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Answering course inquiries right now

Education Answering Service and Virtual Receptionist

Course questions, answered at 9pm.

Frontly answers dates, locations and entry questions from the course info you approve.

Ready-made workflow for your industryCourse inquiries 24/7Answers you approveOver 40 languages

HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF

Hear it book an advising call now

Call our AI agent right now. It answers a course question and books an advising call the way it would for your school. No signup required.

It runs in your browser. Nothing to install, no number to give us.No signup, no card, no waiting on a sales rep.Interrupt it, change your mind, ask for a human. It is the live agent, not a recording.
Sample call
A call like the one you are about to make
  1. Frontly

    Thanks for calling admissions. Which course are you interested in?

  2. Caller

    The medical assistant certificate. When does the next one start?

  3. Frontly

    The next cohort starts on the first Monday of February and runs about six months, plus an externship.

  4. Caller

    And what does it cost?

  5. Frontly

    I don't have tuition details here, but an advisor can go through cost and payment options with you. Shall I book a call?

  6. Caller

    Yes, Wednesday after 5 if possible. I'm Linda, my cell is 614-555-0187.

  7. Frontly

    You're booked for an advising call Wednesday at 5:15 PM, Linda, and I have 614-555-0187.

Captured in your dashboard
Name
Linda
Type
Advising call, medical assistant certificate
Time
Wednesday, 5:15 PM
Escalated
No
Frontly

Thanks for calling, Linda. Take care. Goodbye.

Your script, your appointment types and your escalation rules are yours to set in the visual builder.

The short answer

What is Frontly's education answering service?

Frontly is an AI education answering service and virtual receptionist for training providers, trade schools, career colleges and short-course businesses. It answers course, start-date and eligibility questions 24/7 from the course information you approve, books advising calls and info sessions, takes messages for admissions and calls back every inquiry on the list you load, in more than 40 languages.

THE PROBLEM

An Inquiry Is Warmest in the First Few Minutes

21x

better odds of qualifying a lead when the first contact comes within 5 minutes rather than 30. A course inquiry left until the next business day waits far longer.

Source: MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Study, 2007

23%

of 2,241 US companies audited never replied to a web inquiry at all. A prospective student deserves an answer before they start comparing schools.

Source: Harvard Business Review, 2011 (US)

24/7

answering, holidays included, so an evening or weekend question about start dates, entry requirements or enrollment gets an answer instead of voicemail.

HOW IT WORKS

No Disruption to Your Admissions Team.

1

A New Number, or Your Own

Take a new local number from Frontly, or forward the admissions line your students already call. No hardware changes, and your admissions team keeps answering when they can.

2

Customize Your Industry Workflow

Start from the prebuilt receptionist workflow and customize it in the visual builder. Add your courses, start dates, entry requirements and the course information you approve for the AI to use, then test it before going live.

3

Go Live

Frontly answers every inquiry from your approved information, books advising calls and info sessions, and passes anything else to your admissions team.

WHAT FRONTLY HANDLES

Every Course Inquiry Call, Handled

From a late-night question about the next start date to a callback after a web inquiry, this virtual receptionist for training providers answers from the course information you approve and hands the rest to your team. Every call captured in your Frontly dashboard.

Course and start-date questions

Answers dates, locations, delivery format and duration from the course information you approve. If the answer isn't in it, Frontly takes a message instead of guessing.

Eligibility and entry questions

Answers entry requirements and eligibility questions using only the criteria you write, and passes anything that needs a judgment call to an advisor.

Enrollment callbacks

Takes the caller's name, course of interest and best time, then books a callback with an advisor or transfers the call while your team is in.

After-hours inquiries

Answers evening and weekend calls, so a prospective student gets a response now and your team opens the day with the inquiry and its transcript.

Info sessions and advising calls

Books advising calls, campus tours and info sessions into your calendar, and notifies the advisor by email or text as soon as the call ends.

Current-student messages

Takes messages from enrolled students about classes, assessments and absences, and routes each one to the instructor or student services team you choose.

Visual Workflow Builder

Script Your Admissions Line Without Code

1

Start With a Workflow for Your Industry

Customize the prebuilt workflow in the visual builder. Add your courses, start dates and entry requirements to set exactly what the AI asks and answers before it books an advising call.

2

Answers From Information You Approve

Write the course answers once. Frontly answers only from them, and anything outside goes to a message or an advisor, so every answer is one you signed off.

