Easel for education

Free Easel Pro for teachers. A classroom for your students.

Teachers at schools, libraries and makerspaces get Easel Pro free through an Educator Account. Teach at a K-12 school or district in the United States? Add Easel Classroom and every student on your roster gets their own Pro seat, a private place to share work and get your feedback, and an account built for K-12 privacy rules.

Educator Account is free
Classroom is $129 per class per year
Sign in with Google
Works on Chromebooks

Apply for a free Educator Account See Easel Classroom

A high school classroom with students designing on laptops at orange desks, a mural on the wall behind them. — Lane Tech MakerLab, Chicago. Photos on this page are from a public high school program that teaches with Easel.

Two students designing on laptops at a desk in a classroom. — Every student gets Easel Pro

Two students seated at an X-Carve with Easel open on the iMac beside it. — Classmates help each other in a private feed

A Chicago flag assembled from dozens of small carved and painted wooden tiles, each made by a different student. — Every project turned in to one class gallery

For teachers and their students

Free for you. Ready for your class.

Educator Account

Free for educators

For any teacher or staff member at a school, university, library, makerspace or other nonprofit educational organization.

A full year of Easel Pro for you, renewable while you teach
V-carving, 3D carving, the design library, 300+ fonts and unlimited carves
Apply with your school email and website. US K-12 schools also need an official's sign-off and a signed state data privacy agreement

Apply for an Educator Account

Students can't have accounts of their own on an Educator Account due to State and Federal student privacy laws.

Easel Classroom

$129 per class, per year

For a teacher at a K-12 school or district in the United States who wants every student designing, sharing and carving on their own login.

Full Easel Pro for up to 35 students per class
A private class feed and class gallery, with your comments pinned on the design
Rosters by paste, CSV import or join code, and sign in with Google

See what's included

Requires an approved Educator Account with your school's sign-off. Start a 7-day free trial from the Account tab in Easel.

Easel Classroom

Built for a modern maker classroom

Every student gets their own seat in Easel Pro. You get the roster, the feed and the feedback tools to manage the classroom.

Students design on their own

Each student signs in to their own account with full Easel Pro and designs, simulates and carves without waiting on the teacher's laptop.

One account per student

Every student has their own projects, toolpaths and history. Nothing gets mixed up in a shared login, and you see all of it from the class feed.

Feedback goes on the design

Open a student's project and pin a comment on the exact spot that needs fixing. They see it the next time they open the file.

How it works

Get started in three steps

Two students working side by side on laptops at a table in the MakerLab.

Get approved as an educator

Apply with your school email and website. It's free and gives you a year of Easel Pro. At a US K-12 school, an official also signs off and your school's signed state data privacy agreement must be on file.

Apply now

Subscribe to Easel Classroom

From the Account tab in Easel, choose how many classes you need and start a 7-day free trial. After that it's $129 per class per year, and you can add classes any time.

The Add students section of a class page, with student email addresses pasted in, an Add students button and a link to import a CSV instead, above the class roster.

Invite your students

Invite students via Google Classroom, Microsoft Classroom, or import your roster manually. Students get a class code and join from any browser.

What's included

A private, teacher-run space for your students

Everything in Easel Pro for every student, plus the tools you need to run a classroom.

The class code panel on a class's Students page, showing the six-character code, where students enter it, and New code and Turn off joining buttons.

Rosters, join codes and CSV import

Paste addresses or import a CSV, and only addresses at your school's domain can join. Turn joining off once the roster is full, or issue a new code any time.

A discussion in the class feed. A student asks whether to paint before gluing, and the teacher replies with a comment pinned to a spot on the design.

A class feed for work in progress

As students share, their projects appear in a feed only your class can see. Classmates can help each other, and you can see who is stuck before the period ends.

A class's Gallery tab showing student projects, each with a photo, title, student name, and counts of stars, views and comments.

A class gallery for finished work

Publishing to the class gallery is how a student turns work in. Only you and the class can see it, and a copied project shows the original it came from.

An X-Carve on a bench with Easel open on the iMac beside it, ready to carve.

