What is the best software to run an education business or program?
The best platform for tutors, course creators, and small schools is one that turns your teaching into software you own. Taskade Genesis builds student portals, class-booking pages, quiz and progress trackers, and automated reminders from a single prompt — a live app you own and control, flat pricing (custom domains on Business plans), and published apps that serve unlimited students — no per-student or transaction fees.
TL;DR: Describe your program in plain English and Taskade Genesis builds a running app — enrollment, scheduling, coursework, and reminders included. Flat pricing, apps that serve unlimited students, software you own. Build yours free →
Try a live education app
This is a real Class Booking Portal built from one prompt — sessions, seats, and student sign-ups already wired. Open it, then clone it to your workspace:
What can I build for teaching and training?
- Student portals — a private page where each student sees their schedule, materials, and progress
- Class and session booking — a live calendar students book directly, in any of Taskade's multiple views
- Quizzes and progress trackers — build assessments and track scores with AI agents
- Automated reminders — automations that confirm bookings, nudge no-shows, and follow up after a session
- Course hubs — organize lessons, resources, and cohorts in one connected workspace
Do I pay per student or a cut of my revenue?
No — Taskade Genesis is flat pricing with zero transaction fees, and your published apps serve unlimited students. Charge your students through your own payment link and keep everything you earn; connect it through 100+ integrations. Adding a full cohort never changes your price.
Foster seamless communication
Today’s digital space is crucial to students and educators alike. Online learning has become the norm and will continue to be so over the years. While going digital presents many benefits for students and educators, it still poses some challenges.
Without face-to-face classes, students find it quite difficult to juggle assignments, stay on top of due dates, manage project work, and collaborate with their peers. For educators, the challenges lie in distributing and tracking coursework, communicating with their students, and fostering a learning environment that is on par with onsite learning.
Fortunately, Taskade is a digital tool that can help you manage work and foster seamless communication.
What Is Taskade?
Taskade is an online productivity and collaboration tool. It was founded in 2017 by John Xie, Dionis Loire, and Stan Chang to optimize the way remote teams and individuals work. Students and educators can use Taskade to share learning materials, distribute coursework, and monitor deliverables.
With an easily navigable user interface and a variety of collaboration features, Taskade improves productivity, collaboration, and communication. Taskade can be used to create simple, collaborative to-do lists for assignments and projects, and also to manage class members.
Some of Taskade’s key features for students and educators include:
Note-taking capabilities
Built-in video chat for synchronous classes
Real-time feedback distribution for files
File uploading capabilities
Detailed to-do lists with deadline-setting functions
Easy-to-use templates for student assignment tracking
Taskade also operates on a free-forever plan, which makes it easily accessible for educational institutions and their students and teachers.
How Can Taskade Help With Productivity in School?
As a project management software, Taskade is a one-stop shop for communication, collaboration, and project management. This will help students and educators seamlessly shift from in-person learning to online schooling, and vice versa.
Here are some ways students and educators can boost their productivity with Taskade:
Managing Schoolwork
Students need to submit assignments and projects in a variety of file formats. Educators need to be able to collect these files and grade each one in a timely manner, which can be overwhelming when done in bulk. Taskade helps organize schoolwork according to what makes the most sense for students or educators, whether that’s by due date, via a priority list, or others.
Students can also use Taskade for hierarchical note-taking. This will allow them to take down and process information in a manner that is more easily digestible for them. By using Taskade’s different view options, students and educators can easily change Project views from board, to mind map, to calendar views as well.
Taking Quick & In-Depth Notes
Digital learning is often more fast-paced than in-person learning. Students and educators alike will benefit from tools that permit quick note-taking that allows for further customization later on.
Taskade allows for mixed formatting to accommodate multiple learning styles. It also has a list view, which makes it easier for students to take notes.
With Taskade’s efficient note-taking features, students can build a second brain to assist their learning. It also allows for more systematic knowledge gathering, which makes it easier for students to retain information and build their own ideas.
Taskade also lets students visualize their learnings as it enables embedding and uploading of media formats like videos and images.
Collaborating With A Group
One of the biggest challenges with online learning is working with groups. Lack of face-to-face interaction and communication can lead to roadblocks in finishing projects. Things can also get lost in translation when communicating exclusively over chat. That is why Taskade prioritizes seamless teamwork by being an all-in-one platform for both communication and collaboration.
With Taskade, educators can easily communicate with their students through chat and video calls. Best of all, these communication features are available for every project. Because comments, chats, reactions, and videos are already built into the platform, educators and students no longer need to toggle between apps.
Students can easily communicate with their group mates and set meetings for easier collaboration without clicking away from their Project pages. Additionally, Taskade allows teams to monitor document comments and changes in real time, so students are all on the same page.
