About Pencil Spaces
Pencil Spaces is a virtual classroom for online teaching and tutoring. It puts video calling and a shared whiteboard into a single browser tab, so teachers and students work in the same place rather than switching between a call app and a drawing tool.
Beyond the classroom itself, the vendor offers advanced scheduling with attendance tracking and analytics to help run tutoring operations. Integrations connect it to other platforms, an API supports developers building on top of it, and the site offers a knowledge base, training and a system status page. The interface is available in English, Korean, Japanese and French.
Pencil Spaces is a hosted commercial service with a free way to try it and a pricing page. It suits tutors, schools and tutoring organizations that teach online.
Key features
- Video calls with integrated whiteboard
- Scheduling, attendance and analytics
- Integrations with other platforms
- API for developers
- Knowledge base and free training
Good fit for
- →Running online tutoring sessions
- →Managing tutor schedules and attendance
- Tags
- virtual-classroom
- whiteboard
- tutoring
- education
- video-calls
- scheduling
- edtech
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