Udemy has over 20 000 established instructors - not all of them very good, but it makes it harder to stand out from the crowd when you start selling your courses.
The quality control for the content offered is fairly limited. As there are so many different instructors offering courses on Udemy, many of which lack formal training and teaching experience since anyone can be a teacher on Udemy, the quality varies quite a bit between the different courses.
Udemy has two marketing programs - Percentage and Fixed-price. Once you choose one, Udemy creates targeted promotional campaigns based on data analysis (seasonal, based on students' interests, etc.).
You'll be able to create courses and workshops easily as it's really simple to upload class content files, communicate with students, check on analytics etc. There are tooltips that guide you through the short class creation process. It saves a lot of time which you can focus on creating and selling your class within minutes.
The main dashboard where you create and run your courses is intuitive and easy to use. It's really simple to upload course files, check on analytics, issue refunds, communicate with students, etc. It saves a lot of time which you can focus on creating and selling your course instead.
You'll have to upload documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and videos when creating your course. Its drag and drop interface allows you to easily pull in your files from wherever they’re stored. It links up nicely with cloud storage, Google Drive, and Dropbox and there’s also a bulk upload facility, which saves a lot of time.
Teachable will provide a nice looking theme for your school and course landing pages out of the box. You just have to upload your logos, images, text and choose colour schemes to make your image and branding identifiable.
Since you own your course, you choose what to charge for it, and you keep all your earnings minus any credit card processing fees. Heights charges a flat monthly fee for its course software.
Your online course is on your own platform with your logo, on your own domain. You can interact with your students and create an entire platform that will allow you to sell your course for much more than if you put it on something like Udemy.
While Heights Platform offers great guides on how to launch and grow your course, it is up to you to promote your course and get students. Marketplaces like udemy get students for you, but at the cost of taking part of your earnings.
One of the few course creation platforms that lets you grant points and badges to your students as well as gives you the ability to upload your own custom badges.
The course creation interface for adding your content is part of the same interface that your students use to go through your program so you always know exactly how your content will appear to your students.