Questions are a good place to start.
Here's what teachers and schools usually want to know about learning, collaboration, safety and getting started with Koosasa.
About Koosasa
Koosasa is a learning and classroom collaboration platform for African schools. It has two sides: structured learning pathways students work through, and teacher-controlled collaboration between one classroom and another.
Teachers choose a Challenge — a real question about the world — and guide their class through a seven-stage Journey alongside a partner classroom somewhere else.
Teachers and schools. Teachers hold the accounts, create the classrooms, choose the Challenges and approve everything that crosses between classrooms. Learners take part through their teacher's classroom.
Challenges are written for K-12 age bands and each one states the band it was designed for — currently ranging from roughly ages 8 to 18. A teacher can see the intended band before choosing a Challenge.
Koosasa is Africa-first by design. The Challenges, examples, bandwidth assumptions and device assumptions are all built around African classrooms rather than adapted from somewhere else.
That is a statement about who the product is designed for, not a border check at sign-up.
Challenges cut across subjects rather than sitting inside one. Current Learning Areas include AI literacy, AI safety and ethics, STEM and robotics, sustainability and the SDGs, language and culture, digital citizenship, financial and economic literacy, governance and citizenship, Africa and the world, and life skills.
You can see how these map to competencies on the Learning Approach page.
Classroom Connections
Teachers are matched at the classroom level, on the Challenge they want to run and the age band of their learners. A proposed partnership has to be accepted by both teachers before anything is shared.
Students are never involved in choosing or accepting a partner classroom.
No. Connection happens between classrooms, and the teachers on both sides decide. There is no way for a learner to search for, request or select another learner or another classroom.
No. Koosasa has no private learner messaging and will not have any. This is a deliberate product constraint, not a setting.
Everything a classroom shares is a classroom response, reviewed by the teacher, seen by the other classroom as a group.
Yes. Coordination between the two teachers is a normal and expected part of running a Challenge — agreeing when each class will reach a stage, and when both are ready to reveal.
Yes, for teachers. WhatsApp is where most teachers already coordinate, so Koosasa works with it rather than against it. Contact details are only exchanged when both teachers agree to it.
See the WhatsApp section below for the details.
No. Koosasa is async-first. A live call is not required at any stage, and no part of a Challenge depends on both classrooms being online at the same time.
Your class keeps going. The stages that depend on your own classroom — foundational learning, local investigation, building — work independently of the partner.
Only the exchange stages need both sides, and those wait until both classrooms are ready rather than timing out.
Yes. That is the default assumption. Each classroom works through its stage when it suits their timetable, and the exchange resolves when both sides have submitted and their teachers have approved.
Challenges
A Challenge is a complete learning journey built around one big question — for example “When should we trust AI?” or “Who gets included in the financial system?”
It contains the question, learning goals, foundational learning, exchange prompts, a local investigation, a collaborative project and a reflection.
No. The Challenge arrives with its learning journey, prompts, activities and a Teacher Pack. A teacher can run it as written.
They learn the background well enough to have a view, respond to exchange prompts, investigate their own community, compare what they found with the partner classroom, and build something together in response.
It depends on how much time a class can give it. Challenges are built as a sequence of sessions rather than a fixed calendar, and Teacher Packs include shorter variants for tighter periods.
Yes. Teachers know their class. Activities are meant to be adapted for the group in front of you, and Koosasa Copilot can help rework one for your time, class size or context.
The two classrooms produce something together and reflect on what changed because they worked with another classroom. The artifact can be digital or physical — a proposal, a campaign, a prototype, a model or a presentation.
Safety
By removing the mechanisms that create risk rather than trying to police them. There is no learner search, no learner-to-learner messaging, no public learner profiles, no following and no contact sharing.
Everything that crosses from one classroom to another passes through a teacher first.
No. A learner profile is visible only within their own classroom. There is no public directory and no way to browse learners from outside.
No. There is no direct messaging between learners anywhere in Koosasa — not within a classroom, and not across classrooms.
The teacher of the classroom the content came from. Learner contributions intended for a partner classroom are held pending until that teacher approves them.
Nothing reaches the other classroom on a learner's action alone, and approvals are recorded in an audit log.
The teacher reviewing a contribution can decline it, so sensitive material stops inside the classroom it came from.
Teachers remain responsible for following their own school's safeguarding procedures — Koosasa controls what crosses classrooms, not what happens in the room.
The approved classroom responses, and classroom-level context such as the school, city and country the partner classroom is in. That context is the point — it is what makes comparing two places meaningful.
Learner contact details are never shared.
AI
Mainly to support teachers — preparing a session, adapting an activity, or summarising what a Teacher Pack covers.
AI features are off by default and only available if the school has opted in. Any AI output that reaches learner-facing content goes through an additional safety layer first.
No. The teacher teaches. AI is a preparation and support tool for the adult in the room, not a tutor placed in front of the class.
Copilot is contextual teaching assistance for teachers. It knows which Challenge and stage you are on and can help you prepare, adapt an activity or think through what comes next.
It is teacher-only. Learners have no access to it.
No. Approval is a teacher action and only a teacher action. Copilot is read-only with respect to moderation — it cannot approve, reject or publish learner work, and it cannot send anything to a partner classroom.
No. Koosasa does not make psychological, wellbeing or mental health assessments of learners, with AI or otherwise.
Challenges such as “Growing Up Well” explore wellbeing as a subject students learn about — that is a curriculum topic, not an evaluation of the students taking part.
Technology & Access
Yes. Koosasa is built mobile-first and installs as a progressive web app, so it can be added to a phone's home screen without an app store.
That is a core design constraint. Content is text-first, pages are kept light, and the async-first structure means nothing depends on a stable connection at a particular moment.
Yes. Activities are designed for group work on a shared device, and learners do not need individual accounts to take part in their classroom's work.
No. It is not required at any point in a Challenge.
Material already loaded stays available offline, and Teacher Packs are printable so a session can run entirely off-screen.
Work syncs when the connection returns.
Schools
A teacher registers, their school is verified, and they create their first classroom. From there they choose a Challenge and look for a partner classroom.
You can start here.
No. A shared device with occasional internet access is enough, and a printer helps but is not required.
Yes. Teachers hold their own accounts under the school, each owning the classrooms they run.
Teacher accounts are tied to a verified school rather than self-declared. A teacher cannot connect a classroom to another school's classroom before that verification is complete.
Because it is where teachers already are. Asking two busy teachers in different countries to coordinate inside a platform they check occasionally adds friction; WhatsApp removes it.
Only when both teachers agree to it, after a classroom partnership has been accepted. It is never automatic and never one-sided.
No. Teacher contact details are never exposed to learners on either side of a partnership.
No. Conversations between two teachers on WhatsApp are their own. Koosasa can send notifications to a teacher who has opted in, but it does not read their chats.
Yes. They are opt-in and can be turned off at any time.