Quia

What Quia does

Quia is a web-based educational technology platform that enables educators to create interactive learning activities, quizzes, surveys, and class web pages using a library of 16 activity templates (Matching, Flashcards, Concentration, Word Search, Battleship, Challenge Board, Columns, Hangman, Jumbled Words, Ordered List, Picture Perfect, Pop-ups, Rags to Riches, Scavenger Hunt, Cloze, and Patterns) and 10 quiz question formats with automatic computer-graded scoring, immediate student feedback, and detailed performance reporting. The platform additionally provides a shared activities library of millions of user-generated resources spanning 300+ subject categories, multilingual Unicode support for non-Latin script languages, an online class roster and gradebook system, and a class web-page generator. The name "Quia" is short for "Quintessential Instructional Archive."

The company operates a self-serve, two-tier subscription SaaS model: K-12 teachers, university instructors, and home-schooling parents pay $99/year per individual subscription (with sliding volume discounts to $59/year at 100+ instructors and custom-priced school/district site licenses available), while corporate training customers pay $299/year per trainer account that includes white-label branding. Students access activities free of charge. Distribution is entirely direct via quia.com with no app store presence, no field sales force, and no reseller channel; acquisition is primarily organic through educator word-of-mouth, SEO traffic to shared activities, and testimonial-driven referrals.

Quia is a wholly owned subsidiary of IXL Learning, with its mailing address at 777 Mariners Island Blvd., Suite 600, San Mateo, California. The platform operates with a lean 1-10 person team and reaches educators in more than 70 countries. The single disclosed funding event is a $5,000,000 round from June 21, 2000 with undisclosed investors and lead.

Name

Quia

Legal name

Quia

Website

https://quia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quia is a web-based educational platform that lets K-12 teachers, university instructors, home-schoolers, and corporate trainers create interactive learning activities, quizzes, and surveys with auto-grading and access to a shared library of millions of activities across 300+ categories.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Technology Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Exam Preparation and Tutoring (611691)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

K–12 Core Curriculum Small-Group Tutoring Centers (Math/ELA/Science/Social Studies) (EDANAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Integrated Tutoring + Learning Content Platforms (Curriculum + Tutors) (EDANAGAL), General Homework Help (Multi-Subject) (EDANADAA)

Keywords

• Educational software platform
• Online learning activities
• Quiz creation tools
• Formative assessment platform
• Classroom engagement tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Foster City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Educational Subscriptions: Annual subscription model for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and home-schoolers. Teachers pay $99/year individually, with discounts for groups of 10+ instructors ($79/year), 50+ ($65/year), or 100+ ($59/year). Site licenses available for entire schools or districts at even lower rates. Students access activities for free.
2. Corporate Training Subscriptions: Annual subscription model for businesses conducting employee or customer training. Priced at $299/year per trainer account, includes exclusive corporate features such as custom branding, logo integration, and removal of Quia branding from activities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Quia provides a web-based educational platform that lets instructors author, distribute, and automatically grade interactive learning activities, quizzes, and surveys across K-12, higher education, homeschool, and corporate training settings. The service is sold via annual subscriptions to educators and corporate training departments, while student access is provided free of charge. A shared library of user-contributed activities in over 300 subject categories supplements the authoring tools.

Product overview

Quia is a web-based educational platform offering a comprehensive suite of tools for educators. The core Quia Web platform provides 16 activity templates (including Matching, Flashcards, Concentration, Word Search, Battleship, Challenge Board, Columns, Hangman, Jumbled Words, Ordered List, Picture Perfect, Pop-ups, Rags to Riches, Scavenger Hunt, Cloze, and Patterns), a complete online testing system with automatic grading and 10 question types, online survey capabilities, and class Web page creation. The platform includes access to millions of shared activities across 300+ categories. Quia offers two subscription tiers: Educational ($99/year per instructor with group discounts) and Corporate ($299/year per trainer with branding customization). Students can access activities for free.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Quia Web Browser-based educational platform that lets educators create, host, and auto-grade 16 types of interactive learning activities and 10 quiz formats, manage classes through an electronic grade book, and publish a class web page; offered to individual educators ($99/year), corporate training departments ($299/year), and free to students.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students can access Quia activities for free, removing cost barrier to engagement
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• BrainPOP: BrainPOP offers K-8 educational content, quizzes, and interactive activities curated for teachers. It competes with Quia for teacher-side content and assessment tools, particularly in science, math, and language subjects.
• Edmodo: Edmodo is a classroom and learning platform with tools for assignments, quizzes, and teacher-student collaboration. It overlaps with Quia's class-page and quiz features that let teachers share activities and track results.
• Quizlet: Quizlet is a leading study-tools platform with teacher-created flashcards, quizzes, and learning activities serving both K-12 students and educators. It overlaps directly with Quia on user-generated interactive learning content and freemium distribution to teachers.
• Kahoot!: Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that lets teachers create and assign interactive quizzes and activities to students. Its self-serve, activity-template-driven model mirrors Quia's approach and addresses the same K-12 and corporate training audiences.
• Nearpod: Nearpod provides interactive lesson delivery and formative-assessment tools for K-12 teachers, including quizzes, polls, and collaborative activities. It competes with Quia for teacher workflows around in-class interactive content creation and student engagement.
• Pear Deck: Pear Deck turns presentations into interactive formative-assessment experiences for teachers and students. It is closely comparable to Quia's interactive activity template suite and serves the same K-12 teacher self-serve motion.
• Study Island: Study Island provides standards-based K-12 practice, assessment, and content for teachers and schools. It overlaps with Quia's quiz and activity-creation capabilities for core curriculum in US classrooms.

Emerging players

• Schoology: Schoology is a K-12 learning management system that includes assessment and content-authoring tools. It competes with Quia where schools use Schoology's built-in quiz and activity tools in place of a dedicated activity-creation platform.
• ClassDojo: ClassDojo is a classroom-management and communication platform used widely in K-12. While its center of gravity is communication and behavior, its activity and content modules increasingly compete with Quia's teacher-side activity-and-class-page workflow.

Broad incumbents

• IXL Learning: IXL Learning is Quia's parent company and the broader K-12 adaptive-practice platform. It is comparable as a sibling EdTech product in the same educator market and shares corporate distribution and brand with Quia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/quiadotcom

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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