole process needed to be repeated all over again, sometimes including payment (…)
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
The support team is trying for 2 weeks (!!!) to get the login/logout issue fixed and leaving us in the meantime completely in the dark. Every 2/3 days we have to for a status report and all we get is a thank you for our patience. Needless to say that the only benefit we experience that this issue did happen BEFORE we brought our course on the market. Any entrepreneur or business owner can imagine what this would do for a company AFTER bringing on the market.
5. Teachable
Teachable is an online platform that allows anyone to create and sell online courses. No tech experience required.Customers unlock access to Teachable U, our training program for course creators. We’ll help you choose the right topic, create your course, and launch like a pro.
With Its easy-to-use online course creation platform, you can create courses without ever having to worry about tech, hosting, design, or marketing integrations. It’s so easy that over 22,000 instructors have made over $100m in course sales in just two years by using Teachable.
Conversion-optimized landing pages, affiliate program, and infinite marketing integrations make it easy to market and sell your online course. Enhance your students’ learning experience and build an engaged community using the native comments, quizzes and drip content features.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Easy to set up, very reasonably priced and great tutorials and advice for marketing your courses. If you have online curriculum you’d like to share with the world, this is a very seamless process.
Cons: Unable to add HTML features within the curriculum itself. They do not do any marketing (like Udemy), whereas they would market globally and the school owner would get a smaller percentage of the sales. I think this is good for reaching a larger audience.
Overall: I was able to create my own online school, website, landing pages and payment portal with ease. I highly recommend Teachable .
6. Ruzuku
Ruzuku is designed for those who want to get their learning courses up and running quickly. It is quite famous for its peer-to-peer learning support.
The platform helps you at every step, from naming your course to adding content to each lesson. So, you can build a course in a matter of minutes simply by adding text, images, video, audio, and reference documents. Must for those who need to craft basic courses.
Review: Bloggersideas
When you choose Ruzuku, it is an opportunity to transform your content into a well-structured, compact, and well-connected course. For example, a blogger who has written many posts on ‘How to start a business on Amazon FBAs’ can create an online course on the same topic. You take years of acquired knowledge to the next level by creating well organized and well-timed classes consisting of a collection of videos, documents, images, and audio files, to increase the learner’s keen in your teaching. No wonder it is a part of the ‘Top 10 platforms for online course creating’ list.
7. Kajabi
Kajabi is an all-in-one platform that makes it easy to create online courses, launch marketing campaigns, build landing pages, and design the perfect website.
From landing pages, to sales pages, to webinar pages, and more, you’ll find a template to fit your every need. Best part is that they’re all optimized to get you results.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Kajabi is very easy to use and they have an outstanding support system to help those in need. We have used numerous programs for delivering video to our clients/customers/students – Kajabi has yet to be replaced and we have had it from the beginning (that says a lot in this world).
Cons: Would like to see a few more layout options and themes. That said, you can customize anything you want.
Overall: There are two sides to consider. The person hosting or posting training AND the consumer that is going to go through the training. Oftentimes one side or the other isn’t clean. In the case of Kajabi, BOTH sides get the benefit of a well thought out program at a fair price.
8. WizIQ
WizIQ is an easy way to teach and train online. It’s a cloud-based learning delivery platform with a suite of integrated features – including virtual classroom, course management, content authoring, video streaming, tests and assessments, insights and analytics and mobile learning.
WizIQ empowers instructors, education service providers and corporates to deliver and manage live and self-paced learning with easy-to-use, scalable and cost-effective technology.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
I consider it as a great attractive impact for most of its users, it is the best platform hosted in the cloud that allows me to teach and participate in live classes face to face with my students, gives the feeling of being in contact wit my students as if we were in a classroom all together but with the difference of being each in the confort of their homes or anywhere else, the audio and video transmission really works very well, It has an option for one to upload the content and can be shared with other people to see it on the screen, their technical support team responds very quickly to help its users to solve any problem that may arise, I consider that this software is very complete and helpful to improve online education.Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I consider that the price of this software is a bit high since currently the rate is $83 per month for every 25 students that meet me online and since the enrollments are quite large it is a bit high expense for most of their users, although the service of this software is really good if they improve the price rates would attract much more users. but in wizIQ operation I have not had any bad experience or inconvenience in its functionality.
9. Learnworlds
Learnworlds helps you set up an online school website with multiple teachers and a course catalog. Add instructors and select the courses you want them to teach. While instructors can author courses, they cannot publish a new course or change general settings. As the admin of your school, offer as many courses as you like, with various pricing options. For an added fee, you can even get a branded app for your school.
Review: Capterra
Pros: It’s easy to use and doesn’t take to much time to learn all the core functions. I build my first online course in a few hours using they awesome design tools and page builder. Also I have to mention friendly and help full customer service. That’s really important for me.
Cons: Translating school pages to different language takes some time. They have prepared translated version in most popular ones, but in my case I had to spend few days on doing that. Still it’s easy to understand how to do it.
Overall: I have used few others providers and wasn’t satisfied until I found LearnWorlds. They have all the tools and easy to use interface to build your online school.
