Course Creation

1. Instructor Onboarding

Provided you have been approved by us, we create your account and give you the login details. You can change the password afterwards if you prefer.   Please provide us with a new gmail account details (email and password) for us to create your account.
We require the New account for the following reasons

  •  You will receive a lot of automated email notifications from Fundisa for example when a learner purchases your course, submits an assignment or communication from us related to your account and withdrawals.
  • We use your email to setup your account and enable it to host live lessons.

You need to provide to us your first name, second name and surname as well as the name you want to be know as on Fundisa platform (business name).  Hint: you may also want to consider creating a gmail account that matches your business name, for example if you want to be know as AplusMath on fundisa create Aplusmath@gmail.com and provide this information to us.

2. Instructor Dashboard

General Options- All users

Instructor Options

My Courses: A list of all the courses you have on the platform.
My bundles: If you wish to sell two or more courses of your own as a bundle you can select this option, a good choice if you want to offer discounts and promote your courses. A list of all your current bundles will also be shown here.
Announcements: This will reveal all announcements you made to your learners. The is also an option to create a new announcement.
Withdrawals: A list a past withdrawal transactions , approved and rejected ones and an options to make a new withdrawal.
Quiz Attempts: Your learners quiz attempts.
Assignments: Create a new assignment or view a list of all assignments. Edit option available.
Zoom: Schedule a zoom lesson for one of your courses or view a list of upcoming live lessons or expired zoom sessions.
Analytics: The Analytics dashboard is where you will find a detailed analysis of how your course is performing with dedicated reports like the following:

  • Overview: Contains Quick Stats, the Earnings Graph, a list of the Most Popular Courses as well as a list of Recent Reviews.
  • Courses: See a list of all your Courses, Total Learners, Earnings, and more.
  • Earnings: Contains a detailed overview of your Sales with information like Total Earnings, Total Sales, Current Balance, Total Withdrawals, etc, and the Earnings Graph.
  • Statements: See a list of all your Course Purchase Statements generated when Students buy your courses. This table will also detail the Earnings, Commission, and Fees.
  • Students: See a list of all your Students and related information here.
  • Export: From this tab, you can easily Export the reports on your Sales & Students with a single click of a button.

Settings: This section is where you can adjust essential Settings for Profile, change Password, Withdraw and change your social profiles.

3. Creating a New Course

Create a new course by clicking on the create a new course button at the top right hand corner of instructor dashboard.

Course Info

First up is the “Course Info” section. Here, you will find the following fields to add:

  • Course Title: When creating your course, choosing an appropriate title is important. The title should accurately reflect the content of the course, so be concise and catchy. To help increase visibility, it’s also a good idea to include relevant keywords in the title. Choose a title that clearly communicates the course’s subject, grade level, and type (tutoring, self-study, or exam prep). Example: “Math Tutoring for Grade 12” or “Physics Exam Prep: Grade 11.”
  • Course Slug: The course slug is a unique URL-friendly version of the title, used for website navigation. It’s automatically generated, but you can customise it. This will appear in the URL, to increase the visibility of your course in search engine results pages, it’s important to make sure that the Course Slug is relevant, contains relevant keywords, and that each word is separated by hyphens.
  • About Course: Use this field to give potential learners a general idea of what they can expect from this course, such as what the course will entail, its learning objectives, a brief overview of the syllabus, and so on. Write a captivating description that highlights the course’s benefits and what learners will gain. This is what potential learners will see first, so make it engaging!

You can update basic course settings and content drip options from this section. Let’s explain both of these.

General Settings

In this section, you have the ability to customize certain attributes of your course.

Maximum Number of Learners and Enrollment Expiration

Maximum Students: This field allows the user to specify the maximum number of learners that can be enrolled in a course. Setting the “Maximum Students” to 0 means there will be no limit on the number of students who can enroll in the course. Although the number can be unlimited, the maximum allowed for tutoring courses is 10 and no more than that.

