A class is not a broadcast.
A broadcast is a video with a chat box under it. Nobody can raise a hand. Nobody can say “wait, show me that again”. The teacher talks; the room watches.
A class is the thing you already do on a Tuesday evening. Someone gets stuck. You stop. You ask them to share their screen, or hold their work up to the camera. Somebody else answers before you do. That is teaching. That is why fifteen people pay you and not a video.
RacingOwl does not replace your class. It keeps it.
How live works on RacingOwl
You already teach on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams. Keep doing that.
- Schedule the class on your RacingOwl site: the date, the time (IST) and how long it runs. Once for a one-off, or repeating every week on the days you choose, until a date or until you stop it.
- Paste your meeting link, once. One room serves every class in the run; you never make another meeting or send an invitation yourself. Your learners never see the link. They see a Join button on your site that works only for people who are enrolled, from fifteen minutes before the start.
- Every enrolled learner gets the invitation by email, with a calendar entry. With the WhatsApp alerts add-on, a reminder also arrives on WhatsApp an hour before.
- After class, you can see who joined and when. Not who watched a video: who pressed Join, and how many times. A click, not a register — but it is the difference between a name and a view count.
Forward the invitation to a friend and they land on a sign-in page, not in your classroom.
What this means for you
- Your fees stop living on WhatsApp. Nobody is enrolled on a priced course until they have paid, and the Join button does not work for anybody who is not enrolled. There is nothing to chase.
- Your batch is a list, not a memory. Who is enrolled, who has finished and where learners stop, on your Learners page; who joined on Tuesday, on the class itself, with a spreadsheet if you want one.
- Your class stays two-way. Camera on, doubts asked, work shown. The bit that makes you a teacher rather than a channel.
What it costs
Your Meet, Zoom or Teams account is yours and costs whatever it costs you now. On RacingOwl, each plan either includes live classes or sells them as an add-on:
- Starter: 30 live classes for ₹99/month, unlimited for ₹199
- Growth: included
- Professional: included
- Scale: included
Most plans start with a 60-day free trial, and live classes are included during it, so you can run a term of classes before deciding.
When a broadcast is the right tool
Be honest with yourself about the size of your room.
If you teach five hundred people at once, you need a broadcast: a stream that scales, with polls and a moderated chat, where the teacher performs and the room listens. That is a real need and we are not the tool for it today. If you get there, we will help you get there.
If you teach five, fifteen or forty people, you need to see their faces. Start here.
Questions people ask first
- Do you find students for me?
- No. We make sure the ones who find you can pay and join. Your reach is your own work: your classes, your WhatsApp groups, your YouTube channel, the notice at the local shop. We do not promise to grow it, because nobody honestly can.
- Do I need to record videos?
- No. You can run entirely live classes and never upload a video. Or add recordings so a learner who missed a class can catch up. Or sell a recorded course on its own. All three work.
- My learners are not very technical. Will they manage?
- They open a link, sign in once, and press Join. If they can use WhatsApp, they can use this. The invitation to each class arrives by email with a calendar entry, and with the WhatsApp alerts add-on a reminder arrives on WhatsApp an hour before.
- What happens to my Google Meet or Zoom?
- Nothing. You keep using it. RacingOwl sits in front of it: it decides who gets the link, and remembers who joined.
- What do you take from my fees?
- Nothing. Fees go from your learner to your bank account through Razorpay, which charges its own fee on each transaction, as it does everywhere. You pay RacingOwl a monthly subscription to run the site. Starter, Growth and Professional start with a 60-day free trial, and nothing is charged until it ends.
- My learners live outside India. Can they pay?
- Yes. They pay on your site with a card issued where they live. Your price stays in rupees, their bank converts it, and the money reaches your bank account in rupees.
- What if I earn nothing during the free period?
- Then you will know before it costs you anything. Ten, five and three days before the free period ends, we write to you with what your site earned during it, net of refunds. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
- Can I teach in Tamil, Hindi, or any other language?
- Yes. The product itself is in English; your classes and your course material are in whatever language you teach in. The guide for trainers is in English and nine Indian languages.
- Is it only for “education”?
- No. Bead-making, sushi, Carnatic vocal, spreadsheet formulas, kolam, Python. Teach it. Learn it.