10. Elucidat
Elucidat has been invaluable in helping to streamline our process of content production.
Get more people across your business producing great digital learning. Team-level permissions, brand control, reusable assets and localization tools make it easy to manage digital learning at scale
Review: G2
What do you like best?
I was a complete beginner a week ago. Elucidat is very intuitive and easy to self-learn. There is a wealth of different page styles so that you can build engaging e-learning solutions very quickly.
What do you dislike?
Some of the edit icons for the different page elements can be quite close together and easy to click on the wrong one. Text editing would be better if it acted a little more like MS Word.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Too early to say but I’ve been using Elucidat to put together a showcase of what we might be able to achieve. I’m sure i t will be a great benefit in the future. This is my team’s first real foray into e-learning , so choosing the right tool is very important.
11. Eliademy
Eliademy is really simple to use. It allows instructors to create and share online courses with online multimedia, private videos, LTI edu apps, discussions, tasks, quizzes and customizable completion certificates. It is packed with user-friendly features and you will fall in love with it instantly.
Create your own online course Instantly and edit online courses, forums and quizzes, share documents and embed any multimedia content straight into your course. With Eliademy state of the art visual editor your course will look like an expensive study book with just a few clicks.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Fairly intuitive to use for both teachers and students. Easy to set up classes, and add content. No need to be tech savvy. Good live feature to give real time classes. You canadd control features to check student progression.
Cons: The sign up with linking process is a bit clumsy and the GUI is not that healthy. You would have to have some patience for the process to happen or you may not succeed sometimes. Overall its actually fine.
Overall: Learnt how to help the pupils in a fun way and interact with them in a very friendly and a creative way .
12. Camtasia
Camtasia 2020 makes it simple to record and create professional-looking videos on Windows and Mac. With this, you can record anything on your computer screen–websites, software, video calls, or PowerPoint presentations.
Whether you have experience or this is your first time making a video, it will give you everything you need to make a high-quality video.
Camtasia gives you pre-made animations that take your video to the next level. Customize your animation, create behaviors, or zoom in, zoom out, and pan animations to your screen recordings.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
This video editing program has many tools and options that are very easy to use, such as file import tools to library, as well as video input and output animation and effects tools, very useful for making multiple content videos. and make scene changes, it also has color tools that allow freehand brushing or blurring and saturation, it also has color removal tools to make effects, insert tools to add text, and figures to the video, also tools of audio editing to transform it into the editing box as we are going to transform the videos, it also has multiple export options where we can choose predefined sizes for different devices or transform of our choice
What do you dislike?
I would like the program to have more animation and effects options, that it had already predefined options to easily add
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We use this program to edit the videos that we upload to YouTube about health and treatments, it allows us to make a simple edition based on the images that we are importing, as well as audios and images, and with this program we are joining the parts to form a quality video, in which we add effects and the logo of the company, so that more people know us, we can also add texts on the video, very useful to make them more understandable, we can also take screenshots or the web cam to add these videos to make them more interactive and interesting, at the end we transform the video and choose one of the options that already come in the export that appears right there as a default for YouTube, so without editing the dimensions, this whole set of tools the program has saved us a lot of editing time.
13. Podia
Sell online courses, memberships, and digital downloads. No technical headaches, zero transaction fees, and unlimited everything.
Review: ecommerce platforms
If you’re thinking about selling memberships, digital downloads, or online courses, several options are available for you. One of them has come across my radar called Podia. It’s a system meant only for constructing a site in one of those three categories–which is pretty cool considering you can cut out the rest of the clutter of e-commerce. In this Podia review, we’ll outline the best features, along with areas like pricing, templates, and marketing.
14. Gomo
Global organizations choose the Gomo learning suite for the creation and delivery of their mission critical eLearning projects. Gomo provides the world’s leading responsive HTML5 eLearning authoring, delivery and analytics suite.
From easily building multi-device HTML5 eLearning content to effortlessly distributing it and analyzing its effectiveness, the Gomo learning suite brings your organization’s learning and development efforts together.
When everything works together, teams have more time to focus on what matters, giving them more space to deliver innovative learning with real benefit and a true business impact.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
Quick to learn. Responsive design and good interactions. This is definitely my authoring tool of choice. If you want nice looking content that is more web style than traditional slide based content, I’d give gomo a try
What do you dislike?
Occasional issues with authentication make it a little annoying at times. Keep saving, especially on topics with lots of screens. Sometimes things display in the wrong order but it’s easy to fix
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We can develop content in house saving time and money. In a matter of days, L&D people can learn the skills required to make great content.
The content is much easier to use on mobile devices than anything else I’ve tried.
15. Zoho ShowTime
A web conferencing solution that brings your virtual training to life. Engage with your learners before, during and after your session. Manage your leads, customers and trainers from one place. Generate a revenue stream, expand your virtual classroom and run a successful training business.
- Monetise your training programs and expand your business. Manage your trainers through an admin console.
- Run cost-effective learning programs for a global workforce. Onboard your new hires or run product training and measure its effectiveness.
- Qualify leads through CRM, host impactful sessions and convert them into your clients.