Difficulty Level: There are options here but You can ignore this setting or choose “Easy” as courses are grade-specific and follow the government curriculum.

Enrollment Expiration: This is a very important setting. It allows instructors to gerenate revenue each time learners have to pay to access the content.

      • Tutoring: Set to 31 days for monthly renewals.
      • Self-Study: Set to 365 days for annual access.
      • Exam Prep: Set to “Lifetime” for continuous access and until the course is removed from the platform. Refer to contract for more details.

Public Course: The Public Course option is a setting that makes an online course available for anyone to enroll. This means that the course can be accessed by anyone who has the link to the course page, and they do not need to log in or have an account to view the course content.  Only switch on this settings for free public content. Keep this “Off” to require registration for viewing course content.

Q&A: This option allows Instructors to enable a Question and Answer section for the selected course.

Course Category, Price and Course Thumbnail

Choose a Category: Select the correct category from the dropdown to ensure proper course placement on the website. The category is a combination of subject code, type of course and grade. For example in the picture above MATH TUT GR11 means Mathematics Tutoring grade 11.

Course Price:  Choose between Free or Paid. If you require learners to pay before they can access the content of the course enter the regular price. Our Pricing is as follows:

Tutoring

GET PHASE

Grade 7:          R500 per month
Grade 8:          R600 per Month
Grade 9:          R700 per Month

FET PHASE         

Grade 10:        R500 per Month
Grade 11:        R600 per month
Grade 12:        R700 per month

Self Study Courses: Enter a price between R100 and R300
Exam Prep: Enter any price between R50 and R500

Course Thumbnail: Upload an eye-catching image that represents your course.
Please be advised that the supported file types for this thumbnail image are jpg, .jpeg, gif, or .png. Also, we recommend you use a 700×430 px sized image as the thumbnail. Use tinypng.com to reduce your file size before uploading.  You should always do this before uploading images to the website. Small images load faster.

Course Intro Video and Video Source

Course Intro Video: A course intro video is a promo video. It increases the chances of learners enrolling in your course .

Video Source: You must upload your video to YouTube first and then the video link from YouTube and paste on our site after selecting YouTube from video source dropdown menu.  Please note that you are not allowed to upload videos directly to the site.  If you have never uploaded a video on YouTube before head over to course management topic we explain this there under uploading lessons.

Course Builder

Course builder section is where you will spend most of the time when you are adding lessons, Assignments and quizzes. For now we won’t say much about course build because we explain it in details under course management.

 

Adding Instructors

You can add more than one Instructor to your course. This is going to be beneficial if you want someone to co-teach with.

Zoom and Course Attachments

Zoom Meeting: Schedule a zoom meeting for live lessons. You typically do this after you have published your course and your course is live. This section is dealt with in details in another topic, course management.

Course Attachments: Upload relevant documents intended for learners like annual teaching plans, textbooks, or calendars. Note that there is no need to share past papers here since we have a dedicated past paper section.

Additional Data

In the Additional Data section, you can write down the highlights of your course and other additional info using the fields:

What Will You Learn: List the key takeaways and skills learners will acquire.
Target Audience: Specify “South African learners following CAPS or IEB curriculum in the relevant grade.”
Total Course Duration: Leave this blank in case of tutoring. In case of self study, write the total number of hours of video lessons. In case of Exam prep, write the duration of your exam prep session.
Materials Included: Explain the resources you’ll use, such as videos, quizzes, or worksheets.
Course Tags: Add relevant keywords to improve search visibility and course discoverability.
Course Prerequisite: Indicate any required courses learners must complete beforehand.

Content Drip

Enable Content Drip: Check this box to control content release.

Options:

Schedule Course Content by Date: Release lessons on specific dates.
Content Available After X Days from Enrollment: Set a delay for content access.
Course Content Available Sequentially: Unlock lessons one after another.
Course Content Unlocked After Finishing Course Prerequisites: Require completion of prerequisites before accessing new content.