3

Rules for Every Kind of Call

Route a new inquiry to admissions, a current student to student services, and an info-session booking straight into the calendar, each on its own path.

4

Change It Yourself

Update start dates, course details and entry requirements any time in the visual builder, without waiting on us.

5

Branch by Course or Campaign

Give short courses, certificate programs and international inquiries their own paths, so each caller hears answers for the course they asked about.

Deploying Frontly into your own cloud is an enterprise capability, scoped with our team. See enterprise

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INTEGRATIONS

Works with the software training & education already runs on

Connect your AI receptionist to the software your team already uses, so Frontly can check availability, manage bookings and capture caller details as part of your reception workflow.

Integrations support Frontly's reception and caller follow-up workflows. Available actions depend on the connected software and your setup.

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Not on the list, or need a specific workflow? Tell us what you use and what you'd like Frontly to handle. We'll check what's possible.

ANSWERING SERVICE OR AI

Answering service or AI receptionist for a school or training provider?

Many answering services take a message after hours, and the prospective student has often enrolled elsewhere by morning. An AI receptionist answers course, start-date and eligibility questions from information you approve, books an advising call or info session, and calls every inquiry back. Your admissions team keeps the decisions.

Where a staffed answering service still wins

Enrollment advice is a considered conversation. A prospective student unsure about a career change, or a parent weighing tuition and pathways, often wants an advisor who listens and tailors the answer. Advisors also judge eligibility and financial aid questions that carry compliance weight, which is why Frontly hands those to your team.

Where Frontly wins

Most inquiries are course dates, duration, delivery mode and how to apply. Frontly answers those at any hour, books the next step, and calls back every inquiry, so interest does not go cold while the office is closed.

Most businesses end up running one or the other rather than both. If you are weighing it up properly, the full cost and capability breakdown is in AI or human receptionist: which fits.

Stored and hosted in your region: US, EU, UK
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Enterprise: deploy in your own cloud or on-prem

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Frontly answers course, start-date, location and entry-requirement questions 24/7, using only the course information you approve. It books advising calls and info sessions, and takes a message for admissions when a question needs a person. Every call lands in your Frontly dashboard with the full transcript.

Frontly doesn't guess. If the answer isn't in the information you approved, it says so, takes the caller's details and question, and either books a callback or transfers the call to admissions with a spoken briefing. You see the unanswered question in the dashboard and can add an approved answer.

You are, which is why Frontly answers only from the information you write and approve. Your school stays responsible for what is said on its behalf, so you can read every transcript and change any answer in the visual builder. Check your own compliance obligations with your advisor.

Yes. Load the list of people who inquired and Frontly calls each one, answers their questions from your approved information and books an advising call or info session. Numbers that do not answer are retried, and every outcome is logged, so no lead goes cold waiting for an advisor.

Yes, to your opted-in list only. Course promotion calls count as telemarketing, so load only contacts who agreed to hear from you. Start-date reminders to enrolled students are separate. Every campaign checks your Do Not Call list, reads the required disclosure statements and calls only within the hours the law allows.

A student information system's assistant mostly answers inside that platform. The calls admissions care about are the 8pm phone inquiry and the lead nobody followed up. Frontly answers those calls, runs follow-up campaigns over the lists you load, hands calls to admissions, reports outcomes per campaign, speaks more than 40 languages, and gives you a prebuilt receptionist workflow to customize.

Tell us which student information system or admissions CRM you use and we will check it for you. Some vendors approve the connection first. Nothing waits on that step. Your admissions team sees every inquiry, with the course of interest and transcript, in your Frontly dashboard from the first call.

Yes. Frontly's outcome analytics and campaign reporting show what happened on each campaign you run: questions answered, advising calls booked, messages taken and numbers that did not answer. You see bookings versus questions per campaign, and which ones are worth running again.

Yes. Each Frontly agent speaks the language you set, so a prospective international student can call a dedicated Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese or Hindi line, out of more than 40 languages, and ask about entry requirements or start dates. Frontly answers from your approved course information, and your admissions team reads the transcript in the dashboard.

They can. You choose how Frontly introduces itself, for example as your school's AI receptionist, and it never pretends to be a person. What prospective students notice most is a clear answer at 9pm and an advising call booked for a time that suits them.

No. Frontly handles the inquiry and the booking: it answers questions from your approved information, books the advising call or info session, and passes the caller to your team. Your admissions staff and student information system run enrollment, records and assessments, as they do now.

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