How to actually run the thing
These guides are written for the person doing the work — the teacher building a course, the student taking it, the administrator keeping the lights on. Follow along with your own dashboard open in another tab.
Your first week, in five steps
- 01
Create the academy
Sign up, pick your plan, and point your domain at the platform. On the free plan you skip this — you publish on the shared TKDS learning platform instead.
Domain setup takes a DNS record and about ten minutes of propagation.
- 02
Make it look like you
Go to Settings → Branding and upload your dark logo, light logo and favicon. Then Settings → Theme for the colour palette, and Settings → Appearance to choose the home layout.
Every colour is a token, so changing the palette cannot break a screen.
- 03
Turn on only what you need
Settings → Features is a list of switches. Quizzes, assignments, live classes, wallet, bundles, ebooks, affiliates, community, notes, learning paths, guardians, leaderboard — everything is off until you turn it on, and off means invisible.
Start minimal. You can switch anything on later without losing data.
- 04
Take money
Settings → Payment enables your gateways: Stripe, PayPal, Fawaterk, Tabby, Tamara, or manual bank transfer with receipt upload. Settings → Commerce controls instalments, the student wallet and coupons.
Bank transfer is the fastest way to start selling while a gateway account is still in review.
- 05
Publish the first course
Create a course, build the curriculum, set a price, and hit publish. Then read the instructor guide — it covers quizzes, live classes, grading and everything after the first sale.
Mobile app guide
Coming soon — we are writing it alongside the next app release.
In progressStuck on something the guides do not cover?
Open a support ticket from inside your platform — Support in the user menu — or email support@tkdsmena.com. Every paid plan has a 24-hour first-response target.