Simple to Use. Powerful to Scale.
Built for Real Educators.

Launch your academy in 4 steps. No technical skills required. No hidden fees. Ever.

Why Viizard? Because We're Educators Too.

Viizard VLSS is developed and owned by J&S Software Services Ltd, registered in Scotland, United Kingdom. We built this platform because we experienced the frustrations of existing systems firsthand—fragmented tools, hidden fees, and platforms that prioritise their revenue over yours.

Our philosophy is simple: We charge for the platform, not your revenue. You teach, you earn, you keep what you make.

No Hidden Costs Breakdown:

What you pay:

  • Platform subscription: Clear monthly fee
  • Payment processing: Standard Stripe/PayPal fees (≈2.9% + 30p per transaction)

What you DON'T pay:

  • ✗ No revenue sharing (unlike Udemy's 50% or Teachable's 5%)
  • ✗ No per-learner fees
  • ✗ No transaction fees beyond payment processing
  • ✗ No surprise charges
PCI-DSS
Payment Security
GDPR
Data Protection
FERPA
Education Privacy
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility
GCP
Google Cloud

Enterprise-grade infrastructure. Educator-friendly pricing. Complete transparency.

Launch Your Academy in 4 Steps

From signup to teaching your first course—here's exactly how it works

1

Apply & Get Approved (24 Hours)

We manually verify every application to ensure platform security and payment compliance. This protects you, your learners, and our payment infrastructure.

  • Complete our simple application form (2 minutes)
  • We verify your identity and email address
  • Receive approval within 24 hours
  • Access your dashboard immediately upon approval
Why 24 hours?

We validate every applicant to prevent fraud and protect our community. The verification usually takes less than an hour, but we allow 24 hours to ensure thorough review. This safeguards everyone's security and maintains payment compliance.

2

Design Your Course (2-3 Hours)

Use our Course Design Framework (CDF) to structure your curriculum. No blank canvas overwhelm—we guide you through every decision.

  • Define objectives: What will learners achieve?
  • Build structure: Organise modules, units, and lessons
  • Create assessments: Quizzes, essays, video submissions
  • Set grading: Percentage, letter grades, or custom systems
  • Schedule delivery: When content unlocks, assessments deploy
The Viizard Difference: Time-Date Relational Automation

Unlike Teachable or Kajabi where you manually set up content "drip" schedules, Viizard's automation does it once. Set your course start date, and everything releases automatically—content, assessments, deadlines. Change the start date? Everything adjusts automatically. Run the same course for multiple cohorts? Each gets its own timeline without rebuilding.

What you'll have by the end of Step 2: A complete course blueprint ready for content. Your structure is reusable—teach the same course multiple times without redesigning.

3

Add Content & Go Live

Upload your learning materials, create assessments, set up live sessions, and invite your first learners.

  • Upload materials: Videos, PDFs, presentations, documents
  • Create assessments: Multiple choice, true/false, essays, audio/video submissions
  • Schedule live sessions: Built-in WebRTC video (no Zoom needed)
  • Connect payments: Link Stripe or PayPal (3-click setup)
  • Customise your profile: yourname.viizard.com goes live
  • Invite learners: Share your course URL
How Do I Get Learners?

This is the question every educator asks. Here's the honest answer—there are two pathways:

For Existing Educators & Trainers

If you're already teaching (in-person classes, local workshops, traditional training), you have a massive advantage:

Start with your existing students.

You've been constrained by geography. Your expertise could reach students globally, but you've been limited to your physical location. Viizard removes those barriers.

The migration strategy:

  1. Migrate your current students first – They already trust you. Offer them online access as a bonus to in-person teaching, or transition fully to hybrid delivery.
  2. Turn students into ambassadors – Every learner who completes your course gets a public portfolio URL (theirname.viizard.com). Their credentials showcase your teaching quality. Employers discovering their portfolios = referrals back to you.
  3. Expand beyond your location – Keep your local students, add global ones. Run multiple clusters for different time zones. Your expertise in Manchester can now serve learners in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, or Sydney.
Scenario:

"Sarah teaches Excel training to businesses in Manchester (10-15 students/month). She migrated her courses to Viizard, invited her existing clients first, then started accepting students from across the UK. Within 6 months, she's teaching 40+ students/month without leaving Manchester. Her students' portfolio URLs showcase their new Excel skills to employers, creating a referral pipeline."

Your advantage: You don't need to prove you can teach—you already do. You just need a platform that removes geographical barriers whilst letting you keep 100% of your revenue.

