In order to balance our group class supply with the demand that we receive to our 'Discover' pages, we are currently limiting the ability to create public group classes that show on Sherpa's Discover page.

Although our eventual goal is to enable all tutors to post Public Group Classes, we need to ensure the demand is there to give classes the best possible chance of reaching the minimum number of students and to avoid any annoying last minute cancellations!

You can still get started by setting up a private group class you would like to teach and try to fill the first few spaces yourself by sharing the direct link on your various tutoring profiles, own social media and your website, if you have your own.

Public group classes are listed on the Sherpa website's 'Group Classes' discovery page for all visitors to view and book top-quality, curated classes. You must be pre-approved as a public group class tutor to publicly post a class on Sherpa. This ensures a consistent level of quality and variety in group classes that are available to our core demographic of students to ensure their success.

Private group classes can be created by any Sherpa tutor. The main difference is student acquisition. To get students to join the group class you will need to share the direct link to the class page with potential students. This link is found on each of your "Edit Group Class" pages as seen below:

This can be existing Sherpa tutees, students you tutor outside of Sherpa or new students you find by sharing and posting in your usual marketing channels. These may include in-person recommendations, Facebook groups or social media channels you use to promote your business.

Some ideas of how you can sell spaces on your private group lessons are:

If a private class is struggling to sell spaces, you have the ability to turn the class public to advertise it on the discovery page and beyond using our existing marketing channels.
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The classes we approve to go public will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Any students that sign on to your class while set to public will pay Sherpa for a space and you will be paid a flat rate per session agreed with Sherpa during the setup stage regardless of student numbers if it is to go ahead - after all sessions are completed. You can read more about group class platform fees here.

If you have set up a private class and would like it to be promoted by Sherpa, it must be approved first, then you can request to make it public using the button in the bottom left of the "Edit Group Class Page".

Promoting group classes takes significant planning and budgeting so we reserve the right to decline any requests to set a group class to the public and promote them through our marketing channels.

The potential impact of our marketing methods on a private class depends on the following:

Throughout our experience and feedback so far, we have learned a lot about what makes a great group class. For more information on how to start setting up a group class to give it the best chance of success, see our "Guide to Group Classes' here.