Afisena
If you tutor privately or run a small learning centre, your material is probably spread across three places: files in a drive, links in a group chat, recordings on a video channel.
All of it works. What you do not have is one address you can give a parent without explaining three things at once.
An address, not a folder
What separates your own teaching place from a pile of links is not features. It is that there is one address you can put on a leaflet, say over the phone, and print on a card.
That address exists from the free plan onward, as a subdomain — a name you choose, in front of the platform's address. Nothing to buy, nothing to arrange.
Moving up to your own domain
If you later want to use a domain you bought yourself, it is four steps and most of them happen outside the application:
- Register the domain here. It sits pending, and you are given a verification code.
- Add two DNS records wherever you bought the domain — one proving the domain is yours, one pointing it here.
- Verify. Both records get checked. If they match, the domain goes live; if not, it fails clearly and can be retried once DNS has propagated.
- The security certificate is handled automatically once the domain verifies.
One domain belongs to one school. If it is already in use elsewhere, registration is refused plainly rather than accepted and then quietly not working.
Why this is not about prestige
There is a practical reason that only becomes obvious two years later.
A domain you bought stays yours. Pointing DNS at a platform is something you can undo yourself, from your side, at any time, without asking anyone. If you move one day, the address moves with you — along with every link you ever shared, every leaflet already printed, and whatever search results have come to point at it.
A provider's subdomain does not work that way. Moving means leaving the address behind, and everything pointing at it dies with it.
For a centre just starting, a subdomain is enough and it is free. But the moment you start printing anything — leaflets, a banner, cards — is the right moment to move to your own domain, before the address has spread in a form you cannot recall.
What appears at that address
A course catalogue anyone can open: title, syllabus, how many chapters, how many tests, and who teaches it. A prospective student can see what is inside before deciding to enrol, which removes half of the first conversation.
Courses that are not ready do not appear there. They can still be opened by direct link so you can check them yourself, marked as an unpublished version.
A sensible order
- Take the subdomain, free, and use it for the first few months.
- Publish one real course all the way through — one tidy course convinces more than six half-finished ones.
- Buy the domain when you start printing the address on something you cannot edit.