Teach Online With 7 Platforms: Tutoring, Courses and Videos

7. Tutor students online

An online tutoring company pays its tutors twice a week. Here are seven ways to teach what you know online. Number seven: tutor students online, on demand, through a service that runs around the clock. A competency exam in a high-demand subject can speed up your application.

On Tutor.com, you help students of all ages with homework and tutoring in the subjects where you have shown expertise. Sessions use an online whiteboard, video, voice and chat. To qualify, you live where applications are accepted and are eligible to work there. You also need fluent English, plus at least a second year of a four-year degree, or the degree itself.

Your computer needs a stable connection of at least fifteen megabits down and five up. It also has to send and receive audio, with a webcam or built-in camera for video. The application process takes one to three weeks, depending on how quickly you complete each step. You can create a schedule each week, log on unscheduled and pick up sessions, or set availability for appointments.

Five hours a week is the minimum availability the page asks for. Tutors are paid a set hourly rate tied to their subjects, with incentives for high-quality tutoring. By our count, the five-hour minimum comes to about twenty hours in a four-week month. Five times four is twenty.

Payment comes on a set schedule, with no invoice needed. Tutoring rules can differ where you live. If guides like this help you, subscribe: every step in this video comes from each platform's own official pages, linked below.

6. Tutor students in live online sessions

Number six: tutor students in live online sessions, one-on-one or in small group classes. You don't need teaching experience, and many tutors there have no teaching background. On Varsity Tutors, you complete an application and then a video interview. After that, the platform matches you to students who fit your experience and preferences.

The application asks for contact details, education, work experience and documentation. It typically takes thirty to forty-five minutes to fill out. You set your schedule and choose the students and subjects. That can be a few hours a week or a full calendar.

Tutors are independent contractors who use their own styles, methods and materials. They create their own lesson plans, based on their experience and their learners. Rates vary by subject and differ between one-on-one tutoring and small group classes. Tutoring longer and getting more positive reviews can open a chance at a higher hourly rate.

You can opt to work with fewer or more students as you go. Twice a week is how often the platform pays its tutors. By our count, being paid twice a week means 104 paydays a year. Two times fifty-two weeks is 104.

The platform seeks independent contractor tutors only in some places, and not in every area within them. Who can apply differs where you live.

5. Sell a course

Number five: sell a course, downloads and coaching from one place. You can try everything free for fourteen days, with no credit card or plan to pick until you're ready. On Podia, you sell online courses with lessons, quizzes and certificates to the people you teach. You can also offer digital downloads such as ebooks and templates.

Coaching is part of the store too, with clients booking and paying for sessions. The store can also hold a community with free or paid tiers, plus live workshops and webinars. The Mover plan, for those just getting started, costs $42 a month billed yearly. The Shaker plan costs $84 a month billed yearly, with no platform fees.

The payment processor also charges a standard fee of 2.9% plus thirty cents, which may vary based on your location. You can upgrade, downgrade or switch from monthly to annual billing at any time. A refund request has to come within seventy-two hours of your most recent payment, and annual plans get no partial refunds. Podia never upgrades your plan on its own.

5% is the Mover plan's transaction fee on each sale. The team also helps move courses and downloads from another platform, up to fifty products on Mover. By our count, a one-hundred-dollar course sale on the Mover plan pays a five-dollar platform fee. 5% of 100 is five, before the payment processor's own fee.

Payment rules can differ where you live.

4. Build your own online course school and set the price yourself

Number four: build your own online course school and set the price yourself. Each school needs its own paid plan once the trial ends. On Teachable, you join for free and complete the account creation process to create your first school. From there, the school admin is where you build everything you teach.

In the school admin, you create a new course and add sections and lectures to the curriculum. You then set the course details and pricing, and publish it. The Starter plan costs $39 a month billed monthly, with up to five products. The Builder plan costs $89 a month, with no transaction fee when you use the platform's own payments.

Billed yearly, those two plans drop to twenty-nine and $69 a month. Both plans list a seven-day free trial and a thirty-day money-back period. The page also shows a special offer of a thirty-day trial. Card fees start at 2.9% plus thirty cents, and are higher for international sales.

With the platform's own payments, payouts are daily. With a separate payment gateway, they are monthly. 7.5% is the Starter plan's transaction fee on each sale. On the Builder plan, that fee is zero when you use the platform's own payments.

By our count, a one-hundred-dollar course sale on the Starter plan pays a seven-dollar-fifty transaction fee. 7.5% of 100 is seven fifty, before card processing fees. The Builder plan allows up to ten products, and both plans allow unlimited students. Card fees can differ where you live.

