Solutions · Colleges and universities
Live teaching for every course, on campus and off
Pencil Spaces gives colleges and universities live classes, office hours and small-group work that launch from the LMS students already use. These are the problems academic leaders, faculty and students run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Colleges and adult learning
Who
Academic leaders, Faculty and instructors, Students
Problems mapped
20
Today
20 solved
Customers
Built for colleges and universities
- Launched from your LMSLMS & SIS · AvailableLaunch from Canvas with single sign-on and connect any LTI 1.3 LMS.
- Seminars that split and returnBreakout Rooms · AvailableBreakout Rooms split the class into small rooms, let you broadcast to every room, and bring everyone back in one click.
- Every class, searchableTranscripts · AvailableTranscripts give every lesson a time-stamped record with each speaker labeled, searchable and available over the API.
Customer stories
- New York Institute of TechnologyCustomerStudents and staff at New York Tech have met live in Pencil Spaces since fall 2023
Academic leaders
- Rosters fall out of step with the SISSolved today
- One setup has to fit every role and siteSolved today
- Reports stitched together from many systemsSolved today
- Uninvited guests, leaked links, stale accessSolved today
- Too few lessons are ever observedSolved today
- Engagement and satisfaction go unmeasuredSolved today
- Student data under COPPA, FERPA and GDPRSolved today
Faculty and instructors
- Juggling slides, videos and websitesSolved today
- Quiet students, and the tutor talks mostSolved today
- Differentiating for a whole group at onceSolved today
- “I get it” that isn’t trueSolved today
- Hours lost to grading homeworkSolved today
- Writing notes and reports by handSolved today
- Can’t see who’s stuck in a groupSolved today
Students
- Learning in a second languageSolved today
- Group work online falls flatSolved today
- Forgetting what was covered last timeSolved today
- Joining from a noisy, crowded roomSolved today
- Uneasy on camera, with home on viewSolved today
- Online tests that don’t fit how they workSolved today
Every problem we’ve mapped is on the problem map.
The features behind these fixes
See it in a live Space.
We’ll walk you through it, shaped around how you teach.






