Engageli

Engageli is a virtual classroom platform for schools, universities and corporate training teams that teach live online classes. The homepage describes it as "a multimodal virtual classroom designed to make online learning interactive and collaborative," and the company sells it to three markets: K-12 education, higher education and corporate learning and development. Its argument is that a meeting tool is not a classroom. In the homepage's words, "If outcomes matter, a meeting tool isn't enough": on most video platforms learners have few chances to interact, and instructors struggle to see who is participating and who is falling behind.

The company says it was named on TIME's list of America's Top EdTech Companies 2026, for which TIME and Statista evaluated over 2,500 education technology companies and 250 made the list. The homepage invites visitors to "Join thousands of educators using Engageli."

Tables instead of breakout rooms

The center of the product is the table. Rather than sending learners into temporary breakout rooms, Engageli seats them at virtual tables, which the homepage says "cultivates classroom community and makes large classes feel personal." The company's guide to virtual classroom platforms gives the detail: tables are persistent small groups of 4 to 6 learners that stay together across activities and sessions, and the instructor sees all tables at once from one dashboard. Learners at a table ask questions, solve problems and get personalized guidance, while the instructor monitors peer learning and steps into discussions.

The same guide says Engageli supports 120 to 150 learners with the same small-group experience as a 25-person class, and that table-based sessions reach a 62.7% active participation rate. Several instructors can co-teach a session, with separate facilitator roles, so one person can run content while another moves between tables.

What instructors see and control

Real-time engagement data is the second pillar. "Instructors can monitor student engagement in real time and provide timely support," the homepage says, and the insights "make it easier to track progress, identify learning gaps, and respond quickly to keep learners on track." The guide describes a live dashboard showing participation, talk time, poll responses and activity completion at both the individual and table level, plus outcome-level reporting on participation, engagement and assessment performance across a program.

Classroom management gets its own feature set. The homepage explains that "Instructors have clear classroom controls: managing microphones, guiding chat channels, and limiting access to tools when needed, ensuring classes run smoothly and every student can participate safely." For K-12 teachers that is the difference between a usable class and a chaotic one.

Assessment is built in rather than bolted on. The guide lists quizzes, polls and game-based learning sprints that instructors can launch in the moment to see where learners are struggling. On the homepage, game-based learning means interactive leaderboard quizzes that turn competition into engagement.

Asynchronous learning and AI

Recordings on Engageli are meant to be used, not just watched. The homepage describes "Interactive recordings in playback rooms that support asynchronous learning with polls, quizzes, and game-based activities." According to the guide, learners who miss a session can rejoin it later, sit at the virtual tables, answer polls, take notes, chat and keep collaborating, and recordings are organized by session automatically.

The AI Classroom Suite covers preparation and follow-up. "Engageli's built-in AI saves instructors hours of preparation by generating polls, quizzes, and summaries directly from class content and discussions," the homepage says, working from the instructor's slides, documents and class discussion. For learners there is an adaptive tutor that the homepage says is available to every learner, "providing personalized, always-on support without adding to instructor workload," and asynchronous learners "receive personalized AI tutoring in real time to address gaps and master content at their own pace." The guide adds AI-powered reinforcement between sessions, which sends each learner a personalized review based on how they did in class.

Course creation with Engageli Studio

The product also reaches into course authoring through Engageli Studio. A company article on AI course creation describes it as "designed to help creators easily integrate interactive content and real-time engagement, bridging the gap between content creation and live instruction," and says tools such as Engageli Studio "will provide a done-for-you course creation tools" for building quizzes, activities and assignments. The platform guide says Studio generates polls, discussion prompts and table activities from existing slide decks and cuts preparation time by 50% or more. The same article mentions Engageli's AI Learning Pal, which helps learner recall by pulling and expanding on information from the source content.

Integrations

According to the company's guide, Engageli integrates natively with Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle, with automatic roster synchronization, grade passback and recording delivery, so launching a session and reporting results do not become manual work. The site also has pages on integrations, security, its AI policy and accessibility, a help center and a customer success team.

Results the company reports

The homepage publishes three headline outcomes: term-to-term student retention that rose from 78% to 92%, 18% higher course completion rates, and 14% higher test scores when tutoring is delivered through Engageli. It also reports that "A leading online university reports that when an instructor taught on Engageli, they awarded twice as many A grades than the same class taught on a live meeting platform." The guide attributes further results to named customers: at DeVry University, a 7% rise in pass rates, twice as many A grades and 155 basis points higher persistence; at People Untapped, a 21-point gain in leadership skills across 1,200 learners; and at Coventry University, 100% participation in sessions using the table structure. These are the company's own figures and case studies.

Customer quotes back up the pitch. Christine Bowlby, Principal at Salem Keizer Public Schools, recalls fifth graders begging not to be sent back to web conferencing. Ian Dunn, Provost at Coventry University, says Engageli "allows us to create dynamic opportunities for people to come together in a rich environment for collaboration." Marisa Knowles, CEO of People Untapped, says it "allows us to lead data-driven conversations with our clients about the true impact of the programs." Case studies on the site cover DeVry University, Salem-Keizer, Coventry University and the University of Nicosia, plus a leadership development program.

Pricing and access

The guide states the pricing model directly: contact Engageli for institutional or enterprise pricing, or book a live demo. The site also offers a "Try it for free" option alongside the demo request, a product tour and a series of EngageLIVE webinars.

Who it suits

Engageli suits institutions that teach live online classes at scale and want those classes to work like a seminar rather than a broadcast: online and hybrid university programs, K-12 districts running synchronous online schools, and corporate L&D teams running cohort programs such as leadership development. It also suits programs that need evidence, because the analytics and reporting are built for showing participation and outcomes to leadership. The company's own guide is candid about the limits, describing Engageli as a fit for districts and programs that need measurable engagement outcomes rather than individual teachers looking for a free tool, and as not optimal as a 1-on-1 meeting platform. A solo tutor or a creator selling one course will find it more than they need; a university or training team running many sections is the reader it was built for.