Skillshare Basics: The Beginner’s Guide to Skillshare (2022)

So these are the pricing and plans of Skillshare, now let’s discuss about how you can get a free month of the premium subscription.

Skillshare Referrals

Skillshare gives you a free month whenever you refer a friend, a family member, or anyone else to their platform.

If someone signs up via your link and once they complete their first full payment of Premium membership, they’ll receive 14 days of Premium Membership for free, and your account will be credited with a free month of Premium.

It’s a win-win for both of you, but the question is…

How To Refer a Friend on Skillshare?

Step 1: Click on your profile icon and then click on Refer a friend.

Step 2: Here you can invite someone with their email address or by sending them your referral link.

Getting Started with Skillshare

To get started with Skillshare we have to first create an account on it. 

So, how to create an account on Skillshare?

Step 1: Visit www.skillshare.com/signup.

Step 2: Fill out the required information and click on “Sign up.”

Step 3: If you want to start your 2 months free trial of the premium plan, then fill out the billing information.

However, If you don’t want to start your free trial and use the free plan, just click on the Skillshare logo on the top left corner.

Interface & Ease of Use

Skillshare is pretty straightforward to use – it’s got an excellent clean, modern interface.

What you will see when you log in:

• Home: When you log into your account, you can see the skills you follow or follow the skills you’re interested in. Also, you can take a look at recommended classes, lists, featured on Skillshare, join workshops, and more.
• Browse: It lets you choose any category in which you want to learn a skill. Also, you can look at all classes, recommended classes, student projects, and groups.
• Workshops: Communicate with other like-minded students and exchange feedback to improve your work by joining the workshops.
• Search: Find classes of any skill that you want to learn.
• Teach: If you want to educate others, then you can become a teacher on Skillshare (more on becoming a teacher on Skillshare below).
• My Classes: It allows you to see your lists, workshop, all saved classes, watch history.
• Notifications: By clicking on the bell icon, you can see the notifications.
• Profile: It helps you to edit your profile, refer a friend, see your classes, redeem perks, learn about team plans, get help from Skillshare, and sign out your account.

Now, let’s talk about how you can become a teacher on Skillshare if you want to teach others and earn money from your teachings.

Becoming a Teacher on Skillshare

If you have any skill that you’d like to teach online and educate others with your knowledge, you might consider teaching on Skillshare.

It helps skilled creators to teach and make passive side income online.

But, how to become a teacher on Skillshare?

Step 1: Create an account on Skillshare, if you already haven’t.

Step 2: Now visit https://www.skillshare.com/teach and click on “Start a Class.”

Step 3: Upload your video lessons, add title and description, choose a category, sub-category, class type, level, and click on save draft or publish to publish your course.

The choice is yours whether you want to set up your class type to free or premium.

How Much Does Skillshare Pays?

Skillshare revenue is based on a royalty system, and the teacher can get paid for the number of minutes watched by Premium students in their classes each month.

How much does skillshare pay per minute?

Skillshare pay between $0.05 to $0.10 per minute watched.

For example, if you are a teacher and your students watched 5,000 minutes of your class in the first month, then you would earn between $250 to $500.

Note: To receive a payment, you must get at least 30 Premium minutes watched across all of your classes within a month. Also, you’ll not get paid for the minutes watched by students through a free class or a free access link.

Common FAQs

How Does Skillshare Make Money?

Skillshare allow users to peek into a course for free, to get an introduction of it. However, a full course is available only for premium members.

Their business model is subscription based, which means that students pay a monthly or annual fee for a Premium Membership, which includes unlimited access to the entire catalog of Premium classes and other Premium features.

Skillshare pays 50% of that premium’s membership amount to the teachers on the site, and they keep the rest.

That’s how they make money.

Conclusion: Is Skillshare Worth It?

We hope that by reading this entire post, you now have a better idea of what Skillshare is, who’s it for and should you use it or not.

Here’s our final thoughts about Skillshare whether it is worth it for you or not. I’ll talk from both teacher as well as student prospective. 

Let’s start with the teacher first.

Is Skillshare worth it as a teacher?

As a teacher, don’t think that you will earn a living with Skillshare money, but it’s great for side-income.

Anyone with knowledge and skills can upload a course for free on the platform.

The top teachers on Skillshare make up to $100,000+ a year, which is a good amount of money, but in most cases, these teachers already have a huge following.

Getting started on Skillshare is easy and free, if you are just getting started and don’t have money to spend, then it’s worth it.

Is Skillshare worth it as a student?

Skillshare is good to learn new skills, but as I already said, it offers the most value in Creative, Business, and Technology topics.

Other topics are also good, but they seem to have less quality content.

The best thing about Skillshare is that the courses are very specific and most of them are short.

If you are a web developer and want to take courses on CSS, JavaScript to improve your skills, this may not be the right platform for you .

Overall, Is it worth it?

In my opinion, I would say it’s worth it for both teachers and students.

Yes, there are some issues with usability, limited course selection outside of creative topics, but it’s still worth the money.

If you’re a creative professional, it’s good for you when it comes to continuing your education or even if you’re not, you can browse a ton of free courses, so, why not try it out.

Now I’d like to hear from you:

Have you ever used Skillshare? If so we’d love to hear whether you think it’s worth your money or not! Leave a comment below with your questions, opinions, thoughts, experiences, and advice.

I love hearing from my readers, let ’s get this conversation going!

Skillshare FAQs

You may still have some FAQs in your mind and here are few common ones that most people have about Skillshare.