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Add to SafariWhen comparing Heights Platform vs Udemy, the Slant community recommends Udemy for most people. In the question“What are the best platforms for selling online courses?” Udemy is ranked 1st while Heights Platform is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Udemy is:
If one course doesn't meet your needs, there is a sea of other courses to choose from.
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Pros
Pro Set your own price and don't pay a percentage of earnings
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.
Pro You own the platform and on your domain
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.
Pro Customizable Badge and Point System
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.
Pro Easy to Use
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.
Pro Wide range of courses
If one course doesn't meet your needs, there is a sea of other courses to choose from.
Pro Value for money
A +10 hour high quality course for under $20 is great value.
Pro Regular discounts
Often run discounts 50 - 90% off resulting in sub $20 courses.
Pro Offers intermediate and advanced courses
Udemy offers plenty of courses for beginner programmers, but also has a large variety of more advanced courses to choose from.
Pro Some courses are free
Pro Courses available in over 80 languages
Pro Friendly community
Both on site and on various social networks Udemy aims to create a community of friendly people that can help each other out.
Pro Quality of top courses
The quality of top courses (+4.0 rating & high enrollment) is exceptional.
Cons
Con You need to market your course on your own
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.
Con Quality varies
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.
Con Most courses are expensive
While Udemy does offer free courses, most of them are around $100.
Con Difficult to take multiple (10+) courses at the same time
The system becomes messy and hard to follow if you plan on using the site to learn more than a handful of things at once.
