Teach on Skillshare: Plan, Publish, and Promote an Engaging Class

Ready to teach an engaging, quality class on Skillshare?

Led by Skillshare’s Community team and a lineup of our most successful teachers, this class is designed to set you up for success as a Skillshare teacher by guiding you through the steps of creating a class on our platform.

This class is open to all teachers, whether you’re just starting out on our platform, or you’re a long-standing teacher looking to brush up on tips and tricks for creating and promoting a quality class.

In this class, you’ll learn:

• How learning on Skillshare works, and how you can start teaching on our platform.
• Tips for choosing a topic and crafting a project for your class.
• How to draft your class description to make it more visible and enticing to your future students.
• Approaches to outlining your class, so you’re fully prepared to film it.
• Strategies for filming and editing your class, from choosing a space to getting ready to teach on camera.
• Specific tips for polishing all the public-facing elements of a class — what we call merchandising — so your class can be more easily discovered in our catalog and on search engines.
• Top tips for class promotion, so you’re getting the word out to the right students outside Skillshare.
• The importance of student engagement, and how it benefits your students and your teaching.
• Strategies for finding continued success on Skillshare.

Your project in this class will be — no surprise here! — creating your own Skillshare class. We’ve broken this project into four manageable milestones, which are outlined in the Projects & Resources section.

Throughout this class, we’ve provided actionable tips and links to key Help Center articles to guide you along the way. And support is here if you need it: post your questions on the class’s Discussions board or email our Teacher Support team at [email protected].

Keep in mind that you do not need a paid Skillshare membership to take this class as long as you’re logged in to your Skillshare account and you’ve started a new class draft. First-time teachers will need to apply and be approved in order to start a class draft; review our Application Process for First-Time Teachers to learn more. 

Join our global teaching community by teaching a class on Skillshare! We’re looking forward to having you join us.

• Welcome and Introduction
• Project Overview: Create Your First Class
• How Teaching on Skillshare Works
• Get Focused: Choose Your Class Topic
• Get Busy: Craft Your Class Project
• Sketch It In: Write Your Class Description
• Make a Plan: Outline Your Class
• Equipment, Lighting, Space: Prepare to Film
• Get on Camera: Film Talking Head Videos
• Show and Tell: Film Live Demos
• Put it Together: Edit Your Class
• Prepare and Polish: Class Merchandising
• Get the Word Out: Class Marketing
• Launch!
• Engage Your Students
• Continue Your Teaching Journey
• Final Thoughts