ThriveCart Learn vs Paid Platforms: Is It Worth It for Online Courses?

You bought ThriveCart for your checkout. And then you noticed: hey, there's a course builder in here. Free 99. Sounds like a win.

But free doesn't always mean better, especially when your students are the ones who pay the price for a bad learning experience.

I'm Dr. Catrina Mitchum, and I've been designing online courses since 2009. This is part of my course platform review series; I'm running the same lesson through every major platform so you can make an actual informed decision.

In this video I'm running my brainstorming lesson (the same lesson I use in every platform review in this series) through ThriveCart Learn Plus to answer three questions:
✔ Can you track whether students are actually doing the work (not just clicking complete)?
✔ Can you set up branching paths so learners see what's relevant to them?
✔ How much friction is standing between "I watched the video" and "I did the thing"?
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✅ Try Successible (accessibility checker): I did not get paid to test out Successible; I'm just super excited about it. This is an affiliate link and I earn a small commission: https://cmitchum--mabelyq.thrivecart.com/successible-checkout/?ref=yt-s13-v8

Table of Contents

0:00 Free 99 sounds good... but is it?
0:46 How ThriveCart Learn Plus is organized
1:35 Building your first course: what's easy
2:47 What's missing
3:54 Can you track whether students actually do the work?
4:44 Setting up pathways: the creative workaround
6:44 What pathways look like from the student side
8:34 The HTML problem
10:07 Friction check: how many clicks does it take?
11:09 Accessibility check with Successible (builder side)
13:34 Can you add alt text? Let's find out
13:46 Accessibility from the learner view
14:06 The question you have to ask yourself
14:41 Final scorecard
16:43 Who ThriveCart Learn actually works for

Видео ThriveCart Learn vs Paid Platforms: Is It Worth It for Online Courses? канала Catrina Mitchum Learning Design