Can I Set My Own Price for My Course in USD?
You set the price and the packages for your own course; whether that course goes live and appears on the public site is the platform's call, not yours. Both halves of that sentence matter, and teachers usually only hear the first one.
What you control
Pricing is per course, set by the person who owns the course — you. There is no platform-wide price list you have to fit into.
- The price: you decide what your course costs, in USD.
- The packages: a package is what a learner actually buys, and you build it. You decide how long access lasts and whether an AI study assistant allowance is included. If you include the AI allowance, three numbers are filled in together — a monthly limit, a term limit and a validity period. Fill all three or leave all three empty; a half-filled package is not one a learner can buy.
- How the course is presented: the selling points and outcomes for each lesson, and your instructor page.
What you do not control
- Whether the course is published. Submitting a course and publishing it are separate steps: partners submit, the platform publishes. You cannot push your own course live.
- Whether a published course is publicly listed — that is a separate switch, and it is not yours either.
- The commission split, if the course is opened up for promoters. The promoter's share is set at the platform level, not by you and not by the promoter.
Why the split is arranged this way
If you could publish your own course, every course in the catalog would be there on its author's own judgement. A learner arriving at that catalog would have no reason to trust any particular course, and the traffic the platform sends you would be worth less. The review gate is what makes the traffic valuable — you trade a small amount of control for access to learners who would otherwise never find you.
The same logic applies to price. Because pricing is per course and set by you, the platform is not competing with you on price: it has no price of its own to push.
The practical sequence
- Build the course: videos, lessons in order, a learning path, an exam, and a completion rule.
- Build the package: price in USD, access period, refund terms, and the AI allowance if you want it.
- Write the presentation: per-lesson selling points, and your instructor page.
- Submit the course for review.
- The platform publishes it, and the course becomes visible to learners outside mainland China.
What we run
We operate a platform for video courses sold to learners outside mainland China, paid in USD. Course owners set their own price and build their own packages; the platform handles the page, the payment, the policies and the decision about what goes live.
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