DMARC Verification for Online Course Student Emails
As an online course creator, reliable communication with your students is non-negotiable. Ensure critical updates, lesson notifications, and enrollment confirmations from Teachable or Kajabi reach every inbox.
The problem
For online educators using platforms like Teachable, Kajabi, or Thinkific, email is the backbone of student communication – from welcome sequences and lesson notifications to important announcements and login instructions. When these essential messages, sent from your custom domain, consistently end up in spam folders, it leads to student frustration, increased support tickets, and even drops in course completion rates. DMARC authentication failures directly undermine the professional image and operational efficiency of your online academy.
The complexity of ensuring email deliverability across various educational platforms and their integrated email services is a silent struggle for many course creators. DMARC aggregate reports, which provide the data needed to diagnose deliverability issues, are notoriously difficult to read without specialized tools. This means you're often unaware if your SPF and DKIM records are correctly aligning for your student emails, leaving you vulnerable to spoofing and risking crucial communications being missed.
How Aligned solves it
Concrete example
Course Domain: myonlineacademy.com
Sender: Teachable (Enrollment)
DMARC Status: PASS
Sender: Kajabi (Lesson Updates)
DMARC Status: PASS
Sender: Custom SMTP (Old System)
DMARC Status: FAIL (SPF: Fail, DKIM: Fail)