ClassroomIO.com

The Open Source Learning Management System for Companies
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✨ About ClassroomIO.com

ClassroomIO is an open source LMS for companies. Run compliance/employee training, customer education, and partner certification programs — all from one platform. Self-host it on your own infrastructure or use the cloud version.

Who It's For

Use Case	What You Get
Compliance Training	Deadline tracking, renewals & retake intervals, grace periods, waivers, certificates with custom IDs
Customer Education	Branded academy portal, programs (cohorts with goals), AI lesson tutor, multilingual content
Partner Training	Partner workspaces, branded certificates, custom domains, embeddable widgets, multilingual support

Key Features

Course & Content

• Course management — unlimited courses, lessons, exercises, grading, and certificates
• Programs — group courses into cohorts with goals, team management, and progress tracking
• AI Course Builder — generate outlines, lesson content, and assignments (Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude)
• AI Lesson Tutor — in-lesson AI assistant that helps learners as they study

Compliance & Certification

• Compliance tracking — status, deadlines, grace periods, renewals, and waivers
• Certificates — issue branded certificates with custom IDs

Learner & Org Experience

• Multi-org & multi-teacher — invite teachers, assign courses, manage multiple organizations
• Student dashboard — learners access all courses, assignments, and progress in one place
• Multilingual — deliver content in 10+ languages

Integrations & Developer Tools

• REST API + Webhooks — enroll users, trigger automations, receive events (certificate.issued, enrollment.completed, and more)
• MCP server — @classroomio/mcp on npm for AI-native integrations
• Embeddable widget — embed your course catalog on any website

Platform

• Fully open source — self-host the entire stack on your own servers

For what's coming next, see the public roadmap.

Built With

• SvelteKit
• Hono
• PostgreSQL
• Better Auth
• TailwindCSS

Get a Demo

You can book a quick 15 min demo to see if ClassroomIO is a good fit for you

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running, please follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

Here is what you need to be able to run ClassroomIO.com

• Node.js (Version: >=20.19.3)
• pnpm
• Docker

Project Structure

This repo is a monorepo that consists of these primary apps:

1. website: The landing page of ClassroomIO hosted here
2. api: The api service that handles PDF, video processing, Emailing and Notifications.
3. dashboard: The web application that runs the learning management system hosted here.
4. docs: Official documentation of ClassroomIO hosted here

The repository also contains shared packages under packages/ (for example packages/db, packages/utils, and packages/ui).

Development

Local Setup

1. Fork the repo, then clone it:

   git clone https://github.com/classroomio/classroomio.git
   

2. Go to project folder:

   cd classroomio
   

3. Set up Node (using nvm):

   nvm use
   

   You first might need to install the specific version and then use it:

   nvm install && nvm use
   

   You can install nvm from here.

4. Install dependencies:

   pnpm i
   

5. Set up your .env files:

   • Go to apps/dashboard and apps/api.
   • Duplicate the .env.example file and rename it to .env
     • Populate them with required values (at minimum):
     • apps/api/.env: DATABASE_URL, REDIS_URL, AUTH_BEARER_TOKEN, BETTER_AUTH_SECRET
     • apps/dashboard/.env: PRIVATE_SERVER_URL, PRIVATE_SERVER_KEY, PUBLIC_IS_SELFHOSTED, DASHBOARD_ORIGIN
   • Optional for self-hosted Enterprise-only features (SSO, token-auth, no-tracking): set LICENSE_KEY in apps/api/.env

6. Start local infrastructure for API (Postgres + Redis) and seed the DB:

   docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yaml up -d postgres redis db-init
   

   • Connect with DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/classroomio
   • Connect with REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
   • The db-init container runs migrations/seed once Postgres is healthy.

7. (Optional) Start MinIO locally for object storage (media/documents):

   docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yaml --profile minio up -d minio minio-init
   

   • Console: http://localhost:9001 (user/pass default minioadmin / minioadmin)
   • S3 endpoint: http://localhost:9000
   • Buckets created by minio-init: videos, documents, media
   • Add to apps/api/.env when using MinIO locally:
     • OBJECT_STORAGE_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9000
     • OBJECT_STORAGE_PUBLIC_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9000
     • OBJECT_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_ID=minioadmin
     • OBJECT_STORAGE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=minioadmin
     • OBJECT_STORAGE_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=true
     • OBJECT_STORAGE_MEDIA_PUBLIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:9000/media

8. Run the local app services in separate terminals:

   pnpm api:dev
   

   pnpm dashboard:dev
   

9. Default local URLs:

   • api: http://localhost:3002
   • dashboard: http://localhost:5173

10. Optional: run other apps:

• website: pnpm website:dev
• docs: pnpm dev --filter=@cio/docs

11. Login into dashboard:

    • Visit http://localhost:5173/login
    • Enter email: [email protected]
    • Enter password: 123456

    To learn more about how to login with a dummy account, go here.

Enabling the AI Course Assistant

The in-course AI chat (course authoring, plan generation, lesson edits) is disabled by default. Enable it by setting at least one provider API key in apps/api/.env (or the root .env for the Docker stack):

# Pick one or more — the dashboard model picker exposes Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-4o.
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...        # enables GPT-4o
GOOGLE_API_KEY=AIza...       # enables Gemini 2.5 Flash (default model in the picker)
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... # supported in code; not currently in the picker UI

Notes:

• The GET /agent/status endpoint flips to enabled: true as soon as any of those keys is set, which is what the dashboard checks before showing the AI button on a course.
• Each chat request sends the user-selected model (persisted in localStorage as classroomio-ai-chat-model). The API resolves the provider for that model (packages/utils/src/agent-models) and returns 503 AI_NOT_CONFIGURED if that provider's key is missing.
• Optional Tinybird observability: set TINYBIRD_TOKEN (and optionally TINYBIRD_BASE_URL) in apps/api/.env. Events are silently skipped when the token is absent.
• More detail on architecture, tools, and routes lives in prd/ai-course-assistant [DONE]/README.md.

Docker Compose (Full Stack)

cp .env.example .env   # copy env template, edit for your domain
./run-docker-full-stack.sh

The script reads root .env via docker compose --env-file .env and auto-generates secure values for AUTH_BEARER_TOKEN and PRIVATE_SERVER_KEY when missing.

See .env.example for the full list of environment variables with required/optional grouping, and docker/docs/SELF_HOST.md for the complete Docker self-hosting guide.

Publishing

When cutting releases for hosted assets or the npm MCP package, run:

• Storybook — pnpm --filter @cio/storybook storybook:publish
• Course widget embed — pnpm --filter @cio/embeds embeds:publish
• Question type picker — pnpm --filter @cio/embeds embeds:publish (same script builds and uploads both embeds)
• MCP (@classroomio/mcp) — bump the version in packages/mcp/package.json, then pnpm mcp:build and pnpm --filter @classroomio/mcp publish