How to move your students from a WhatsApp group to a platform without losing them

Move the group to the platform in 7 steps

1. 1

   Open your platform and set up its look

   Sign up to Snatr, pick a design for your site, and add your name and logo. Your platform runs on a site in your name.

2. 2

   Choose what students fill in to sign up

   In "Site Info" in the dashboard, choose what students enter: name, mobile and email, plus governorate, city, stage and a parent's number if you need them. Students then sign in with their mobile number or email.

3. 3

   Upload lessons and create courses and groups

   Organise your work by stage, and create a course with a price or an online group sold monthly or by a number of sessions. Upload paid lessons to the platform so they are encrypted, and keep one lesson as a free preview.

4. 4

   Prepare an offer for the group

   Create a discount coupon for the group's students with an end date, usable once per student. For cash payers, print cards with prepaid codes or enrol them by hand once they pay you.

5. 5

   Announce it in the group with a clear date

   Post your site's link, the sign-up steps and the coupon, and set the date of the last paid lesson sent on WhatsApp. A clear date makes students sign up instead of putting it off.

6. 6

   Help anyone who gets stuck

   For a student who cannot sign up, you can create an account with a password you choose and send it to them. If they forget their password, a code reaches them by email or WhatsApp.

7. 7

   Keep the group for announcements only

   After the date, paid lessons are on the platform only. The group stays the place for announcements, lesson times and links to new lessons on your site.

Why move from the group at all?

A WhatsApp group is easy and every student is on it, but once lessons are paid it shows problems that grow with your number of students:

• A video or file posted in the group is saved on every student's phone and forwarded to anyone with one tap.
• A student who stopped paying stays in the group until you remove them by hand.
• Payments are Vodafone Cash transfers and screenshots you check one by one.
• A student who joins mid-year digs for old lessons through endless messages.
• There are no self-marking exams and no record of who watched what.

How does a platform solve that?

On a platform every lesson has its place, and a student sees only what they paid for. This is what changes when you move to Snatr:

• Courses are split into units and lessons, so a new student finds everything in order.
• Students pay by card, Fawry or wallets, and the course opens for them automatically with no transfers to check.
• A monthly group closes by itself when the month ends, until the student renews.
• Uploaded video is encrypted, and each student is signed in on one device at a time.
• Exams mark themselves, and you see which lessons each student watched.
• Parents can follow attendance and grades through a portal on your site, with an account you create.

• Video protection
• Parent portal

WhatsApp or a platform: the difference in a table

Will I lose students in the move?

A few may be slow, and that is normal. What keeps losses down is making the move easy and clear: one link, short sign-up steps, a coupon with a deadline, and a date for the last lesson on WhatsApp. For a student who cannot manage the platform, create their account yourself.

If you also use a Telegram channel or unlisted YouTube, the same steps work, and this guide explains the difference between them.

• YouTube and Telegram, or a platform?
• How to price your course