Sessions & scheduling
Schedule live sessions with automatic Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams link generation. Students see the right link on their dashboard without you copy-pasting anything.
For academic teachers
Run your live classes without juggling six tabs
Classentra puts sessions, assignments, gradebook, attendance, and student messaging in one workspace — so cohort-based teaching stops feeling like IT project management.
The problem
Teaching a live class shouldn't cost you a patchwork of tools
Most independent teachers running cohort-based courses stitch together four to six different apps: Zoom for live sessions, Google Docs for materials, a separate grading spreadsheet, WhatsApp or email for announcements, a calendar tool for scheduling, and something else to track attendance. Every switch between them is a tax on your time — and a small opening for details to slip.
The problem isn't that any single tool is bad. The problem is that none of them were built to work together for a teacher running a live class. Your gradebook doesn't know who attended. Your attendance list doesn't know who turned in homework. Your students get announcements in three channels and miss half of them. You spend the hour before class hunting for the right link.
Classentra rebuilds the live-class workflow as one coherent workspace. One place for your course, your students, your sessions, your materials, your announcements, and your grades — so the hour before class is for teaching prep, not tool-switching.
What's inside
Everything a cohort class needs — nothing a classroom doesn't
Classentra is opinionated: if it isn't part of running a live course, it isn't in the workspace. You get the features you reach for every week, not a marketing checklist.
Assignments & gradebook
Publish assignments with due dates, collect submissions, grade inline, and watch the gradebook update itself. Export grades to CSV at any point.
Attendance
Attendance is taken manually in two taps, or automatically via Zoom webhooks. Late arrivals, excused absences, and participation notes all live in one place.
Materials & announcements
Post readings, slides, videos, and announcements once. Students get them on the dashboard, by email, and by in-app notification — no more 'I didn't see it.'
Course messaging
A dedicated space for course questions — not buried in WhatsApp or personal email. You control whether students can DM each other or only reply in the shared channel.
AI teaching assistant
Draft feedback on assignments, generate rubrics, plan sessions, or turn a reading into a quiz — grounded in your course context, not a generic chatbot.
Questions teachers ask
Frequently asked
- Can I keep using my existing Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams account?
- Yes — Classentra is external-video-first. Connect your Zoom (free account works), Google (via Gmail + Calendar), or Microsoft 365 account once, and every session gets a meeting link generated automatically. Recordings and attendance sync back when your provider supports it.
- What size class does Classentra work best for?
- Classentra is built for classes of roughly 8 to 80 students — the range where a personal touch still matters and a standard LMS feels like overkill. It will happily run a class of 1, and it won't strain at 200, but the sweet spot is independent teachers who know most of their students by name.
- Do I need to move away from my current LMS?
- Only if you want to. Classentra lives alongside whatever infrastructure your institution uses. Many teachers run their own cohort on Classentra while their school continues to track grades in its internal system. You can export grades, attendance, and submissions to CSV whenever you need them somewhere else.
- Is there a gradebook, or just basic scoring?
- There is a real gradebook: weighted categories, rubrics, late penalties, partial credit, manual overrides, and letter grade conversion. It updates in real time as you mark assignments. Students see only their own grades and the class distribution if you choose to publish it.
- How does attendance tracking work?
- Two modes: manual (tap through the roster at the end of class) or automatic via Zoom webhooks (join events become attendance records, with timestamps and duration). You can edit either mode after the fact to correct for technical issues.
- Can I run multiple courses — or multiple sections of the same course?
- Yes. Each course is independent: its own roster, materials, gradebook, and sessions. Students can be enrolled in more than one of your courses without re-registering. Teachers on the Pro plan and above can run an unlimited number of concurrent courses.
- What happens at the end of a course?
- Courses can be archived — students retain read-only access to materials and grades, you retain full edit access. Archived courses don't count against active-course limits on any plan. You can clone an archived course to seed the next cohort in one click.
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