What is Koala Go?
Koala Go is aimed at students and teachers with Zoom fatigue. It is a new award-winning collaborative learning space for uploading PDF's, creating sticky notes and accessing programs, but importantly gives the teacher full control over what actions the students can and can't do.
Koala Go is a more engaging and powerful alternative than Zoom. You can still use Google Classroom, Seesaw, Wordwall, Whizzimo, or whatever web app you prefer in your Koala virtual classroom. Our development process is centered around teachers and students. We work with our teacher community to implement features they need and listen to our students to keep Koala fun!
A major advantage of Koala is to allow the teacher to customize their classroom. We are working on creating more useful tools and interactive objects in-game for our users.
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Koala HQ Location: United States Founded: 2018 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | Co-browsingGamificationStudent RewardInteractiveCollaborative |
 Languages | Arabic, Spanish; Castilian, Chinese, Russian, English, French, Korean, Japanese |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Desktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - Chromebook Koala supports Chromebooks (including touch screen) for students, but it is recommended to use a mouse. Koala currently does not support iPads. We hope to have an iPad app in September 2021. |
 Set Up | Become a Koala expert in 40min |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinars Become a Koala expert in 40min |
 Support | Knowledge Base24/7 Live Rep We provide live 24/7 support by real people from the Koala team 😊 |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Anyone can create the account. |
Koala Go PricingPricing Plans Free VersionFreemium | |
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Donna Whiffen
Private Tutor ELA, ESL, Spanish
Used Koala daily for 4-6 months
May 2022
There is nothing about the product that I do not like. I have been teaching online for nearly six years and have never seen anything like it. In fact, I would say it is more effective than in-person at times.
Donna Whiffen found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Autistic student who does not like to turn on his camera is comfortable working through the avatar. He is more engaged than before I used the platform.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I am able to bring in supplemental material such as videos and PDFs. I am able to create "classrooms" for various subjects and students are able to interact with the material.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“It's so much fun that it doesn't feel like work. I use the platform 20 hours a week currently.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Without a doubt, the product sells itself.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students are able to learn and be willing participants in the classroom. They are engaged 100 percent of the time because they are interacting constantly with sticky notes, avatars, text boxes, clip arts, videos, etc.”
Erin Lenz
Tutor/Teacher
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
May 2022
The Koala team listens to their users and implements updates biweekly. If there is a feature that their users agree would make Koala more dynamic and useful, it is put on their roadmap for future updates.
Erin Lenz found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I have all of my curriculum in my Koala Classrooms. All I have to do for each student is to open their own personal classroom and begin the lesson.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing
- Significantly improves attainment“The parents of my students love that their children enjoy their lessons and they are happy to refer me to their friends and neighbors.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Katie
Education Director, Abridge Academy
Used Koala weekly for 4-6 months
May 2022
I have already recommended Koala to many teachers
Katie found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Koala is AMAZING for student collaboration. In particular, the co-browsing tool allows both teachers and students to directly interact with a shared web browser - so students can click, drag-and-drop, write, etc directly on web-based curriculum slides and we can play games together. The Koala whiteboard system is also excellent, with huge potential for teachers to design activities that students can really engage directly with during the lesson. For me personally, I use web-based slides and found passive screensharing via Zoom to just be very non-interactive for kids. So Koala has totally revolutionalised that! I also jump off the slides to the whiteboard if my students need some extra practice or to clarify new ideas. I upload worksheets here too, which the student can annotate with their answers during the class.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I can prepare lesson activities in advance on the shared whiteboard, so in class everything is set up and ready to go. Additionally, students engage so much better with Koala compared to other online classroom/video conferencing platforms so we are able to make much greater progress during class.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“The Koala team is incredibly supportive - they've jumped on calls to fix any tech issues and do regular "coffee chats" where teachers can share ideas and ask questions directly to the core team. Their Facebook group is also just such a supportive community. This really helps me as a teacher because I feel more confident and comfortable in the online classroom, and have less stress over the technology side.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students engage much better in class, resulting in greater progress. Koala Go has only been available for a few months so I don't have any concrete data yet, but already I am seeing an improvement in students understanding and answers during class.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Koala's marketplace system has a huge collection of pre-made lessons and games, which help me build students' knowledge through more structured learning.”
