Cohortly
A cohort-based course platform with live sessions and a real cohort backbone
Cohortly is the cohort-based-course twin of Coursebase. Same brand, different shape — Cohortly assumes the course has a fixed start date, a cohort of learners going through together, scheduled live sessions, group projects, and a teaching team. It is built for the operator who has tried running a cohort program in a self-paced LMS and discovered that the tooling fights the format every step of the way.
Key features
- Cohort scheduling with fixed start, weekly cadence, and cohort capacity
- Live session integration (Zoom or Daily) with session recordings auto-attached
- Cohort-shared discussion threads with instructor and TA participation
- Group project workspaces with submission, peer review, and instructor feedback
- Attendance tracking with absence-flag rules and cohort-completion gating
- Cohort-by-cohort iteration tools (per-cohort syllabus version, retro notes)
- Slack or Discord auto-provision for each cohort with channel structure
- Reporting on cohort NPS, completion, retention, and per-instructor outcomes
Architecture
Built on the Vertical SaaS Stack.
What you get
Cohortly launches as a multi-tenant SaaS under your brand. The first cohort is configured during onboarding (start date, cadence, syllabus, teaching team). Slack or Discord auto-provisioning runs day-one; Zoom or Daily integrations create scheduled session events on instructor calendars.
Sample customer story (placeholder — illustrative only)
A 3-cohort-per-year executive education program licensed Cohortly to consolidate Notion + Slack + Calendly + Zoom + a homegrown grading sheet into one tool. The win was cohort retro velocity: each cohort’s improvements (syllabus tweaks, scheduling fixes) made it into the next cohort within a week instead of getting lost in the gap between programs.
What’s NOT included
- Self-paced courses. Use Coursebase — that’s the right shape.
- Asynchronous-only programs. Cohortly assumes scheduled live sessions. A program with no live element should run on Coursebase.
- Marketing landing pages for the program. Program detail pages render; full marketing-page authoring is out of scope.
- Refund / partial-refund automation. Refunds run through Stripe and require manual operator approval; auto-refund-by-rule is a paid Pass-2 customization.
Whitelabel surfaces
| Surface | Themeable | Custom domain |
|---|---|---|
| Public program catalog | yes | yes |
| Cohort learner portal | yes | yes |
| Instructor admin | yes | yes |
| yes | yes (sender domain) | |
| PDF certificates | yes | yes |
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