- Is creating and activating a teacher account free of charge?
- No, a small registration fee is required to activate a teacher account. This fee covers identity verification and moderation processes, which are essential for protecting students and ensuring that only legally eligible individuals are granted access to educational roles on the platform.
- I submitted my application as a teacher and paid the activation fee, but my profile was rejected. Will I receive a refund?
- No, the activation fee is non-refundable. However, you are welcome to resubmit your documents to confirm your academic qualifications and legal eligibility to teach in your region. We will gladly review your updated application, and no additional fee will be required for this re-evaluation.
- I submitted the teacher application form, uploaded all required documents, paid the fee, and haven't yet been approved or informed about the status of my account activation. What should I do?
- Please note that the activation process for teacher accounts typically takes between 24 to 72 hours from the time the application and payment are received. If you have not received a response within this timeframe, you can contact our support team. Please include your order ID in the message — this ID was automatically emailed to you after your application was submitted. You can reach out either via email or through our online support chat. In most cases, the issue will be resolved within a few hours.
- How long does it take for a teacher account to be approved?
- Teacher account approval typically takes between 24 and 72 hours after your application and payment are received. During this time, we review your documents and verify your eligibility. If no update is received after this period, please contact our support team with your order ID.
- Can I edit or delete a course after it has been published?
- Yes. You can update, modify, or delete a course at any time from your teacher dashboard, unless students have already enrolled. In such cases, edits may be limited to maintain curriculum integrity. Please contact support if critical changes are required for a live course.
- What happens if I miss a scheduled lesson?
- We understand that emergencies happen. If you miss a lesson, we recommend rescheduling it as soon as possible and notifying your enrolled students. Repeated missed sessions without explanation may lead to platform restrictions or course suspension.
- Can I temporarily deactivate or pause my teacher account?
- Yes, you can request a temporary suspension of your teaching privileges via the teacher dashboard or by contacting support. Your courses will be hidden from public listings during this period, and you will not receive new enrollments until reactivated.
- How are taxes and invoicing handled for my teaching income?
- As an independent educator, you are responsible for declaring your earnings in accordance with your local tax laws. SHOSOCIAL provides payment receipts and basic transaction statements, but does not withhold or process taxes on your behalf.
- What support is available if I face technical issues during a live lesson?
- If you experience technical problems during a live session, you can immediately contact our support team via live chat or emergency contact form available in your dashboard. We prioritize support for active lessons and aim to respond within minutes.
- Are there any restrictions on the type of content I can include in my courses?
- Yes. All course content must comply with SHOSOCIAL’s content policies. Materials containing hate speech, explicit content, misinformation, or copyright violations are strictly prohibited. All educational resources should be original or properly licensed.
- My teacher account has been suspended, and I was not informed in advance.
- Your affiliated institution submitted a declaration that you are no longer authorized to represent them (e.g., in case of dismissal).
- Complaints have been received from students enrolled in your course regarding failure to fulfill teaching obligations.
- We have received reports of copyright violations related to the materials you used in your course.
- Your educator subscription has expired, and the renewal fee is overdue.
- To resolve any of these or other issues, please contact our support team through any of the available channels listed on our Contact page.
- If I am accepted as a teacher and meet SHOSOCIAL's education platform requirements, can I earn income as an independent educator?
- Your account must be approved as an eligible teacher in accordance with your local education authority standards. All required documents you submit must be valid, up to date, and consistent with regional regulations.
- Once your documents are verified and your account is approved, you will gain access to tools that allow you to create courses and associated lessons, which can be made publicly visible.
- After your course is created and finalized as a ready-to-offer product, it will become accessible to potential students — with a visible schedule and enrollment options before the start date.
- Once the course officially begins, you are responsible for delivering the lessons as described in your published course program — regardless of student attendance status.
- Students can purchase subscriptions to your published courses. SHOSOCIAL manages the subscription process and retains a 10% platform service fee from the course price you set.
- You will receive 90% of the total collected revenue from your course subscribers. Payouts are transferred directly to your bank account after each completed lesson, based on the schedule and per-lesson pricing you configured in the course settings. Important: Revenue features are only available to teachers who have activated earning capabilities. To enable this option, we require a one-time bank account verification process, which includes a small activation fee.
