Use 2BeLive to package, certify and sell courses. Use Pencil Spaces when teaching happens live.
2BeLive is an all-in-one LMS, content hub and course marketplace, AI-augmented. Pencil Spaces is a purpose-built virtual classroom — real-time whiteboard, video, co-browsing and AI coaching — hardened across 10M+ live sessions, with COPPA, FERPA, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance for student data.
10M+ sessions taught
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Last updated June 2026
For LIVE TEACHING
A virtual classroom built for the live, synchronous moment: whiteboard, video, co-browsing and AI coaching, proven at scale.
For COURSE DELIVERY
An all-in-one LMS, content hub and course marketplace, AI-augmented, built to manage, certify and sell learning.
The short answer
These are not the same product. 2BeLive is a learning platform — built to manage content, deliver and certify courses, and monetize them through a marketplace. Pencil Spaces is a live classroom — built for the real-time teaching moment, proven across 10M+ sessions. Choose by where your value is created. Plenty of teams run both.
Built for live. A purpose-built virtual classroom, not a course catalog with live bolted on.
The live room is the product. Whiteboard, video, co-browsing and AI coaching as the core surface.
Proven at scale. 10M+ live sessions delivered.
Built for student data. COPPA, FERPA, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR and ISO — named, not implied.
2BeLive owns the catalog. A real LMS and marketplace, with split payments to sell on-demand learning.
Use both. Live teaching in Pencil Spaces, the content library in an LMS.
Buyer education
2BeLive is a genuinely capable learning platform. It is an all-in-one place to manage content, build learning paths, certify learners, and sell courses through a marketplace.
But teaching live is not the same as delivering a course.
A live lesson is won or lost in real time — a shared board, a student's own cursor, the moment a tutor reaches in to help. That is a different surface, engineered for a different job. That is why Pencil Spaces exists.
2BeLive runs the course catalog. Pencil Spaces runs the live room.
Side by side
Both run in the browser. The difference is what each was built to do. 2BeLive is a learning platform for content, courses and a marketplace; Pencil Spaces is a virtual classroom for the live teaching moment.
Your question
For teaching
For course delivery
The basics
Can I run live, interactive sessions?
Yes. The live room is the core surface.
Yes — “Combine Live & On-Demand.”
Is it purpose-built for the live teaching moment?
A purpose-built virtual classroom.
An LMS + content hub + marketplace.
Is live scale proven and published?
Yes. 10M+ sessions delivered.
Not published.
The live classroom
Real-time, multiplayer whiteboard?
Yes, saved to the room, students work together live.
Interactive whiteboard.
Built-in video and audio?
Yes, native to the room.
Live sessions.
Co-browsing and shared apps in-room?
Yes.
Not documented.
Persistent per-student spaces?
Yes, a room per student.
Courses and learning paths.
AI inside the live session?
Yes — in-session tutor and post-session coach.
AI is aimed at content and analytics.
Content, courses and monetization
A full LMS / structured course catalog?
Not an LMS — integrates with yours.
Yes — core to the platform.
Content management with version control?
In-room lesson materials.
Yes.
Assessments and certifications?
In-room quizzing.
Yes.
A marketplace to sell courses?
Not a storefront.Not a storefront.
Yes — built-in, with split payments.
Safeguarding and compliance
COPPA / FERPA (student data)?
Yes.
Not stated; “not intended for under-18.”
HIPAA?
Yes.
Not stated.
SOC 2 and ISO 27001?
Yes.
Not stated.
GDPR?
Yes.
Yes — GDPR-style policy.
Built for under-18 learners?
Yes. - K-12 Native.
“Not intended for under-18.”
Platform, pricing and support
Public API?
Yes.
No, it is a meeting platform.
Embeddable / white-label classroom?
Yes. - via Carbon
API; a destination platform.
Bilingual EN/PT with LatAm support?
English-first.
Yes — EN + PT, LatAm support.
Free / self-serve to start?
Yes — start free.
Demo / contact sales.
A strong check marks where each platform leads. A soft check means supported but not the focus; a minus means not offered or not documented publicly.
Use the right tool for the job
We are not saying never use 2BeLive. We are saying use the tool built for the job in front of you.
You are teaching students live
You run interactive classes or one-on-one tutoring
You need a real-time shared whiteboard and co-browsing
You need COPPA / FERPA / SOC 2 for student data
You run high-impact tutoring at scale
You want to embed a live classroom into your own product
You need a true LMS with learning paths and certifications
You want to sell courses or subscriptions through a marketplace
You run corporate L&D, onboarding or compliance training
You have documents to turn into modules with AI authoring
You serve Portuguese-speaking or LatAm audiences
You want content, delivery and monetization under one login
Built for your team
Tutoring companies
An LMS can hold your course catalog. Pencil Spaces runs the live sessions tutoring businesses depend on — consistency, recordings, scheduling, analytics, and student-data compliance.
Schools and districts
A learning platform stores the curriculum. Pencil Spaces is the live, COPPA/FERPA-ready classroom for real instruction, intervention, and small-group work.
High-impact tutoring programs
2BeLive packages and certifies content. Pencil Spaces delivers the synchronous, relationship-driven sessions that actually move student outcomes.
Course creators and L&D
If selling and certifying on-demand courses is the job, 2BeLive is purpose-built for it. If your value is the live session, teach it in Pencil Spaces.
An honest take
A fair comparison names the other side's wins. If your need maps to any of these, 2BeLive may be the better fit — and Pencil Spaces is not trying to be these things.
Selling courses
An integrated marketplace with subscriptions and split payments. If monetizing on-demand content is the goal, it is purpose-built — and Pencil Spaces simply does not do it.Add a quote from a tutoring-company operator on running many tutors with consistency, oversight, and recordings
A real LMS
Content management with version control, structured learning paths, assessments and certifications — the catalog backbone a course business needs.Add a quote from a school or district administrator on student privacy, compliance, and safe instructional spaces.
Independent tutors
Turning documents into structured modules, and drafting descriptions and quizzes with a copilot, is genuine leverage for content teams.
Corporate L&D
Onboarding, upskilling and compliance training — including Brazil's NR-1 psychosocial risk assessment — is a clear vertical strength.
Bilingual and LatAm
English and Portuguese with localized support and a São Paulo base — a real advantage for Portuguese-speaking markets.
All-in-one simplicity
For a single team that wants content, delivery and monetization under one login, the consolidation is a legitimate selling point.
Scoreboard
These tools win at opposite ends of the same workflow. The check sits with whichever platform leads on each dimension.
dimension
live classroom
learning platform
Where the live moment is the work
Live teaching & tutoring
Leads
Real-time whiteboard & collaboration
Leads
Proven live scale
Leads
K-12 & student-data compliance
Leads
AI in the live session
Leads
Embeddable / white-label classroom
Leads
Where the catalog is the work
LMS & content management
Leads
Course marketplace & monetization
Leads
AI content authoring
Leads
Corporate L&D & compliance training
Leads
Bilingual EN/PT & LatAm support
Leads
For live teaching and tutoring at scale, with student-grade compliance, Pencil Spaces. For an end-to-end course catalog and marketplace, 2BeLive. The sharpest setups use both.
For builders
The same real-time engine behind Pencil Spaces' 10M+ sessions is available as infrastructure. Drop a fully branded live classroom — whiteboard, video, co-browsing — straight into your app, on your domain.
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