Full Easel Pro for every student

V-carving, 3D carving, inlays, the 10-million-vector design library, 300+ fonts and unlimited carves. Everything a paid Pro maker gets, on every student account.

Sign in with Google

Students sign in with the school Google account they already have. No new passwords to hand out, and you can reset a student's access from the roster.

Four students around a table, each working on a laptop.

Runs on Chromebooks

Easel is a website, so it works on the devices your school already has. Students can connect to the machine and carve from a Chromebook.

Comments pinned on the design

Click a spot on a student's canvas and leave a note there. It stays with the project, so students can go back to it on their next piece.

Build photos from a phone

Students scan a QR code to add photos of their carve to the project straight from a phone, from process shots to the finished piece.

Archive a class when it ends

A subscription is for classes running at the same time. When a term ends, archive the class and its slot opens for the next group. Students who aren't in another active class have their accounts and projects deleted within 60 days, so they should download anything they want to keep.

Student collaboration

Students learn from each other, and from you

The class feed and gallery become a transparent collaborative workshop for thirty-five students.

Work in progress, shared as it happens: The moment a student shares to the class feed, classmates and you can open it and comment. Students who took the class last year end up mentoring this year's without leaving their seat.
Comments that stay with the project: Feedback is pinned to a spot on the canvas and stays there. A student can go back to it while working on the next piece, and you can see whether it was acted on.
Remix, with credit: A student can open a classmate's published project and build on it. The copy shows the project it came from, so you always know whose idea it was, encouraging building on top of ideas with originality rather than rote copying.
Build photos from a phone: Students scan a QR code to add photos of the carve to their project, so the class sees the finished piece and not just the file.
You see the whole classroom: You are a member of every class feed and every class gallery you run. Comment, answer questions, and spot the student who has gone quiet.

The class feed for one class, as the teacher sees it. A student's question with the teacher's reply pinned to the design, and a classmate's comment on another project marked as new. — The class feed, as the teacher sees it. Every share and every comment from the class lands here.

Student privacy

Built for students under 18, including under 13

In compliance with State and Federal student privacy laws, Easel accounts are for adults. Easel Classroom is the only way a student uses Easel, and it is designed around the rules schools already work under.

Accounts come from your roster, not from students: A student account exists only because you added that address to a class. Only addresses at your school's domain can be rostered, and only rostered students can use the class code.
Nothing a student makes is public: Student projects, feeds and galleries are visible only to you and their class. They never appear in Easel's public gallery, and students can't share to it.
You hold the keys: Remove a student and their access ends. Turn off joining once your roster is full. Reset a student's password from the roster without emailing anyone.
The minimum data, used only for school: We collect the school email address a student signs in with and the work they make in Easel. No advertising to students, and student data is never sold.
Works under your school's authorization: Classroom is built for the school-authorized consent model under COPPA and the school-official exception under FERPA. Ask us for the documentation your district needs.

The Easel Classroom join page. Students sign in with Google or enter the class code their teacher gave them. — There is no sign-up form for students. The only ways in are the roster and the code you hand out.

From the interviews

What teachers said when they saw it

These are teachers who already use Easel Pro, reacting to a demo of Easel Classroom.

“Giving students access to the Pro features would remove a huge barrier to independence for us, as students would no longer need to funnel all of their projects through a teacher.”
Technology directorSmall public school, New York

“This will be the first time my kids can actually design on their own.”
Pre-tech and wood shop teacherRural technical center, Maine

“Being able to chat with the kids right in their project by themselves is phenomenal.”
Pre-tech and wood shop teacherRural technical center, Maine

“That is beautiful. That is everything that I'm looking for in a CNC software.”
Engineering and manufacturing teacherCTE high school, Utah

“It has been especially helpful for giving students more independence on CNC machines without requiring more complicated software.”
Makerspace teacherProject-based charter high school, California

“The pricing seems fair to me as it is based on classroom rather than user.”
Technology directorSmall public school, New York

What students make

2D, 3D, and projects with assemblies

Every piece here was designed in Easel and carved by a high school student at the Lane Tech MakerLab in Chicago.

A freestanding name sign reading HAYNES, cut from layered wood with black lettering on a white face.