- Is my teacher profile publicly accessible in search results?
- Your affiliated institution and your current position at the time of account creation (this can be updated in your teacher dashboard settings). This applies if you registered as a representative of an educational institution.
- If you mark a course as private, its content will be accessible only to students you personally invite and enroll, as well as their linked accounts (e.g., those under parental control settings).
- If a course is marked as publicly accessible, it becomes discoverable globally. However, access to full course content — such as tutorials and learning materials — remains restricted to enrolled students and their connected accounts by default.
Education Module
We have designed a learner-centric ecosystem to establish continuous connection between students (or pupils) and their mentors (teachers) within our educational system wheel. Our ambitious goal is to grant all participants in the education process the necessary connection to the academic workflow, ensuring each of them can interact smoothly and effectively with their each other. Lessons are conducted in live online mode only, while tutorials and didactic materials remain accessible throughout the academic term.
All students are guaranteed equal rights to access the tools within the education module. We firmly believe that social stratification has no place in education — especially during childhood and adolescence. Every student receives free access to core educational content. For those who participate frequently in live sessions, we offer an optional premium account for a small fee. The only distinction is the removal of Google Ads during live sessions. Importantly, no one — including peers or instructors — can identify whether a student is using a free or premium account.
- Our understanding of education processes.
- Teachers and Institutions
- The Area of Legal Rights In general, all educational processes are subject to national regulations, as defined by the laws of each respective country or local authority.
- Institution in its rights: All institutions operate within their jurisdictional boundaries and must hold appropriate certifications. Their operations reflect national education standards and must comply with the applicable local regulations.
- Who is a Teacher: All individuals recognized as educators must be certified and possess a relevant academic background that meets the requirements set by their local educational authority.
- SHOSOCIAL education processes
- Educator Identity As each participant in the educational process needs a way to be uniquely recognized, every institution (or independent teacher) should be assigned a distinct name. For institutions, the best choice is to use their official registered name. For teachers affiliated with an institution, a personal identifier provided by that institution should be used. For independent teachers, it is most effective to use their full real name along with the field of science or subject in which they serve as an educator.
- The Learning Process Building Blocks
- Target Audience
- Create a Course
- Course and lessons structure:
- For access to course, a student has two ways to be enrolled:
- Teachers, Mentors, Coaches
- Teacher Responsibilities
- FAQ – Teacher Account Section
Science, as a system in itself built upon the development of principles, includes fundamental basics — previously discovered rules and empirically approved results of experiments — which underlie the trustworthiness of the aforementioned rules and theories. The education process is an inseparable part of scientific development. Based on these declared utterances, we may arrive at the conclusion that academic authority, through its lessons, is closely aligned with reality by referring to all students and pupils — those being taught — as colleagues.
Definitions.
What is a Social Group?
A social group refers to a collection of human beings connected by relationships or shared characteristics. The term can apply to very small units, such as two individuals, or to large-scale groups, including entire national populations.
What is a Social Class?
A social class refers to a group of individuals sharing similar socioeconomic status. It is a central concept in social theory and is often used in demographic studies and research on social mobility. Most sociologists recognize three primary classes in modern societies: upper, middle, and working (or lower) class. The upper class typically holds inherited wealth, owns significant property, and benefits from privileges such as better education, cultural access, and influence over political and economic systems—advantages that often sustain their status across generations.Britannica
Most of us tell stories to our children about the necessity of learning, but the topic of the goal of the process is mainly still left out of the door.
Aligned with the previously mentioned context, we deeply disagree with off-topic discussions about the final goals of learning. We insist that every educational discussion must include the natural, experiential, and practical implementations that the learning processes are meant to provide.
At the same time, we are acquainted with the latest trends in modern education becoming more accessible to the lowest social strata, as ranked by income (the so-called ‘low-income class’). And we do not stand apart from endorsing such trends.
