GoReact Alternative for Teacher Prep Programs: Building on the Video Habit You Already Have

Your candidates already record their lessons. Your supervisors already leave comments at specific moments, and your faculty already treats video as part of clinical practice. If your program built that habit on GoReact, the question in front of you now is what you want the video to do next, for candidates, supervisors, and cooperating teachers alike.

We often talk with programs at exactly that point. This post lays out what GoReact publishes about its own platform today, with a link for each point so you can check it, and then explains how we built VC3 and AI Coach and why.

What GoReact Publishes About Its Platform Today

GoReact’s homepage describes it as a skill mastery and video assessment platform, with teacher education listed alongside nursing education, behavioral health, communication, sign and world languages, and performing arts.

Echo360 announced its acquisition of GoReact on May 8, 2025. In that announcement, GoReact said it was used in training more than one in five graduating new teachers in the United States. GoReact’s teacher education page now opens on Echo360’s site under the name “GoReact Powered by Echo360,” where Echo360 also presents its offerings for business and government. Whichever platform you are weighing, ours included, it is fair to ask who sets the product roadmap and where teacher preparation sits in it.

GoReact’s pricing page lists two education plans. Essentials is $89 per user per year. Advanced, which the page marks as recommended, is $119 per user per year and adds HD video, a searchable time-stamped transcript, AI Analytics, AI Markers, and AI Comments. Both plans include a 60-day free trial.

Why We Built VC3 Around a Shared Video

VC3 is our video coaching platform for observation, coaching, and collaboration. We designed it around how teacher preparation works. A candidate usually has several adults supporting them, often a university supervisor, a cooperating teacher, and methods faculty, plus peers in the same cohort. Each of them sees a different slice of the candidate’s work. When they all watch the same lesson and respond to the same moments, the candidate hears feedback that lines up, and the adults build a common picture of good teaching.

In VC3, a candidate uploads a lesson from any device and shares it with the people supporting them. Supervisors, cooperating teachers, and peers leave time-stamped comments organized as questions, suggestions, strengths, or notes, so feedback stays tied to specific moments in the lesson. Comments can also be anchored to your program’s own frameworks and skills.

The University of Michigan and the University of Washington have used VC3 for 15 years. Tim Boerst, a professor of clinical practice at Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education, says the platform is “helping us engage our mentor teachers and field instructors in well-grounded conversations about what high-quality teaching and learning looks like in today’s classrooms.”

The other half of the design is the candidate’s own analysis. We want candidates examining their teaching from their methods courses through the practicum, so the habit of questioning their practice is in place before they lead their own classroom. That goal shapes what VC3 adds to each video. An automatic student-to-teacher talk-time chart shows the talk balance of every lesson, and AI-generated guiding questions give the candidate and supervisor a place to start their conversation.

Where AI Fits Alongside Your Supervisors

We build AI to give the people around a candidate more to work with. Inside VC3, the guiding questions and talk-time chart are starting points for a supervisor and candidate to discuss together. Supervisors reviewing a lesson can search inside the video to jump to the moments they want to talk about, so less of their review time goes to finding them.

The newer step is pairing VC3 with AI Coach, our AI coaching platform. A teacher uploads a lesson video, specific feedback arrives in their inbox in minutes, and replying keeps the coaching conversation going. The teacher chooses a topic and works on it across several lessons. AI Coach holds 110 coaching topics across eight content areas, and each area was reviewed with input from university-based teacher educators.

Valdosta State University shows how the two fit together. Candidates in its online elementary education program, which has attracted more than 500 students, record their teaching in VC3 and receive time-stamped feedback from supervisors. As enrollment grew, the program added AI Coach so candidates could do guided, self-directed reflection on their teaching videos, which reduced the direct observation load on supervisors. AI Coach complements that supervision rather than replacing it.

edTPA and Accreditation Data

We are an approved edTPA Platform Provider, supporting Local Evaluation as well as transfer to the edTPA platform for official scoring by trained and calibrated scorers. Our edTPA tools are available to programs and candidates at no additional cost. Candidates can trim and upload their video, annotate the moments they select for the portfolio, export those comments for their written commentaries, and have their files labeled automatically before transfer.

For program improvement and accreditation, our video coaching platform includes embedded dashboards and data exports you can use as part of CAEP, AAQEP, and other accreditation processes.

What It Costs

Most of our annual agreements with teacher preparation programs start at $10,000. Candidates can also pay for their own access individually inside the platform. GoReact’s published pricing is per user, at $89 or $119 per year. We include standard onboarding and training with VC3, and we can build custom training around your program’s goals.

Questions to Ask Before You Switch

These questions apply to any program that already uses video and is weighing its next platform:

• Who sets the product roadmap, and where does teacher preparation sit in it?
• Can supervisors, cooperating teachers, and peers all comment on the same lesson, and how is that feedback organized?
• What does the AI do, who sees its output, and how does it support your supervisors’ judgment?
• How does the platform handle edTPA portfolio assembly and transfer for official scoring?
• What data can you export for CAEP or AAQEP review?
• Who pays: the program, the candidate, or a mix?

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a good GoReact alternative for teacher prep programs?

For programs that already use video and want more collaboration and reflection around it, VC3 by Edthena gives supervisors, cooperating teachers, and peers a shared place to comment on the same lesson, and it pairs with AI Coach for guided candidate reflection. We are also an approved edTPA Platform Provider.

Does VC3 include AI?

Yes. VC3 shows a student-to-teacher talk-time chart for each lesson, surfaces AI-generated guiding questions, and lets supervisors search inside a lesson video to jump to the moments they want to discuss. Programs can also pair VC3 with AI Coach.

How much does Edthena cost for a teacher preparation program?

Most annual program agreements start at $10,000. Candidates can also pay individually inside the platform.

Is Edthena an approved edTPA Platform Provider?

Yes. We support Local Evaluation and transfer to the edTPA platform for official scoring, and our edTPA tools are available at no additional cost.

Details about GoReact in this post come from GoReact’s and Echo360’s own pages, checked on October 20, 2026.

Your program has already made video part of how candidates learn. To see what comes next, learn more about video coaching for teacher educators or contact us to talk through your program.