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Marketing Diagnosis Activity
Students analyze a real business or pitch page to judge what a first-time visitor actually understands from it.
Marketing
For K-12 career & technical education
Work-based learning,built into your courses.
Students take on real entrepreneurial work, from interviewing customers to running a storefront that sells, and the platform records every outcome: the evidence your Perkins plan needs.
Backed by
- 0+work-based learning hours
- $0K+in real student revenue
- 0+schools, K-12 and higher ed
- 0+student ventures launched
- 0+experiences completed
What is KANU?
KANU turns the classes you already teach into real work-based learning. Students do real work, and the platform records the outcomes.
Built for everyone in the building.
One platform, three points of view.
The challenge
WBL requirements keep growing, placements are scarce, and every dollar needs evidence.
With KANU
Real work-based learning that actually gets used, with the evidence to prove the spend.
What CTE teams say.
Showing 3 testimonials.
Breeann Gibbons
CTE Director, Julesburg School District
“KANU is easy for our students to navigate without feeling overwhelmed, and it still offers a fantastic experience. Working with the team has been a joy. We're already planning to include KANU in our next Perkins grant.”
Galen Harkness
Business Teacher, Julesburg School District
“KANU helped me bring real-world content into the classroom. It's clever and packed with powerful content, and it made a real difference in how my students engaged.”
Teri Cady
Head of School
“Engagement was high, and that was just year one. Students respond at a much higher rate when there's a teacher behind it.”
Ready-to-run experiences, from a single class period to a multi-week venture.
Quick activities
One class period. Plug-and-play warm-ups and skill reps students start and finish in a single session.
Multi-week projects
Multi-week venture builds. Students take a real idea to launch and gather the evidence along the way.
HOW IT WORKS
Every experience runs on the same loop: Learn, Do, Verify.
Whatever the experience, running a storefront, interviewing customers, testing a product, it moves through the same three steps: students learn it, do it for real, and the platform records the proof.
PitchLink
Learn
Lesson: shaping an idea worth testing.
Do
Put your pitch in front of real people with PitchLink.
Verify
Responses are recorded as the venture's evidence.
Responses tracked
every verified result feeds the next lesson
Safety is the foundation.
Real-world learning only works when the guardrails are absolute. Built for school policy from day one, with visibility for the adults who need it.
Age-appropriate by design, with the same data protections for every student, whatever their age.
Without transactions
Students build and pitch real ventures to real audiences: judges, community members, local businesses. All the rigor, no money changes hands.
With school approval
Students sell from public storefronts under your school's banner, with every sale recorded and the school in the loop.
You set the rest. Messaging, visibility, and sharing adjust to your school's policy.
- Student data encrypted in transit and at rest
- School-controlled accounts: your school sets visibility and sharing
- No student data sold or used for advertising
- Verifiable school or parental consent for students under 13
- Student data deleted at your school's request
- Built to support your district's FERPA and COPPA obligations
Recognition & proof, as it happens.
Browse InsightsCASE STUDY
Julesburg School District
How CODCA built a Perkins-funded CTE program on KANU
Live proof the model works at a real online school.
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Funded by Perkins
Tallo integration
INSIGHTS
The CLNA cycle is the moment work-based learning evidence matters most
Perkins V is federal, and it comes with a requirement that resets every school's clock: the Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment, or CLNA.
Read the articleINSIGHTS
Colorado's Big Three: How Student Entrepreneurship Counts as Work-Based Learning
Colorado wants every graduate in the Class of 2029 to complete 60 hours of work-based learning. Here's what actually qualifies, and where student entrepreneurship fits.
Read the articleEverything your school gets.
- Implementation
Real experiences, ready to run
Pick from the experience library
Choose a project or activity. Each comes with pre, during, and post class prep, teaching notes, and add-ons like worksheets and slides.
Complete your training
Short digital training on running the experience well, before students ever join.
Invite students
Invite via QR code, invite link, or bookstore digital access. Students join on the web, tablet, or the iOS and Android apps.
Run and manage
Run live in one class period, or set due dates along the way. Progress and completion are tracked automatically, so there's no grading pile.
What's included
- Implementation planning with KANU's team
- Virtual onboarding and staff training for faculty
- End-of-year review with engagement data and expansion planning
Built for K-12 environments
- Built with student-data privacy protections
- Aligned to FERPA and COPPA data-privacy requirements
- Configurable to your district's policies
Always priced per building, never per student. Fundable through Perkins, or paid from your budget.
What CTE directors ask us
Yes. Students do real work for real audiences inside your courses, and the platform records every outcome so you have the evidence.
Schools fund KANU through Perkins, and we share the funding playbook. The outcome trail behind every student gives you evidence for your CLNA and reporting.
Only when your school approves it. Students can develop and pitch ventures with no transactions at all, or sell from public storefronts under your school's banner once you enable it. Every sale is recorded.
KANU runs inside the courses you already teach and flexes to any pathway, in any course. Pick the experiences that fit and run them your way.
Light. Teachers pick a ready-to-run experience and launch it inside their course, with completion tracking, no grading pile, and help launching the first one.
Five guided steps from signed to first classroom experience. Most schools are live within weeks.
Ready to see it work?
See what your students could build.
We'll walk you through KANU with your program in mind, and show you exactly how schools like yours fund it.