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Setting up your school

bǎi nián shù rén — “A hundred years to raise a person”

From an empty workspace to a running programme, in the order the steps actually depend on each other.

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Setting up a school is four things in order: pick a tier, invite your teachers, create your classes, then import your students. Doing them in that order means every student lands in a class with a teacher already attached, which saves a great deal of tidying afterwards.

Choosing a tier

  • Starter — $199/month, $1,990/year — 1 admin plus 5 teacher seats, up to 150 students, bulk import and cross-teacher analytics. Small centres.
  • Growth — $349/month, $3,490/year — 1 admin plus 10 teachers, up to 350 students, branded join links and priority support.
  • Scale — $699/month, $6,990/year — 2–3 admin accounts, 25 teacher seats, up to 1,000 students, everything in Growth.
  • Enterprise — talk to us — Multi-campus, custom volume and onboarding, custom reporting and a support SLA.
Four institution pricing cards in a row. Starter, $199/mo or $1,990/yr, lists 1 admin + 5 teacher seats, up to 150 students, bulk student import, cross-teacher analytics, and extra teacher seats as add-ons at $15/mo. Growth, $349/mo or $3,490/yr, carries a red border and a “Most popular” ribbon and lists everything in Starter plus 1 admin + 10 teacher seats, up to 350 students, branded join links and priority support. Scale, $699/mo or $6,990/yr, lists everything in Growth plus 2–3 admin accounts + 25 teacher seats, up to 1,000 students, and extra seats at $10/mo. Enterprise shows “Contact us” with custom student and staff volume, multi-campus and custom onboarding, custom reporting and a support SLA, and “Let’s scope it together”. The first three cards carry a “Book a demo” button; Enterprise carries “Contact sales”.
Read the cards down their seat lines rather than their prices — 5 teacher seats, then 10, then 25. Extra teacher seats are priced per tier too: $15/mo on Starter, $12/mo on Growth, $10/mo on Scale — only Starter’s and Scale’s are printed on the cards. Extra admin seats are a flat $20/mo on all three. See [Seats, tiers and limits](/guide/institutions/seats-and-tiers).

The order to do it in

  1. Subscribe and create the institution — Name it as students and parents would recognise it, since it appears on join links and invitations.
  2. Invite your teachers — Before students. A class needs a teacher, and a class with no teacher is a container nobody is watching.
  3. Create your classes — Matching how you actually teach — by year group, by level, by session. Do this before importing so the class column in your spreadsheet resolves.
  4. Import your students — CSV or XLSX, up to 500 rows a pass, with a class column. See importing students.
  5. Check one student end to end — Your own address in the first import. Claim the invitation, look at what a student sees, then send the rest.

Classes are circles

An institution class is an Institution Circle: roster, assignments, timeline, leaderboard, messaging and the Learning Lab, plus two things a tutor’s circle does not have — join requests and a moderator role, so a senior teacher can help run a class they do not own.

They are private by default. Made public, learners can request to join rather than joining outright, which is the right default for a school.

How you are described

A public institution can carry descriptive tags: education level (preschool through adult), programmes and exams (PSLE, Higher Chinese, O-Level, N-Level, IP, IB, IGCSE, conversational, business), and the HSK levels you cover.

These are deliberately factual — what you teach and prepare for. There is intentionally no "MOE-recognised" flag, because listings here are self-served and publishing an unverified recognition claim in Singapore is a risk we will not take on your behalf. See Singapore MOE alignment.

Who pays for what

The institution pays for seats and capacity. Teachers on your seats get their teaching tools; students get access through the institution rather than through personal subscriptions.

Credits remain per account — a student using the AI tutor spends from their own balance. If you need a shared pool across a cohort, that is a conversation to have with us rather than a setting.

Common questions

Count teachers first — seats bind before student ceilings do. Starter gives 5 teacher seats, Growth 10, Scale 25.

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Inviting your tutorsAdding teaching staff by email, what they get, and what they can do once they accept.Importing studentsThe CSV format, enrolling a whole class at once, and what happens before a student claims their account.Seats, tiers and limitsHow seats are counted, what each tier includes, and what happens when you reach a limit.Singapore MOE alignmentHow the content maps to the MOE syllabus, mother-tongue levels and school reporting.