Classentra

Classentra is a learning management system for people who teach live: private tutors, language and music teachers, fitness and yoga instructors, coaches, academic teachers, test-prep academies and after-school programs. The homepage calls it "home base for teachers, tutors, and coaches who teach live" and sums up the job as "Schedule lessons, share materials, see who showed up, and get paid, without juggling six apps." The product carries a Beta label in the site's header.

It serves, in its own words, "three audiences, same login: solo teachers, multi-instructor academies, and the parents and admins who want visibility." For a creator, it is a place to build a course, sell it and teach it live in cohorts. For a school, tutoring center or training company, the site has dedicated pages and an organization plan with sign-on and data agreements.

Building a course

Courses are built once and then taught over time. The homepage describes the steps: "Add your lessons, upload the materials, set the schedule. Drag to reorder, lock content until you're ready for it, release it week by week." A sample cohort on the homepage shows lessons, a locked lesson waiting for release, and a project assignment in one course outline, which is how a cohort-based course with weekly drops is laid out.

The footer lists a public course directory, "Browse courses," sorted into academic, tutoring, music, language, fitness, coaching, sports, wellness and general categories, so a teacher's courses can be found as well as sold from their own storefront.

Teaching live

Sessions run on the video tool a teacher already uses. "Every tier, including Free, lets you connect your own Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams account via OAuth," the FAQ says, and "Classentra generates the meeting link for each session automatically." Attendance is recorded without a register: the homepage says "attendance captures itself," and the session view shows each student marked present as they join.

Nothing needs installing. The FAQ says "Classentra runs in your browser. Students and teachers just need a link."

Native video is on the way. The homepage describes "Native in-app video that starts in the browser, with auto-saved recording and chat that stays with the class" as coming soon, and the FAQ says it will be "an optional $19/mo add-on on any paid tier." Until then, the live room is the teacher's own Zoom, Meet or Teams account.

The workspace also covers messaging and what the footer calls "AI assistance for independent teachers." The homepage shows Emma, an AI assistant, drafting feedback on student submissions, with a class average alongside the attendance count.

Selling and getting paid

Paid courses are built in. The FAQ says "set a price on your course, students check out online, and payouts land in your own Stripe account via Stripe Connect." Students buy from the teacher's course storefront, and the homepage promises "No platform middleman holding your money and no two-week wait." Payments are optional: a teacher "can also keep courses free and invite students with a join code."

The fee is all-in. The homepage pricing summary lists "6% + 30¢ per sale, card fees included," described as an "All-in fee in the US and Canada." The FAQ adds that the paid Educator plan comes with "a lower all-in fee," so the 6% + 30¢ rate is the starting point rather than the rate on every plan.

Plans and pricing

Classentra publishes its pricing. The FAQ answers the question "Do I have to talk to a sales rep to see pricing?" with "No. Every plan and every transaction fee is on the pricing page." What the homepage and Canada page state:

• Free: "Free plan, no card required." It gives "2 courses with 30 free roster spots," and students "who pay $30+ through Classentra checkout never count and are always unlimited," so a teacher selling courses at that price is not capped by the roster limit.
• Educator: from $39 a month, "for unlimited courses, unlimited students, a lower all-in fee, and advanced selling tools."
• Organizations: "Organizations from $2,399/yr, with SSO on the Company and Enterprise plans."

The site also offers a pricing calculator. The FAQ says "Most people are signed up and running their first session inside ten minutes."

Canada, compliance and data

Classentra puts particular weight on Canada, with a dedicated page titled "A Canadian-first LMS. PIPEDA + Law 25 compliant. CAD pricing." That page lists what it ships:

• PIPEDA-aligned data handling on every plan, with the privacy policy and data processing agreement public. The FAQ notes that "PIPEDA compliance is ultimately the controller's (your) responsibility, Classentra is the processor."
• Quebec Law 25 readiness: the company says it has "named a privacy officer, documented automated-decision-making disclosures, and built a breach-notification workflow that meets the 72-hour CAI reporting expectation."
• A dedicated fr-CA locale covering "UI strings, emails, learner-facing copy, and marketing pages," with teachers and learners choosing fr-CA or English independently. The FAQ says "fr-FR is not a supported locale."
• CAD checkout, where "Stripe Checkout invoices in CAD with GST/HST/QST handled by Stripe Tax."
• Data residency: "Default hosting is in the US (Vercel + Neon Postgres, North American regions) with standard contractual clauses for international transfers," and Canadian hosting of learner records, course content and gradebook "is available via organization agreement."

The site also has regional pages for the UK and Australia.

Moving in and out

For schools and academies switching systems, the Canada FAQ lists "CSV imports for users, courses, and gradebook," says "SCORM 1.2 export ships today on Company and Enterprise plans (ingest is on the roadmap)," and notes that "bilingual content imports preserve fr-CA + en." It adds that most migrations rebuild their key courses inside Classentra so the live session and automatic attendance flow works end to end. The site also has migration guides for creators coming from other course and community platforms.

Who it suits

Classentra suits a tutor, coach or teacher who runs live classes and wants courses, scheduling, attendance and payments in one place without paying anything to start. The free plan's roster rule rewards paid courses, the Stripe Connect payouts go straight to the teacher's bank, and running sessions on an existing Zoom, Meet or Teams account means nothing changes for students on day one. Small academies get multi-instructor workspaces and parent visibility, and Canadian schools and training companies get French Canadian localization, CAD invoicing and a privacy posture documented on the site.

The product is still marked beta and its own video room is not yet live, so a teacher who wants recording and chat inside the platform today will rely on the connected meeting tool for now. Creators selling self-paced video courses without live sessions are not the audience it is designed around.