At the moment, you can only give tiered access to courses in the Classroom. The "Community" is a must for everyone. That said, I'd LOVE to see more tiered access across the board (for everything). :)

@Luke Voigt - It would be great if Skool was more flexible in this regard. For example, you have a starter Course in the Classroom that some people get access to, and then they have to pay to upgrade to get Community access, as well as access to other Courses, etc.

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - That's great! 🙌

@Sam Ovens - Love this approach. The base entry level has a decent amount of usage allotted (which would suit people that have a reasonably sized community and some courses (you could determine what "reasonable" is based on the stats you have so far)), then it scales up based on actual usage/costs to Skool itself. 🎯

This is really nice! Bravo! 🎉 A few things... Is there an option for Admins to manually override the Level? The use-cases are many... but one could be if you bring an expert into the Community and don't want them to come across as a "Noob" (Level 1), which could negatively impact people appreciating what they're saying ("Oh, he's new here and doesn't know anything or doesn't add value."). So in that case, you'd like to manually advance them so that it's more in line with their true value to the Community (especially if they're a guest expert). Also, can you unlock courses for individual people even if they're at a lower Level? This could also be important in some scenarios. Keep innovating! 🙌

@Nick Guadagnoli - Hey my man! Can you share some insights on my comment above here? Where do things stand today? Thanks! 🙌

Scheduled posts is a must! And then a dashboard to see all of the upcoming posts that you've scheduled.

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@Sergio Rijssen Apparently, the Skool team knows about it and they know the creator. They also said it will most likely be taken down when Skool comes out with their official mobile app (for iOS and Android).

@Mike Gowans - Yeah, this annoys me too. Haha…

@Nick Guadagnoli - I find the extra step a bit frustrating. Is there a reason for it?

@Jordan Blackman - Yeah... Click + Hold, drag and drop to reorder.

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - I think personal branding of the platform is very important. Circle does this well. They allow you to choose to do it, or not, AND they also allow you to show other Groups in the dropdown or not. (You can be opted out). Kajabi also has this feature as well (whereby they allow for your site to not be shown in the Kajabi app so that your students aren’t distracted by other courses, etc.).

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - I'm assuming she means Posts and not Comments? I see you can edit comments, but there's no comment history (which can lead to people liking a comment that later changes radically).

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - Ohhhhhh... Totally different ballgame. Wasn't clear from the post. I get it now. Yeah, once something is sent as a private message, it's sent. It's very different from posting publicly. That said, I really think you should add post and comment history when someone edits, like both Facebook and Twitter do. If someone "Likes" something, and then it gets changed, that's not cool.

@Nick Guadagnoli - Any thoughts on my question above here? Here's the relevant part: "When someone has access to Course A, but not Course B, and then that person does a #mention to bring up the course lesson picker, I’m assuming that only the courses they have access to will show up in the picker, correct?" Thanks! 🙌

Also, as a followup on that, do people who don't have access to a given course see comments in the feed that are left under lessons from that course? Thanks! 🙌

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe Okay… But how many of those doing that are concerned about and have looked into the actual usability issues, the overall user experience, and have considered the instructional design implications and have studied the effects of this kind of presentation? We want to make sure that student success is at the forefront of our minds and that we avoid student overwhelm and confusion. And having 10 courses shown on a flat structure, with no ability to categorize or guide students through the process just doesn’t sit well with us. For now, what we plan to do is design graphics and label things in a way to at least visually group things, and then really do our best to guide students to what they need to access and in what order. Can you at least order the courses in a fixed order, regardless of when the course was created or set up? We will have courses that are ready now, but future courses will need to be presented in the list before them or after them (later on), so we need the ability to force order on the presentation.

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - Thanks for letting me know! We'll be signing up for the free trial very soon. For this project and business we've been going back and forth between Skool, Mighty Networks, and Circle. Hopefully you'll consider having Classroom sections/categories. :)

@Harman Singh - Circle.so has switching and the ability to have a custom domain, and the domains switch. You can opt into being a part of the network or opt out. They allow you to choose. Works great.

In my experience (and that of others I've spoken to about it), Bunny.net appears to be more reliable than Vimeo. And it's quite affordable too. You're only charged for usage.

