Thinking of teaching on Skillshare? Start today! Join this 30-Day Challenge for milestones, prizes, and tons of support as you create your first class. Teaching on Skillshare is a lightweight and easy process – classes are typically just 10-25 minutes of video content that focuses on walking students through a specific skill, concept or project.
Teachers who complete the October Teach Challenge will receive:
- $100 guaranteed payment*
- 1 year of Premium Membership free ($96 value)
- A chance to win a $1,000 Apple gift card
The class that trends the highest on our trending page on November 7th will be the official Teach Challenge winner and receive the $1,000 Apple gift card. The winner will also be featured in a community-wide email to over 1M students!
How It Works
- Follow our October Teach Challenge Calendar and milestones here.
- Sign up for the Teach Challenge by clicking the “Join” button above, and enrolling in our two free classes on teaching and class marketing - Teach an Amazing Skillshare Class and the Marketing Class.
- Every few days, we’ll send you’ll an email with instructions and tips on how to complete each one of the class creation milestones.
- Share each of your milestones in the Project Section for feedback. Please note that certain milestones – Creating a Class Draft, Creating a Class Outline, and Creating an Intro Video – are required to be eligible for the Teacher bonus. Read more about prize eligibility for the October Teach Challenge here.
- Use the Discussions section to ask questions along the way and get help from our Teacher Support team.
- Need extra help? Participate in a live AMA with our Teacher Support team on Thursday, October 13th at 3pm EST.
- Publish your class to Skillshare by Monday, October 31st.
- Make at least 1 referral to Premium Membership by November 15th to successfully complete the challenge and qualify for your bonus! Read more about prize eligibility for the October Teach Challenge here.
Teach Challenge Resources
- Teach Challenge Welcome Packet
- October Teach Challenge Calendar
- Community Principles
- DIY Video Setup
- Getting Started With Screencast
Join the Community
- The Discussion section and the Community Board are spaces for you to drop comments and questions and ask for extra support and feedback from the community!
- Your Project within the Project Gallery of Teach an Amazing Skillshare Class is a working space for your Skillshare class! This is where you'll start planning your class and where you'll share your milestones for the challenge. Feel free to also include photos, mood-boards, or any other inspiration along the way. Your project within the class will also be shown in the Projects section up above so that it's easily accessible to everyone else who's joined this Teach Challenge!
- The Class Draft is where you'll input all of your class content once you're all ready to publish your amazing class!
- Note: We encourage you to use the Community Board in the Teach Challenge to ask questions, and share tips and feedback, but we kindly ask that you refrain from using it as a space to promote your classes with a referral or free link.
Eligibility and Conditions
*To be eligible for any of the Challenge prizes, you must make at least 1 referral to Premium Membership by November 15th, 2016 at 11:59pm.
Thinking of teaching on Skillshare? Start today! Join this 30-Day Challenge for milestones, prizes, and tons of support as you create your first class. Teaching on Skillshare is a lightweight and easy process – classes are typically just 10-25 minutes of video content that focuses on walking students through a specific skill, concept or project.
Teachers who complete the October Teach Challenge will receive:
- $100 guaranteed payment*
- 1 year of Premium Membership free ($96 value)
- A chance to win a $1,000 Apple gift card
The class that trends the highest on our trending page on November 7th will be the official Teach Challenge winner and receive the $1,000 Apple gift card. The winner will also be featured in a community-wide email to over 1M students!
How It Works
- Follow our October Teach Challenge Calendar and milestones here.
- Sign up for the Teach Challenge by clicking the “Join” button above, and enrolling in our two free classes on teaching and class marketing - Teach an Amazing Skillshare Class and the Marketing Class.
- Every few days, we’ll send you’ll an email with instructions and tips on how to complete each one of the class creation milestones.
- Share each of your milestones in the Project Section for feedback. Please note that certain milestones – Creating a Class Draft, Creating a Class Outline, and Creating an Intro Video – are required to be eligible for the Teacher bonus. Read more about prize eligibility for the October Teach Challenge here.
- Use the Discussions section to ask questions along the way and get help from our Teacher Support team.
- Need extra help? Participate in a live AMA with our Teacher Support team on Thursday, October 13th at 3pm EST.
- Publish your class to Skillshare by Monday, October 31st.
- Make at least 1 referral to Premium Membership by November 15th to successfully complete the challenge and qualify for your bonus! Read more about prize eligibility for the October Teach Challenge here.
Teach Challenge Resources
- Teach Challenge Welcome Packet
- October Teach Challenge Calendar
- Community Principles
- DIY Video Setup
- Getting Started With Screencast
Join the Community
- The Discussion section and the Community Board are spaces for you to drop comments and questions and ask for extra support and feedback from the community!
- Your Project within the Project Gallery of Teach an Amazing Skillshare Class is a working space for your Skillshare class! This is where you'll start planning your class and where you'll share your milestones for the challenge. Feel free to also include photos, mood-boards, or any other inspiration along the way. Your project within the class will also be shown in the Projects section up above so that it's easily accessible to everyone else who's joined this Teach Challenge!
- The Class Draft is where you'll input all of your class content once you're all ready to publish your amazing class!
- Note: We encourage you to use the Community Board in the Teach Challenge to ask questions, and share tips and feedback, but we kindly ask that you refrain from using it as a space to promote your classes with a referral or free link.
Eligibility and Conditions
*To be eligible for any of the Challenge prizes, you must make at least 1 referral to Premium Membership by November 15th, 2016 at 11:59pm.