Anything in Schola that writes, reads or extracts something for you runs on AI credits. The pill in the header shows your balance — click it to see your activity and top up.
What spends credits
- Drafting lesson note sections.
- Generating CBT questions, and importing questions from pasted text.
- Reading scores off a photographed score sheet.
- The reports assistant in Accounting.
Ordinary use of Schola — marking registers, entering scores, recording payments — costs nothing. Credits are only for the assisted features, and each one tells you before it spends.
What doesn't cost anything
- The help assistant in this panel, including this article.
- The short daily note on the attendance card.
Both are on the house.
Balance is per person, not per school
Each teacher and staff member has their own balance. That way one person can't exhaust everyone else's, and you can see who is actually using the features.
How credits arrive
Admins hold the school's credits and distribute them. From the credits panel you can send credits to any teacher or staff member, with an optional note so they know what it's for.
Admins top up for the school; the payment works the same way as a subscription payment.
Checking activity
The panel lists every credit movement with its date — top-ups, transfers in and out, and what was spent. The balance is worked out from that list rather than stored separately, so it always reconciles with the history.
Running out
The pill turns amber when you're low and red when you're nearly out. Features that need credits will say so rather than failing silently, and everything else keeps working normally.
Not the same as broadcast credits
Sending announcements on WhatsApp uses broadcast credits, a separate balance. Drafting the text with AI spends AI credits; sending it spends broadcast credits. See WhatsApp messaging.