Overview
- Zoho rolled out Classes 2.0 on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, as an overhauled learning management system that embeds AI across lesson planning, assessment, student help and institutional workflows.
- The product includes a subject‑restricted AI tutor limited to a student’s enrolled courses, an AI Course Builder that Zoho says can produce a full course in under 30 seconds in any of 22 Indian languages, microlearning modules, and automated grading for certain assignments.
- Zoho will offer Classes 2.0 at no product licence cost to central and state government schools, colleges and universities and will let individual teachers use it free for up to 100 students while charging private institutions roughly Rs 500 per teacher per month.
- The company says it limits AI risk by requiring teacher review of AI outputs, constraining the tutor to enrolled subjects, using a model‑agnostic approach, and offering cached mobile content rather than full offline downloads, but these safeguards and performance claims come from Zoho and are not independently verified.
- Classes 2.0 adds accreditation and outcome‑mapping tools aligned to NAAC, NBA, UGC and NMC requirements and Zoho frames the launch as a way to cut teacher workload, simplify regulatory reporting and expand digital access in low‑connectivity or regional‑language settings.