📚 Resources & Getting Started
🚀 Get Started
- Taskade Genesis — Build AI-powered education apps
- Create Your First App — Step-by-step tutorial
- Community Templates — Browse education templates
🧬 Understand the DNA
- How Genesis Works: Workspace DNA — Your workspace becomes your backend
- 🤖 Custom AI Agents — The Intelligence Pillar
- 🧠 Projects & Databases — The Memory Pillar
The Jobs Teaching Software Never Quite Covers
An LMS handles coursework and a scheduler handles bookings, but the work that eats a teacher's or tutor's week sits in the gaps between them: the late-cancel policy nobody enforces, the parent update written from memory on a Sunday, the rubric tallied in a spreadsheet, the sub plan rebuilt at 6am, the cohort attendance record that only exists as a photo of a clipboard.
Those gaps are the highest-value things to build, because each one is small, specific, and currently done by hand.
The prompt that ends no-shows and Sunday-night parent emails
Build a tutoring operations app. Sessions have: student, parent email,
date, subject, status, and notes. Text-style reminder 24 hours before
each session, and mark a session Late Cancel if it's cancelled inside
12 hours. Every Friday, have an agent read the week's session notes
for each student and draft a short progress update to the parent —
what we covered, what improved, what to practise. Hold each draft for
my approval before it sends.
You get a Sessions project readable as a calendar or a table, reminder and late-cancel automations, and an agent that drafts a genuine per-student progress note from your own session notes. The approval hold matters — parent communication is never something an agent should send unreviewed.
Five Education Artifacts Worth Building First
A rubric-based grading tracker. Criteria as columns, students as rows, with an agent that turns the scores into a paragraph of feedback you edit rather than write. The tally is mechanical; the wording is not, and the agent handles the mechanical half.
A cohort attendance board. Who was present, who is trending toward a problem, and an automatic flag when a student misses a threshold you set. Early warning is the whole value; a clipboard cannot escalate.
A parent or guardian update loop. Scheduled, drafted from real session notes, and held for approval. Consistency is what builds trust with families, and consistency is exactly what a busy term destroys.
An enrollment and waitlist funnel. A published page that captures interest, qualifies fit, sends the welcome pack, and moves a name from waitlist to enrolled when a seat opens — without a manual email chain.
A sub plan and course-materials library. Everything a substitute or a co-teacher needs, in one published link, current because it is generated from the live course project rather than copied from it.
What to Keep, What to Build
| The job | Keep your existing tool | Build it in Taskade |
|---|---|---|
| Official grades and transcripts of record | ✅ Your school's SIS or gradebook | — |
| Delivering course content and assignments | ✅ Your LMS or classroom platform | — |
| Session reminders, no-show and late-cancel policy | — | ✅ Build it |
| Parent and guardian progress updates | — | ✅ Build it |
| Attendance flags, rubric tallies, cohort tracking | — | ✅ Build it |
| Enrollment, waitlist, and onboarding | — | ✅ Build it |
Frequently Asked Questions
Do students or parents need Taskade accounts?
No. A published Genesis app opens with a link, so a student booking a session or a parent reading a progress page never joins your workspace and never consumes a seat. If you need it restricted, GenesisAuth adds email-and-password sign-in for the app's own users — note that it is email and password only, with no social or single sign-on for app users.
Will this replace our LMS?
No, and it should not. Keep the platform that delivers coursework and holds official grades. Taskade builds the operational layer around it — scheduling, reminders, attendance flags, family communication, enrollment — and connects to what you already run through 100+ integrations.
Can an agent grade student work?
An agent can tally a rubric and draft feedback from the scores and your notes, which removes the mechanical part of grading. The judgement stays yours: every draft is held for your approval before it reaches a student or a parent. Configure agents at /agents.
Is student data handled appropriately for a school?
Your data lives in your own Taskade workspace, apps read and write live workspace data, and access inside the workspace is governed by tiered roles. Institutional requirements such as FERPA depend on your own policies and agreements, so review security with your administrator before storing records of a regulated kind.
Can I stop no-shows and late cancellations?
Largely, yes — most no-shows are a reminder problem. Set an automated reminder ahead of each session and an automatic Late Cancel status inside your cutoff window, so the policy is applied consistently by the system rather than negotiated case by case.
Can I run cohorts and one-to-one students in the same place?
Yes. Cohorts and individuals are both just entries in a project, readable as a calendar for scheduling, a board for progress, or a table for reporting. All views read the same underlying data, so nothing has to be maintained twice.
Can I charge students through it?
Connect your own payment link or processor through 100+ integrations and keep what you earn. Taskade does not take a cut of what you charge, and there is no per-student or per-transaction fee on your plan.
Can I put a student portal on my school's or business's domain?
Yes, on Business plans and above, where custom domains, app colors, and app SEO visibility live. A portal on your own domain reads as part of your institution rather than a third-party tool.
How much does it cost as we add students?
The price does not move with student count. Free to start, Pro at $10/mo billed annually, Business at $25/mo billed annually with unlimited team seats for your staff. Growth in enrollment does not re-quote your bill. See pricing.
Related reading: AI tools for teachers, AI apps for students and educators, and education portals and study dashboards you can clone. Or copy a running one from the community gallery.