For Tutoring Centres
Your centre already teaches. Make it a school.
Some of Ontario's online private schools started exactly where you are: a tutoring centre with loyal families and no way to grant credits. The jump to a real OSSD school is a known path — and the infrastructure is the part you don't have to build alone.
For tutoring and enrichment centres ready to grant credits under their own name.
Why tutoring centres hit a ceiling.
The credibility ceiling
Your students trust your teaching — then leave for a credit-granting school when marks matter. Without your own BSID and inspection, every OSSD credit walks out the door to someone else's school.
The build is a second business
Courses, an LMS, a website with enrolment, record-keeping — building school infrastructure from scratch is a bigger project than the tutoring business that funds it.
Inspection is unfamiliar territory
The Ministry inspects course content, assessment evidence, and records against standards most tutoring operators have never had to meet. Guessing is expensive; failing is worse.
The path from centre to credit-granting school.
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Register the school
Submit the Notice of Intention and get your BSID. Registration is the fast part — it makes you a private school, not yet a credit-granting one.
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Stand up inspection-ready delivery
This is where SchoolConex carries the weight: a branded LMS, 110-hour Ontario-aligned course shells, teacher support, and the OSR/OST record workflows an inspection reviews.
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Pass inspection, grant credits
With delivery and records in shape, inspection becomes a presentation instead of a scramble. Authority granted, your school issues OSSD credits under its own name.
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Grow past tutoring
Your existing families become your first enrolments. Credits, transcripts, and the brand equity all compound in your school now — not a provider's.
The full detail lives in our guides on how to become an OSSD-granting school and what a BSID number is — or compare this path with OSSD partner programs before you commit.
Tutoring-centre questions, answered straight.
Yes — it is a well-travelled path in Ontario. The centre registers as a private school (Notice of Intention, then a BSID), builds delivery and record-keeping to inspection standard, and applies for a Ministry inspection. Credit-granting authority comes only after a successful inspection.
A partner program enrols your students into the provider's school, under the provider's BSID — you teach, they keep the credential. Becoming a school yourself means your own BSID, your own credits, and your own graduates. SchoolConex builds and runs the backend of that school for you.
No. Most operators keep the tutoring business running while the school is registered, built, and inspected — the two share your brand and your families. The Kit's phase-by-phase roadmap is designed for exactly that overlap.
We configure and operate the platform: the branded LMS, Ontario-aligned course content, Ontario Certified Teacher support, and inspection-ready record workflows. Your school keeps the students, the academic authority, the principal's decisions, and — once authorized — the credit granting.
Free: The OSSD School Launch Kit
The step-by-step roadmap, phase checklist, realistic timeline, and cost worksheet to open an OSSD-granting online school in Ontario.
See what your centre looks like as a school.
In a 30-minute walkthrough we map your model — courses, families, staffing — and show a real partner school's branded LMS and inspection-ready records. Also building for a specific niche? See how we support athletic academies and microschools too.
No prep needed. No obligation.