The questions people
actually ask.

Three groups, depending on who you are: someone learning on their own, someone deciding whether to bring an institution across, or someone working out what it costs. Each group is also answered on the page it belongs to.

Learning on Whollify

Signing up as yourself, with no institution behind you. See the home page.

No. Most of Whollify is yours alone: take a course at your own pace, run a research project end to end, build something, work with AI throughout. Signing up also puts you in Whollify School, the school Sierra Africa runs on its own platform, which is where the other side of a peer evaluation comes from when a course asks for one. No application, and no cohort to wait for.

Where it is switched on, every score carries the evaluator's name and the student rates the evaluator back, so both sides are on the record. The same work is graded a second time, and where the two disagree it goes to staff rather than being averaged away. An evaluator who consistently rates apart from everyone else shows up in their own record.

It is the constraint the platform was built under, not an edge case we handle. Sessions survive a dropped connection and rejoin where they left off, and the interface is built for the network our own students are on.

Running your school

Bringing a department, a faculty or an institution onto the platform. See for schools.

Not on day one. Most schools start with one faculty or one cohort while the existing systems keep running, which is the only way to find out what you actually depend on. Whollify takes the parts you move onto it and stays out of the rest.

You do not have to use peer evaluation, and the academic policy stays yours either way. What Whollify produces is the record: who evaluated whom, when, against which rubric, with what score, and what the second grade said. It is your school's data, it can be taken out, and staff sign off on what becomes official, so your registrar gets more evidence behind each result than a spreadsheet of marks.

Less than delivering the same material, and different in kind: staff set the structure, look at what gets flagged, and sign off on results. Setting your school up is fast, but your timeline is set by your curriculum and your people rather than by our software. Come to us with one programme you want moved and we will scope that, not the whole institution.

As many as you have. An institution plan is priced to your roll rather than sold in fixed sizes, so a department of forty and a faculty of four thousand are the same conversation with a different number at the end of it. Every lecturer, coordinator, administrator and student is covered; guardians using the parent portal are not counted. One point of contact and one invoice however many departments are running.

No, and it should not be. A lecturer on Pro or Max can invite their own learners, up to 60 or 250 of them, and the students join free, with no card and nothing to buy. That is an individual subscription, bought in a minute, and it is the right size for a lecturer and their own teaching. An institution plan is for when you want your own school: your roles, your records, your cohorts and your data.

Plans and billing

What the plans cover, and what is never metered. See pricing.

No. Everyone inside an institution's school is covered by what the institution pays, students and staff alike. Individual plans exist for people joining Whollify School directly, not for students whose school already pays.

Nothing is charged for a person joining. On an institution plan anyone you enrol is covered by what you already pay, and the figure is revisited when your roll changes rather than per arrival. If you are teaching on your own Pro or Max plan, the limit is the number of learners you teach in total, across every class you run: 60 on Pro, 250 on Max, each person counted once however many of your courses they take. Past that it stops being one lecturer's teaching, so we talk.

Room, not a different product. Basic adds a little more AI, Course Hub with flashcards and exam practice, more storage, longer calls with more people in them, and more workspace capacity. The research workspace and the advanced agents are Pro's, so if those are what you came for, Basic is not the plan to buy.

No, and you do not need one. Free is a permanent plan rather than a countdown: it carries the whole platform, the community, your record, and a one-time grant of AI credits that does not expire. Paid plans are charged from the day you start them, and you can cancel at any time.

No. Your learners join on Free, with no card at the door and nothing to buy, and they keep their own account when the class ends. The materials and work you set draw on your own plan's allowance; each learner's personal study assistant draws on theirs, so one busy student cannot spend your month.

Everything that is not AI carries on exactly as before. Classes, submissions, attendance, marking and records do not draw on the AI allowance, and the allowance refills on a rolling basis rather than once a month, so nobody waits long. You can also top up whenever you would rather not wait.

Not answered here?

Say what you are trying to do and who you are asking for. A learner, a department head and a journalist need different people, so the contact page routes you to the right one rather than to a shared inbox.