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Learners and applicants get term-time answers on WhatsApp, and student services only handle the questions that need a person.
Every term brings the same questions about enrollment, timetables, log-ins and deadlines, and student services answers them one by one. WhatsApp AI Support Agent for Education & Training answers learners and applicants on WhatsApp from your approved handbooks and guides, checks progress in your LMS when connected and sends anything personal or sensitive to a person.

WhatsApp AI Support Agent for Education & Training answers learners and applicants on WhatsApp: enrollment steps, timetables, LMS log-in help and deadlines, all from your approved documents, with progress questions checked against your LMS when connected. Anything personal or sensitive goes to student services.
Student services teams spend the start of every term answering the same questions, while learners with real problems wait in the queue. Slow answers lead to missed deadlines and frustrated applicants. This edition answers routine questions on WhatsApp straight away, from your own documents, and makes sure personal and sensitive topics always reach a person. Your staff spend their time where a human answer matters. The Scope Card fixes the connected systems, the knowledge sources, the templates and the forty test conversations before you buy, so it never answers outside your approved material.
The agent answers enrollment steps, timetables and deadlines from your approved documents. Your team stops retyping the same replies at the start of each term.
LMS log-in help is given from your support guides, step by step. If the LMS is connected, progress questions are checked against it too. Learners get back into their courses quickly.
Deadlines are answered from the information you supply, so every learner hears the same date. Staff update the source document when dates change. That cuts last-minute confusion.
Anything personal or sensitive is passed to student services. The Education & Training workflow template sets out which topics are handed over. The chat history goes with it, so learners do not repeat themselves.
Your portal lists these the moment you order. Delivery starts the working day after everything is in and your access is checked.
| Option | Delivery time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 20–30 working days | $3,500 |
| Express | 15–25 working days | $4,100 |
| Rush | 10–20 working days | $4,750 |
Before you start: Record WhatsApp and email question volume for the first weeks of last term. Note the most common topics.
These are things to track, not promised results. Outcomes depend on your data, your team and your market.
You pay for the build once. Running it means Meta's WhatsApp conversation fees in your own account, plus roughly $30 to $150 a month for AI model usage and hosting. Your LMS and student CRM licenses stay as they are.
AI usage during the build and testing is billed to your accounts too, so the institution holds every provider relationship directly.
Ask about running costsIf you need separate flows for many faculties beyond five, a second language for international learners, or a third connected system, add a note at checkout. A written Change Quote follows.
Request a custom versionOnce the 30 days of support end, optional monthly maintenance covers monitoring, fixes, model and WhatsApp updates and a monthly health report. Change hours handle small updates like new term dates or a revised enrollment guide. Larger changes get a Change Quote. You can cancel any month.
$249/mo (the minimum fee, includes 2 change hours)
Optional. Starts after the post-launch support period. Cancel any month.
How maintenance works| Do it yourself with a SaaS tool | Hire a custom agency | Upmark Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | A WhatsApp helpdesk tool charges per seat each month | Temporary staff for peak weeks are paid by the hour | Ours is one fixed price, shown on this page before you buy |
| Answers | A generic flow with canned replies | Depends on who answers | Ours answers only from your handbooks and course pages |
| Sensitive topics | May try to answer anything | Depends on training | Ours hands grades, appeals and wellbeing to student services |
| Delivery | Quick to install, slow to map flows | Hiring takes weeks before each term | Ours has a fixed delivery time shown before you buy, with faster options |
Yes, when your LMS, such as Moodle or Canvas, or your student CRM is one of the two connected systems. After confirming who the learner is, the agent can say which modules or tasks are still open. Without that connection, it answers general questions from your handbooks and passes personal ones to student services.
Anything about grades, appeals, complaints, wellbeing, finances owed or personal circumstances goes to student services with the conversation attached. You can add other topics to that list during intake. The agent never guesses on these, because a wrong answer to a learner in difficulty costs far more than a short wait.
Yes. It explains the enrollment steps, the documents required and the deadlines from your enrollment guides, and tells applicants what comes next. It does not decide on applications. If you want prospective students qualified and scored for admissions, see AI Lead Qualification Agent for Education & Training, $4,900.
Yes, with up to five message templates that Meta approves, for example an enrollment deadline, term start or assessment reminder. You approve the wording during intake and we submit it to Meta. Meta reviews each template and can reject one, so they are submitted early in the build to leave time for changes.
Each delivery speed has a fixed price and timeline, shown in the price and delivery panel on this page, so you can pick one that is live before term starts. Allow up to 72 hours for your team to send the intake items, since late items move the date. Every option includes forty test conversations and two rounds of changes.
Meta's WhatsApp conversation fees in your own account, plus roughly $30 to $150 a month for AI model usage and hosting. There is no fee per learner or per message from us. Monthly maintenance is optional and covers the usual updates each term.
Order WhatsApp AI Support Agent for Education & Training today and it goes live on a fixed delivery date. The scope above is exactly what you get, in writing, before you pay.

Answers admissions, enrollment and student service questions.

Answers learner questions about course content and logistics.
