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](https://classroomio.com/roadmap).
## Built With
- [SvelteKit](https://kit.svelte.dev/?ref=classroomio.com)
- [Hono](https://hono.dev/)
- [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/)
- [Better Auth](https://www.better-auth.com/)
- [TailwindCSS](https://tailwindcss.com/?ref=classroomio.com)
## 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](https://nodejs.org/) (Version: >=20.19.3)
- [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/installation)
- [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/)
### Project Structure
This repo is a monorepo that consists of these primary apps:
1. `website`: The landing page of ClassroomIO hosted [here](https://classroomio.com)
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](https://app.classroomio.com).
4. `docs`: Official documentation of ClassroomIO hosted [here](https://classroomio.com/docs)
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:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/classroomio/classroomio.git
```
2. Go to project folder:
```bash
cd classroomio
```
3. Set up Node (using `nvm`):
```bash
nvm use
```
You first might need to install the specific version and then use it:
```bash
nvm install && nvm use
```
You can install nvm from [here](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm).
4. Install dependencies:
```bash
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:
```bash
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):
```bash
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:
```bash
pnpm api:dev
```
```bash
pnpm dashboard:dev
```
9. Default local URLs:
- `api`: [http://localhost:3002](http://localhost:3002)
- `dashboard`: [http://localhost:5173](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](http://localhost:5173/login)
- Enter email: `admin@test.com`
- Enter password: `123456`
To learn more about how to login with a dummy account, [go here.](https://classroomio.com/docs/contributor-guides/demo-accounts)
### 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):
```bash
# 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`](prd/ai-course-assistant%20[DONE]/README.md).
### Docker Compose (Full Stack)
```bash
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`](.env.example) for the full list of environment variables with required/optional grouping, and [`docker/docs/SELF_HOST.md`](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`