A free class gets you
- Create a class in a couple of minutes. No payment details needed.
- Up to 200 students per class, joined with a class code or link you share.
- The free lessons for every student: browser-based ladder logic with automatic checking.
- A progress view for you: who has joined, who has been active and what each student has completed.
The Class plan adds
- The full course for every student in the class: all lessons, labs and certificates.
- Access lasts while the student is a member of your class. If they leave, they go back to their own plan.
- You choose how many students to cover; students you add later need extra seats.
Price
$49 per student per year
Minimum 10 students ($490 a year). For schools, colleges and other educational institutions, set up by a teacher. If your email address is not a school address, we confirm the school before sending a checkout link. Classes larger than 200 students are quoted.
Procurement and IT teams: see the quote and purchase-order page and the data protection overview. Training companies and employers should look at Teams.
FAQ
Questions from teachers.
Yes. Students write and test ladder logic in a browser on their own laptop or a Chromebook, against simulated machines, so there is no trainer hardware to buy, share or maintain. Hardware trainers are still useful for wiring practice. See the trainer-kit alternative page for how teachers combine the two.
Yes. Creating a class, sharing the class code, up to 200 students and the progress view cost nothing. Students on a free class can use the free lessons. The full course needs the Class plan, or a plan of their own.
$49 per student per year, with a minimum of 10 students ($490 a year). It renews yearly until cancelled. It is for schools, colleges and other educational institutions, and a teacher runs it from the class page.
You buy a number of seats. Seats cannot be fewer than the students and open invitations already in your class, so everyone who joins is covered. Students who are not covered stay on the free lessons.
Yes, that is possible. Use the quote and purchase-order page, or email paul@plcsimulationsoftware.com with your student count.
Teachers see their own students' progress. The data protection overview explains where data is stored, who can see it and which service providers we use.
No. There is no LMS integration (Google Classroom, Canvas, Moodle or similar). Students join with a class code and you read progress on the class page.
Yes, if your students can use a modern web browser. The course starts from the basics of ladder logic, and the curriculum page maps the lessons to a typical course outline.