PadiLearn for teachers
Teach what you know.
Record lessons on your phone, set your own price, and keep 85% of every sale, paid by Paystack straight into your bank account.
You keep 85%.
You set the price in naira and PadiLearn keeps 15% of it. The card fee is added on top for the student, so it never comes out of your share.
| Your price | Student pays | You receive |
|---|---|---|
| ₦1,000 | ₦1,016 | ₦850 |
| ₦2,000 | ₦2,031 | ₦1,700 |
| ₦5,000 | ₦5,178 | ₦4,250 |
| ₦10,000 | ₦10,254 | ₦8,500 |
Price a course at ₦2,461 or less and the student pays under ₦2,500. One naira more and Paystack’s card fee rises by about ₦100, for the student, not for you.
- Paid straight to you. Paystack splits each sale at checkout and pays your share into your bank account, usually the next working day.
- Free courses are free to publish. PadiLearn only earns when you do.
- No surprises. We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice before the 15% changes.
From sign-up to your first course.
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Sign up as a teacher
Open PadiLearn in your browser, or install the Android app from padilearn.com. Create an account and choose Teacher.
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Add your bank account
In your profile, open Payout Account. We check the name on the account with your bank before saving it, and set up your Paystack payouts. You only need this to charge for a course.
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Create your course
Give it a title, a description, a category, a price and a cover image, then upload the first lesson. Make it a free preview so students can try before they buy. Not finished? Save it to drafts and come back to it: only you can see a draft.
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We check your first course
Someone at PadiLearn watches your first course before it goes live, usually within 2 working days, and you are notified either way. If something needs changing, we send it back with a note. After that, every course you upload goes live straight away.
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Add the rest of your lessons
Each lesson is one video of up to 300 MB, about 20 minutes of 720p. Students see new lessons as soon as you add them.
What we check in a first course
We check against our terms. We are not judging how you teach.
- It is yours. No one else’s videos, scanned textbooks or past-paper booklets copied wholesale.
- It is what it says. The title, description and category match the lessons.
- It can be followed. Your voice is clear and the screen or board can be read.
- It is a course. A real first lesson, not a trailer for something sold elsewhere.
- It keeps to the terms. Nothing the content rules forbid.
Students find you in the marketplace.
Once your first course is approved, your courses go live as soon as you upload them, with your name on them, beside courses in the same category. Students can search for them, try the free preview, and buy in the app or in their browser.
Recording that works on a phone.
- Keep lessons short: 5 to 15 minutes, one idea each.
- Record in landscape, in a quiet room, with the light in front of you.
- 720p is plenty, and keeps lessons light for students on mobile data.
- Over 300 MB? Compress it with a web preset such as HandBrake’s Fast 720p30, or split it into two lessons.
- Your free preview is your advert. Make it one of your best lessons.
Stay close to your students.
Know who joins
You’re notified when a student enrols in your course or asks a question.
Answer once
Reply in the comments under your lessons, and pin the best answers to the top.
See your sales
Every sale, and what you earned from it, is in the app.
Your course stays yours. We host it and show it to students while it’s on PadiLearn. Delete it, and our permission to show it ends. Terms for teachers
Questions teachers ask
Does it cost anything to teach?
No. There is no sign-up fee and no monthly charge. PadiLearn keeps 15% of a paid course’s price when it sells, and nothing from free courses.
When does the money reach my bank?
Each sale is split by Paystack at checkout, and Paystack pays your share into your bank account, usually the next working day after the sale. The first payment to a bank account you have just added or changed waits until we have checked the account.
What if a student gets a refund?
Refunds follow our refund policy. If a sale is refunded after Paystack has paid you, the same amount is kept back from your next sales. We won’t ask you to pay it back separately. Refund policy
Do I need a registered business?
No. You can teach as an individual, paid into your own Nigerian bank account. You are responsible for your own taxes on what you earn.
Can I change my price later?
Yes. The new price applies to new purchases. Students who already bought the course keep it.
Why is my first course checked?
So students can trust what they buy, and so a stolen or empty course never reaches them. We check a teacher’s first course, free or paid, usually within 2 working days. We look at whether it is yours and is what it says, not at how you teach. Once one is approved, your uploads go live at once.
Can I teach for free?
Yes, and a free course needs no bank account. Free courses are the fastest way to find your first students.
How do I send students to my course?
Open your course and tap Share course. You get a link to copy, or to send straight to WhatsApp, TikTok or anywhere else. Whoever follows it signs in or creates a free account, and your course opens.
Can I upload from my iPhone or a computer?
Yes. Open app.padilearn.com in your browser, sign in as a teacher and upload from there, with nothing to install. The Android app does the same.
What can’t I teach?
Anything that isn’t yours to teach, or that breaks our terms: other people’s copyrighted work, sexual content, graphic violence, hate speech, scams and “get rich quick” schemes, or misleading promises about results. The content rules
Start your first course today.
Sign up as a teacher, in your browser or in the Android app, and upload your first lesson.
The Android app needs Android 7.0 or later · 45.5 MB. Questions? Email hello@padilearn.com.