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Gamify Your Classroom.
Engage Every Student.

Build a classroom economy where students earn rewards, level up, and stay motivated. Minutes to set up, effortless to run.

K-12 + Adult Ed
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Built by a team that’s spent over a decade creating tools for real classrooms.

How It Works

Up and Running in Minutes

No training needed. Set up your classroom economy in four simple steps.

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Create Your Classroom

Sign up free, name your class, and customize your currency. Share a join code so students can enroll in seconds.

02

Stock Your Shop

Add rewards to your item shop, like homework passes, seat changes, free-read time, or anything your students love.

03

Reward & Engage

Award currency for great work, participation, and behavior. Students spend at the shop and level up through the system.

04

Watch Them Thrive

Track engagement through leaderboards, badges, and insights. Students develop agency while you keep learning on track.

Features

Everything You Need to Gamify Your Classroom

From your own custom economy to AI-powered insights. Give every student a reason to show up, engage, and thrive.

Your Economy, Your Rules

Name your own currency and set the rules. Students earn for assignments, behavior, participation, anything you decide! Then they spend what they earn in the shop.

The Item Shop

Stock rewards students actually want homework passes, seat changes, free-read time, you name it. You approve every order, incentivizing learning along the way.

Badges & Levels

Award badges for milestones, watch students level up automatically as they engage, and create visible progress that fuels intrinsic motivation.

Power-Ups & Game Utilities

Create custom special items that boost gameplay and surprise your students, from coupon-style power-ups to interactive game tools that keep the energy high.

Adventures & Quizzes

Administer secure quizzes, assign videos, launch polls, and more. Best of all, points are automatically awarded on completion, streamlining the process.

Leaderboards & Insights

See participation data at a glance with leaderboards, history logs, and analytics. Track engagement, purchases, and assessment progress over time.

Teamwork & Houses

Set collaborative class goals, form guilds for small-group competitions, or create a Houses system for epic team rivalries. Individual motivation meets collective energy.

AI-Assisted Tools

Generate quiz questions instantly, create unique item images in seconds, and surface student insights with built-in AI that's safe, secure, and completely optional.

Adventures & Quizzes

Assessment That Feels Like Gameplay

Quickly administer secure quizzes, assign video content, launch polls, and spark discussions, all with points automatically awarded the moment students finish. Brain-based design that's optimized for the AI era.

Auto-Award Points

Students complete tasks and points appear automatically. No manual tracking needed. The process is seamless.

Secure Quiz Mode

Lock-screen quiz mode built for the AI era. Students cannot leave the active tab, copy, or paste. Perfect for warm-ups, quizzes, and formative checks.

Track Everything

See exactly how many minutes of the assigned video that students watched. Video watch progress, link clicks, and quiz attempts, all in one place.

Remix for Mastery

A brain-based algorithm generates personalized follow-up quizzes based on what each student previously got right and wrong, promoting deeper learning.

Adventures Dashboard
Secure Quiz
Chapter 5 Review
+50 pts
Watch Video
Cell Division Intro
+25 pts
Quick Poll
How confident are you?
+10 pts
Discussion
Was it justified? Debate.
+30 pts
Click Link
Explore the simulation
+15 pts
3 of 5 completed
The Science

Grounded in How the Brain Actually Learns

Every feature in SemesterQuest maps to how the brain processes motivation, memory, and reward. This isn't gamification as an afterthought; it's neuroscience woven into every interaction.

Prefrontal Cortex

The Joy of Choosing

Our brains love having options. When students choose how to spend their coins and which rewards to pursue, the prefrontal cortex lights up, which is the same region responsible for planning, decision-making, and self-regulation. Autonomy isn't a nice-to-have. It's one of the most powerful drivers of intrinsic motivation.

Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan)
Dopamine Reward Circuit

Instant Reward, Lasting Impact

Our brains love quick wins. When students earn currency or unlock a badge, the brain's dopamine reward circuit fires, creating a "do it again" loop. The amygdala tags the experience as emotionally meaningful while the nucleus accumbens reinforces the behavior through dopamine award signals. That's not just fun; it's conditioning for engagement.

Dopamine & Reinforcement Learning Research (Shultz)
Hippocampus

Seeing Growth in Real Time

Our brains love tracking progress. Levels, leaderboards, and badges make learning growth visible and tangible. The hippocampus, your brain's memory center, encodes these milestones as meaningful events, strengthening the neural link between effort and achievement. Visible progress fuels the drive to keep going.

Goal-Setting Theory (Locke & Latham)
Social Brain Network

The Power of Belonging

Our brains love belonging. Leaderboards, team goals, and collaborative achievements tap into social processing networks that shape status, identity, and connection. Healthy competition activates the same circuits that make us feel part of something bigger, and community is one of the strongest motivators we have.

