Duolingo and Babbel are great consumer apps, but they are not a place to run a class. Language schools, independent tutors, and corporate L&D teams need a platform where a teacher can run live conversation drills, assign homework, track progress against a CEFR target, and hand out a certificate of completion. Classentra is that platform. Live + blended, with the conversation-drill tool, gradebook, and attendance built in.
Self-study apps like Duolingo, Babbel, and Memrise have raised consumer expectations for what 'learning a language' looks like. Short, gamified, mobile, daily streaks. They are also useless for what a language teacher actually does: live conversation, structured grammar feedback, error correction, written-assignment grading, and helping a learner pass a CEFR-aligned exam. A teacher who tries to run a real class on top of a self-study app is fighting the tool.
Most teachers end up stitching Zoom + Google Docs + Calendly + a payment link, with a WhatsApp group as the homework-reminder layer. It works until the cohort grows past about a dozen learners, and then attendance, grading, and parent (or HR-buyer) reporting all collapse into spreadsheets.
Classentra is the alternative: a live-first language LMS where the teacher runs the class, the platform handles the operational layer (attendance, grading, certificates, billing), and the conversation-drills tool gives learners the spaced repetition that self-study apps do well, without losing the teacher in the middle.
Every feature below ships today. Language schools running over 250 active learners or selling to corporates should talk to us about an organization plan (from $2,399/yr with SSO and a custom DPA).
Native conversation-drill tool inside the live session: speaking-pair rotations, target-vocab prompts, teacher-side error tagging, and a per-learner CEFR-aligned progress score. Pulls double duty as both the live activity and the homework-replay surface.
Run the live half on your own Zoom, Meet, or Teams. Classentra generates the meeting link per session; self-paced reading + listening + writing for the rest. Attendance auto-captures. Native in-app sessions with auto-saved recording, so absent learners can catch up before the next session, are coming soon.
Built-in rubrics for the four CEFR skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) at A1-C2 levels. Grades flow into a single learner record. Hand out a certificate of completion at the end of a cohort, or export the gradebook to CSV for an institution to ingest.
Add co-teachers, assistants, and class observers. Each learner sees one timetable; each teacher sees the cohorts they own. Studio covers a typical small language school (up to 10 staff); organization plans from $2,399/yr scale to a multi-campus or franchise model.
Ship the product UI in the learner's preferred locale (en, fr-CA, es shipped; more queued) without forcing the teacher to author content twice. Especially relevant for ESL/FSL programs where the learner UI should be in their native language while the course content is in the target language.
Charge learners directly (Stripe Connect), or invoice the school / corporate buyer. Free to start (2 courses, 30 free roster spots, paying learners unlimited); Educator $39/mo and Studio $149/mo with unlimited courses for growing schools; organizations from $2,399/yr for corporate buyers who need SSO and audit logs. Talk to us. No multi-year contract.
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Free for solo teachers. Studio for small language schools (up to 10 staff). Organizations from $2,399/yr for corporate L&D with SSO and a bespoke DPA. Talk to us.
Live + blended · Conversation drills · CEFR gradebook · No multi-year contract.
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