Tonner Jackson

Wobo - Build & share interactive workbooks for online learning

Provide a more interactive, engaging learning experience for your students with our digital workbooks. Build in minutes and share on its own or through your integrated LMS.

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Tonner Jackson
Hey folks 👋! Long time Product Hunt supporter, first time maker. Today I'm stoked to share with you Wobo, a product that our team at Course Studio has been working hard to bring to life. To celebrate our launch, we’ve created a public Wobo workbook on How to Nail a Product Hunt Launch. Meta, right? Now, some context: Course Studio is a product agency focused on helping course creators. Our team has built course and membership products for some of the world’s top creators and organizations . The more we’ve worked with leading course platforms, the more we’ve realized their strengths, and shortcomings. For example, course platforms do a great job of delivering sequenced video content and quizzes to students. They primarily push information, and when they do ask for student input, it’s usually so that the student can be ‘tested’. What the platforms don’t do well is enable students to take notes, journal, collaborate, and reflect on learning material. These are all features of a tool most of us use in the physical world daily: Workbooks. And as far as we can tell... No one has ever built the digital version of this. But lots of people try to stitch together off-the-shelf tools, like... 🚫PDFs A jurassic file format created in (gasps) 1993. Making fillable PDFs takes forever. They’re flat files that don’t give you any insight into what’s engaging to your users. PDFs are pain incarnate on mobile, too. 🚫 Google docs If it’s sent write-only, any formatting you make to the document is easily broken. Especially if you want to send branded documents, this is painful. If it’s read-only, it can’t be revised at all. If you want to add or edit to your Google doc after it’s created — good luck. Once a Google doc is sent to users, there’s no editing a master file to make an edit or add material to your student workbook. 🚫 JotForm, Typeform, and other form software These products are designed to intake information. User responses aren’t saved and available to be revisited, nor can these tools enable a Course Creator and their student to engage in lesson material. Wobo exists to address all of these issues and resurrect the workbook to enhanced digital greatness. To do this, we’ve taken all the features of the analogue workbook; a place to take notes, reflect, set and revisit goals. And we’ve enhanced it with digital features, like: ✅ A growing list of interactive sections Things like fill-in-the-blank, flexible tables to communicate visually, question & answer, slider scales, and more. ✅ Flexible workbook design editor This makes designing Wobos a breeze, sort of like Canva. In just a few clicks you can make a workbook that’s on-brand and professional. No graphic designer required. ✅ Integrate with your platform or send to your students via the dashboard You can integrate Wobo with your course platform via a seamless integration, or send your Wobo to your users via our admin dashboard. If you want to edit or add sections to your Wobo after it's sent, no stress. You can do so through the dashboard editor. ✅ Students uploads Students can upload doodles and drawings as images for themselves to revisit later, or for their instructor to react to. ✅ Download to PDF For the traditionalists, yes, there’s an option to design and download your Wobo to PDF too. ✨Coming soon✨ Users can collaborate with your instructor, just like in a Google Document. Wobo is used by hundreds of users all over the world. About 80% of our customers use Wobo integrated in their LMS, but there’s a growing segment of folks using it for all sorts of ways we never expected, like… - Personal coaching - Business planning - Product Hunt planning 👀 - Faith-based organizations - High schools and universities And more! Our goal is to make the best workbook tool on the internet, whether you’re a course creator or someone who wants to create and leverage digital documents in unique ways we never expected. This tool is powered by user insights, so if you have feedback, thoughts, and suggestions - we’d love to hear them. Check out our website at wobo.app to kick things off! Tonner P.S. We’re offering 20% off your first 3 months to celebrate our launch. Sign up for a free trial before Monday, November 21st to redeem!
Greg Gunn
@tonner love this, so great to see it live / out in the open!
Tonner Jackson
@gunnr Thank you Greg! Appreciate your support ✊
Georgia McGillivray
@tonner Super exciting to see this live!
Justin Valente
@tonner @erin_kerr stoked for the wobo team for this release!!!
Mariel Vandeloo
Congrats @tonner and wobo team!!
Michael Piperno
We love Wobo and are so thankful to the team who created it (and who continue to make it even better with every single update)!
Tonner Jackson
@michael_piperno grateful for your support, Michael! 🤝
Erin Kerr
@michael_piperno Thanks Michael!!
Emily Nelson
Never seen a more beautiful workbook solution! Looks incredible.
Tonner Jackson
@emily_nelson2 Thank you!
Michael Steele
Great product! Interesting to think about the different use cases it can open up. Our team has started using it internally instead of surveys in some cases since it allows people to go back and change their answers 🤔💭
Tonner Jackson
@michaeljamessteele that's a good use case, and one we're interested in exploring a lot further / marketing against.
Dr. Emilie Socash
WOBO has done nothing short of revolutionize the way our learners experience our content.
Tonner Jackson
@dr_emilie_socash Wow, thank you for the kind words Dr. Emilie. Super appreciated!!
Steve Brooks
This is a cool product – have used it a bunch already with live cohorts. An online workbook for note taking, exercises, etc. has been a noticeable gap in the online learning market to date... Excited for this launch for the Wobo team! Good luck!!!
Sean Kerrigan
Wow! This looks amazing. Love the fact that I can customize the online workbook templates to suit my branding. Congrats on the launch!
Tonner Jackson
@sean_kerrigan Let me know if you have any questions Sean :) :)
Ben Church
Amazing! So excited to see such a well thought out and designed product released by such an all star team 👏
Tonner Jackson
@bnchrch Appreciate you Ben!
Erin Kerr
So excited to see what the future holds!
Julie Niehoff
I love wobo!!! It makes our classes so much better!
Tonner Jackson
@julie_niehoff So glad to hear this has made an impact for you Julie :)
Andrew Batey
Amazing product and unreal service! Couldn’t recommend it enough!!!
Sydney Kennedy
This is just what I needed! It's SO easy to use and engaging. I can't wait to use it.
David Z
Love this! Happy to see it come to life.
Cole Glover
Wobo to the education industry is what Bluetooth headphones are to the audio industry. Once you finally buy a pair Bluetooth headphones: you can never back to wired, you breeze past doorknobs and handles without fear, you tell all your friends to buy Bluetooth heaphones, and your only regret is that you didn't buy them sooner. Couldn't recommend this product enough.
Shawn Rossouw
Kudos to the Wobo team for such an amazing product to transform the creator landscape in such a positive way.
Tonner Jackson
@shawn_rossouw 💥💥💥💥
Sylvie Leppig
Congrats Wobo team!! So excited for what's to come.
Tonner Jackson
@sylvie_leppig Thank you Sylvie !!
Nick Chang
I love the ability to publish changes to workbooks mid-course and making those available to students immediately. Game changing!
David Doan
Awesome product!! Can't recommend it enough.
Geordie MacDonald
V. cool! Nice job, team! 🙌
Tonner Jackson
@gmacd Means a lot Geordie!
Jill Avis
This looks rad!! Such a nice workbook design. Congrats wobo team ⭐️💕🫶🏻