OnlineCourseHost.com Reviews

Hi, I have been using OnlineCourseCost since January 2023. I find it user friendly for setting up classes. It's clear to my clients how to register and access the courses. I've gotten great feedback and now I'm recommending it to my website clients. If you're looking for a reliable company for a course platform with a great team for customer service I recommend you grow with them.

I've used this for a few years now and haven't had any issues. Does what I need to do and allows me to use my own branding. Definitely recommend if you plan on hosting a course any time soon!

It resembles a BBQ pit that has been drenched by rain. While you could use it, the enthusiasm simply isn't there. The UI/UX and AI are good and provide the key features expected from an effective course builder. However, it quickly declines because there are no options to enhance your offerings with additional courses or upsell opportunities. The landing page builder consistently threw multiple error codes when I attempted to upload images or videos. In the reviews and questions I noticed a tendency to police people's products and credentials as a bit of overkill. I have a few of these just gathering dust, but if you're new to the scene and in need of a course builder, this might be worth considering. I wish the creator nothing but the best.

Update: Onlinecoursehost's reply to my review has inaccurate information. Of my four courses, only one was reject. They approved the three they complain about here and they are currently live (unless they've decided to change that in retaliation). I was also not offered a suggestion of changing specific information although I requested that. Instead, I was invited to rewrite with AI completely repeatedly. I was not invited to submit my credentials. It seems like there's a disconnect in how they are approaching these things, plus I don't think they even read the support conversation I had with the company. The support person I spoke with directly states, "We recognize the importance of your work and the value it brings to those who seek guidance within the shamanic framework." Obviously the person writing the review response doesn't agree. Anyway, long way round, we're pretty saying the same thing that this platform isn't a match for people sharing wisdom that isn't extremely mainstream.

Original review:
Spiritual, Self-Help, and Alternative Health Creators: Beware of OnlineCourseHost.com’s AI based censorship. My course was rejected unless I agree to re-write the whole thing using their AI.

I’m a shamanic practitioner with 25 years of experience who tried to publish my course on energetic protection from spirit attachment and negative energy on OnlineCourseHost.com. The platform blocked it at the final “Publish” step — after I’d spent significant time, energy, and money building it. I tried to work with the helpdesk for a manual review, thinking human eyes on it would allow for context, which I provided.

Their automated AI toxicity checker flagged it for promoting “pseudoscience,” even though the topic of energetic protection is recognized in many spiritual traditions and widely discussed in books and online searches. Despite adding detailed disclaimers stating my course is educational and not a replacement for mental health care, the platform repeatedly urged me to rewrite my entire course using their AI tool to pass their toxicity checks. I refused, because it would strip out the precise language and nuance essential to my work. Even after incorporating exact disclaimers they suggested, they returned to insisting on a full AI rewrite. Plus, the fact that they seemed to be using AI to write their help email responses seemed to add a bit of insult to injury.

The core issue seems to be that certain spiritual and shamanic topics simply aren’t welcome on the platform unless rephrased by AI— but they give no warning about this upfront.
If you create courses on spiritual, alternative, or non-mainstream topics, be very cautious. You could invest heavily only to find your work can’t be published unless you let AI rewrite it — potentially losing your authentic voice and message.

If you teach mainstream topics — business, tech, hobbies — this platform may work well for you. I wish I’d known all this before committing to the platform. I’ve had no issue with this on any other LMS platform I’ve explored. This AI based censorship seems to be only an OnlineCourseHost.com thing.

The Biggest Flaw is Only 1 Course Upload with 1 Code of 99$, for every course you need to stack up more code each for 99$. Its better to use Udemy as a hosting or systeme.io they provide better price to performance.