Take into account the fact that we are all animals with social backgrounds, withholding characteristics we cannot overcome, as these are part of our nature. Comparisons, self-evaluation, and self-enrollment into dedicated social groups also have an impact on any social unit to which each of us belongs.
Now, having clarified the basics of the nature of social stratification and our point of view on this aspect, we suggest our readers will not be confused by the further definitions and terminology we will use.
At this point, we assume you have carefully reviewed the previously outlined sociological aspects and are prepared to proceed to the next topic. Building on the existence of real-world social classes—and the fact that individuals often associate themselves with a particular class—we may generalize statistically recurring behavioral patterns across these groups.
Children from 'lower' or 'working' class backgrounds often show learning motivations rooted in aspirations to overcome class barriers and move into the middle class. These motivations can often be generalized through phrases such as 'Learn so you don’t have to work with your hands' or 'Education will make you a qualified professional.' However, in practice, such motivation frequently has limited effect because the goals are indirect, unsupported, or misaligned with the actual learning process. For students from these backgrounds, we strongly recommend that teachers and educators engage with their parents to collaboratively refine the children's learning motivations—providing clear, realistic definitions and guidance that will better support the educational process and its outcomes.
At the same time, motivational errors are widespread within the 'middle' and 'upper' classes as well. Utterances such as 'A human being is what he knows', or 'Your success entirely depends on your learning grade', will never genuinely reach the student's or pupil's understanding of the reason behind the process he undergoes as 'torture'.
The proper way to motivate students or pupils lies in providing clearly defined, relatable, and timely stages within the learning process. The coupling of assigned tasks, completed material, and the real-world application of knowledge through experiments is the most effective means of inspiring participants in education. Success in applying knowledge is the only truly valid way to learn effectively.
We always hold onto hope as our last chance to realise our full potential, even that which we only imagine, in real life. But reality sometimes builds insurmountable walls that we cannot overcome. These obstacles often become critical factors, causing frustration and an inability to move beyond crucial points on our life path. One of the important tasks facing educators is to teach their students how to overcome such obstacles, to persevere through failures, and to continue moving forward.
We hope this article has clearly explained our position and understanding of the educational pathway. We wish all those involved in this process the very best. May God bless us all!
All individuals recognized as learners have equal rights to be accepted as such, in accordance with the conditions regulated by national laws, institutional policies, and the rights applicable within the institution they are enrolled in.
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As learning processes primarily involve verbal (or linguistic) communication, each operator—whether a teacher or an institution—uses a specific language model. Therefore, when learners search for educational content, their first step is to choose the language (locality) associated with the educator or institution.
Each educational cycle must be aligned with a relevant academic framework, which defines the requirements for the learners it serves. These requirements typically include the target age group of the learners and the academic level expected. Course materials must correspond to these requirements and be appropriate for the defined structure and goals of the course.
The education process is divided into several stages, starting from the final certification goal and down through the sub-processes that contribute to it.
For example, a master’s degree program is typically spread over five years, with each year subdivided into semesters. This overall timeline represents the educational workflow. Within this structure, there are several complex units called courses. Each course focuses on a specific field of knowledge, often overlapping with others and interconnected through scientific approaches.
Recognizing that no online platform can fully replace the real learning experience, we provide tools that supplement the educational process by supporting direct interaction between educators and learners. Scheduling, course materials, and lesson flows are designed as media tools to enhance the learner’s engagement and usability.
We treat each course as a foundational unit within our educator set of tools. A course draft includes several parameters aligned with real academic curricula. These parameters include the course start time, didactic materials for the full duration, a general structure for lessons, and a timetable defining the schedule of lessons.
Each course grants access to lesson construction. Lessons can be dynamically built by the teacher or institution according to their standards, but must conform to our standardized lesson workflow, as described in the dedicated section below.
Fully implemented and realistic examples are available for exploration within our Teacher Test Mode section. Please refer to the section below.
Each course contains its description, target auditory, and schedule of lessons the course consists of.
The lessons' instructions include a brief description of the lesson's main topic, educational materials, or links to material sources, requirements for the students to be familiar with. Recommendations for preparing for the lesson.
