Is a 'class' the same as a 'batch'?

Yes. A class and a batch are the same thing — a group of students who share one schedule, one teacher, and one fee plan. TuitionDesk calls it a Class everywhere you see it in the app. Some other tuition software, and some of TuitionDesk's own internal engineering names, use the word 'batch' instead. As an owner, teacher, or parent, you will only ever see 'Class' in the product.

How many classes can I create on TuitionDesk?

Classes are unlimited on every TuitionDesk plan, including Free. What your plan limits is students, teachers, and counsellors — never how many classes you set up. You can split one subject across as many classes as you need (a 9 AM batch and a 5 PM batch for the same subject, for example) at no extra cost.

Can one teacher teach more than one class?

Yes. A teacher can be assigned to any number of classes. The plan's teacher cap limits how many teacher logins your centre has, not how many classes each teacher can take.

Does TuitionDesk use the word 'batch' anywhere?

Only internally — in the database and API, the underlying record is still called a 'batch' for historical reasons. Nothing you see on screen, in help articles, in Ask Aiyan's answers, or in Smart Import uses that word. If you ever spot 'batch' in the TuitionDesk app itself, it's a labeling bug worth reporting.

What Is a 'Class' in a Tuition Centre? Class vs Batch Explained

If you've looked at more than one tuition-centre management app, you've probably noticed the same feature wears two different names. One app calls it a "class." Another calls it a "batch." A third might call it a "section" or a "group." They're all describing the exact same thing, and once you see past the naming, choosing software (or just understanding your own centre's setup) gets a lot simpler.

What a class actually is

A class is the basic teaching unit of a tuition centre: a fixed group of students who show up together, at the same time, for the same subject, with the same teacher. Everything else in the software hangs off this one unit:

Schedule — the days, start time, and duration the class meets
Teacher — who takes this class (one class can also have more than one teacher across different subjects)
Students — the specific students enrolled in this class, not just "all students at the centre"
Fee plan — what each student in this class pays, and how often (monthly, per-session, or a session pack)
Attendance — every session this class runs generates its own attendance record

If your centre runs a "Class 10 CBSE Maths — Evening" group of 18 students who meet Tuesday and Thursday at 5 PM, that entire unit — schedule, teacher, roster, fees, attendance — is one class.

Class vs batch: is there actually a difference?

No. "Class" and "batch" describe the identical concept. The difference is purely which word a piece of software (or a person) chooses to use for it:

Term	Where you'll hear it
Class	TuitionDesk's app, help articles, Ask Aiyan, and most school-style tuition centres
Batch	Some competing tuition/coaching software, and coaching institutes that use training-institute language (a "batch" of trainees)
Section	Schools, when splitting one grade into parallel groups
Group	Informally, especially for smaller or newer centres

None of these is more "correct" than the others — they're regional and product conventions, not different features. If you're coming from software that said "batch," everything you already know about batches — creating one, assigning a teacher, enrolling students, setting a schedule — applies directly to a TuitionDesk class.

How many classes can you run?

Classes themselves are unlimited on every TuitionDesk plan — Free included. There is no "create up to N classes" cap anywhere in the pricing. What actually scales with your plan is:

Plan	Students	Teachers	Counsellors
Free	10	1	1
Starter (₹99–₹499, 20–75 students)	20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 75	2 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5	1 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 3
Growth 75 (₹699)	75	7	4
Growth 200 (₹999)	200	15	5
Pro 100 (₹1,499)	100	20	7
Pro 500 (₹1,999)	500	30	10
Enterprise	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited

So a Free-plan centre with 10 students can still organise those 10 students into as many classes as makes sense — three small classes of 3–4 students each, for example — at no extra cost. The limit is on people (students, teachers, counsellors), never on how you group them into classes.

Class vs "batch timing" vs section — related terms you'll see

A few adjacent terms are worth untangling while we're here:

Batch timing usually just means the time slot a class runs at (e.g. "the 5 PM batch") — it's describing the schedule of a class, not a separate entity.
Section is more of a school term for splitting one grade/standard into parallel groups (Section A, Section B) that may or may not map 1:1 to a tuition class.
Session is a single meeting of a class on a specific date — one class generates many sessions over a term, each with its own attendance.

In TuitionDesk, all of these roll up to: a Class has a schedule, and a schedule produces Sessions.

The bottom line

If you're setting up TuitionDesk, or just evaluating it against another tool, don't let the word "batch" throw you — it's the same thing as a TuitionDesk class, just a different label. Create your classes the way your centre actually runs: by subject, by grade, by time slot, however your students are really grouped. There's no cap on how many you create, on any plan.

Ready to set up your first class? Create a free TuitionDesk account and you'll have a class running — schedule, teacher, fee plan, and attendance — in a few minutes.