Launch League Co-op OS · Free for schools and employers
Co-op placements that teach, not just supervise.
One place to plan the week, assign real work, keep students busy with useful learning while they wait, sign off skills and finish with evidence of exactly what a student did and became capable of. Built for employers, co-op teachers and students. Free.
The problem
Most co-ops run on good intentions.
Employers are busy, co-op teachers are stretched across dozens of placements, and students don't always know what to do next. The result is predictable.
Texts, spreadsheets and memory
Who's doing what this week, whether hours were approved, what feedback was given: it usually lives in someone's head or phone.Students waiting around
The supervisor gets pulled onto a job and the student has nothing to do. An afternoon of scrolling teaches nothing.Evidence at the end
The final evaluation arrives and nobody can remember exactly what the student did in week three, or what they learned.
Who it's for
Built for everyone in the placement
Host a student without becoming a teacher.
- A ready 12-week pathway you can adapt, or start blank
- Plan the week in minutes and see who's running out of work
- Sign off real skills, approve hours in one tap
- Run several co-ops, several managers, one dashboard
See how the placement is really going.
- Attendance, hours and learning progress, if the employer shares them
- Midterm and final evaluations built on daily records
- Printable reports without chasing anyone
- Employers choose exactly what you see; private supervisor notes stay private
Know what to do, learn why, and prove it.
- One simple phone screen: today, focus, and what to do while waiting
- Short lessons tied to the real work in front of them
- Two-minute reflections, with voice typing
- A portfolio and resume draft built from approved work
Four steps
How it works
About ten minutes to set up
Set up the placement
A 10-step builder: employer, student, dates, weekly schedule, supervisors, pathway, learning, guidelines and projects. About ten minutes, and everything can change later.The student logs in on their phone
They sign in to a free Launch League account with the email you entered. Their first screen shows today, what to focus on, and useful work for when they're waiting.Plan, assign and review
Plan the week across every co-op, assign tasks to one student or several, review submissions, sign off skills and approve hours from one queue.Finish with evidence
Weekly, monthly, midterm, final and accomplishment reports, a skills map signed off by supervisors, badges for real milestones and a portfolio the student keeps.
What's inside
Everything a placement needs, and nothing it doesn't
No hundred settings before you start. Sensible defaults, and depth when you want it.
Plan the week
Each day shows planned work against scheduled hours, plus unscheduled work to drop in and a four-week look-ahead so you can plan before anyone runs dry.
“When you're waiting” work
18 ready independent tasks, like Business 101, trend research, caption banks and website audits, so waiting time turns into learning time.
Sign-offs that mean something
A skills map of 23 competencies across four levels. Students can ask for a sign-off, but only a supervisor can give one.
Hours, attendance and time off
Check in and out, hours logged and approved, school days, PD days and holidays that adjust expected hours automatically, and time-off requests.
A learning library built for work
25 tracks, from sales and business email to Canva, AI, finance, networking and leadership, connected to Launch League's free Business 101.
Reflections with two points of view
Daily two-minute reflections and a weekly one where the student and supervisor rate the same areas, so gaps become conversations.
Projects across co-ops
Group tasks into campaigns and events under any of your businesses, share work across several students and watch progress fill in.
Feedback and weekly 1:1s
Questions, praise and coaching in one place, a guided weekly 1:1, and private supervisor notes the student never sees.
Reports you can print
Daily, weekly, monthly, midterm, final and accomplishment reports, with a school version that only includes what's meant for the school.
Four stages
Responsibility that grows week by week
Every placement moves through four stages at a pace the employer sets, so students go from following instructions to proposing the plan.
Stage 1
Learn
Your supervisor gives clear instructions while you learn how the work is done.
Stage 2
Execute
You complete real work, and your supervisor reviews it.
Stage 3
Own
You own small projects from start to finish.
Stage 4
Lead
You're given an objective and propose the plan.
Pathways
Start from a pathway, make it yours
Every task comes with the why, the steps, the lesson and the skills it builds. Use a whole pathway, borrow one week, or write your own.
Marketing + Business Co-op (12 weeks)
A full 12-week pathway: orientation, customers and marketing, content, sales, websites, operations, finance, leadership, networking, AI, entrepreneurship and a capstone.
Business Co-op (12 weeks)
Business fundamentals, customer experience, sales, operations, finance, leadership and networking, ending in a capstone.
Social Media Co-op (8 weeks)
Short-form video, design, analytics and collaborations, with a capstone portfolio.
Sales Co-op (8 weeks)
Learn the offer, research, scripts, role-play, supervised calls, email and networking.
Entrepreneurship Co-op (8 weeks)
Business 101 applied to a real idea alongside real placement work, ending in a pitch.
Office Administration Co-op (8 weeks)
Etiquette, email, customer experience, systems, accounting basics and project management.
Skilled Trades Co-op (8 weeks)
Safety first, then tools, customer experience, the business side of a trade, and a capstone.
Construction Co-op (8 weeks)
Site safety, tools, how jobs are estimated and run, customer experience and a capstone.
Privacy
Student privacy, built in
The questions a principal or HR lead asks first.
- Enforced by the database. Each person sees only the placements they belong to, and only what their role allows. One employer or school can never see another's students.
- Schools see what employers share. Attendance, hours, learning, skills, evaluations: each is a separate permission for each placement.
- Private notes stay private. Supervisor notes and private feedback are never shown to the student, mentors or the school, and never appear in reports.
- Safeguards on field work. Filming and site tasks remind students to get approval and consent and never to show addresses, licence plates or customer information.
- No tracking in the co-op area. No ads, no data sales, no analytics and no search indexing on co-op pages.
Before you start
Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. The Launch League Co-op OS is free for schools, employers and students. Launch League is funded by organizations and sponsors, not by charging the people it serves. There are no ads and no data sales.
- Who can use it?
- Employers hosting co-op, work-experience or internship students, and the schools that place them. It works for one student or many, across several businesses and managers. It's built for Ontario placements but nothing in it is Ontario-only.
- Does it replace our board's co-op paperwork?
- No. Placement agreements, insurance and WSIB forms, safety training records and anything else your board or employer requires still go through their usual process. The Co-op OS handles the day-to-day: planning, learning, hours, feedback, sign-offs and evidence.
- Do we have to use your curriculum?
- No. Pick one of the 8 built-in pathways, add a single week from one, start blank, or save a placement that worked as your own template. Every task can be edited, moved or removed.
- What does the school see?
- Only what the employer grants for that placement: for example attendance, hours, learning progress, evaluations or school-reportable feedback. Private supervisor notes and private feedback are never visible to the school, to mentors or to the student.
- What does the student need?
- A phone or computer and a free Launch League account using the email address the employer entered. Nothing to install.
- How is student information protected?
- Access is enforced by the database, not just the app, so one placement can never see another's records. Evidence files are stored privately. Co-op pages aren't tracked by analytics or indexed by search engines. See the Privacy Policy for details.
Get started
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