Review: FinancesOnline
Zoho ShowTime is used either to create vivid and animated presentations, or to share premade ones with your online audience. You can use it for personal purposes, and participate in conferences, webinars, or online training without having to adjust your content to suit the digital requirements of the event. This will help you save an incredible amount of time and effort, considering that you can also use a mobile app to do it.
What could be as well Zoho ShowTime’s biggest advantage is that it captures the attention of your audience, and allows practically everybody to follow your work, react on it, and rate it. Its analytic and comparison capacity will help you understand your progress, and focus energy on solutions that make your work most productive. Needless to repeat, this is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to share information.
16. Easygenerator
A mix of techies, teachers and designers with a passion for sharing knowledge. Easygenerator has been providing cloud-based e-learning software since 2013. Employees are enabled to quickly create engaging content, instead of relying on traditional course development processes. The Rotterdam-based company has more than 50,000 users in over 120 countries. Enterprise clients include T-Mobile, Unilever, New Relic and Drake University.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
It’s a quick tool to get into, easy to get to creating, no big setup. But there is still depth to the creative process when you want to. The support is also very fast, responsive and accessible. Constant updates keep the software fresh and when you know your way around the tool you get a great flow in the work progress.
What do you dislike?
For now, it feels like the material library, that gets filled up with material every time you upload something doesn’t really matter. If it would have a greater overview on in which courses the materials is being used it would serve a bigger purpose in my work.
A sort of folder structure inside of my account is something else that would aid me when I now have reached over 200 created courses in one single account.
Picture/video and content boxes are regularly getting updates but I am still also missing the ability to crop images in more ways. That would be very useful!
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Creating e-learnings in a fast way is an obvious one.
Drag and drop are both intuitive and easy to learn.
No setup process for the tool – which means an easy way to get the new users onboard among other things.
Great support!
17. Articulate 360
Articulate 360 includes both Storyline 360 and Rise 360, plus a slew of other authoring apps. Use Storyline 360 to develop custom, interactive courses that work on every device—without any manual tweaking. It’s powerful enough for experts, but easy for beginners to create virtually any interaction imaginable. Choose Rise 360 when you want to build fully responsive courses in minutes. All you need is a web browser to quickly create beautiful courses optimized for every screen size.
Review: Capterra
Pros: This is a great instructional design product that allows for seamless communication throughout the iterative process with all involved. The product makes designing online learning easy and opens up tons of possibilities for the creatively minded.
Cons: While there are many options and flexibility when it comes to adding in Java scripting, I have found that the support in this area is lacking. Also some simple and useful feature requests have been ignored across various versions despite long lists in the discussion forums requesting such logical feature upgrades. Other issues that I have with the product are really issues with SCORM which has its own limitations and issues.
Overall: This is an easy to use design software that is flexible enough to do a lot of really amazing things if you are creative. The various products within the 360 suite further expand the possibilities for learning design and delivery across multiple platforms. The communities associated are very responsive allowing me to engage with others using the product to expand my understanding of the capabilities and work through specific challenges that I encounter.
18. Lectora Online
There’s a reason why the world’s largest organizations choose Lectora, including all five military branches & the U.S. government. With an aging population and a focus on diversity, every learner deserves a valuable experience.
Gathering feedback has never been so easy! With ReviewLink as part of Lectora, stakeholders and subject matter experts can provide comments throughout your course, which means fewer revisions and speedy approvals.
Review: Capterra
Overall: The great add-ins from buying the software: BranchTrack, eLearning Brothers, Camtasia, Snagit, and Reviewlink. They also seem to be the best software for 508 compliance.
Pros: Probably the add-ins that come along with your purchase of Lectora. This includes eLearning Brothers that has templates, cut out people, and stock images that you can easily add to your course. They also have BranchTrack where you can create scenarios quickly. Camtasia is great for all your audio needs. Cutting and editing video has never been so easy. Reviewlink is a great way to show your end product to your stakeholders. They can offer feedback per slide and you can easily remediate.
Cons: My representative doesn’t always get back to me in a timely manner. There seems to be a lot of back-and-forth when it comes to emailing customer support. Knowing that every slide inherits properties, images, etc. from the parent slide can be a pain because you have to tell the software what NOT to inherit.
19. Academy Of Mine
With your LMS and Website 100% White Labeled, strengthen your brand and deliver a seamless experience for your students.
Features:
- Academy Of Mine Setup Online/Self-Paced Courses via different media formats, including Video, Audio, Powerpoint and PDFs.
- Fully scaled to your needs including enterprise features, External Software Integrations, custom audits/logs, Single Sign-On and more!
Review: BloggersIdeas
For beginners, setting-up of e-commerce to handle payment or installing the LMS (Learning Management System) seems to be a hectic task. As here we’re going to introduce a platform that you can use to create, sell and market your online courses easily..
Here comes Academy Of Mine– All-In-One platform to create, sell and market your online courses. With this platform, you can easily create your own Online Academy.
Academy Of Mine has been helping clients like you to simply sell their eCourses online for a long time. And if you’re ready to create, launch or sell your course then Academy Of Mine is the best option available for you.
