TakeLessons Reviews

I was able to find teachers for both my daughter who takes ukulele lessons and myself, in attempting to learn Italian.The instructor profiles were very comprehensive to make it easier for one to find an instructor who has the required experience and approach to teaching.

The scheduling really felt off and often became irritating. Communicating with my teachers was frequently done through email or as a message through the software, which was not very effective.

I believe that having access to a plethora of teachers in one place is definitely useful. I must admit that TakeLessons did help me find suitable tutors. My daughter is improving day by day with the ukulele and now I am refining my knowledge of the primary Italian words.

TakeLessons boasts of an outstanding roster of educated teachers. There was a guitar teacher that I found, and they taught me well based on the way I learned. Having all those resources within my room is like being connected to an extended music-class network outside of the school.

It is been challenging to schedule lessons. Unfortunately many teachers have tight schedules, moreover, the most popular instruments, especially guitar, are very popular and teachers get many students I often find out that I have to wait for weeks just to book a time that suits us both.

TakeLessons resolves the issue of finding a competent music-teacher through their online service. I may browse through the profiles and reserve lessons such that I can do every operation via one platform. Such an annual flexibility is a fantastic perk for me as a busy person.

The best thing about TakeLessons is that I do not have to deal with the fee and the transaction processing by myself, and the app takes care of it for me. It is a great place to advertise yourself if you are a budding teacher/professional and just wanna make some money. The website is fairly easy to navigate through and gives recommendations for other students who need the help!

The transaction charges/cut of takelessons is fairly huge. Other than that, I have also had issues in the past with making my profile visible to all and that probably affected the number of bookings by new students.

The interface can definitely be converted to a good app and be made more user accessible, but it is a good place to get started.

I have used this for my job as a teaching assistant and to also give private tutoring sessions. This has taken me a step ahead into building my career as a professional teacher.

That they advertise for me, and I don't have to pay anything up front (they take a percentage if you book a student).

I think that it's a lot to require students to purchase a package of 5 lessons to start. I think that they should offer a trial lesson first. Also, takelessons takes a significant percentage, so I had to increase my lesson rate and I think it deterred some potential students.

Make sure you respond quickly to all message threads- they will cut off the thread after a day or two if you don't respond, and you don't have any other way to contact the potential student.

I joined Takelessons in order to grow my private teaching studio. I have gotten three students from this site, and they are all great students that would not have found me otherwise. Takelessons.

It has a good attendance tracking service which makes it easy to communicate with your teacher/student. The online payment system is pretty straightforward, and the best thing is that it also provides a feature to take online classes.

Takelessons is overly expensive. It's not very easy to keep track of the students near you or far from you because in the latter case, it makes the communication particularly difficult.

I feel that their platform can definitely be improved greatly but if you are a new teacher/tutor, I would recommend trying this to hike up the sales.

We have used it to provide online lectures to some of the students near our locations. It has helped in increasing our marketing sales and finding/helping new students, however the tracking features for the students do need help.

Very good advertising for students depending upon the type of teacher and their location. It is easy to manage your own schedules through this and communicate easily with the students to set up times.

It is pretty expensive and does not have a lot of discount codes available. They take a lot of commission for the initial lessons and do not make the earning for the teachers and tutors easy.

Please make sure that the amount of money charged works alright for you and that you are able to have successful communication as a trial beforehand.

We have private tutors and teachers work for us who have used TakeLessons, and it is definitely a good tool for others to popularize themselves. But they have a very high service fees and bad interface.

It's a very easy platform for students to find teachers. I had many long term private students connect with me over the app. As a dance teacher, this intermediary platform was really useful.

TakeLessons is much better for the student than the teacher. Students pay the same price from beginning to end, and teachers pay the consequences of having to complete 20 lessons before achieving 90% of their asking price.

There is almost no information given about the student before acceptance. I had to ask the student where they were booking from as I moved from East Coast to West Coast. I ended up having to accept the student before being able to communicate with them if it was a good fit.

I like the interface. It's easy to work with. I used to be a Thumbtack.com user but they began charging fees that didn't make sense for music lessons. That's when TakeLessons showed up. I believe, based on the interface, that TakeLessons is an extension of Thumbtack or something. There's some sort of connection because the interface is identical.

I can't blame TakeLessons directly. I think they have a good system that probably works for most people? I have been with them at least a couple years now and I've never had a single student sign up through their service. I believe this is probably because the people using TakeLessons are most likely looking for cheap lessons. I don't think 90% of the people looking for lessons on TakeLessons can afford my rates.

Like I said, I can't blame TakeLessons for that. But so, far for me it has been a waste of money.

When I used this website I loved that I did not have to deal with the money when giving private lessons. I always found that awkward. This website took care of that for you- they billed the students and direct deposited the money for you. They also found students for you.

I had a lot of issues with customer service for this website. I would be assigned students that were not anywhere near where I was located and expected to take them, even though it was outside of the mileage I marked on my profile. Dealing with customer service to rectify this was not pleasant.

I also stopped using this website after they increased the percentage they took out of each lesson price.

There were a lot of classes available with lots of time slots

The classes were useless. The instructors would cater to people Who clearly were not ready for the class. Therefore making it a waste for the rest of the people in the class. If I'm taking an advanced ukulele class, The first 50% of the class should not be trying to help people get tuned

I got billed for six months of lessons when I didn't take a single class because I decided it was useless. By the time I realized this

And asked for my money back, they refused to refund all of it