Marketplace Insights News – 11/27/2023
Staying engaged during breaks
If you teach ongoing classes, you may have noticed that families can now pause their subscription. So, how do you interact with learners when they’re not in the classroom to keep them coming back for more?
In our latest article, we’ve come up with 10 tips for you to use to keep your learners engaged when they’ve hit the “pause” button that will keep them coming back for more.
Trending: Popular holiday classes
Were you one of the lucky educators who created exciting fall classes this November? If so, keep the momentum going by creating more classes for the upcoming holiday season.
Not sure what to teach?
Top winter camp subjects in 2023:
- Life Skills
- Arts
- Coding & Tech
Top winter camp class topics in 2023:
- Movie Making and Video Editing
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Coding & Tech
- Animal Crossing and other gaming camps
- Creating Writing
- Social-Emotional Skill Building
- Holiday Baking
- Holiday arts and crafts
- Foreign Language learning
- Spelling and punctuation help camps
- Life skills
Upcoming holidays:
- Hanukkah
- Christmas
- Kwanzaa
- Boxing Day
- New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day
Keep learners engaged with new and exciting ideas by incorporating fun holidays, such as National Cookie Day or National Ugly Sweater Day.
Do you teach writing?
Winter break is a great time to start promoting your online writing classes! Whether you offer beginner skills like letter tracing, intermediate skills like creating simple sentences and paragraphs, or advanced writing like essays, families are always in need of your skills!
Not sure where to start? Read about how one educator used his passion for writing to create a successful online teaching business on Outschool.
Best practices: Creating new listings
At Outschool, we want you to see your online teaching business succeed! With that in mind, we’ve pulled together some of our best articles about creating listings to help you reach your goals in 2024:
- How to prepare your class listings for January
Create a profile video that inspires - 30 Insider tricks educators wish they knew before starting at Outschool
- Reach more learners by writing class listings for SEO
Exciting news about OUTreach
Are you an educator who is:
- 18 years old (or be the age of the majority if residing outside of the United States)
- In good standing
- Not currently participating in any other Outschool-sponsored referral program
If you said “yes” then you can expect to see your personalized OUTreach coupon code in your email soon! We’re rolling out new codes to eligible educators weekly to start earning cash with our newest referral program. Join the fun and start sharing why you love Outschool on your social media, website, and with friends and family to start earning today!
Data insights for educators
Classes in demand
Get an in-depth look at the subjects, class times, and age groups with a high search volume but few class listings on Outschool.
This week’s top ten topics:
- social skills camp
- squishmallow drawing
- adhd tutors
- youtube
- digital art
- english
- guitar
- gaming club
- chemistry
- sewing
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Class topic requests
Explore this month’s parent topic requests to spark ideas for your next spectacular class.
| Learn to Draw Superheroes | 5 |
| English reading and writing | 6 |
| Face and/or body Painting | 7 |
| Beginning Ukrainian language | 8 |
| Ongoing 3rd grade math | 8 |
| Foundation in Sounds | 9 |
| Reading Comprehension | 9 |
| Coding and Tech classes | 9 |
| Smash ultimate and Roblox | 9 |
| How to make stained glass | 10 |
| Australia Geography | 10 |
| Cocos2d game engine class | 11 |
| Braiding and hair like coloring cutting | 13 |
| How to ride a skateboard | 13 |
| Autism social club | 14 |
| Dungeons and Dragons- Light of Xaryxis | 14 |
| Empathy and tolerance amongst siblings | 15 |
| Working as a pharmacist or pharmacist tech | 16 |
| How to write a bibliography | 16 |
| Pharmaceutical medicine | 16 |
| How to make a dog treat | 17 |
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Enrollment trends
Find out which learner ages, class times, and class topics drove the most enrollments over the past two weeks at Outschool.
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Global insights
Jumpstart your global business by creating classes for the subjects, times, and days of the week popular with families outside of the U.S. & Canada.
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