Kris Morgan
Reading Tutor
Used Koala weekly for 1-2 years
May 2022
It’s a fun program and can really help students that need that extra incentive to get involved in their learning. Allows students to virtually move around which helps to keep them focused when focus is difficult.
Kris Morgan found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students are actively involved in the lesson. They can move around the room, move pieces for games, write words, etc”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Rooms can be saved for each student so your progress is saved and you can continue right from where you stopped.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“It’s fun, creative and you can save progress.”
- Significantly improves attainment“You can create games to practice and students are actively involved in the lesson”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Letty
ESL independent teacher
Used Koala weekly for 0–3 months
May 2022
I am pleased with their platform/service.
Letty found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“It is interactive”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Cool features for keeping students engaged”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Koala listens to teachers needs and wants. Koala will try their absolute best to make all things needed and the majority they have.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Yes. Koala will meet with anyone online having any issues and walk them through it. To get it solved.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“We are able to insert curriculum to teach. Koala also will try to have someone translate to better understand.”
Wendy Sweeney
Teacher
Used Koala daily for 0–3 months
May 2022
The platform is fantastic. The staff is responsive to the teachers' needs and requests. The leaders of the company are authentic and engaged.
Wendy Sweeney found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students are engaged throughout the lesson.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The interactive whiteboard is awesome. You can prepare materials for your students ahead of time, save them, edit them....”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“They provide support that helps me to feel confident in the technology.”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students are able to demonstrate their knowledge or lack thereof. Then the teacher is able to address issues until the student understands and masters the content.”
Jo Lehman
ESL teacher
Used Koala daily for 0–3 months
May 2022
Koala’s superb customer service raises it head and shoulders above all other platforms….no comparison!
Jo Lehman found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Student engagement is significantly higher, because they are able to interact with the curriculum.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Koala regularly asks for yea her feedback and implements changes based on teacher requests.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“By streamlining the teaching experience, Koala eliminates struggles experienced with other platforms.”
- Significantly improves attainment“If by attainment, you mean successfully running classes…then yes, classes run smoothly every time.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Due to the seamless execution of classes, students are able to continuously build on prior knowledge.”
Polly Stoup
Independent Educator
Used Koala daily for 0–3 months
May 2022
Koala’s strength lies with its creators and team of professionals. They listen and communicate with teachers and tutors. They are constantly making updates and improving Koala based on what teachers need to be more effective and on positive student outcomes.
Polly Stoup found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“My elementary-aged ESL learners have started to make progress in their English Literacy skills. With the shared browser or co-browser function, students are able to drag items and click while we are working through skills on a game board or in the interactive curriculum I use. We can share interactive books where I can teach them decoding strategies directly in a 1:1 situation. In the activity boards, we are able to use the sticky notes and text boxes to work on creating sentences together and creating words through letter tiles that teach phonetic principles.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Koala has made learning the tech tools very intuitive, which has saved me time and allowed me more time to devote to planning fun lessons instead of learning a complicated platform. Although I plan my instruction with specific goals in mind, the way that Koala is structured with the ability to load pngs and pdfs right into the activity whiteboards has made me more efficient. I can load my materials ahead of time or I can pull up additional resources to teach something on-the-spot when a student needs additional support.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“The Koala team offers outstanding customer service. They listen and take action when teachers have a need for a functionality change. This is in stark contrast to what most teachers and independent tutors have experienced in the public school or company sectors. When teachers are heard, it boosts moral. It provides encouragement to keep going. Koala provides an effective way for private tutors to earn income through an amazing platform that keeps students coming back for classes. In turn, the income received helps provide for living expenses. On a personal note, the income I receive from teaching independently goes directly to purchasing my health insurance. The premiums are very costly, so being able to use a robust platform to help me with my income makes a difference in me being able to keep clients and to market effectively to gain more students. The invoicing that Koala added made collecting the income from tutoring very easy and was an added bonus to an already outstanding product.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Koala has created a product with Koala Go that allows my ESL students with tablets to have a kinesthetic learning experience. It is appealing to auditory learners as well because I can present videos and songs into lessons to assist in their learning. The ability to move letter tiles on sticky notes and to change the drawing tool thickness to write with white inside colored rectangles also simulates kinesthetic learning. The accessibility for my ESL learners will lead to more equitable language learning and, ultimately, help them attain the English skills they will need to navigate the world whether that is in higher education, the business/professional realm or for personal fulfillment through international travel.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“My ESL learners have additional conversational and speaking practice using the playground, which makes it fun for them to ask and answer questions as we are moving about together in the virtual world. It is building confidence as they are speaking and having fun.”
