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The Engine · Schweser Product Community · 2026
CFA · CAIA · FRM · ADV Designation

Schweser remains the engine that powers Kaplan Community.

More than half of every post, comment, and contributor at the master level still comes from Schweser. April delivered 176 posts, 309 comments, 124 contributors — within the steady 2-year band — with $88,702 in tracked monthly attribution and 3,245 active users on a 24,485-strong alumni base.

Alumni · Apr 2026
24,485
Up from 19,455 in Apr 2025
Active · Apr 2026
3,245
Up 134% YoY (vs. 1,384)
Adoption · Apr 2026
38%
Far above 25% community goal
Apr 2026 Attribution
$88,702
Monthly · vs. $34,949 in Apr 2025
Engagement Trends · Two-Year View

Schweser's monthly rhythm

2025 baseline shows the full prior year; 2026 partial line shows what we've recorded Jan–Apr.

Active Users · Monthly

Members who logged at least one community session that month.

Posts & Comments · Monthly

Discussion-volume baseline for 2025, plus 2026 Jan–Apr.
Pipeline & Revenue

Cohort growth and lead attribution

Students Enrolled · 2025 vs. 2026

Active student population in the Schweser cohort, end-of-month.

Lead Attribution · Monthly

Tracked revenue attributed to Schweser community engagement, per month.
The Story

What this team is actually doing

Schweser is the closest thing Kaplan Community has to an established, self-sustaining online forum. It carries the volume that makes the master numbers look the way they do — and it does it consistently. Across all of 2025, monthly contributors hovered in the 130–330 band, posts in the 350–700 band, comments in the 430–1,200 band. April 2026 sits squarely inside that band: 124 contributors, 176 posts, 309 comments.

The 2026 storyline is membership growth, not engagement amplitude. Alumni jumped from 19,455 in April 2025 to 24,485 in April 2026 — a 26% expansion of the addressable pool in twelve months. Students enrolled climbed from 7,500 (Apr 2025) to 25,658 (Apr 2026). The active-user count tracks: 1,384 → 3,245, more than doubling YoY.

Adoption rate stays in the 38–42% band — meaningfully above the 25% community-wide goal. If we're hunting for what "achieved adoption" looks like at scale, Schweser is the existence proof: the same exam-cycle behaviors, the same Schweser-customer page activity, applied to a 6× larger student cohort, and the rate holds.

The angle
Schweser does the heavy lifting. When you remove Schweser from the master numbers, monthly comments drop by 60–70%, posts by 50–55%, contributors by 40–45%. That's why the team's internal goals for posts/contributors/comment-to-post ratio formally exclude Schweser — to track the rest of the network distinctly.
Observations

Four things worth noticing

124 contributors in April
Slightly below the Q1 average; well within the 2-year band of 130–330.
Alumni pool +26% YoY
19,455 (Apr 2025) → 24,485 (Apr 2026). The biggest member-pool expansion of any team.
Active users +134% YoY
1,384 → 3,245. Strong sign that the larger student cohort is showing up.
$88,702 monthly attribution
+154% vs. April 2025 ($34,949 monthly). New-lead component still small — the engine is recurring purchases.
Subcommunities & surfaces
CFA Level 1, CFA Level 2, CFA Level 3, FRM, CAIA, ADV Designation, Schweser Customers (4,723 page views in 28 days — top page on community.kaplan.com)