A free online course idea generator that builds course ideas around your topic, from a workshop to a live cohort, ranks them by your skills, time and budget, and shows real teachers' results.
Pick a topic you know well and answer 6 quick questions. Get online course ideas built around your topic, from a mini course to a live cohort, ranked by how well they fit you, with real teachers' results and first steps.
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This free online course idea generator turns a topic you can teach into online course ideas, from a mini course to a live cohort, ranked by your skills, your time, your budget and whether you want to be on camera.
Pick a topic, answer 6 quick questions, and get course ideas with the real teachers who run each kind, first steps and the tools that help. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type leaves your device.
Here's how the ideas are matched, what real teachers make from each kind of course, and how to test a course before you record it.
TL;DRKey takeaways
What is an online course idea generator?
An online course idea generator suggests courses you could teach from your topic, your skills, and the time and money you have.
This one matches 10 kinds of courses and teaching, from a paid workshop to a course on Udemy or Skillshare, and writes each idea around your topic, so "a mini course" becomes "a mini course on photography".
Who is the online course idea generator for?
It's for anyone who knows something worth teaching:
- Online course revenue calculator – teachers pricing a course before they record it.
- Digital product idea generator – people open to templates, ebooks and other products, not only courses.
- Business idea generator – people still choosing between a course, a service and a channel.
- Presentation generator – teachers who need the slides for their first lesson.
Every idea comes with first steps, so you can test it this week.
How to use the online course idea generator
How the ideas are matched
Each idea gets a label from your answers:
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| Fits you | It matches your time, your money, the camera and where you want to work, and it uses a skill you picked |
| Close | One thing to stretch: a little more time or money, an audience to build, or skills you haven't picked |
| Not yet | It needs far more time or money than you have, a camera you'd rather avoid, or a place when you want to work from anywhere |
Online course ideas
These are every kind of course the generator can suggest:
| Idea | What it is |
|---|---|
| Run webinars | Teach one useful thing live for an hour, then invite people to buy. |
| Create an online course | Package what you know into lessons people buy once. |
| Run a paid membership | Charge a monthly fee for a community, new lessons and live calls. |
| Tutor online | Teach a subject, a skill or a language on video calls. |
| Teach AI to teams | Run workshops and coaching that teach people to use AI at work. |
| Sell a mini course | Teach one small result in under 2 hours, at a low price. |
| Run a cohort course | Teach a group live over a few weeks, with calls, deadlines and feedback. |
| Sell a paid workshop | Teach one skill live in 1 to 3 hours, then sell the recording. |
| Teach on Udemy or Skillshare | Publish a course on a marketplace that brings its own students. |
| Sell an email course | Teach one topic in a series of emails that arrive over days or weeks. |
Real people who sell online courses
These are creators from my creator directory, in their own words. Each figure links to where they said it:
Ali Abdaal- What they sell
- Part-Time YouTuber Academy (cohorts)
- What they said they made
- $2,050,000 in revenue, 2021
- What they sell
- Skillshare classes
- What they said they made
- $859,106 in revenue, 2021
Justin Welsh- What they sell
- The Creator MBA launch
- What they said they made
- $1,600,000 in revenue, its first 6 days, January 2024
Pat Flynn- What they sell
- His online business courses
- What they said they made
- $1,300,000 in sales, 2018, to November 30
Melyssa Griffin- What they sell
- Blog to Biz Hive, her blogging course
- What they said they made
- $258,108 in revenue, December 2016
Vanessa Lau- What they sell
- A launch of her course
- What they said they made
- $1,000,000 in revenue, a launch in July and August 2020
Ryan Robinson- What they sell
- Built to Blog, his blogging course
- What they said they made
- $17,990 in revenue, March 2021
The same people show inside the generator, on the ideas they fit.
How to test an online course idea
Test it before you record it:
- Pre-sell a pilot to 10 people and teach it live. Their questions become your lessons.
- Read the reviews of the top courses on your topic. What students complain about is your course.
- Start with a workshop or a mini course, and grow the one that sells into a full course.
- Teach one lesson free, on video or in a post, and see who asks for more.
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Price your course
A price decides how many students you need. The online course revenue calculator shows what a course makes at your price after each platform's fees, and the grand slam offer generator turns the course into an offer people want.
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Online Course Idea Generator FAQs
Questions about the online course idea generator? Here's what to know.
An online course idea generator suggests courses you could teach from your topic, your skills, and the time and money you have.
This one ranks every idea by how well it fits your answers.
Yes, it's free, with no sign-up.
No, it matches your answers to kinds of courses in your browser, and puts your topic into each idea.
Each idea shows the AI tools that help you make it.
Each figure is what the teacher said themselves, in their own video, post or income report.
The figure links to the exact place they said it.
A workshop or a mini course, because you can sell it in a week and learn what students want before you build a full course.
No, pick No for the camera and the generator puts courses you can teach with slides or your screen first.
Your topic and answers are saved in your browser, so they're there when you come back.
Nothing you enter is sent to navid.me.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the online course idea generator as one of my free tools on navid.me.
More about me.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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