Move my course off Teachable, Podia or Kajabi
Course platforms are a bundle: a website, hosting, email and funnels wrapped around the teaching. If your site already lives with bernard, you're paying for that bundle twice — and the platform's slice of your sales on top. Moving out is less surgery than it sounds, because a course is at heart a list: lessons, in order, each with a video and some words.
How it works
- Get your syllabus out. Open your course on the old platform and copy the lesson titles, order and notes. Note where each video lives — your own YouTube/Vimeo (nothing to do), or platform-hosted (download your originals first).
- Hand the list to Bernard. He rebuilds the course lesson by lesson — titles, order, notes, videos (Add a lesson to my course, Use the videos already on my YouTube or Vimeo) — as a private draft you review side by side with the original.
- Set the price and the taster (Charge once, or sell a year of access, Let people watch one lesson free), publish, approve — then cancel the old platform once you've watched a lesson play on your own site.
What changes for your learners: they buy on your site and get in by a personal email link (Let learners in without accounts or passwords). What changes for you: the money lands in your own Stripe with no platform percentage (Where the money goes when someone enrols), and your course pages carry proper machine-readable markup — something the big platforms are famously lax about — so search engines and AI assistants can actually read what you teach.
The prompt
“Rebuild my course from [the platform it's on now] on my site. Here's the syllabus in order, with a video link and notes for each lesson: [paste your lesson list].”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- Can I move my online course off Teachable or Podia to my own website?
- Yes. Give bernard your syllabus — lesson titles in order, each with its video link and notes — and it rebuilds the course faithfully on your own site: same order, same words, your price. You review the whole thing privately and approve it before it lists.
- What happens to my videos when I leave a course platform?
- If they're on your own YouTube or Vimeo, nothing — lessons point at them exactly as before. If the old platform hosts them, download your originals (most platforms allow this), then re-upload to your own YouTube/Vimeo or hand bernard the files to host.
- Why move at all — my course platform works?
- Because you're renting the bundle twice. Teachable, Podia and Kajabi charge hundreds a year for a website, hosting and email you already have with bernard — wrapped around the teaching layer. Moving keeps the one piece you use and drops the rent on the rest; enrolment money then goes to your own Stripe with no platform cut.