# All-in-one collaboration for educators

## Manage courses and research in one platform

### Why Rock?

Open collaboration channels with anyone

#### Feature packed

Merge day-to-day communications by combining a chat and tasks in one place.

#### Open Collaboration

Invite anyone in and outside of your organization to collaborate in 1:1 or group spaces.

#### Affordable pricing

Apply for a lifetime free Unlimited membership to supercharge your education projects.

### What others have to say

Educators worldwide are already using Rock.  
"I was very excited when I found Rock. It felt like a platform that matches exactly what I need. Rock is very intuitive and allows you to manage everything in one place. Besides being simple to use it also has a very generous free version."  
— Dylan Cromhout, Lecturer @Cape Peninsula University of Technology

### Features

- [Set up new collaborations](https://www.rock.so/usecases/educators#w-tabs-0-data-w-pane-0)
- [Integrated with the cloud](https://www.rock.so/usecases/educators#w-tabs-0-data-w-pane-1)
- [Unlimited messaging](https://www.rock.so/usecases/educators#w-tabs-0-data-w-pane-2)
- [Visualize deadlines](https://www.rock.so/usecases/educators#w-tabs-0-data-w-pane-3)
- [Minimize the noise](https://www.rock.so/usecases/educators#w-tabs-0-data-w-pane-4)
- [Gather feedback](https://www.rock.so/usecases/educators#w-tabs-0-data-w-pane-5)

### Use cases

#### Seamless support for the virtual classroom.

- **Course Communication**: Create a workspace where everyone can communicate and access course resources.
- **Lesson Planning**: Manage your upcoming course with teaching assistants with an internal communications space.
- **Team Assignments**: Encourage students to collaborate and quickly set up new work groups with unlimited spaces.
- **E-Learning**: Run your online course by creating spaces for different lessons and setting everything up for asynchronous work.
- **Research Projects**: Access and provide feedback on new content with everything stored in one space.
- **Institutional Operations**: Run internal faculty communications and administration from a single place with messaging and tasks for everyone.

### Step-by-Step

#### Set up a new academic project within seconds

##### Step 1
**Set up a workspace**  
Combine multiple activities in a single workspace to streamline communications.

##### Step 2
**Add multiple spaces**  
Select which spaces you will need in your workspace to communicate across the project.

##### Step 3
**Invite others**  
Invite teaching assistants, fellow researchers or your students to the workspace with links or email invites.

##### Step 4
**Access cloud files**  
Add course information, research insights or other relevant information to individual spaces.

##### Step 5
**Configure collaboration**  
Get together and define how you want to use the tasks, notes, files, topics and chat in one place.

### A dedicated discount for educators

Students and educators are eligible for a 30% discount on the unlimited plan. Share your information for consideration below.

### Questions & answers

##### Can I use Rock at any educational level?
Our terms and services require users to be at least 16 years old. This makes Rock suitable for higher education, e-learning, language courses, and extracurricular activities given that the age requirement is met.

##### Is Rock easy to use for students?
We built Rock to provide intuitive all-in-one messaging. Students can use the platform just for messages or incorporate tasks, notes, topics and files if the workflow requires it.

##### Can I work with people outside of my educational domain on Rock?
Sure! Share your quick connect or space invite link with fellow researchers, or start other cross-institutional projects without facing paywalls or collaboration blocks.

##### Can I limit students from editing tasks & notes?
Invite students as guests to limit their activities within your spaces. Guests can only message and leave comments under tasks, notes and topics.

##### Who can make use of PRO features?
All users within a PRO space have access to the paid features. Supercharge your productivity by making use of the educational discount.

##### Why should I choose Rock for my classroom?
Rock is an all-in-one solution that makes it easy to collaborate with students, your team and external researchers if needed. Messaging plus tasks allows you to do so much more in your shared spaces.

##### Is Rock good for research projects?
Definitely! Researchers can collaborate with people within their department or across universities with cross-organizational invites in every group space.

##### Is Rock GDPR compliant?
Rock is fully GDPR compliant, so you do not need to worry about your data. You can always check our security and privacy pages for more information regarding how we store your information.