Same core. Five very different academies.
We do not sell five products. We sell one, and the switches that make it fit. Below is which switches to turn on for who — including the honest note about when TKDS LMS is not the right answer for you.
The individual teacher
You teach alone. You have a following, or you are building one, and you have no appetite for a monthly bill before your first sale.
What hurts
- Course videos on one platform, payments on another, students in a WhatsApp group
- No proof anyone finished anything
- Every refund and access problem lands on your phone
The setup
- 1
Start on the free plan — publish on the shared TKDS learning platform, pay 40% of what you sell, and nothing when you sell nothing.
- 2
Turn on quizzes and certificates so students get a reason to finish.
- 3
Use live classes for the sessions that actually differentiate you from a recorded course.
- 4
Move to your own platform when the revenue share costs you more than a plan does. We will tell you when that crossover happens.
You keep 60% of every sale from day one, with zero risk and no setup work.
Academies and teaching centres
Several instructors, seasonal peaks, and a brand you have spent years building. You want your name on the platform, not ours.
What hurts
- One student account watched by a whole study group
- Recorded lessons appearing on Telegram channels a week after they go up
- Instructor payouts reconciled by hand every month
The setup
- 1
Take a paid plan and run on your own domain with full white-label branding.
- 2
Turn on the watermark and device limits first. These two are what protect the revenue, and they are the difference between selling once and selling twelve times.
- 3
Set instructor revenue share per account and let earnings and withdrawals calculate themselves.
- 4
Enable instalments and bank transfer — in this market they convert better than cards alone.
Your brand, your students, your data — and a payout queue that reconciles itself.
Schools and universities
A real student body, parents who want visibility, and administrators who need reporting rather than vibes.
What hurts
- Attendance tracked in spreadsheets that never match
- Parents with no window into how their child is doing
- Staff who need access to some data and absolutely not to all of it
The setup
- 1
Enable academic levels — your own labels, whether that is Grade 1–12, A1–C2 or Year 1–4.
- 2
Enable guardian accounts — read-only, consent-gated, showing a parent their child’s courses, progress, grades, certificates and upcoming live classes.
- 3
Use live classes for attendance — it is recorded automatically on join and exports to CSV.
- 4
Build sub-admin roles so a coordinator sees enrolments without seeing finance.
Attendance and grades that come out of the system rather than being typed into it.
Corporate training
You train employees, partners or franchisees, and someone will eventually ask you to prove who completed what.
What hurts
- Onboarding delivered inconsistently by whoever is free that week
- No record of who completed mandatory training
- Seats bought centrally but assigned individually
The setup
- 1
Enable per-seat organisations — an owner buys seats and assigns them by email.
- 2
Enable learning paths so modules unlock in the right order rather than being taken out of sequence.
- 3
Use certificates as the completion record — each carries a public verification code.
- 4
Lean on analytics for completion rates by course and by cohort.
A defensible record of who was trained on what, and when.
Content creators
An audience already exists. The problem is turning attention into recurring revenue without becoming a full-time operations department.
What hurts
- Selling one course at a time with no recurring floor
- An audience on someone else’s platform that could disappear
- No practical way to reward the people who send you customers
The setup
- 1
Enable membership plans for a recurring revenue floor under the one-off sales.
- 2
Enable bundles and ebooks to sell more to the people who already trust you.
- 3
Enable the affiliate programme so your community earns commission for referrals.
- 4
Keep the catalogue minimal — creators usually want a simpler storefront than an academy does.
Recurring revenue, an owned audience, and a referral engine that runs itself.
When TKDS LMS is the wrong answer
If you teach one live class a week to fifteen people who already know how to find you, a scheduling tool and a payment link will serve you better than a platform. We would rather say that than sell you a plan you resent.
If you need studio-grade encrypted DRM because a rights-holder contractually requires it, our four protection layers are deterrence, not DRM. Tell us during onboarding and we will scope it honestly rather than pretend.
And if you are a university that needs deep integration with an existing student information system, that is an enterprise conversation with a real scope — not a plan you should buy off this page.
Not sure which one you are?
Describe your situation in two sentences. We will tell you which setup fits — including “stay on the free plan for now”.