For New Entrants to Virtual Teaching

If you're entering online education for the first time, building an audience takes time and effort. But Viizard makes it easier:

  1. Start with your network – Email list, social media, LinkedIn, colleagues, former clients. Offer your first cohort a discounted rate in exchange for testimonials.
  2. Use Viizard's discovery features – Your public educator profile (yourname.viizard.com) is SEO-optimised. Learner portfolio URLs link back to your courses. Every successful learner becomes passive marketing.
  3. Leverage your expertise – Blog posts, LinkedIn articles, YouTube videos that link to your profile. Speak at events. Join online communities in your niche.

Be honest with yourself: We don't provide students—marketplaces like Udemy do, but they take 50% of your revenue. Viizard positions you as an independent academy. You keep 100% of revenue, own your audience data, and build your brand. It requires effort, but you own the asset you're building.

Why the Portfolio System Matters for Both Audiences:

Every learner who completes your course gets a public portfolio URL with verifiable credentials and a direct link to your educator profile. This creates a growth flywheel:

Great teaching → Successful learners → Visible portfolios → More enquiries → More great students → Repeat

The Bottom Line:

For existing educators: You have students already—use Viizard to remove geographical limits and scale without losing quality.

For new entrants: Building an audience takes time and effort, but we give you professional tools to compete—without giving up 50% of your revenue.

4

Teach, Track, Improve

Deliver your course using live sessions, async content, or both. Track everything automatically. Continuously improve based on data and feedback.

  • Conduct live sessions: HD video, interactive whiteboard, screen sharing
  • Automated grading: MC and T/F questions grade instantly
  • Manual review: Essays and projects with rubric-based scoring
  • Attendance auto-tracks: No manual roll calls
  • Real-time analytics: Engagement, performance, at-risk learners
  • TACIT feedback: Structured self-evaluation from learners
  • Issue certificates: Automatically generated with verification codes
The Time Savings:

The Old Way:

  • Zoom subscription: £15/month
  • Manual attendance tracking: 2 hours/week
  • Separate payment processor setup: Complex
  • Manual content releases: 1 hour/week
  • Manual grading: 10 hours/week
  • Total: £180/year + 13+ hours/week

The Viizard Way:

  • Built-in live sessions
  • Automatic attendance logging
  • Integrated payments (keep 100%)
  • Auto-scheduled content releases
  • Auto-grading MC/T/F, quick review for essays
  • Total: Platform fee + 2-3 hours/week

Your First 14 Days with Viizard

A day-by-day guide to launching your academy during the free trial

Day 1

Account Approved → Explore Dashboard

Receive welcome email with login credentials. Explore the educator dashboard. Watch introductory video tutorials. Familiarise yourself with the interface.

Day 2-3

Build Your First Course Outline

Use the CDF to structure your course. Define objectives, create modules, outline assessments. Set your grading system. No need to add content yet—just build the framework.

Day 4-5

Upload Learning Materials

Add your videos, documents, presentations to the Resource Centre. Create your first assessment (start simple with MC or T/F questions). Set up automated scheduling.

Day 6

Connect Payments & Customise Profile

Link your Stripe or PayPal account. Set your course pricing. Customise your public educator profile (yourname.viizard.com). Add your bio and credentials.

Day 7

Invite Test Learners

Invite friends, colleagues, or existing students to test your course. Offer free access in exchange for feedback. This validates your setup before public launch.

Day 8

Practice Live Session

Run your first live session with test learners. Try the interactive whiteboard, screen sharing, and breakout rooms. Get comfortable with the live teaching interface.

Day 10

Run First Real Session

Teach your first paying learners (or launch publicly if confident). The platform handles attendance automatically. Focus entirely on teaching.

Day 12

Review Analytics & Learner Feedback

Check your analytics dashboard for engagement metrics. Review TACIT self-evaluation feedback from learners. Identify what's working and what needs adjustment.

Day 14

Decision Point

By now you've built a course, taught live sessions, reviewed analytics, and collected feedback. You know if Viizard works for you. Continue with full launch or walk away—no penalties, no pressure.

Key Insight:

Most educators run their first complete course by day 10 of the trial. By day 14, you'll have real data on whether Viizard fits your teaching style and business model.

Who Is Viizard For?

