Teachers Can Now Run Their Own Virtual School or Tuition Centre

In most countries a large share of teaching already happens outside school: evening tuition, academies above shops, a teacher with eight students around a dining table. Since 2020 more of it has moved online. A tutor with a laptop and a Zoom link can teach anyone in the city, or anywhere.

The teaching is the part a good teacher has already mastered. What is hard is everything around it. This article is about that, and how a single teacher can now run a virtual school or tuition centre with the same tools a school gets.

What online tuition usually looks like

Ask an online tutor how they run their week and you hear the same list: a video tool for the class, WhatsApp for homework, photographs of worksheets, a quiz tool for tests, a spreadsheet for marks, and a lot of evenings writing questions. Each tool is fine. Together they are a second job.

The platforms built for online teaching tend to solve one part of this well:

• Course builders such as Teachable and Thinkific let you sell courses with videos, quizzes and certificates. You write every lesson and every question yourself.
• Classroom tools such as Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education organise classes, assignments and calls. They start empty.
• Tutor business tools such as Wise handle Zoom sessions, attendance, fees and a branded app for coaching institutes. The content is yours to bring.
• Learning management systems such as Moodle can do almost anything, once someone builds it.
• Video tools such as Zoom for Education run the class itself.

And tools can disappear. Edmodo, once used by millions of teachers, closed in September 2022 and deleted every account. A teacher who keeps everything in one place they can see is in a stronger position than one spread across six.

What none of the tools above gives a tutor is the content: a syllabus already broken into topics, with a lesson, quizzes and a worksheet for each. That is the part QuizByt has spent years building, and it is the part that saves a teacher's evenings.

Your own school on QuizByt, step by step

1. Register your centre

Go to school registration and register your tuition centre or small school the same way a large school does: its name, city and country, you as the administrator, and your brand colour. QuizByt checks every new school before it goes live, so expect a short wait. Once approved, add your logo in Settings and the portal carries your name, logo and colour throughout, including the bar on your students' phones.

2. Make your classes

One class per group you teach: "Class 7 Maths, evening", "O Level Chemistry, weekend". Give each class its subjects. If you have colleagues, add them as teachers and give each one their classes and subjects.

3. Bring in your students

Invite them by email, hand out a class coupon code, or upload a list from a spreadsheet. Each student gets their own login and a dashboard showing your classes, their work and what is due.

4. Fill your classes with content

Import lessons, quizzes and worksheets from the QuizByt catalogue for Classes 1 to 10 and O Level, edit your own copy of any lesson, write your own, or build one from a chapter PDF. More on that in build your own question bank.

5. Put your live classes on the calendar

From the class page, schedule an online class: subject, date, start and end, an agenda, and whether it is for the whole class or a few students. You can also click the plus on any day of the week calendar. QuizByt creates the Zoom meeting, emails your students, and shows the class on their dashboards with a "Join now" button from fifteen minutes before. It will not let you book two classes back to back without a ten-minute break, which your voice will thank you for. Times follow your country's time zone.

6. Set the practice, and let it mark itself

After each live class, assign the quiz for that topic, due in two days. It marks itself when the student finishes and the result goes into a record per topic, so before your next class you know who needs the method again. Written work can be uploaded by the student and marked by you, and it sits in the same record. See assignments and results in one place.

7. Give your students a reason to come back

Your students also get QuizByt's learning games, logic, number and word puzzles chosen by age. Most are opened by credits earned from passing quizzes, so the games reward the practice instead of competing with it. You can switch games off for your school in Settings if you prefer.

Why this way of teaching works

The design follows the research rather than fashion. Students learn more when they do something than when they only listen (Freeman et al., 2014). Retrieving what you learned, spaced over days, beats re-reading it (Carpenter, Pan and Butler, 2022). Edutopia's collection of quick retrieval practices is a good read for any tutor on how to use quizzes this way. And games help most when they are well designed and tied to the work (Clark et al., 2016). A tutor's live class is the explanation; the quiz on Wednesday is the retrieval; the record is how you decide what Friday's class is about.

Is this new?

Each part exists somewhere. Outschool lets teachers run their own live classes. Course builders let them sell their own courses. Quiz tools let them run quizzes. What we could not find, reading the public pages of the platforms in this article, was one place where a single teacher can open their own branded school, schedule Zoom classes on a calendar, and find a ready syllabus of lessons, self-marking quizzes, printable worksheets and games for their students. That is what QuizByt now offers.

Some limits to know before you start. QuizByt does not find students for you; you bring your own. It does not take payments from your students on your behalf; you collect your fees as you do today. And the AI quiz builder, which drafts a quiz from a chapter PDF, is on the top school plan.

References

1. Teachable. teachable.com. Thinkific. thinkific.com.
2. Google. Google Classroom. Microsoft. Teams for Education.
3. Wise. wise.live. Moodle. moodle.com. Zoom. Zoom for Education.
4. EdWeek Market Brief (2022). Online tech hub Edmodo shutting down as school year kicks off.
5. Freeman, S. et al. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. PNAS.
6. Carpenter, S. K., Pan, S. C. and Butler, A. C. (2022). The science of effective learning with spacing and retrieval practice. Nature Reviews Psychology.
7. Leonard, D. (2025). 15 quick (and mighty) retrieval practices. Edutopia.
8. Clark, D. B., Tanner-Smith, E. E. and Killingsworth, S. S. (2016). Digital games, design, and learning. Review of Educational Research.