Best Online Teaching Software

Kajabi is an all-in-one platform based in California that lets creators and coaches build and sell online courses, coaching programs, communities, and memberships without stitching together separate tools. It bundles a course builder, email marketing, automation, landing pages, checkout, and analytics, and charges zero transaction fees on sales across every plan.

Kajabi's Community features include Challenges, Circles for chat-based discussion, and Meetups for live events, alongside live coaching tools such as scheduled one-on-one and group video calls. An AI Creator Studio helps generate course outlines, lesson content, and marketing copy. Plans scale by number of products, contacts, and admin users, from the Basic plan up to the unlimited-product Pro plan, and Kajabi offers a one-month free trial with no payment required to start.

Kahoot! is a game-based learning and engagement platform where hosts create quiz-style kahoots that participants join and play from any device. Originally built for classrooms, Kahoot! has expanded into corporate training, onboarding, meetings, and live events, and the company reports that a large share of Fortune 500 companies have used it. The platform includes multiple question types, polls, word clouds, premade templates, an AI kahoot generator, and reporting on player and team performance.

Kahoot! for individuals starts free with paid personal plans for extra AI and study features, while the business product, Kahoot! 360, offers five annually billed Pro tiers from Pro Start at $19 per month for up to 50 participants to Pro Ultra at $79 per month for up to 5,000 participants and 100 teams. Only hosts need a paid license; participants join for free.

Nearpod, now part of Renaissance Learning, lets teachers turn slides, videos, and PowerPoints into interactive lessons with quizzes, polls, collaborate boards, 3D objects, and VR field trips. Lessons can be delivered live or self-paced, with real-time insights letting teachers see how students respond and adjust instruction on the spot. The Nearpod Library offers over 22,000 standards-aligned lessons and activities, and an AI Create tool can generate interactive lessons and formative assessments automatically.

Nearpod's free Silver plan includes 300MB of storage and supports 40 students per lesson. Paid Gold ($159/year) and Platinum ($397/year) plans raise storage and student limits and unlock features like the AI Create question generator and student notes. Schools and districts can get a custom Enterprise license with unlimited storage and admin reporting.

Pear Deck is a classroom engagement tool that turns Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into interactive lessons. Teachers add draggable, drawing, free response, and multiple choice questions directly into their existing slides, then run the deck live so every student responds in real time from their own device. Student Paced Mode lets learners move through content on their own for homework, absences, or differentiated instruction.

Beyond live presentations, Pear Deck includes AI tools that generate standards aligned lessons, practice sets, and quizzes in minutes, plus a teacher dashboard for named responses, individual feedback, and session reports. It integrates with Google Classroom and Microsoft accounts and includes accessibility features like immersive reader and enhanced dictation, making it a widely used option in K-12 classrooms.

Quizizz officially rebranded to Wayground in mid-2025, moving its website from quizizz.com to wayground.com, though existing quizizz.com links and integrations like joinmyquiz.com still redirect and work. The product itself is unchanged in substance: teachers create gamified quizzes, interactive lessons, and flashcards with question types like drag-and-drop and hotspot, deliver them live or as self-paced assignments, and use built-in AI to generate content from documents, text prompts, or websites, drawing on a library of 20 million-plus teacher-made activities.

The Basic plan is free with storage for up to 20 activities. A paid Individual (Super) plan adds unlimited storage and unlimited AI credits, though its official pricing page displayed region-based pricing rather than a fixed US dollar figure during research. School and District plans add premium content, LMS integrations, and dedicated success managers through a custom quote.

Teachable is a platform for creating and selling online courses, coaching programs, memberships, and digital downloads. It provides a drag-and-drop course builder, video hosting with automatic subtitles, AI tools for course and quiz creation, and built-in payment processing with support for over 35 local payment methods. The platform is used by independent creators, coaches, and businesses to package expertise into paid digital products.

Teachable is owned by Hotmart and charges a monthly or annual subscription fee starting with the Starter plan, which carries a 7.5 percent transaction fee that is removed on higher tiers. Every paid plan includes a 7 day free trial. Enterprise pricing is billed per user with an annual minimum spend.

Thinkific is a course creation and online learning platform built by Thinkific Labs, a company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It lets entrepreneurs, educators, and businesses build and sell online courses, communities, and memberships using a drag-and-drop course builder, along with AI-assisted content tools and a built-in AI teaching assistant. The platform hosts sites directly and includes commerce tools such as checkout, subscriptions, payment plans, and multi-currency support, so creators do not need separate hosting or payment infrastructure.

Plans range from Basic through Grow, plus a custom-priced Plus tier for larger organizations with unlimited communities and API access. All plans include unlimited courses and students, zero Thinkific transaction fees, and a 30-day free trial, though there is no permanent free plan. Thinkific integrates with Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Analytics, and supports SCORM content import.

Google Classroom is a free learning management tool included with Google Workspace for Education. It helps teachers create, distribute, and grade assignments, share announcements, and communicate with students in one place. Classroom integrates with Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Meet, and connects to student information systems such as PowerSchool and Infinite Campus for roster syncing. It supports individual educators with a personal Google account as well as entire school districts and universities.

Teachers can build rubrics, reuse class templates, and generate originality reports that compare student work against web pages and books. Practice sets and Read Along add self-paced, auto-graded exercises. Native iOS and Android apps let teachers grade and give feedback from anywhere, while guardian email summaries keep parents informed of student progress.