Anyone can teach on Scholardemia: all you need is an account with a verified email address. Courses start life as private drafts, so you can build the content at your own pace, and nothing is public until you publish.
Start teaching
Go to Learning → Start teaching. It takes about five minutes, and you can choose Save and exit at any step and carry on later.
About you
Your name, and a one-line headline such as your role and where you work. You can add a short bio and the subjects you teach. Learners see this beside your courses.
Teach as yourself or for a group
A course can be yours, or belong to a journal, lab or conference where you are an owner, admin or editor. A group's owners, admins and editors can help run its courses. You choose again for each new course.
Agree to the teacher terms
Four short points, set out in full under Teacher terms below.
If your email address isn't verified yet, Start teaching sends you a new link first.
Create the draft
Create a course
From Start teaching or Learning → Teaching, choose Create a course. Give it a title and a summary of one or two sentences, and choose who owns it. It is created as a draft that only you and the course team can see, and opens in the course editor.
Link it to an event, if you like
A course owned by a conference, or by another group that runs events, can be linked to one of that group's events. The course page and the event page then show the link.
Describe it
Add a fuller description, a cover image and a category so learners can find the course in the catalogue. A clear one-line summary does most of the work on the course card.
Build the content
Add chapters in the order learners should take them. Each chapter can carry a video and supporting attachments such as slides or readings. See Structure chapters & lessons for how to organise them well.
Free or paid
A course is free unless you give it a price on its Pricing tab. To sell it, connect your own Stripe account first: from Start teaching for your own courses, or from the Pricing tab of a journal's, lab's or conference's course, where its owners and admins connect the group's account. Stripe asks where you're based (the UK, an EU country or the US) and checks your details.
- You're the seller: learners pay you directly on Stripe, and Stripe pays you out. Scholardemia takes 10% of each sale, worked out on the price before VAT.
- Prices include any VAT. While Stripe Tax is on in your Stripe account, VAT is worked out at checkout; otherwise none is added.
- Every sale gets a receipt and an invoice from your Stripe account. Stripe charges you a small fee for each invoice.
- Each paid course shows its refund rule next to Buy. You refund from the course's Learners or in Stripe; the money comes from your Stripe balance and Scholardemia's 10% comes back to you in proportion.
Your first course is reviewed
The first course you publish as yourself, and the first course of each journal, lab or conference, is checked by our team before it goes live. When the publishing checks on the course's Overview pass, choose Submit for review. We check it once, usually within two working days, and tell you the result in the app and by email: the course is published, or we ask for changes and say what to fix. Make the changes and submit it again.
After that first course, later courses publish straight away when their checks pass.
Course videos and files don't use your own 500 MB of storage. Until the first course is approved, your courses can hold up to 20 GB of videos and files in total; after that there is no limit. Deleting a video or a chapter frees its space.
Publish
The publishing checks list anything essential that is still missing, such as a summary or a published chapter, and say how to fix it. Once live, the course appears in the catalogue and learners can enrol. You can keep editing after publishing, and learners keep their access and progress.
Teacher terms
These are the terms you agree to in Start teaching (October 2026). A journal, lab or conference agrees to them too, through the owner or admin who connects its Stripe account. They add to the Terms of Service, which apply to everything on Scholardemia.
- You own your course content. As with everything you share on Scholardemia, you give us the licence set out under "Your Content" in the Terms of Service, so we can host your course and show it to the people you publish it to.
- Free courses cost nothing to join. On a paid course Scholardemia takes 10% of each sale, worked out on the price before VAT, and returns its share in proportion when a sale is refunded.
- To sell a course you connect your own Stripe account. You're the seller: learners pay you directly and Stripe pays you out, and you handle receipts, refunds, disputes and any VAT on your sales through Stripe. A journal, lab or conference sells through its own account, connected by its owners or admins.
- Each paid course has a refund rule that is at least Scholardemia's standard: a full refund within 14 days for a learner who has completed less than 20%. You can be more generous, never stricter.
- Your first course is checked by our team before it goes live, usually within two working days. The same applies to the first course of each journal, lab or conference you teach for.
- Courses follow the Terms of Service, like everything else you share here. If a course breaks them, we may unpublish it or suspend your teaching, and Start teaching shows you why.