Another great option is Bunny.net (instead of Vimeo or Wistia, which are both way too overpriced, especially Wistia).

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - Does Skool support Bunny.net's Chapters and Moments feature? Or will it?

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - Yeah, that would be better as it gives you a visual TOC (table of contents) right there below the video. So awesome that that works with Bunny.net! Had no idea. It's much more elegant and easy to work with than Vimeo/Wistia, and massively more affordable. Thanks! 🙌

@Marco Ferrari 1.) Skool doesn’t provide video hosting. You have to use Vimeo, Wistia, YouTube, or Loom. 2.) You can use Zapier and the Skool webhook to grant access.

@Sam Ovens - Are custom domains on the roadmap (planned for the future)?

@Sid Sahasrabuddhe - Yeah, saw that. Wasn't ready for it at the time, but appreciated the offer. I think monthly/annual options would be great. You have another vote! 🙌

Are the Gamification features all optional (when you run a Community)? Can you pick and choose between them as an Admin? Can you leave out the Leaderboard feature, for example?

@Sam Ovens - Thank you for the reply. Would love if they were optional and/or customizable. Might not make sense for all communities and situations.

@Nick Guadagnoli - Yeah, for course content, the most popular 3 are definitely going to be YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia, and you got those covered. 🙌 Nice to complete the feature set with Loom though, at some point.

@Khalil Muhammad - www.Loom.com

@Sam Ovens - Agreed! Glad to see this suggestion has been accepted. Love Loom! :)

YES. Would love this! Has to be well-researched though. Some dark modes are harsh on the eyes and horrible. I know the team will look at it carefully and craft an elegant design.

@August Bradley - Great to see you here brother! 🙌

Post Moderation is used by quite a number of Facebook Groups that I'm in. I personally don't like it when I want to post something and need quick help (human nature, haha), but I appreciate that it's there because it keeps the group completely spam-free and all the posts that we end up seeing are relevant and on topic (because they've been moderated beforehand).

I also posted about this here: https://www.skool.com/community/multiple-courses-and-access-levels

@Gamal Codner - Should work with YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia.

@Gamal Codner - Also see this post here: https://www.skool.com/community/new-skool-features-action-items-video-timestamps-and-emojis

Personally, I want Skool to be good at Skooling. We can use Webflow, Kajabi, ClickFunnels, or WordPress for pages and funnels; ConvertKit or ActiveCampaign for email automations and sequences; and ThriveCart (or even Stripe itself) for billing, etc. (Note: We use Kajabi for ALL of the above, I was just sharing a few options). What I would like to see though are enhancements and more features added to what they've already developed, like tiered Classroom/Community access, a custom domain URL, and a very robust, well-thought-out, and feature-rich Zapier app (which would connect all the tools we need to do the other things we want to do). All the tools out there that are trying to be "all the things" do so very poorly. It works for some, no doubt (I personally LOVE Kajabi!), but they can't be everything to everyone. In fact, one of the biggest complaints in the Kajabi Facebook Group is about Kajabi's "Community" product. It's very bad and hasn't been updated in years. That's exactly what would happen to Skool if they tried to build out all the things in this poll.

@Ryan Alexander - At the moment we use Kajabi + Circle + Zoom + Zapier for everything we need. We're evaluating and considering Skool for our flagship/core program (which includes a Community). What's holding us back is that we really need to have tiered Community/Course access in the same Skool Group. For example, we want to be able to give access to Course 1 + Community, or Course 2 + Community, or only Course 1 (No Community), or all Courses + Community, or anything in between. Right now, it's all or nothing, which is very limiting. So for now, we plan to use Skool for ONE program, and leave all the other courses that don't require a Community in Kajabi. So yeah, we're looking forward to innovations on the existing Skool product, not for it to try to become some Frankenstein's Monster all-in-one.

Do Loom video links work as well?

@Sam Ovens - Having Loom would definitely solve the “record and post” problem that some have identified. YouTube and Vimeo require additional steps. Hope you can consider it. 🙌🏻

@Christoph Agten - Yes. Thinkific has a Zapier app and also the ability to use Webhooks

I'm not a group Admin (yet), but this is definitely a must if it doesn't already exist. 👍