Chess academy software

Built for academies, institutes and chess schools

A single coach account is built for one person teaching their own students.An academy is built for an organisation — several coachesteaching under one roof, with one person responsible for all of it.

On Chess Nexus an academy sits on top of normal coach accounts. Yourcoaches keep everything they already have — their students, their courses, their assignments, their live classes. What the academy adds is the layer above: central billing, a coach roster you control, and one dashboard that aggregates the whole organisation.

How it works

Four steps from your first coach to a running academy.

• 🏫1. Create the academySet up your academy with its name and details. You become the head coach — the owner — with full control over billing, coaches and settings.
• ✉️2. Invite your coachesInvite coaches by email or share a join link. They accept and become members of your academy, keeping the coach account and students they already have.
• 💳3. Pay once, for everyoneChoose an academy plan and pay centrally. Every member coach is upgraded automatically — no coach handles their own billing, and adding a coach costs nothing extra until you outgrow the tier.
• 📊4. Oversee everythingThe academy dashboard aggregates every coach: their students, classes taken, assignments set and activity — so you can see how the whole organisation is running at a glance.

You run the academy — and you still coach

The head of the academy is not an administrator locked out of teaching.

As head coach you keep a complete, ordinary coach account: your own students, your own courses and assignments, your own live classes, your own schedule and parent reports. Everything a solo coach gets, you get.

On top of that you get the academy layer — the coach roster, central billing and the organisation-wide dashboard. You switch between "my students" and "the whole academy" from the same login. There is no second account to manage and nothing to hand over to someone else.

Everything you manage in one place

• 👥CoachesInvite, view and remove coaches. See each coach's student count and activity, and assign which plan each of them is on.
• 🎓Students across the academyEvery student of every coach, aggregated. See who is active, who has stalled, and which coach they belong to.
• 💳Central billingOne academy plan covers all of your coaches. Pay monthly or for three months at a discount, in your own currency.
• 🧾Payments & invoicesA full record of what the academy has paid, when, and for which coaches — for your own accounting.
• 🎥Live classes for every coachEach coach gets the built-in live classroom with a shared board, video, chat and play-in-class — unlimited classes a day with unlimited students in the room, on every academy plan.
• ⚙️Academy settingsYour academy's identity and preferences in one place, controlled by the head coach.

Plans that scale with your team

Academy plans are sized by one thing only: how many coaches you have. Every plan gives every coach 100 students and the full unlimited live classroom.

All three include unlimited live classes with unlimited students in the room, unlimited courses and lessons, premium endgames, the premium blunder library, a cloud opening repertoire and elite-coach perks for every coach. Pay monthly or in a3-month term for 10% off. See academy pricing for the full breakdown.

Academy questions