Tip #1: How to set up your academy portal?

Tip #1: How to set up your academy portal?

Excited to start your journey in TrainerCentral? We're excited for you too! Here's our first Tips and Tricks post. This series is aimed to help you better understand important steps, key workflows, app hacks, and more.


 
After you sign up for TrainerCentral, your first task should be to set up your academy. Your academy is the portal with your website, learner interface, and console where all your training sessions, course materials, academic reports, and other content can all be accessed. Let's take a look at how to set up your academy portal now.
 
The key steps to setting up your academy include:
 
  1. Mapping your custom domain to the academy
  2. Configuring your academy website
  3. Adding your branded email account
 

Better visibility with custom domain

The first step of setting up your academy is to link your custom domain to your website if you have one. A custom domain is a URL representing your training business (for example: zylkeracademy.com). If you have a custom domain of your own, make sure you map it to your academy site so all your learners and prospects access your courses and navigate to your portal through your training business's branded domain.



If you don't have a custom domain of your own, no worries! TrainerCentral gives you a customizable academy URL, which you can share to your prospects and learners.
 

Configure your academy site

Once your academy URL and custom domain is set, you can now set up your academy website with our robust site builder. TrainerCentral's site builder allows you to easily customize your site layout, explore adding multiple language translations, and even configure SEO settings so your site ranks high in relevant searches. Once your site is configured, make sure you take your academy live!


 

Adding your branded email account

At this point, your site is now hosted under your domain and is ready for new prospects to find it and get interested in your training content. Now, when someone inquires about your training business or enrolls in your course, you need a convenient, credible way to communicate with them effectively.
 
This is where setting up your academy email comes in: you can easily add your branded email address to your academy so that all communication is through your registered account. 


 
You can also set up automated emails and customize the email content you send from TrainerCentral. For example, if a learner has not completed the course and seems to have abandoned the course, you can send them an encouraging email motivating them to finish the course.


 
With your academy domain customized, your website live, and your email communication set up, you are now ready to create new courses, conduct live workshops, track learner activities, see prospect conversion metrics, and much more. Stay tuned to learn more about all these activities in our upcoming Tips and Tricks for TrainerCentral posts.
 
Feel free to share your experience of setting up your online training academy in the comments section below and for any queries, reach out to us at support@trainercentral.com