Thinkific

While I do enjoy the app and the learning capabilities it unlocks, there is a major annoyance with the system. The “complete” button at the end of video lessons are terribly inconsistent and I really understand when it will pop up or not when scrolling through. Also, the “resume content” button almost never puts me where I left off. It will bring me some random lesson several modules ago. It also seems to be the same old lesson however.

I just started using this app on an iPad for a short term course. Two problems popped up immediately upon 5 minutes of usage. First, it is not possible to highlight or write on a pdf document. The only thing I can do is to read the pdf. It is not possible to download or export the document so I cannot annotate at all. Given that this app is intended to facilitate learning, the lack of features makes it very poor and frustrating when it comes to processing any information. Two, the thinkific app keeps crashing when I try to switch to another app to take notes. Every time I switch to the note taking app, I have to reopen thinkific, which is very annoying and inconvenient. This app needs a lot of work to actually help people of various learning styles and preferences. The visuals seemed appealing at first, but turned out to be an issue of style over substance.

The app is easy to navigate and use. However, this isn’t a one stop shop. Ihave several creators that use this website. There is no way to easily find the creators courses I need. I can’t easily upload my profile for each creator. Teachable lists all the courses I have with teachable on one screen and I can access all the content there. A feature like this that can merge several courses across different creators would be great.