70k+ reviews
Deliver the premium community experience that your students and alumni deserve
Circle Plus gives you everything you need to build and scale an engaging, fully-branded community — no matter the size or complexity of your institution.
Education institutions on Circle:
2M+
Total community members
78%
Peak mobile monthly active user rate
174K+
Total events hosted
318K+
Monthly active learners
2M+
Total community members
78%
Peak mobile monthly active user rate
174K+
Total events hosted
318K+
Monthly active learners
2M+
Total community members
78%
Peak mobile monthly active user rate
174K+
Total events hosted
318K+
Monthly active learners
Trusted by more than 15 million members across 20,000 communities
“The main reason we needed Circle is retention — keeping people active inside the community and inside our platform. Our students are pretty alone in an AI-only program. They don't have any person they see on a daily basis, and they don't have anywhere to interact with other students.”
Education institutions need a single place to engage their students and alumni
Use one platform for all community needs — not a patchwork of tools
Drive engagement, even as a small team, with custom AI agents that work 24/7 for you
Supercharge accessibility and activity with a fully-branded mobile community app
Stay lean as your community grows
Stay lean as your community grows
Membership growth shouldn't feel punishing. Circle Plus lets you train a team of AI Agents that run 24/7 to handle the repetitive stuff.
- Welcome new members as soon as they join
- Give members around-the-clock support with agents trained to address questions and concerns
- Build an AI study buddy by turning your courses and content into an agent
- Moderate posts in real time, automatically removing and flagging inappropriate content
- Prevent churn with automated engagement sequences
Put your institution in your members' pockets
Put your institution in your members' pockets
Boost engagement and loyalty through a custom, fully-branded mobile community app.
- Stay top of mind with your logo on homescreens, and branded push notifications
- Build authority by being discoverable on app stores
- Drive 6x more posts and 3x more comments from members, on average
- Supercharge membership growth by 147%, on average, within the first eight months of launching your app
Get a Circle expert in your corner from day one
Get a Circle expert in your corner from day one
Choosing Circle Plus means accessing a team dedicated to your setup, growth, and ongoing success.
- Ensure a smooth move to Circle with concierge migration for members, content, emails, and payments
- Access a dedicated Circle partner who's managed hundreds of launches
- Get tailored training, guidance, and service from a customer success manager
- Enjoy priority support as a Circle Plus customer
Everything your education institution's community needs
The best of what Circle has to offer
Get the highest limits for live streams, storage, and workflows
Simplify community access for your members with custom, secure single sign-on (SSO) directly from your website
Increase revenue with in-app purchases and the lowest transaction fees across Circle plans
“Hosting our courses on Circle makes it feel like a real institution — crucial when we're compared to traditional MBA programs. When you see people meeting in person in the real world, that's when you realize how powerful this is.”
See how education communities are boosting engagement and simplifying operations on Circle
12x faster to build
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Premium experience
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0% churn
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Give your students and alumni a home to connect with your institution
Talk to salesFAQs about using Circle Plus for education communities
We're a lean team. Can we realistically run a community on Circle Plus?
Yes. In many ways, Circle Plus is designed for this reality.
First, choosing a truly-complete community platform will save you time and energy. You won't have to sink resources into making disparate tools work together.
Second, you can create and train AI Agents to handle repetitive tasks such as member onboarding, question-answering, moderation, and engagement nudges.
Third, having access to a dedicated Customer Success Manager to help architect your community correctly, from day one, ensures you're properly positioned to scale.
The goal is a community that runs itself for routine touchpoints — so your team's energy goes toward the things only humans can do.
Our dropout/completion rates are a problem. Can Circle actually help with that?
Yes. When some students learn in isolation, they may disengage. Peer connection can help combat this, encouraging course completion. Furthermore, with Circle, you can:
- Create structured cohort spaces
- Build AI Agents that check in with disengaged learners before they drop off
- Set up automated engagement nudges
- Build the kind of social accountability that an LMS alone can't provide
You'll also have analytics to identify exactly where learners are falling off — so you can intervene earlier.
What does a "branded app" actually mean for an educational institution?
It means your community lives in a dedicated app on the App Store and Google Play under your institution's name, icon, and branding — not Circle's.
Your students and alumni download your app. You own the developer accounts. If you ever leave Circle, the app and all your content go with you.
For institutions, the branded app signals something important to prospective students: that you invest in your learners' experience beyond the classroom.
How do we connect Circle to our existing student information system or CRM?
Circle's API gives you real-time access to member activity — course completions, event attendance, discussion engagement — which you can sync into your CRM, SIS, or data warehouse.
Circle Plus also includes custom SSO, so your students sign into the community using your existing authentication. No second login, no friction at enrollment. New students can be automatically provisioned into the right cohort spaces based on their program or enrollment status.
If you're building something more custom, our headless API gives you the building blocks to embed community directly into your own platform.
We already have students scattered across community-like tools for discussion, events, courses, and more. What's the value in consolidating those experiences onto Circle?
Running community across tools like Slack, Teachable, and legacy platforms like Higher Logic means:
- Your students have no single home, creating a confusing user experience that inherently limits engagement
- Your team manages multiple admin interfaces, creating issues when tools break or poorly communicate with each other
Circle Plus replaces that stack — discussions, courses, events, and more are all in one place, under your brand. You stop paying for tools that don't talk to each other and start building the kind of community that actually drives retention. Our concierge migration team handles the move of your existing members, content, and email list at no additional cost.
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