Robyn
Tutor
Used Koala daily for 0–3 months
May 2022
This company has gone above and beyond any other like it. They listen to what teachers need and are making updates so fast to accommodate us. I wish I could give 100 stars!
Robyn found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students are excited to interact with the program.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The tools are well-thought out and easy to find.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Koala has helped me organize my invoices which relieved a ton of stress for me.”
- Significantly improves attainment“I lost a student due to inadequacy of zoom. Koala is much more attractive and I have kept students longer.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Co-browser is an integral part of my lessons allowing me to extend easily.”
Joy
Tutor
Used Koala daily for 1-2 years
May 2022
It’s just the best
Joy found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Yes”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Helps me get the attention of the student”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Yws”
- Significantly improves attainment“Yes”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Yes”
Sarah
Tutoring Business Owner
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
May 2022
Koala Go has the best team in the world! They get back to your questions within minutes if not seconds. They listen to tutors' needs and release features tutors need every 2 weeks. No other companies do this.
Sarah found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students and tutors can collaborate in Koala Go's 1) whiteboard 2) interactive shared browser(it's the only teaching platform with this capability!) 3) playground.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Students listen so much better (and therefore learn much more efficiently!) when tutor has all the teaching tools and fun updates/surprises Koala offers. Koala GETS tutors and online classes. It's not always easy for us tutors, but Koala's tools make it so!”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I personally enjoy much more teaching on Koala Go than any other teaching platforms! On the other platforms, I want to quit this job. On Koala Go, I look forward to spend time with students.”
- Significantly improves attainment“It's all about student interest and engagement. They are much more interested in Koala Go than Zoom or other platforms, so they learn better, faster, and easier with me.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Koala Go provides traditionally classroom setting IN ADDITION TO fun playground setting where more natural learning happens without students even notice!”
Tami
Online ESL teacher
Used Koala daily for 0–3 months
May 2022
Koala Go has changed my teaching view completely! With kids only sitting online during our pandemic they are always bored but with Koala they are engaged and want more and more! Students overall are happier and more interactive in class. The Koala Super team also makes it a breeze to communicate to and they are very eager and helpful!
Tami found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students get to be interactive on each slide, play interactive learning games against other students in class or against the teacher. The variety of different learning materials you can use in the shared Browser is PHENOMENAL!”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I can purchase online interactive material and books and teach them using Koala Go! Students stay alert during entire lesson and this helps them to want to learn and come to more classes! YEAH KOALA”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Of course it does! Teachers can relax and don’t have to over think lessons as everything you need is right in Koala GO! Yes! Teachers can be more relaxed in class and have 10000 of learning activities for kids so makes life easier!”
- Significantly improves attainment“Having so many games for vocabulary, grammar ,spelling and so on makes it interesting for the student and with the great reward system the students tend to learn and focus more and achieve more because they want the awesome rewards!”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“You can pull up anything in Koala browser and by doing this you can teach absolutely anything to the students and their knowledge can improve more and more instead of having a boring PPT and nothing else to do or share.”
