About Level Up Classroom
Built by a working teacher,
for the rest of us.
Most classroom software is built by people who haven't taught a Period 4 Grade 10 class in twenty years — or have never taught one at all. Level Up Classroom is different.
Reece Cantelon
The founder
Reece Cantelon is a high school teacher in London, Ontario. He's been in the classroom for over a decade and currently teaches a mix of senior English, Film Studies, and other electives.
Level Up Classroom started as a frustration project. Existing gradebooks were either too rigid for Ontario teaching frameworks, too expensive for individual teachers, or so dated they hadn't been touched since 2014. Reece set out to build a version that respected teachers' time and the way Ontario classrooms actually grade.
Today, Level Up Classroom serves teachers across Canada and a growing handful of schools internationally.
Why a teacher built it
When you're teaching five sections, prepping three different courses, and trying to write 150 report card comments by Friday, you don't need software that's "powerful" — you need software that's fast, predictable, and honest about what it can and can't do.
Most EdTech tools are built around procurement decisions. They optimize for selling to a board, not for being a Tuesday-afternoon companion to a teacher trying to enter grades between buses. The features that matter to a working teacher — clean keyboard navigation in the gradebook, a mark set that respects KATC weighting, a one-click email to a parent that already has the grade in it — get buried under "AI co-teacher dashboards" and "stakeholder analytics suites."
Level Up Classroom keeps it simple: do the boring things really well, then add the fun stuff on top. The gradebook works. Attendance is two clicks. The AI report comments save real hours. Students see their marks in a portal that doesn't make them want to throw their phone. Gamification is genuinely opt-in — turn it off and the platform is still useful as a plain-old gradebook.
What we believe
Teachers' time is sacred
If a feature doesn't save you time or noticeably improve your students' experience, it shouldn't exist. We measure ourselves in minutes returned.
Student data stays in Canada
Data lives in Toronto (Firebase northamerica-northeast1). PIPEDA-compliant by design. AI prompts never include identifying student information.
No dark patterns
Free is genuinely free. Cancellation is one click. Trial doesn't auto-bill. We will never sell student data, full stop.
Built in the open
Privacy policy, breach protocol, DPA, and consent template are all public. AI sub-processors are disclosed. Teachers shouldn't have to read legal docs to know if their data is safe.
Where we're going
We're working on deeper integrations with the systems Canadian and US schools already use — PowerSchool via ClassLink and OneRoster, Aspen via .arc files, Google Workspace via the Marketplace. We're a Google Workspace Technology Partner as of 2026.
We're also building out the gamification side carefully. The plan is rich, optional, opt-out-anytime — never a treadmill. If you want a clean gradebook with no XP, no badges, and no leaderboard, that's a one-toggle setting and the platform still works.
On the school/board side, we're rolling out timetabling, intervention reporting, and SIS-grade enterprise admin tools — all built around the same principle: built for the people who actually use it.
Get in touch
If you're a teacher, an admin, a parent, a journalist, or just curious — Reece reads every email himself.
Built in
London, Ontario, Canada