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Hi 👋 I’m Marie Poulin!

3 Years running Notion Mastery 2300+ Students 100+ Lessons, trainings, live events 35k+ YouTube subscribers

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I’m the co-Founder of Oki Doki, a small strategy and training company helping entrepreneurs and small teams streamline their operations using Notion.

I launched Notion Mastery back in 2019 based on accelerated demand for educational material around how to use Notion, the fast-growing “all-in-one” software tool for productivity and team collaboration.

The Notion Mastery course has grown into a community of over 2300 students and 4 full-time employees running the course operations behind the scenes.

We’ve learned a ton of lessons over the years, and continue to iterate on the format, outcomes, and delivery of the course materials. Here’s a sneak peek at our course operations and evolution of the course since we first launched.

Marie Poulin

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Online courses + Notion

Here we’re focused on course management vs course delivery. Notion is not a course delivery platform, though it is excellent for managing all the moving parts of a course.

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We use Notion manage all course content:

• Lesson planning + development
• Recordings of live events + workshops
• Assets + resources
• News + change-log
• Student calendar
• Team collaboration
  • Notes, Documentation, Handbooks
• Onboarding new collaborators </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/warning_red.svg" alt="/icons/warning_red.svg" width="40px" /> COURSE DELIVERY

While we do deliver the Notion Mastery course using Notion, it’s partly due to our unique relationship with the company as Notion Certified Consultants and Ambassadors, and not something that is necessarily a cost effective option for the average user.

Options exist to extend Notion’s functionality for course delivery, but we recommend third party tools with caution.

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Welcome to the

Notion Mastery course

Student-facing course experience.

Internal curriculum planning and lesson development pages and databases.

Evolution of the course

Decisions, changes, challenges.

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• Manually inviting guests into personal Notion workspace after purchase
• Student forum was handled through a Notion database (which requires some understanding of Notion)
• Students accidentally deleting/moving lessons
• Students copying lessons and redistributing
• Students with wildly varying levels of technical proficiency
• Wide range of use cases and needs requested
• Fast-moving software startup making continual improvements to their features and interface </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" alt="/icons/cursor_gray.svg" width="40px" /> TECHNICAL STACK

• ThriveCart: Sales
• ConvertKit: Student onboarding, check-ins
• Tally: Forms/Surveys, onboarding, applications
• Zapier: Automations
• Luma: Event registration
• CleanShot: Screenshots, gifs
• Zoom: Live events, office hours, workshops
• Wistia: video hosting </aside>

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