Prerequisites / Content Locking

Thinkific: Prevent students from skipping ahead by setting one or more lessons as prerequisites within your course (prerequisite lessons lock all following content until they’re complete).

Quizzes & Exams

Thinkific: (Advanced) Quizzes can include multimedia, be graded, allow multiple tracked attempts, include explanations of the correct answers, and be drawn from a randomized question bank. You can also upload questions easily. Need even more? Optionally integrate with a 3rd party exam provider, or use our Survey tool to create long-form, teacher-graded style exams for your students.

Slideshows / Presentations

Thinkific: Create voice-over-slide presentations directly within Thinkific by recording audio for each page of your uploaded slide deck.

One-Click Multimedia

Thinkific: Add multimedia content to your course faster with one-step multimedia lessons for content like webinar links, Google docs, appointment booking tools, forms and more without complicated embedding or code. Optionally send data (like student’s email address) to your third-party tools for personalized student experiences.

Surveys

Thinkific: Survey your students with single-answer, multi-answer, rating, scale, or long-form response questions within your Thinkific school. Perfect for long-form exams, instructor feedback, goal tracking and more.

Host Captivate / Storyline + more

Thinkific: Upload custom multimedia content directly to Thinkific for hosting within your course.

Copy Lessons

Thinkific: New! Duplicate lessons within and between courses. Perfect for content that you create once and have it appear across multiple courses.

Video Library

Thinkific: Manage your video resources in one place, and reuse videos between courses without having to re-upload your files.

Course Templates

Thinkific: Start from a blank page, or choose from 6 custom course templates to speed up course creation and learn from best practices in curriculum and course design.

Review

Thinkific: Automatically collect reviews from your students and optionally display them on your landing pages as social proof. Star ratings appear in search listings, increasing organic traffic to your site.

Time Limited Course Access / Course Expiration

Thinkific: Specify how many days a student will have access to your course. You can even offer different access periods for different price points.

Bundles & Memberships

Thinkific: (Advanced) Robust bundles allow you to bundle any combination of courses for your students.

Paid Custom Pages

Thinkific: Create custom pages and specify who has access to them – the public, your members, or even sell them with course purchases. Custom pages can be used to seamlessly deliver non-course content, resource libraries, access instructions to your community, booking details for consulting work, and more. Custom pages can also be used to create custom sales funnels to guide your buyers through the funnel you choose.

SEO Sitemaps

Thinkific: Search engine friendly sitemaps are automatically generated and updated to ensure that your Thinkific site is fully search engine ready.

Direct Infusionsoft, Active Campaign, Mixpanel & Aweber Integrations

Thinkific: Directly integrate with more of the most common business tools you’re already using.

Time Limited Free Trials

Thinkific: When you sell courses with recurring billing or as a membership, collect a credit card upfront from students with payment to happen after the trial period (set by days or months).

Upsells

Thinkific: With a fully customizable site-wide thank-you page, individual course sales and completion pages, and course completion emails you can prompt your students and purchasers to take the next step and purchase your next course, wherever they are in their student journey. Credit cards are automatically stored so upsell purchases are one-click. Individual course-based thank-you pages were released in 2020.

Countdown Timer

Thinkific: One-click addition of a countdown timer to your landing or checkout pages can increase urgency on your offer.

Blog

Thinkific: Feature not offered. Our focus is on building the best course sites on the planet! If you’d like a blog, we recommend using a best-in-class blogging tool like WordPress, which can seamlessly integrate with your site.

Coupons

Thinkific: (Advanced) You can discount anything – any way you’d like – on Thinkific. Create site-wide, single, or multi-course/multi-price coupons either % or $ based. Additionally, create multiple unique codes using the same parameters for advanced discounting. For payment plans and subscriptions, coupons can have a specified duration (for example, take 25% off for 3 months).

