Course management
Build and version courses, organize lessons, attach materials. Drag-and-drop reordering, locked-content gating, drip schedules.
Learning Management System
The LMS built for creators who teach live
Most learning platforms were made for institutions posting recorded lessons. Classentra is a TMS + LMS in one, made for the way creators actually teach. Live cohorts in photography, AI, video editing or fitness, the same students every week, attendance and grades that keep themselves up to date.
Plain English
What is an LMS?
A learning management system is the software that holds your teaching: it enrolls students, keeps your materials in one place, tracks who is keeping up, and often takes the payments too. The name stretches from university giants all the way down to one-person tools.
Classic institutional LMS
Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard
Built for universities and school districts delivering a set curriculum at scale. Powerful and heavily administered. Usually months of IT work before a single class runs.
Self-paced course platform
Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi
Built for creators selling recorded courses. Strong at checkout and drip content, but there is no real classroom. Students watch alone and nobody takes attendance.
Live-first LMS
Classentra
Built around the session itself. Video, attendance, grading and payments are one workflow, so teaching a class on Tuesday updates the gradebook without you opening a spreadsheet.
What changes when the classroom lives inside the LMS
Grade with the rubric, not from scratch
Open a submission and the rubric is already there. AI drafts the feedback in your voice; you edit it, or throw it away. Nothing reaches a student until you send it, and the grade posts itself once you do.
Students get a classroom, not a video list
One place that answers what's next, what's due, and where the materials are. They join the session from the same page they submit homework on. No link hunting, no second login.
Set the schedule once, not every week
A weekly class is one rule, not forty calendar entries. Every student sees it in their own timezone, and moving a session moves it for everyone.
Three LMS shapes
Pick the one that matches how you actually teach
Classic Institutional LMS
Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard
- Primary use case
- K-12 / university course delivery
- Live teaching
- Add-on or external (Zoom embed)
- Pricing model
- Per-seat enterprise contract
- Setup time
- Weeks; needs IT setup
Self-Paced Course Platform
Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi
- Primary use case
- Solo creator selling pre-recorded courses
- Live teaching
- None native
- Pricing model
- Flat monthly + transaction fee
- Setup time
- Hours
This is us
Classentra (live-first LMS)
Live-teaching-first cloud LMS
- Primary use case
- Independent teachers running recurring live sessions
- Live teaching
- Zoom · Meet · Teams (native video coming soon)
- Pricing model
- Free + $39-$149 / mo + 6-9% + 30¢ via Stripe Connect
- Setup time
- Minutes
Capabilities
Everything an LMS should ship in 2026
Six capabilities every live teacher needs. Bundled, not bought as add-ons.
Live video
Run live on your own Zoom, Meet, or Teams today. Classentra generates the meeting link per session. Native in-app sessions with auto-attendance and recording are coming soon.
Attendance tracking
Auto-captured per session. Late arrivals, excused absences, and attendance trends surface in the gradebook and parent reports.
Assignments + grading
Rubrics, AI-drafted feedback you review and send, file submissions, manual grade override. Half the grading time on language and writing subjects.
Payments via Stripe Connect
All-in transaction fee, card fees included for US and Canadian accounts: 6% + 30¢ on any paid plan, 9% + 30¢ on Free. Payouts route directly to your bank. No platform middleman, no two-week hold.
Student communications
Announcements hit dashboard + email + in-app. Direct messages per course. Parent read-only links for K-12 students.
FAQ
Common questions about Classentra as an LMS
A Learning Management System hosts courses, enrolls students, tracks progress, and often handles payments. The term covers institutional tools like Moodle to solo-teacher tools like Classentra.
Both. Most platforms branded 'LMS' are async content libraries. They assume students press play and you press send. Live teaching needs the TMS half too: instructor scheduling, attendance, session logistics. Classentra ships TMS + LMS in one product so you don't bolt a video tool onto a course platform.
Those are creator platforms built around content and community. Strong at selling access, thin on actually running a class. Skool is community + courses with no live classroom; Teachable, Thinkific, and Kajabi sell self-paced video. Classentra is built around the live cohort itself: scheduling, live sessions, attendance, assignments, grading, and Stripe payouts in one workflow. If you teach live, that half is the product, not an embed. No monthly live-hour meter from us. Your Zoom or Teams plan sets the only limits.
Moodle and Canvas are designed for institutional course delivery. Long setup, per-seat licensing, weak live-teaching support. Classentra is a cloud LMS for independent teachers running recurring live sessions, with Stripe Connect payouts, and minutes-not-weeks setup.
Start with the LMS built for live teaching
Free to start, with 30 free roster spots (paying students unlimited). Upgrade when you outgrow it.
No credit card required. Set up in under 5 minutes.
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