An LMS for indie teachers

Teaching is a craft. Tavela helps you practice it.

Build a course, sell it to your students, and see what they actually learned — with tools from learning science, not guesswork.

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14-day free trial. Simple monthly pricing. No percentage of your sales.

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The tabela — a table for learning

Teachers tend the canopy. Students grow from the roots.

Every tool you use as a teacher has a clear payoff below. Your craft and their growth are the same tree.

Curriculum

Map concepts & prerequisites

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Visually lay out what depends on what. Tavela warns when a lesson is missing its setup.

Authoring

Build practice into the lesson

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A clean editor with knowledge checks embedded alongside video and reading. Students practice as they learn — not after they've forgotten.

Practice

Review at the right moment

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Drop a question into a review set. Tavela surfaces it when memory starts to fade.

Insight

Spot where you're losing them

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See who's stuck, on which exact question, and where the class drops off. Fix the lesson above it.

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They don't get stuck.

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They can actually do the thing.

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They remember it weeks later.

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They finish what they start.

What's inside

Small tools, big compounding effects.

Only on Tavela

See your course as a map, not a playlist.

Define what students should be able to do. Map concepts and their prerequisites. Tavela checks that your lessons actually cover what you promised — and warns you when something's missing.

Course goals with depth levels
Visual prerequisite map — see what depends on what
Coverage check catches gaps before your students do
Reuse concepts across courses you teach

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Course builder

Write, don't wrestle.

A clean editor with blocks for video, reading, and questions. Drag to reorder modules and lessons. Publish when you're ready. No clunky modules menu to configure.

Rich text editor with media embeds
Streaming video hosting on Mux
Custom landing pages per course
Storefront, coupons, and Stripe checkout built in

Animation studio

Polished explainers, without leaving your course.

A built-in animation editor for walkthroughs and visual content. Timeline-based with keyframes, audio sync, and export to video — all inside Tavela. No After Effects detour.

Visual canvas with text, shapes, and images
Keyframe animation with easing curves
Audio timeline with multi-track mixing
Export to MP4, embed directly in lessons

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Learning science

See every student. Know exactly where they got stuck.

Know who's mastered the material, who's struggling, and on which exact question. Not a vanity dashboard — a teaching tool that tells you where to fix the lesson above.

Knowledge checks using retrieval practice
Pre-lesson predictions and post-lesson reflection
Spaced review — short sessions over time beat one long cram
Progress tracking with concept-level mastery

"I stopped guessing which parts of my course were working. I can point at the question students miss most — and fix the lesson above it."
Maya Okafor independent curriculum designer · teaches applied statistics

Pricing

Plain pricing. No tier tricks.

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Full access, no credit card required. Pay for the platform — keep what you earn.

Starter

$29 / month

For teachers building their first few courses.

5 published courses
10 hrs of video storage
10,000 video views / month
Knowledge checks
Progress tracking

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