Surf Coast Academy
Learn what moves you forward.
Short, serious courses in business, design, data and leadership, taught by people who do the work every day.
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Video, reading and interactive lessons — at your own pace.
Every course streams in the browser, remembers where you stopped, and works on your phone.
Taught by practitioners
Instructors who do the work every day.
Real assignments, real feedback, and Q&A on every lesson.
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Complete the lessons, pass the final quiz and download a PDF certificate with a public verification link.
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Trusted by curious minds everywhere, and the teams they work in.
- Halden Institute
- Meridian College
- Kestrel & Co.
- Tidewater
- Aurora Studio
- Brightline Health
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Courses worth making time for.
Every course is built with a working practitioner, capped in length, and structured around one outcome you can point to when you finish.
Technology · New cohort
WordPress Website Design & Development Essentials
WordPress powers more than two in every five websites on the internet — including a large share of the small-business sites across Greater Geelong and the Surf Coast. Yet most owners and aspiring web professionals only ever scratch the surface of what the platform can do, and many pay agency prices for changes they could make themselves in minutes.
Helena MarshFormer COO, Tidewater Group
$199
We started Surf Coast Academy because most online courses are long, lonely and forgettable. Ours are short, taught by practitioners, and end with something you made.
Surf Coast Academy was founded in Melbourne in 2019 by two former university lecturers and a product designer. Today the team is spread across Melbourne, London and Toronto.
We work with a small number of instructors, edit every course ourselves, and retire anything that stops earning its place in the catalogue.
Get in touch- 50K+
- Learners across 84 countries
- 300+
- Courses, each under 12 weeks
- 120+
- Expert instructors
- 92%
- Learner satisfaction, 2025 survey
Learner stories
What learners say
Surf Coast Academy gave me the confidence to move from learning theory to actually building things. I shipped my first prototype in week three.
I'd tried three other platforms. This is the first one where I finished the course, and the first one where my manager noticed.
The feedback was specific and kind. Helena wrote two paragraphs on my strategy memo. Nobody at work had ever done that.
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