Custom Payment Terms / Pricing Flexibility

Thinkific: (Advanced) Offer one payment, monthly/annual subscriptions, or fixed payment plans. Additionally, set free trial periods (by days or months), specify enrollment duration by price, or set a custom first payment (charge one price for the first month, and a different price for subsequent months).

WordPress Plugin

Thinkific: Easily turn blog content into course content and insert checkout links directly into your blog content with our WordPress plugin.

Social Logins

Thinkific: Optionally allow students to sign up for your site using their LinkedIn, Facebook, or Google account for speed + ease.

Custom Site Themes & Course Landing Pages

Thinkific: Choose from a suite of 10 beautiful custom theme presets designed for selling education – then easily make your site your own. Easy. Beautiful. You have complete control.

Import & Export Themes
(advanced customization – developer required)

Thinkific: Create, modify, import, and export complete site themes across sites, including assets like fonts or images.

HTML/CSS/Liquid
(advanced customization – developer required)

Thinkific: Full access to theme code with the ability to add layouts, sections, pages, snippets, styles & custom assets.

Live Preview

Thinkific: Live previewing of your site changes while building and editing your theme. Only publish changes to your live website when you’re ready, so you’re always in control of what your customers see.

Course welcome & completion emails

Thinkific: Create custom emails on a course by course basis to welcome students to your site and to the courses they purchase, and to congratulate them upon completion of their course.

Course Completion Page

Thinkific: Create, modify, import, and export complete site themes across sites, including assets like fonts or images.

Whitelabeled URLs

Thinkific: We’ve all been taught to watch the site URL to ensure we’re on the page we expect – especially when it comes to online payments! Thinkific URLs always show your own URL, providing a seamless experience for your students. For example, checking out on a Thinkific site would show “https://www.myschool.com/users/…” in the address bar.

Mobile Access

Thinkific: Thinkific’s site is designed to be fully mobile responsive, allowing your students to seamlessly transition between desktop and mobile devices with complete access and progress tracking within your course.

Language Translation

Thinkific: Thinkific’s been completely professionally translated into over 30 languages, so you can deliver courses wherever your students are.

Custom Student Dashboard

Thinkific: Fully customize your signed-in student experience complete with videos, content, and custom pages that only your members can see. Turn your Thinkific site into a full-featured membership portal.

Group Reporting & Sales

Thinkific: Organize, sell & track customers in groups. Sell to organizations, pull custom reporting, and create time-based cohorts with ease.

Full User Administration

Thinkific: Users on your site always belong to – and can be fully administered – by you. Update student names and emails as required, including access to assign or reset passwords if needed (students can also do this on their own).

Payment Tracking

Thinkific: With Thinkific, you maintain complete control over your business. Thinkific tracks payments owing and paid out to affiliates and payees, which course creators can then pay directly and log the payments made right in Thinkific. The payee feature on Thinkific allows you to track payments for course authors, and also other people like business partners.

User permissions & levels

Thinkific: (Basic) Thinkific offers site owners, course administrators, affiliates & payee user types.

Custom Signup Fields

Thinkific: Request additional data from students on signup

Bookmark Presets

Thinkific: One-click user search bookmarks allow you to see – and contact – your students segmented by specific criteria easily. Encourage those falling behind or reach out to students who dropped out before completing their purchase, or create new bookmarks unique to you.

On-Demand Platform Training

Thinkific: Thinkific training courses are included to help every customer succeed at no charge.

Support Channels

Thinkific: Phone & Email support for every customer.

Additional Support Available

Thinkific: 1v1 onboarding, migration support, launch preparedness calls, and account managers at different plan levels.

Support Hours

Thinkific: Support is available 7 days a week

Pricing

Thinkific: Plans ranging from free to $499 (with Plus plans available for high volume businesses)

Transaction Fees

Thinkific: 0%

Instant Access to your Funds

Thinkific: Payments always go to your own Stripe or PayPal account immediately – there’s never a delay in receiving your funds. Your students pay you directly, not Thinkific.

Support Hours

Thinkific: Support is available 7 days a week