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Running an online tutoring business means ensuring all your bases are covered, from hosting classes to sending invoices. You might use one platform to schedule lessons, another to manage students and billing, an LMS to organize courses, and cloud storage to keep teaching materials.
As useful as each is individually, it becomes challenging when the tools start operating in their own little bubbles, disconnected from one another.
Pencil Spaces integrations solve this issue by allowing you to bring your existing workflow into the virtual classroom, so your tutors and students can spend less time switching between platforms and more time focusing on the lesson.
Whether you run a tutoring business, manage an educational institution, or are building your own education platform, Pencil Spaces offers a host of integrations for the most important parts of your teaching workflow.
Pencil Spaces integrations at a glance
Availability and setup requirements vary by integration.
Why integrate Pencil Spaces with your existing software?
A virtual classroom is a core component of hosting live lessons, but it shouldn’t be separate from the rest of your business.
If you have a tutoring management system that already handles scheduling and student records, you can connect it to Pencil Spaces so that those workflows lead directly into your classrooms. Conversely, if your institution already uses an LMS, an integration can give students a more direct route from their course environment to a live session.
The biggest benefit of integrating your software is reducing the admin between those systems. By connecting your various workflows, you eliminate the little bits of admin between them that add up over hundreds or thousands of lessons.
For instance, the TutorCruncher integration allows you to automatically create a Pencil Spaces Space for your scheduled lessons, allowing both students and tutors to access their classrooms directly through TutorCruncher.
That means your team can keep using administrative systems they already rely on while still keeping the classroom experience consistent in Pencil Spaces. Integrated workflows leave less room for error than parallel ones.
Tutor management integrations
For tutoring businesses, your management software often handles the administrative side of the business. Pencil Spaces handles the live teaching environment. Connecting the two lets those systems work together:
Wise
Wise is an all-in-one tutoring management platform for managing bookings, payments, students, and courses.
With the Pencil Spaces integration, tutors and students can launch their virtual classroom directly from Wise. Spaces can also be automatically generated for scheduled lessons, and attendance can also be synced back to Wise.
TutorCruncher
TutorCruncher is designed to help tutoring businesses manage scheduling, billing, reporting, as well as tutor and student enrolment.
The Pencil Spaces integration lets tutors and students access Pencil Spaces directly through their usual TutorCruncher portal. You can also configure Pencil Spaces to automatically create a Space for each job or lesson, depending on your setup and needs.
Teachworks
Teachworks brings scheduling, billing, student management, and tutor management together for tutoring businesses.
By connecting your Teachworks and Pencil Spaces accounts, you can bring the scheduled lessons and virtual classroom closer together. This makes it easier for tutors to keep track of both the administrative and teaching sides of their lessons.
Oases
Oases is a tutoring management platform designed for managing larger tutoring operations.
Connecting Oases with Pencil Spaces lets organizations incorporate their virtual classroom into their existing tutoring workflow while continuing to use Oases for operational management.
Yo!Coach
Yo!Coach is a white-label platform for running a tutoring marketplace or education business.
With the Pencil Spaces integration, Pencil Spaces launches inside the Yo!Coach lesson portal. Students and tutors can join their sessions without having to switch tabs or log into separate platforms.
Bizstim
Bizstim helps tutoring businesses manage their scheduling, billing, clients, and staff.
Integrating your Bizstim account with Pencil Spaces connects your virtual classroom to the rest of your tutoring management workflow. In turn, it’s easier for your team to move from scheduling to teaching.
LMS integrations
Pencil Spaces can also fit into the learning management systems (LMS) schools and educational institutions already use:
Canvas
Canvas is a widely used learning management system for schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.
The Pencil Spaces and Canvas integration allows users to launch their classes in Pencil Spaces directly from Canvas, with single sign-on and deep linking. This gives students and educators an easy, direct route from their course environment to a live virtual classroom.
LTI 1.3
If your institution uses an LMS that supports LTI 1.3, you can integrate Pencil Spaces without needing a separate, named integration for that platform.
This makes Pencil Spaces easier to incorporate into an existing learning environment, giving institutions more flexibility in how they connect Pencil Spaces to their existing learning environment.
Content integrations
Your teaching materials most likely already live somewhere, whether on your computer or in the cloud. You shouldn’t have to rebuild your entire resource library just because you’re teaching online. Instead, you can bring what you already have directly into your virtual classroom:
Google Drive
Pencil Spaces’ Google Drive integration lets you bring lesson materials from Google Drive into your online tutoring sessions.
This can be useful for tutors and institutions that already keep worksheets, presentations, documents, and other teaching resources in Google Drive.
OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive provides a similar option for organizations using Microsoft’s cloud storage ecosystem.
With OneDrive integration, tutors can bring existing teaching materials into their online teaching workflow without maintaining a completely separate resource library.
Automation and developer integrations
Some organizations need more than a ready-made connection. They may want Pencil Spaces to become part of a custom workflow, trigger actions in other applications, or connect directly to their own software.
That’s where the developer integrations come in.
Zapier
Zapier connects Pencil Spaces with thousands of other applications through automated workflows.
This can be useful when you want Pencil Spaces to interact with other tools without building a custom integration from scratch.
Pipedream
Pipedream provides another way to build automated workflows around Pencil Spaces.
It’s particularly useful for teams that need more control over how their applications communicate or want to build workflows around APIs and custom logic.
Bring your existing workflow into the virtual classroom
It’s rare for tutoring organizations, whether big or small, to run their entire business through a single application. Your scheduling, student management, resources, LMS, and live classroom all have their own jobs to do.
Integrating Pencil Spaces with those tools gives you more ways to connect those pieces, without having to ask your tutors or students to constantly jump between disconnected systems.
Whether you’re managing a small or large tutoring organization, or even just hosting a few sessions a week, you can connect Pencil Spaces to the online tutoring tools that already keep your business moving.
Explore Pencil Spaces integrations to see which connections are available for your workflow, or try Pencil Spaces for free and see how the virtual classroom fits into your existing setup.
Frequently asked questions
What does Pencil Spaces integrate with?
Pencil Spaces currently offers integrations with tutor management platforms including Wise, TutorCruncher, Teachworks, Oases, Yo!Coach, and Bizstim. It also integrates with Canvas and LTI 1.3-compatible LMSs, Google Drive, OneDrive, Zapier, Pipedream, and provides API and Custom App options.
Can I integrate Pencil Spaces with my LMS?
Yes. Pencil Spaces has a direct Canvas integration and supports LTI 1.3, allowing it to connect with LMS platforms that support the standard.
Can I connect Pencil Spaces to my tutoring management software?
Yes. Pencil Spaces has integrations with several tutoring management platforms, including Wise, TutorCruncher, Teachworks, Oases, Yo!Coach, and Bizstim. These integrations can help connect administrative workflows such as scheduling and student management with live lessons.
Does Pencil Spaces have an API?
Yes. Pencil Spaces provides an API for organizations that want to synchronize data between Pencil Spaces and their own platforms or software.
Can I automate Pencil Spaces workflows?
Yes. Pencil Spaces supports integrations with Zapier and Pipedream, giving you options for connecting Pencil Spaces to other applications and building automated workflows.