Three distinct audiences, one powerful platform

For Individual Educators

Consultants, trainers, coaches, and subject matter experts who want to build their own brand

You should use Viizard if you:

  • Have expertise worth teaching
  • Want to keep 100% of your course revenue
  • Need payment integration without complexity
  • Want your own branded academy (not renting space on Udemy)
  • Need both live and async teaching capabilities

Best for: Independent educators, corporate trainers going solo, consultants adding training revenue, subject matter experts monetising knowledge

For Organisations

L&D departments, training companies, and corporates needing custom training delivery

You should use Viizard if you:

  • Need to train employees globally across time zones
  • Want to reduce admin time (attendance, grading, reporting)
  • Require compliance tracking and audit trails
  • Want custom training (not generic course libraries)
  • Need HRIS integration for employee records

Best for: Learning & Development teams, training organisations, corporate universities, professional development programmes

For Institutions

Universities, colleges, and further education providers seeking modern delivery

You should use Viizard if you:

  • Need data sovereignty (BYOC capability)
  • Require FERPA/GDPR compliance out of the box
  • Want to pilot before full institutional rollout
  • Need SIS integration capabilities
  • Want continuous assessment with pedagogical integrity

Best for: University departments piloting new approaches, colleges modernising delivery, further education providers, accredited training bodies

Sounds Too Good to Be True? Here's Why It Isn't.

Radical transparency about our platform, pricing, and philosophy

Why no revenue sharing?

We believe educators should keep what they earn. We charge a fair platform fee and let you build your business. Marketplace platforms (Udemy, Teachable) take 30-50% because they market for you and bring you students. We don't. You own your audience, we provide the tools. Simple as that.

Why is automation included?

Because it should be. Time-date relational automation isn't a premium feature—it's basic functionality that saves you hours every week. Competitors charge extra or don't offer it because their platforms weren't designed with automation from the ground up. Ours was. We built Viizard specifically to eliminate repetitive admin work so you can focus on teaching.

Why haven't I heard of you?

We're new. Viizard is launching now after 2 years of development by J&S Software Services Ltd, a registered Scottish software company. We're seeking our first cohort of forward-thinking educators who want to build under their own brand without platform dependency. You're not joining an established platform—you're joining a founding cohort that shapes the product.

What if it doesn't work for me?

14-day free trial. No credit card required. If it's not right, walk away with your data. No penalties, no pressure, no guilt trips. We only want users who genuinely benefit. Export all your content and learner records anytime—you own your data completely.

How do I know you're legitimate?

Fair question for a new platform. We're built on Google Cloud infrastructure with enterprise-grade security (PCI-DSS, GDPR, FERPA compliant). Developed by J&S Software Services Ltd, a registered company in Scotland with professional software development credentials. We're not a startup chasing venture capital—we're a software company launching a sustainable product with fair pricing.

Common Questions

Honest answers to the questions you're probably asking

Do I need technical skills?

No. Viizard is designed for educators, not developers. If you can use Microsoft Word or Google Docs, you can use Viizard. The Course Design Framework guides you through every decision. We provide video tutorials, written documentation, and 24/7 support. First cohort members get priority onboarding assistance.

Can I migrate from another platform?

Yes. We can help you import content from most platforms (Teachable, Kajabi, Moodle, etc.). During your trial, contact support for migration assistance. We'll guide you through transferring course materials, learner records, and content. Your existing learners can easily transition to Viizard.

What if you shut down?

You own your data completely. Export everything (course content, learner records, assessment results, analytics) at any time in standard formats (CSV, JSON, PDF). We're built for sustainability with fair pricing, not venture capital hype. But if anything happened, you'd have full access to export before any shutdown. No data hostage situations.

How do you make money?

Platform subscription fees. That's it. We charge a clear monthly fee based on your usage tier (individual, organisation, institution). We don't take a cut of your course revenue, don't charge per learner, and don't add hidden transaction fees beyond standard payment processing (Stripe/PayPal fees, which go to them, not us).

Can I use my own domain?

Yes, with white-label deployment. You can use your own domain (e.g., learn.yourcompany.com) and remove all Viizard branding. This is available on Organisation and Institution plans. Individual educators get yourname.viizard.com, which is SEO-optimised and looks professional.

Is there a money-back guarantee?

We offer better—a truly free 14-day trial. No credit card required upfront. Experience the full platform risk-free. Build a course, run live sessions, test everything. Only provide payment details if you decide to continue. We only want to work with educators who genuinely benefit from Viizard.

How quickly can I launch?

Most educators launch their first course within 24-48 hours of account approval. The CDF guides you through course structure, assessment design, and scheduling in a logical workflow. We provide templates to accelerate setup. By day 10 of your trial, you can be teaching paid learners.

What support is included?

All plans include 24/7 email and live chat support. First cohort members receive priority support with direct access to our development team. We respond within hours, not days. Organisation and Institution plans include dedicated account management, onboarding training, and migration assistance.

Ready to See If Viizard Is Right for You?

Join our first cohort of forward-thinking educators. Experience the complete platform risk-free for 14 days.

First cohort benefits: Extended trial • Shape the roadmap • Lock in founding pricing for 12 months