More than a platform – it's a partnership.
✅ Hands-on community onboarding and strategy planning
✅ Dedicated account manager
✅ Online community tech support
✅ Access to suite of community facilitation and design resources
✅ Invitation to social learning community, a community for ongoing support, resources and live chats about how to best use your community
*Includes one-time onboarding package.
This site is literally everything I have ever wanted and nothing I don’t want. I can’t thank everyone enough for building such an incredible site that allows a more equitable opportunity for organizations to lead community innovation.
Leslie Beller
Founder and CEO, MHA Labs
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Course design, content migration and personalized online learning workshops.
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We've designed these plans to meet the needs of various organizational sizes, initiatives, learning goals and budgets. We recommend thinking through your organization's learning goals and resources, then imagining how they align with the features and support in each plan. If you have a lot of courses and conversations you're looking to shift from a Learning Management System (LMS) to a community structure, we recommend the Community Growth Plan. If you're just starting out with structured learning experiences and want to explore only a couple of courses at a time, we recommend the Community Learning Plan. If you're simply looking for a safe space to connect community members and inspire meaningful conversations and resource sharing, we recommend the Community Plan.
We're here to guide you through this process and find the plan that best serves your needs. Contact our sales team to brainstorm or dive deeper into Communities of Practice.
The unique services added to your community plan are completely dependent on where you're at in your community learning journey. These services are designed to empower you and your organization so that you're equipped with the tools you need to facilitate and engage your community. Some partners come to us with no prior instructional design experience, so we lead virtual learning workshops to aid their community learning design. Others come to us seeking advice on community facilitation and marketing, so we create tailored engagement strategies based on their community members. Some partners are ready to go and don't need any additional support at all.
We recommend starting with the community plan you are interested in, then thinking through what you might need in addition to the support already provided. We're happy to strategize which services are best for your organization. Contact us for a personalized quote.
Most traditional Learning Management System (LMS) pricing falls into one of three categories:
In addition to these monthly costs, LMS providers often charge a one-time installation or setup fee. A common fee for a cloud-based LMS is $4,000-$7,000, while some LMS cost estimates are up to $25,000 depending on the size or the organization or contract.
Participate's Community of Practice pricing focuses on the features and support you receive, not relying solely on the number of users in your community. We offer tiered plans according to the number of credentials, groups and admins you need for your community.
At Participate, we believe in an iterative process of growth. We wish for your community to grow as your members grow, both professionally and in number. In the spirit of learning and growth, if you realize the plan you chose doesn't best suit your needs, we're happy to talk through finding the right solution for you. We offer flexible monthly pricing, where you can choose the level you need, month to month. The only exception to this is our Community Growth plan, where pricing is billed annually.
We've created a partnership cycle based on envisioning, building and nurturing your CoP. We'll provide resources and online support in which we'll guide you through a process of planning, designing, launching and engaging. Dependent upon the size of your community and number of online learning experiences, launching can take anywhere from two days to two months. Learn more about our approach.
Instructional design to develop original content, adapt existing content and ideate unique learning experiences within a community.
Course design
Participate instructional designers will develop new content or adapt existing content for a course or time-bound learning experience.
Virtual learning workshop
Three-hour synchronous instructional design workshop to support moving in-person learning experiences, courses or events into virtual learning opportunities.
✅ Best practices for learning experience design.
✅ Identification of learning formats specific to your experience.
✅ Backward design activities and application.
✅ Online resources, brainstorming templates and action plan.
✅ Check-in from instructional designer about asynchronous virtual learning progress.
Additional instructional design consulting
✅ Backward design introduction.Community facilitation support packages to develop custom engagement strategies and build capacity within your organization in order to build a healthy community for your members.
Coaching and capacity-building
✅ Facilitation kickoff call to design and build a facilitation strategy.
✅ Custom facilitation training for organization community facilitators.
✅ Ongoing coaching and monitoring by Participate.
✅ Monthly facilitation check-ins on health of the community with recommendations.
Facilitation support
✅ Dedicated community facilitator from Participate.
✅ Regular facilitation of your community, including welcoming new members, creating monthly announcements and replying to messages.
✅ Creation of new discussion threads and strategic engagement with Participate platform partners.
Comprehensive engagement strategy
After the launch of your Community of Practice (CoP), Participate will work alongside your team to co-facilitate your CoP in order to build initial engagement. Once the community has reached a level of sustained engagement, Participate will work with you to identify and train future community facilitators from within the community.
✅ Facilitation kickoff call to design and build custom strategy for facilitation.Marketing services, such as community-building webinars, email templates, podcasts, community graphic design and audio/video content creation.
Webinars
✅ Webinar setup and technical support.
✅ Promotion and followup strategy, including email and social media templates.
✅ Webinar recording files.
✅ List of registrants and attendees.
Podcasts
Podcast and episode creationLive streams
✅ Stream setup and technical support.
✅ Hosting, production and delivery of stream.
✅ Stream recording files.
Additional marketing support
✅ Customized emails based on your constituents' interests and needs.Monetize the courses and learning experiences within your community. E-commerce includes:
✅ No-fee credit card processing.