Shay
Tutor
Used Koala occasionally for 1-2 years
Sep 2021
I loved this tool! So did my students. Now that I am fully vaccinated I am back to teaching live. If I or my students get sick Koala is what we will use.
Shay found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Able to interact with ease and loved the playful setting.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Able to easily get to just the right tools or game to teach a lesson. (I often used wordwall or tiles.)”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Able to teach and keep my students and family safe.”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students were able to relax and learn in the Koala classroom.”
Sharon C
Tutor
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
Sep 2021
I am SO glad that I found Koala when I did. After all of the virtual learning taking place over the last few years, parents are often reticent to (drag their kids, kicking and screaming!) to do one more virtual instruction mode. But as soon as the kids see it, that changes!
Sharon C found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students are engaged, and better able to focus and take part in the lesson in the Koala platform than other platforms.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Having template classrooms saved helps in preparation time, and implication of a lesson.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Less to worry about/pay for = more sleep at night.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students progress through materials just as quickly as in live settings.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Koala it’s self does not increase student knowledge, however, it doe provide an excellent platform for instruction to take place in a most efficient way!”
Janie Zembrodt
Tutor
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
Sep 2021
There are not enough stars in the sky to describe why I love Koala. Their platform has enhanced not just my life but my students. They look forward to tutoring!!! The graphics, updates, developers, support team, ease of use, student engagement, and layout are a few reasons I gave 10 stars:)
Janie Zembrodt found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“My students are always engaged with the lesson we are working on in Koala.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“If a quickly need to show a visual of something the student does not know, I can quickly make a "sticky note" and keep it up during class as a reminder.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Tutoring is explicitly based on individual needs. Without Koala it became monotonous and I felt like all my lessons were the same. Koala allows me to be creative!!! Each classroom can be filled with individual items for the student.”
- Significantly improves attainment“My students like to walk around their classroom or draw on the board. Having this accessible incentive for them to finish their work is wonderful!”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Because the classroom is visually stimulating, all my students retain so much more of the lesson than previously.”
Dianne Louise
ESL TEACHER
Used Koala weekly for 0–3 months
Aug 2021
Students in my classes believe in themselves and their ability to learn because of this intuitive, creative platform. In turn, this makes them more creative and confident in their learning abilities.
Dianne Louise found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Learners are more engaged in their studies.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Teaching is made efficient with a variety of workspaces.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Teaching in such a stimulating and enjoyable environment is a pleasure.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The Koala platform engages my students. Learning is an adventure, so achievement and attainment flourish with every lesson.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Through interaction and imagination, my students are able to build their knowledge.”
Ashley
Owner and Private online educator
Used Koala daily for 0–3 months
Aug 2021
It's a fun platform to teach on and students love it.
Ashley found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“It's very fun to use!”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Tracey
Special Education Instructor
Used Koala weekly for 0–3 months
Aug 2021
Kaola is fresh and the creators are visionary. For me it facilitates multi-sensory experiences for my students so they may have an indelible understanding of therapeutic skills and other concepts taught.
Tracey found Koala:
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It makes lesson planning quicker and transitioning from one activity to the next is easier.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I am not as anxious about completing lesson plans and losing students as they engage in the activities. Essentially, my stress level is significantly lower.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Since I work with special needs students attainment occurs over a period of time.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Depending on how the resources are distributed across the classroom, students are mostly able to make relevant connections.”
Judy
Reading Tutor
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
Aug 2021
For younger students it is a wonderful method of teaching any subject.
Judy found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Koala engages some of my easily distracted students with many ways to draw them back to a lesson”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Not sure. I do have more options to have a broader range of materials up and ready.”
- Moderately improves teacher wellbeing“Because the student has a more positive outlook, that would certainly have an effect on the tutor.”
- Slightly improves attainment“A good tutor would make sure of attainment regardless of the platform, but Koala makes it more fun!”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The new update especially has more student interaction with a well-stocked classroom.”