Name sign Cutout with layered lettering

A plaque with the word Loyal above a carved Chicago skyline and the four red stars of the city flag.

Loyal V-carved and painted plaque

The word Griffinberry cut in a bold script from light wood, lying on a dark walnut board.

Script cutout Two-tone contour cut

Team plaque V-carved lettering and logo

A sea turtle carved in relief inside a shallow pocket in a maple board.

Turtle relief 3D carve in maple

A Chicago flag carved into a wooden board, with two blue stripes and four red stars.

Chicago flag Pocket carve, hand painted

A red layered star shape carved in stepped levels, showing a city skyline in the negative space.

Layered star Stepped relief in painted MDF

A Scout troop plaque with the word Helpful above two carved hands shaking, painted blue and orange.

Troop plaque V-carve with paint fill

Pricing

One free seat for you. One price per class for students.

A class holds up to 35 students, so small sections can share one class and one bill. Archive a class when the term ends and the slot goes to the next group at no extra cost. Student work from an archived class is deleted within 60 days unless the student is in another active class.

Educator Account

$0 for educators

A year of Easel Pro, renewable while you teach.

For a teacher who wants Pro for their own designing and carving, with students working through the teacher's account.

Apply for an Educator Account

Verified from your school email and website. Tax-exempt schools can attach their certificate on the application.

Easel Classroom

$129 per class, per year

Starts with a 7-day free trial, then billed annually. Add classes to your plan any time.

For a teacher at a K-12 school or district in the United States who wants every student designing and carving on their own login.

Subscribe from your Account tab

Paid by credit or debit card, entered when the trial starts. Requires an approved Educator Account with your school's sign-off.

Full Easel Pro for every student on the roster, private class feed and gallery, pinned comments, rosters and Google sign-in.

Questions

Things teachers asked us

I just want Easel Pro for myself. Do I need Classroom?

No. The free Educator Account gives you a year of Easel Pro, renewable while you teach. Classroom is only for giving students their own accounts. Apply at easel.com/education/apply.

Do I need an Educator Account before Classroom?

Yes. The Educator Account is how we verify that you teach. Easel Classroom is for K-12 schools and districts in the United States, so the application also needs an official at your school to accept Easel’s student privacy documents, plus your school’s signed state data privacy agreement. Once it’s approved, you can start Easel Classroom from your Account tab.

I teach several small sections. Do I need a class for each one?

No. A class holds up to 35 students, and the only reason to split into separate classes is if you want separate feeds and galleries. Two sections of ten can share one class.

I rotate through new groups every term. Do I pay for each?

You pay for the classes running at the same time. When a group finishes, archive the class and its slot opens for the next group. Students who aren’t in another active class have their accounts and projects deleted within 60 days, so have them download anything they want to keep first. Restoring the class before then keeps their work.

Can my students be under 13?

Yes. Easel Classroom is built for K-12. Student accounts are created only through a teacher’s roster, never by a student on their own, and nothing a student makes is visible outside the class. Your school authorizes the use of Classroom on behalf of students, the same way it does for other classroom software.

We use Chromebooks. Will it work?

Yes. Easel runs in the browser, and since May 2026 students can connect to the machine and carve directly from a Chromebook.

Can students copy each other's work?

Students can open projects published to the class gallery, the same way makers do in the public gallery. When a student copies a project, the copy shows the original it came from, so you can see the lineage. Students cannot edit each other’s projects.

Do I need a CNC machine?

No. Several teachers we spoke with run design-only classes and carve on a machine at home or a nearby makerspace. Students can design, simulate and export from any device, and carve when a machine is available.

Does it connect to Google Classroom?

Students sign in with their school Google account today. Syncing rosters and assignments from Google Classroom is on our list, and we’d like to hear from you if that matters for your school.

Can I pay with a purchase order?

Subscriptions are paid by credit or debit card from the Account tab. If your school needs a different arrangement, email help@easel.com and we’ll work it out.

Start with a free Educator Account.

Apply today and teach with Easel Pro this term. When you're ready for students on their own logins, start Easel Classroom from your Account tab.

Apply for an Educator Account Students, join your class

Questions before you apply? Email help@easel.com.