ClassMates for Schools

ClassMates helps students study together in small circles, with a shared focus timer, notes, flashcards and quizzes, in English, Sinhala and Tamil. It works for government and private schools, colleges, tuition centres, institutes and other learning organisations.

What students get

• Study circles for their classes and subjects.
• Study sessions with a shared focus timer, so everyone focuses together.
• Group chat, shared notes, flashcards and quizzes, all checked by Guardian AI before the group sees them.
• Personal goals and progress, with no rankings and no comparisons.
• The iPhone and Android apps, and the web app at web.classmates.lk for school labs and shared computers.

What teachers get

• Classes and a teaching schedule.
• Hosting study sessions, with controls only the host has.
• Assignments and quiz authoring.
• Class insights, showing how the class is doing as a whole, and individual progress only where students allow it. Never a ranking.

What admins and principals get

• An overview of how the school uses ClassMates. Reports show totals, and groups of fewer than 10 students are left out.
• People: staff invites, roster import from a CSV file, join requests and classes.
• Policies and limits: the Guardian AI safety level (Gentle, Balanced or Strict), which websites can be shared, which file types and sizes are allowed, chat hours, and how long chat and files are kept.
• Safety settings: your school's support contacts and safeguarding lead.
• Exports of the audit log and of totals-only reports. The principal approves every export, and the download link expires after 7 days.
• An audit log of important actions.
• Billing for your organisation's licence.

What admins can't do: read group chats, or see one student ranked against another.

What moderators and safeguarding leads get

• A queue of cases, updated live.
• Only the context they need: the item and up to five messages around it, with names replaced by letters. Revealing a name is logged.
• Appeals, their own decision history, and the school's policies.
• A person decides every case. Guardian AI can suggest, but never decides.

Verification

• Organisations are checked by hand. Someone who represents an organisation sends a request from the app. A ClassMates admin reviews it. Until it's approved, no organisation exists and nobody can add students.
• Only verified organisations appear when people search for an organisation to join.
• The principal is the organisation's admin. Being an organisation admin gives no power outside your own organisation.
• Teachers get their role from the school. Choosing "Teacher or tutor" in the app gives no teacher powers on its own. Independent educators are checked by hand, and verification is a label only.
• Students join through the school: by school e-mail matched to your roster, a class invite link (which expires within 30 days and can be limited to a number of uses), or a join request your admins approve.

How organisation licences work

ClassMates is free to use. An organisation licence adds capacity and admin tools for your learners. It never decides whether a student can study with their group, and safety tools are free on every plan.

• Who buys: an organisation's admin, in the web app, signed in with two-step sign-in. Licences are sold to organisations, not to individual families, and never inside the iPhone or Android apps.
• How it's priced: per active learner, per year, in Sri Lankan rupees with taxes included. See Pricing.
• How to pay: online through OnePay, or by bank transfer against an invoice. With a bank transfer, the invoice number is your payment reference, and the licence starts when ClassMates staff confirm the transfer. An unpaid invoice is cancelled after 30 days.
• Seats are soft:
  • Choose at least as many seats as you have active learners.
  • Learners who join above your seat count are never blocked, and never lose safety features.
  • They're covered for their first 30 days. Your admins see how many learners are above the licence, and the next invoice includes them for the part of the year they used.
  • Teachers and other staff don't need seats.
• Renewal: admins get reminders 30, 7 and 1 days before the licence ends.
• If a licence lapses, nothing is locked:
  • There's a 30-day grace period. After that, your organisation moves to the free limits.
  • Nothing is deleted. Nobody loses access to their groups, notes, decks or files.
  • Only new use beyond the free limits pauses, until you renew.
• Who can see it: only your organisation's admins and principal. Teachers, students and parents can't see your licence, and nobody can tell which students are covered.

Privacy and safety

• Parents see summaries only, never messages, notes or quiz answers.
• Guardian AI checks content before it's shared, and people make every decision.
• There are no ads and no tracking.
• Read our Safety Centre, Privacy Policy and Child Safety Standards.

Talk to us

Write to hello@classmates.lk from a work e-mail address, with your name, your organisation and a short message. Please don't include any students' details.