# Teach on Skillshare: Plan, Publish, and Promote an Engaging Class - review & insight | Gareth B. Davies Source: https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/teach-on-skillshare-plan-publish-and-promote-an-engaging-class/ [← All courses](https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/) Business & Marketing · Quick win · Rated 6 /10 # Teach on Skillshare: Plan, Publish, and Promote an Engaging Class Updated August 2026 Teach on Skillshare All levels · 68 min A free, 68-minute internal Skillshare crash course that only teaches you how to please Skillshare's algorithm, not how to teach. [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fteach-on-skillshare-plan-publish-and-promote-an-engaging-class%2F1459442228) New to Skillshare? Your first month is free, enough to take this course at no cost. ## What it actually covers This course is less a class on teaching and more an onboarding manual for Skillshare's own platform, delivered by staff and a rotating cast of top teachers. It walks the full pipeline: pick a topic, build a project, write a description, outline lessons, film, edit, merchandise, market, launch, and follow up with students. That arc is logical and mirrors the real production order a new teacher would face, which makes it easy to follow even for someone who has never made a class before. The strongest material sits in the early planning lessons. The exercise of narrowing "I like drawing" down to "how to find your own creative voice with ink pens" is a genuinely useful model for turning a vague skill into a marketable, specific class. The four-part project checklist, relevant, easy to start, independence-promoting, and shareable, gives a concrete filter that applies well beyond Skillshare, and the sales-funnel example shows how to apply it to non-visual topics like marketing or business, not just art. The description-writing lesson is similarly concrete: overview first, bullet the learning outcomes, state who the class is for, list what's needed to complete it, and keep images below the text for search indexing. That's a template a viewer can copy directly into their own draft. ## Where it thins out The filming and editing lessons are the weakest stretch, and the course says so itself upfront: it explicitly declines to go deep on technical filming or editing, offering only surface tips like using a plant as a prop, running lavalier cable under a shirt, or shooting 4K to allow reframing in 1080p. Anyone hoping for real cinematography, lighting ratios, or a proper editing workflow will find only a handful of scattered anecdotes rather than instruction. The marketing lesson leans heavily on one teacher's personal system, Pinterest pins, Instagram reels, an email newsletter, referral links, which is useful as an example but is presented with the disclaimer that none of it is required. That honesty is appreciated, but it also means the lesson doesn't give a viewer without an existing audience much of a starting playbook. ## Bottom line The course delivers exactly what its title promises: a walkthrough of Skillshare's own mechanics, merchandising fields, SEO habits, and moderation review, wrapped around a class-planning template used as the running project. It is well organized and unusually candid about the emotional side of publishing, including a frank discussion of imposter syndrome that many production courses skip entirely. But it is fundamentally a platform orientation, not a filmmaking or pedagogy course, and its shallow treatment of the technical filming and editing stages means viewers still need to look elsewhere for that skill set. Anyone already committed to publishing on Skillshare will get real value from the planning and merchandising sections; anyone wanting to learn how to actually make a polished video will need a second course to fill the gap this one leaves open. The standout The value proposition exercise in lesson 4, where a teacher traces her class back to one personal struggle, is the one framework worth stealing even outside Skillshare. ## What you will learn - · How to narrow a broad skill into a specific, marketable class topic and value proposition - · How to design a class project using the relevance, ease-of-start, independence, and engagement criteria - · How to structure a class description with an overview, learning outcomes, audience, and requirements for SEO - · Basic filming setup tips: lavalier mic placement, framing, lighting, and B-roll to smooth cuts - · How to optimize merchandising elements (title length, lesson titles, cover image, tags) for platform discovery - · How to build a pre-launch, launch-day, and post-launch promotion plan across email and social channels Best for: Someone who has already been approved to teach on Skillshare and needs a checklist for planning, filming, and publishing their first class. Skip it if: Anyone looking to learn actual filming, editing, or teaching craft in depth, or anyone who doesn't plan to publish specifically on Skillshare. Clarity of Instruction Engaging Teacher Organization of Lessons Helpful Examples [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fteach-on-skillshare-plan-publish-and-promote-an-engaging-class%2F1459442228)