Who Is Simpleclass Built For?

Tutoring Centers and Homework Institutes

A typical evening session at a bijlesinstituut looks like this: eight students arrive online, each working on a different subject. The coordinator assigns them to breakout rooms based on their needs. In room one, two students work on math. In room two, three students practice reading comprehension. In room three, two students prepare for a biology test. The teacher oversees all rooms from the monitoring dashboard, stepping in when a student raises their hand or when a room goes quiet.

This workflow is impossible on Zoom or Teams, where the teacher can only be in one room at a time. On those platforms, the coordinator has to either put everyone in one big room (which means students distract each other), or split them into rooms and accept that most groups are unsupervised most of the time.

Simpleclass gives the teacher continuous visibility across every room. Audio levels show which groups are actively working and which have gone silent. Video thumbnails show whether students have their cameras on and are engaged. The teacher can silently observe any room without the students knowing, or join visibly to help with a specific question. After the session, the teacher submits a session report that gets sent automatically to parents whose email is on file.

For tutoring centers, this means each online session runs with the same level of oversight as an in-person session, but without the physical space constraints. You can serve students from a wider geographic area, add evening or weekend sessions without renting additional rooms, and maintain quality visibility across every group.

There is also a less obvious benefit that one of the first tutoring institutions to use Simpleclass described: the breakout room model gives students privacy. In a traditional group video call, every student sees and hears every other student's mistakes. In breakout rooms, students work in small, private groups where they feel safer to try, fail, and ask questions. The teacher still gives each student individual attention through silent monitoring and personal chat, but the student is not performing in front of the entire class. For younger students and for adults learning a new language, that distinction matters more than most platforms account for.

Language Schools and NT2 Programs

Language teaching relies on speaking practice, and speaking practice requires small groups. A conversation class with twelve students and one teacher doesn't work — it turns into a lecture. The effective approach is to pair students up or put them in groups of three or four, give them a conversation prompt, and let them practice while the teacher circulates.

In a physical classroom, the teacher walks between groups, listens, corrects pronunciation, and redirects conversations that have gone off-topic. Online, this circulation pattern breaks completely on standard video platforms. The teacher enters one breakout room and becomes deaf to all others. A pair of students in room four might have switched from Dutch to Arabic five minutes ago, and the teacher won't find out until they visit that room.

With Simpleclass, the teacher monitors audio across all rooms simultaneously. They can hear which rooms are actively speaking Dutch and which have gone quiet or switched languages. They can enter any room silently to listen for a few seconds, confirm the group is on track, and move on without interrupting the conversation flow. For NT2 programs specifically, this silent monitoring is essential for inburgering exam preparation, where students need to practice speaking Dutch naturally, not performatively for a teacher who just appeared.

The integrated whiteboard adds another dimension to language teaching. Teachers can prepare vocabulary lists, images, or sentence structures on the whiteboard and share it with specific breakout rooms during the session. Students see the whiteboard when the teacher broadcasts to their room, keeping the visual materials tightly connected to the spoken instruction. The teacher controls when each group sees the content, allowing them to pace the session differently for groups working at different speeds.

Training Organizations and Exam Preparation

Training organizations that deliver workshops, professional development, or exam prep courses face a specific challenge: their sessions need to be interactive to be effective, but their participants often expect a polished, structured experience. A corporate team doing a case study exercise needs clear breakout room assignments, time management, and a facilitator who can check in on each group's progress without derailing their discussion.

Simpleclass handles this through pre-assigned breakout rooms, timed activities, and the monitoring dashboard. The facilitator sets up rooms before the session, assigns participants, and monitors progress in real time. If one group finishes their exercise early, the facilitator sees the activity drop and can either give them an extension task or bring them back to the main room.

For exam preparation specifically, the differentiated session model works well. Advanced students work on practice exams in one room while struggling students get additional instruction in another. The teacher monitors both simultaneously, allocating more time to the group that needs it without abandoning the other. Session recordings allow students to review material they missed or want to revisit, and course owners can review recordings to ensure training quality across sessions delivered by different instructors.

Private Tutors and Independent Educators

If you're a single tutor working with individual students one-on-one, a standard video call tool is probably enough. Simpleclass becomes valuable when you start scaling: running group sessions, teaching multiple students in the same time slot, or building a small practice with recurring students who need their own accounts, schedules, and session history.

The custom subdomain means your students log into yourname.simpleclass.eu rather than clicking a generic meeting link. They see their upcoming sessions, join with one click, and have a consistent experience every week. You don't need to send calendar invites or meeting links for every session. The scheduling is built in.

For tutors running small group sessions — say, three groups of four students during a single two-hour block — the breakout room monitoring lets you manage all groups from one screen. You assign activities, watch progress, and intervene only when needed. This is the workflow that turns a private tutor into a small tutoring practice, serving more students per hour without sacrificing quality.

Simpleclass pricing is per teacher account (€49/month for up to 50 students), which means a private tutor pays a single flat rate regardless of how many students they serve within that limit. There are no per-meeting fees, no per-student charges, and no feature gates that force you onto a more expensive plan to get breakout rooms or recording.

The Common Thread

The organizations that get the most value from Simpleclass all share a few characteristics. They teach in small groups, typically between two and twelve students per session. They rely on breakout rooms as a core teaching method, not just an occasional activity. And they need teachers to maintain awareness of what is happening across multiple rooms simultaneously.

If small-group online teaching is a core part of your business, and you have found existing tools limiting, we have likely solved problems you are currently working around. If you primarily run large lectures or one-on-one sessions, a general-purpose video tool is probably a simpler choice.