Each lesson designed as a strictly built parts, integrated to the platform' workflow. Each lesson has its own scheduled workflow.
The lesson's first section is outdated with time gap explanation, what a teacher provides, and the section fully supports online audio stream. Within this timeline, students have a text-chat-tool (all group-visible) aimed to clarify explaining the topic within the lecture as it flows.
Then, when the explanatory clock is finalized with a teacher, it comes time for testing time.
Test time is prebuilt with a teacher and is only available in real time and in group mode access.
The tests are designed with a dedicated set of questions, each test's question has a start point time (by teacher initiation button), and an end point time (automated, by the system, based on handled with a teacher when he designed the test workflow).
When the time for solving the question has expired, the teacher collects all responses from students. And here comes a time to evaluate the solutions. When the teacher finally solved these tasks, the student immediately gets the teacher's score and a short explanation of the evaluation
Once students are recieved of the response from the teacher, if they disagree, the students have the ability to declare their disagreement, and the apellation is publicly visible to all group participants, as well as to the teacher.
The disagree must be well-argumented, and all students/pupils may be involved in to such a discussion.
If arguments were reasonable and had been accepted, the teacher is obligated to review the score.
When all tasks of the test have been solved, discussed, and scored, the summary scores table appears, and is publically visible, with the success ranking of all participants.
If the group belongs to the declared education institution, the test results are automatically sent to the institution's email to be processed by the institution representatives or administrative responsible person as an evaluation table of students' scoring.
The final stage of each lesson includes an open group discussion. Audio streaming is enabled for all classmates and the teacher. This stage of the lesson is limited to a duration related to prebuilt by the teacher time-gap, after which the session will be automatically closed by the system.
If a student is late or misses a lesson, they may review summary materials or request access to a recorded session (if enabled by the teacher).
Lessons may include optional or required pre-class materials — such as videos, reading, or assignments — to support better in-lesson engagement.
Students and teachers can continue communicating through a built-in messaging tool for follow-up questions after lessons.
Student progress across lessons and tests is automatically tracked and available in the personal dashboard, including grades, feedback, and ranking.
Invited by a teacher:
In a case when a teacher invites a student, the process of enrollment is automated, and what is required from the student/pupil is only followed by the activation link that is contained in the invitation email sent to the student. Once the teacher points out in its course dashboard invite students to course, and collects all related students to the group, unique link automatically to all of them.Paid enrollments
Each commercial course has an option for students to become a student with a simple click. The procedure includes payment for the course on behalf of a teacher. Once the student pays for the course, its price, an email with students' data will automatically be sent to the reacher email, and the student is granted all rights and accessibility to the paid course access.
We hold deep respect for the role of teachers in shaping personal development, social values, and long-term success. Guided by this understanding, we implement a rigorous and responsible moderation process. Any user applying for teaching privileges must undergo a careful review to ensure only qualified and committed individuals gain access.
All teaching applicants must submit valid certificates or diplomas proving academic qualifications, in line with their local education authority’s standards. If teaching on behalf of an institution, applicants must also provide full institutional information for verification. A small activation fee is required to finalize onboarding. However, every newly approved teacher receives a free one-year trial with full access to teaching tools.
All educators must complete personal identity verification. To prevent fraudulent activity, we require confirmation of a physical address, a government-issued ID or passport, a live selfie, and one-time access to location data.
Didactic Materials, Tutorials, and Learning Resources
A major part of the learning process involves student self-preparation. To ensure a stable and well-supported learning environment, teachers are expected to maintain a curated library of educational resources. Many instructional materials are not freely accessible, so in line with our commitment to equal access, teachers are required to publish tutorials, readings, and supporting media. Each teacher account includes 10 GB of default cloud storage. Additional space may be requested via support or upgraded for a small fee.
Learning is language-driven, and every course is developed in a specific linguistic context. Teachers must assign a primary language to their course — the language used for materials, instructions, and communication. Students are free to search for courses in any available language, based on their interests, goals, or language proficiency. The platform filters course search results according to the language selected by the student. Therefore, when creating a course, the teacher must define its primary language, which determines its discoverability in search results.