How to Sell e-Learning with Thinkific
Are you creating e-learning content using Open Elms AI and looking for a simple way to sell your courses? In this guide, I’ll walk you through how to upload and monetize your e-learning modules using Thinkific—a powerful platform for course creators. Step 1: Get Started with Thinkific Head over to thinkific.com and sign up for a free trial. Once you’re in, you’ll have access to a dashboard that gives you a comprehensive overview of your activity—revenue, new accounts, leads, and, most importantly, your products. In Thinkific, products refer to the learning materials you want to sell. These can be: For our purpose, we’ll focus specifically on courses, since we’re looking to upload structured e-learning modules. Step 2: Create Your First Course In our example, we’ve created a course titled “GCSE History: Crime and Punishment.” This course is a compilation of e-learning modules generated through Open Elms AI, bundled together and sold at a single price. Thinkific simplifies the monetization process. You can easily set up a payment engine by entering your bank details—no third-party integrations necessary. This means: Once your payment settings are in place, you’re ready to start uploading your course content. Step 3: Add Lessons from Open Elms AI Courses in Thinkific are structured into lessons. Here’s how we break it down: The first lesson would include the Title and an Overview. This is followed with a complementary lesson with the eLearning content consisting of a eLearning URL. These are copied directly from Open eLMS AI eLearning URL For instance, our first lesson might be: Followed by E-learning: Shared link from Open Elms AI. You can repeat this structure for each historical period or topic—e.g., Middle Ages, the impact of the Church, media influence on crime, and so on. All you need to input for each lesson are those three simple elements. Step 4: Preview and Publish Your Course Once you’ve added your lessons, Thinkific makes it easy to preview how your course will appear to students. A typical course layout includes: Your learners can access and cycle through the material just like they would with any professional e-learning platform. Final Thoughts That’s it! By combining the power of Open Elms AI to create your content and Thinkific to deliver and monetize it, you can launch your own online learning business with minimal technical know-how. Whether you’re a teacher, trainer, or education entrepreneur, this setup offers an efficient, scalable way to package and sell your knowledge. Got any questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Happy course-building! Video Summary