Get learners into their first lesson, and creators to publish.
Most sign-ups never start a course, and most who start never finish. Guide learners to the first lesson, nudge them back to the next one, and walk instructors through publishing - all in-app, so activation and completion climb.
Sign-ups are easy. Starting, and finishing, is where it breaks.
Around 13% of online courses get finished. Your learners need help inside the lesson, and your instructors need it inside the editor.
Average online-course completion
Across published MOOC studies the median completion rate is around 13%. Self-paced courses see especially steep drop-off after the first lesson.MOOC completion-rate research
Median activation across SaaS
Only about a third of new users reach their first key action. For a course platform, that first action is starting a lesson.OpenView PLG benchmarks
Finish an onboarding checklist
Most users never complete a prescribed checklist - so it has to be short, resumable, and land inside the real task.
The empty-course wall
An instructor who never publishes a first course is a supply-side churn. Authoring is unfamiliar and easy to abandon.
Guide the learner in. Guide the creator to publish.
A progress nudge that pulls learners back to the next lesson.
A returning learner sees exactly where they left off and the one action to continue - not a blank dashboard. Target it by days-since-signup and seen-or-not so it lands before they drift away for good.
- “Pick up where you left off” on return
- Targeted to the post-first-lesson drop-off
- Fires once, per learner, at the right moment
A getting-started checklist that ends at the first completed lesson.
Set up your profile, pick a track, start lesson one, submit your first exercise - a short, resumable path to the aha moment. Progress persists across sessions, so a learner who steps away comes right back.
- Ends at “first lesson complete”
- Resumable across devices and sessions
- Per-step drop-off in analytics
Author-side tooltips that get the first course published.
Plain-language hints on the authoring screens - add a module, upload a video, set a quiz, hit publish. For an instructor facing an unfamiliar builder, one calm tooltip at each step beats a help-doc they never open.
- Hotspots on the authoring steps that stall
- A creator checklist to first publish
- Fewer “how do I publish?” tickets
Draft the lesson walkthrough, with AI.
Describe the classroom feature you want to introduce and OnbiAI drafts a guided tour - the steps and the friendly copy - so you walk learners through their first assignment without a build cycle, and review every draft first.
- Draft a flow, targeting, or audience from a goal
- Write friendly step copy and target the right learners
- Read the funnel and improve where learners drop off
Give me a tour that shows students how to submit their first assignment
I can draft a 3-step tour: open the assignment, attach your work, and hit submit - with encouraging copy for each. Create it with AI and you'll land in the editor to attach the elements and review.
A free-student surge shouldn't spike your bill.
EdTech runs on big free and freemium cohorts - a new term, a viral course, a school rollout - and MAU-metered pricing bills you for every one of them. Flat rate is the whole point here.
Pendo / Appcues / WalkMe
- MAU-metered - every free student counts against quota
- A new term or a viral course becomes a billing spike
- Pendo (paid) and WalkMe are sales-led - a demo and a contract
- The price is rarely on the page
Onbixo
- Flat rate, every tier MAU-capped - no term-start surprise
- Learner nudges + a creator checklist in the base product
- Self-serve, one-line install, price on the page
- Free to start - guide every learner and instructor
Get learners to their first lesson, and creators to publish.
Free to start. Build a learner checklist and an author-side guide in minutes, live in one line, no sales call.
Every plan includes OnbiAI - draft flows, targeting and audiences with AI