Social Learning Theory (Bandura)
Who It's For

Built for Teachers. Loved by Students.

Whether you teach kindergarten, AP History, or lead professional development, SemesterQuest adapts to fit your world.

K-12 Teachers

Your classroom, gamified.

Students can't stop talking about it.

  • Run a full classroom economy with custom currency, shops, and rewards.
  • Automate point awards for participation, behavior, and mastery.
  • Track engagement and spot who needs a boost, all at a glance.
Behavior & Incentive Programs

Ditch the sticker chart.

Build a system students actually respect.

  • Replace reward bins with a structured economy that promotes deeper learning.
  • Built-in and seamless approval workflow. Students request, you decide.
  • Reuse and refine your setup every year, and share your templates colleagues.
Adult & Professional Learning

Not just for kids.

Engagement tools that work everywhere.

  • Create cohorts for training groups, onboarding, and workshops.
  • Adventures and quizzes turn modules into interactive journeys.
  • Professional mode with color schemes and themes to match your audience.
School & District Leaders

Roll it out building-wide.

Keep it consistent across every classroom.

  • Co-teacher support for departments and grade-level teams.
  • Template sharing for consistent, org-wide rollout without the hassle.
  • Privacy-first: student data is protected at every level.
AI Assistant
Generate Quiz
"Create a 10-question quiz on the American Revolution for 8th graders..."
Q1: What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Q2: Which battle is considered the turning point of the war?
+ 8 more questions Ready to assign
Item Images
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Student Insights
Anonymized · No PII processed · Safe & secure
AI-Powered

Smarter Tools, Safer AI

AI isn't bolted on as an afterthought. It's elegantly woven into the tools teachers already use. Incredibly powerful, completely optional, and safe by design.

Instant Quiz Generation

Describe your topic and get a complete, ready-to-assign quiz in seconds. No more searching question banks or writing from scratch.

AI Item Images

Generate unique reward images that match your classroom theme. Give every item in your shop its own custom visual, created instantly.

Smart Student Insights

AI surfaces hidden engagement patterns and learning progress across your classroom. Anonymized, so student PII is never processed.

Testimonials

Trusted by Teachers

See what educators are saying about gamifying their classrooms with SemesterQuest.

"My students are more engaged than ever. They actually ask to check their balance and plan their purchases. It's incredible."
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Wendy J.
4th Grade Teacher
"Managing all of this manually used to take me hours. This year I got everything ready in one prep, and it is so much more powerful."
JM
Joseph M.
Middle School ELA
"Participation, attendance, and learning has been off the charts this year. This is like my new secret weapon for student engagement."
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Scott S.
High School Economics
Trust & Privacy

Student Privacy is Non-Negotiable

We prioritize student data protection at every level of the platform.

Privacy by Design

Built to comply with FERPA, COPPA, and GDPR. Student privacy isn't an afterthought; it's the foundation every feature is built on.

Encrypted & Secure

Data is encrypted in transit with TLS and encrypted at rest with industry-standard mechanisms such as AES-256. Hosted on enterprise-grade infrastructure with modern security controls.

AI Without Compromise

Our optional AI tools strip student names and use anonymous identifiers during processing, giving teachers AI-powered quizzes, images, and insights without exposing student PII.

Full details in our Privacy Policy.

Pricing

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you're ready. Annual billing keeps it affordable.

Free

$0 forever

Perfect for trying out your first classroom economy.

Get Started Free
  • 1 active class
  • 30 students per class
  • 5 items per class
  • Custom currency
  • Item shop & orders
  • Join code enrollment
  • Co-teachers
  • Badges, levels, power-ups
  • Adventures & quizzes
  • AI tools
  • Insights dashboard
Most Popular

Standard

$49 /year

For teachers ready to unlock the full gamification toolkit.

Get Standard
  • 5 active classes
  • 50 students per class
  • 15 items per class
  • Everything in Free
  • 1 co-teacher
  • Leaderboards
  • Badges & levels
  • Power-ups & utilities
  • Insights dashboard
  • Adventures & quizzes
  • AI tools

Pro

$79 /year

The complete platform with adventures, AI, and unlimited co-teachers.

Get Pro
  • 10 active classes
  • 100 students per class
  • 30 items per class
  • Everything in Standard
  • Unlimited co-teachers
  • Lives system
  • Adventures & quizzes
  • Quiz settings & modes
  • AI image generation*
  • AI quiz generation*
  • AI insights*

District & Enterprise

Need more classes, custom onboarding, or organization-wide deployment?

Request a Quote

* AI features include monthly usage limits. See plan details for specifics.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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