Ubindi Review

Problem #1: Administration Tools for Online Teachers

Ubindi delivers all the essential admin tools needed by freelance and independent teachers and instructors so they can create, launch, and handle virtual or online classes easily. For example, Julie uses Ubindi’s intuitive admin tools to expedite and enhance how she conducts online classes on Zoom. 

She’s able to set up her own account on Ubindi, create and post classes, and allow her students to select class schedules and book classes online. Ubindi also permits her to connect her Stripe account to the software to facilitate payment processing.

Moreover, Julie is given the ability to automatically send emails to students as they register for her classes. These emails contain links that enable them to connect and join Julie’s online classes. Julie doesn’t have to worry about anything once the classes start as well. Ubindi instantly checks the attendance of students and marks all those who joined the classes as present. 

Julie doesn’t need to track students’ payments too. This is because the software enables her to receive payments from students in advance, a requirement that she can apply when students are booking classes online. Since Ubindi handles all these admin tasks, Julie can focus more on teaching students. 

Problem #2: Easy Communication with Clients

Annie has been organizing her students in an unsystematic and cluttered manner. Her lists of students are scattered across multiple applications and tools, including Gmail and Excel spreadsheets. Whenever she needs to relay announcements and updates to her students, she sends broadcast or mass emails to all of them despite knowing that not all emails she’s sending are relevant to all of her students. 

Ubindi changes this approach by allowing Annie to prepare a more organized student lists. Students can enter and update their own information and details within the software. Annie can even add notes about each student and tag students based on their class, level, and any other attributes or factors. If she wants to communicate with a certain group of students, all she needs to do is to choose the tags associated with such a group and send personalized emails to all the students included in it.

This prevents her from sending unnecessary or irrelevant emails to students and creating group conversations wherein some students might be hesitant to engage in. Thus, students can feel more comfortable interacting with her, as they are aware that their messages and responses are not shown to everyone. 

Problem #3: Students’ Subscriptions, Passes, & Credits

Some freelance teachers, independent teachers, and studio operators are providing different offerings for clients to choose from. Let’s look at the case of Sarah as an example. Sarah is an independent instructor who teaches yoga lessons online and in a community center. She conducts on-demand or drop-in yoga classes, and at the same time, offers monthly subscription plans and sells passes to students for her online yoga classes. 

Sarah has been using a notebook to keep track of students’ subscriptions, passes, and credits. That’s quite overwhelming on her part, making it difficult for her to track the validity and expiration of each subscription and the available credits students currently have. Sarah, however, gets the chance to use Ubindi’s system to address this challenge. With Ubindi, she can now easily create subscription plans and class passes that students can purchase directly on the software. She’s also able to track the status of students’ subscriptions and credits automatically.