That's past the halfway mark: on-demand tutoring, live tutoring, a course store and a course school so far. The last three cover video classes, teaching resources and your own videos, with the best last.

3. Teach video classes on a subscription learning platform

Number three: teach video classes on a subscription learning platform. For now, it accepts new teachers only in a select group of creative categories, and only in English. On Skillshare, you apply through the sign-up form and categorize your content. You also outline your class and share an example of your teaching and your work.

The form also asks you to agree to the terms and content guidelines. The team then approves each teacher before their first class goes up. The open categories include design, photography and illustration. If you're approved, you get the class upload tool to publish a class at any time.

Every class must keep following the quality guidelines to stay live on the platform. The first lesson of every class is free to watch, so a one-lesson class isn't eligible for royalties. Each month, a portion of subscription revenue goes to a teacher fund. It is shared among eligible teachers, based mainly on qualifying minutes watched by paid members.

Watch time from free trials and class trailers doesn't count. To be eligible, you need fifty followers and a quality class published in the past eighteen months. Over 400 qualifying minutes watched in the month is the bar with that class. Without a new class in that time, the page asks for over 650 minutes instead.

By our count, 400 minutes of watch time is six hours and forty minutes in a month. 400 divided by sixty is six, with forty minutes left over. The platform says future payouts can't be estimated in advance. Payments go out on the sixteenth, or the closest business day before it.

Payment options can differ where you live.

2. Offer the teaching resources you create

Number two: offer the teaching resources you create, free or paid. The platform keeps a percentage of each sale as its service fee. On Teachers Pay Teachers, you first create a free buyer account. Then you choose to join as a Basic Seller or an Exclusive Seller.

A Basic Seller pays a one-time, non-refundable fee of $29. That seller keeps 55% of every sale and pays a thirty-cent transaction fee per resource. An Exclusive Seller pays $59 and ninety-five cents a year. Exclusive Sellers keep seventy-seven and a half percent once a limited-time higher rate ends.

They pay fifteen cents per resource only on orders under $3. Exclusive Sellers must sell their digital teaching resources only on the platform. Sellers are paid monthly through a payout provider, to a transfer method such as direct deposit. Basic Sellers can keep selling their resources elsewhere too.

Exclusive Sellers can still sell physical products and courses off the platform. Each month's payout arrives the next month, usually around the tenth and no later than the twenty-first. 55% is the Basic Seller's payout rate on all sales. By our count, a ten-dollar resource sold by a Basic Seller leaves $5 and twenty cents.

55% of ten is five fifty, minus the thirty-cent fee. Switching from Exclusive back to Basic means a one-year wait before rejoining Exclusive. Payout methods can differ where you live.

1. Teach what you know in your own videos

Number one: teach what you know in your own videos, on a channel you build over time. The platform's partner program, which lets a channel share in ad revenue, has two entry routes, both starting at a thousand subscribers. On YouTube, one route today adds 4,000 qualified watch hours in the last twelve months. The other adds 10 million qualified Shorts views in the last ninety days.

From February first, twenty twenty-seven, new channels need 8,000 qualified watch hours in a year instead. The Shorts route becomes 20 million views in ninety days, and channels already in the program keep their status. You also follow the channel monetization policies and live where the program is available. You need no active Community Guidelines strikes, two-step verification and advanced features access.

One active payout account must be linked to the channel, or you set one up in the studio. In the studio's monetization section, you apply, then review and accept the base terms. Automated systems and human reviewers then look at the channel as a whole. A decision typically comes in about a month.

If the first application isn't successful, you can appeal within twenty-one days. You can also keep uploading original content and re-apply after thirty days. If more than one application wasn't successful, or you have re-applied before, the wait to try again is ninety days. 4,000 watch hours in twelve months is the figure for that route until then.

Watch hours from Shorts views in the Shorts feed don't count toward it. By our count, 8,000 watch hours in a year averages about 667 hours a month. That is twice the 333 a month that 4,000 hours take today. Channels already in the program keep being checked against the policies over time.

Program rules can differ where you live. So, seven ways to teach online: Tutor.com for on-demand tutoring, Varsity Tutors for live tutoring, and Podia for a course store. Then Teachable for a course school, Skillshare for video classes, Teachers Pay Teachers for resources, and YouTube for your own videos. Rules and availability differ where you live.

So open the platform's own help page first, and see what it asks for in your area. Which one fits what you could teach? Tell us the number in the comments. Results vary, and this is information only, not financial advice.

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