Tina
tutor
Used Koala weekly for 4-6 months
Aug 2021
Koala is highly interactive and gives many teacher tools that are effective for online learning.
Tina found Koala:
- Slightly increases student collaboration“I haven't had the opportunity to use it in this way, but I can see how it would be particularly useful.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It gives me the opportunity to allow interaction while also allowing me to turn off certain tools to remove distractions. The focus tool is especially helpful, since it assures that we stay on task.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I can provide lesson plans that enable interactions. One of my students has difficulty focusing, but I can take him step-by-step with drawing videos. It helps him to stay focused and to follow directions.”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Stephanie
Title I District Coordinator
Used Koala monthly for 1-2 years
Aug 2021
Amazing quality of the teaching and learning modes with Koala and unparalleled support, development, and professional development from the Koala team. Bravo!
Stephanie found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Aspects of UDL - students choice, student engagement, content accessible to meet variety of student needs”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Being on Koala classroom enables me to help all students in a session be on linked internet sites”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“Love that my students feel a high level of connection and engagement to the format and the ease of using Koala.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Emphasis is on students’ hands on engagement with a phonetic or morphological concept. Less teacher talk and more student doing!”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students more engaged to return to concepts they need to practice and rehearse.”
JOY
Tutor/teacher
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
Aug 2021
If all of the above doesn't tell why my score is a 10, there isn't anything else I can say except Koala is fantastic and a keeper!
JOY found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“My students are able to create their own work on Koala which impacts their learning.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Koala makes it so much easier to be 'set up' before class, as we can prep the room and save it, which has a huge impact on teaching efficiency.”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“I'm not really sure I understand this question.”
- Significantly improves attainment“With Koala, it is easy to see their achievement, because students can so easily interact with the rooms, the boards and all of the easily accessible text boxes.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“As I am able to prep the rooms and boards ahead of time, I, the tutor, can put reminders of previous learned lessons. These constant reminders help impact the students knowledge as repetition makes learning more natural.”
Sacha
Tutor
Used Koala daily for 4-6 months
Aug 2021
It's drastically improved my tutoring business
Sacha found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“My students are excited to move and dress their Avatar, they look forward to seeing the new classrooms I create on different themes.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Everything is on the one platform, it is easily accessible by looking at the different walls”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“No more zoom fatigue, not that hard to keep students interacting”
- Significantly improves attainment“The White boards are available to practice writing and spelling and the video feed allows for viewing hand writing”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Sarah Johnson
Literacy Tutor
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
Aug 2021
Koala has been a fun way to engage my students for learning to read and spell. The ability to make and move their own avatar makes them feel like they aren't just sitting at a desk behind a computer. The open-air landscape designs provide almost a 3D-type visual. Kids can still learn the tough subjects, in a more fun environment even while online.
Sarah Johnson found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students are more engaged with Koala, eager to learn, and able to stay focused.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I can plan a workspace around a student or plan a workspace around teaching a concept, then use that space for multiple children!”
- Significantly improves teacher wellbeing“It's a fun atmosphere to be in every day!”
- Significantly improves attainment“You can make your workspace any way you want. It can be high quality or super simple; either way, kids love it!”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The endless options for learning a concept are available in Koala. Anything from images to websites, charts to games.”
JOY
Teacher/tutor
Used Koala daily for 7–12 months
Aug 2021
If all that I have said doesn't explain my score of 10, I'm not sure what else I can say. Koala is just fantastic. Seriously!
JOY found Koala:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“My students are much more focused! With having the ability to move around their avatar, they can find where I have 'hidden' clip art, they can walk around the rooms where I have posted reading/spelling rules and NOW they can click on them and listen to prerecorded messages from me.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I am able to 'set up' the room for the next session to meet the needs of the student. It helps me remember all of the rules for that session.”
- Slightly improves teacher wellbeing“I'm not sure I understand this question.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Absolutely. It helps to use more of my students senses which impacts the goal of what they are learning.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Same answer. The more my senses and repetition, the greater the impact on my students knowledge.”
