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How The Skill Site compares
Each page sets The Skill Site beside one tool you may be using or weighing: the price, what each does, and when the other is the better choice. Every vendor fact is read on the vendor's own pages and dated.
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For music teachers and schools
My Music Staff
A studio business tool that invoices families and pays teachers, and what it costs beside us for 1, 3 and 8 teachers.
Opus1
A music school tool priced per school, against a price per teacher, with billing kept where it is.
Vivid Practice
A practice app priced by the number of students, against a price per teacher with lessons and make-ups.
For schools and universities
Google Classroom
Google’s classroom, free for qualifying schools, and what The Skill Site adds beside it: code marked by tests, attendance and recordings.
Gradescope
A grader its home page says more than 2,600 universities use, against students writing and running code in the browser, with timed coding exams.
For training providers and bootcamps
TalentLMS
A course platform priced by users who log in each month, against intakes with a timetable, a register and coding.
Codio
A coding platform at a price per learner, against a cohort platform with coding assessment built in.
CodeGrade
An autograder priced per student per course, against bands of active learners a month.
An LMS plus an autograder
What two systems cost for 100 coding learners, against one platform.
If a tool you used has closed
GitHub Classroom
Closed on 28 August 2026. What to move to for autograded coding exercises.
Trinket
Closed on 31 August 2026. Runnable code in lessons, with notebooks and graded questions.
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