Kajabi Review for Course Creators: How to Decide if It's for YOU

In this Kajabi Review, we're gonna determine if it's worth the upgrade or is it just selling you the look of a serious course platform?

I’m Dr. Catrina Mitchum, a learning designer and recovering academic that helps course creators craft courses like they give a sh*t by focusing on learning science based course design and course accessibility as foundations for client success so you can be successful, too.

Here's the short answer: Kajabi gets a conditional pass on activity tracking (with a clunky quiz workaround), but it flat-out fails on individualized student pathways and reduces student engagement through unnecessary friction. Oh — and the accessibility issues? Those are platform-level. You can't fix them.

The bottom line: If your course functions as a content repository in your business, Kajabi might be a solid fit. But if you're selling transformation — actual, measurable change — it might not be worth all the bells and whistles.In this video:

✅ Kajabi course setup: evergreen vs. cohort options
✅ Can Kajabi track activity beyond video completion?
✅ Do student pathways actually lock down the learning journey?
✅ Friction audit: how many clicks does it take to get students to "do the thing"?
✅ Accessibility scan using Successible
✅ My final verdict and who Kajabi IS the right fit for

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Table of Contents
0:00 Introduction
0:26 The 3 Questions Every Platform Must Pass
0:58 Setting Up a Course in Kajabi
1:53 Building Lessons, Modules & Submodules
3:23 Automations: Built for Selling, Not Learning
5:51 Question 1: Can Kajabi Track Activity Beyond Video?
6:06 The Quiz Workaround (How It Actually Works)
8:36 Grading & Giving Feedback as the Designer
10:29 Tracking Student Progress
11:52 Verdict on Question 1: Conditional Pass
12:15 Question 2: Does Kajabi Build Real Student Pathways?
14:35 Question 3: How Much Friction Does Kajabi Create?
16:56 Accessibility Audit with Successible
20:41 Final Verdict: Who Should (and Shouldn't) Use Kajabi

Видео Kajabi Review for Course Creators: How to Decide if It's for YOU канала Catrina Mitchum Learning Design