Streamline material requests, enhance accessibility, and support your educational institution with a customizable no-code portal.


Set up a course material request portal with just the views and features your team needs. Update or add new options easily as your needs change.
Connect spreadsheets, learning management systems, and other tools with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for course materials.
Provide staff and students with a branded portal to request course materials. Set permissions for each user type and manage requests with ease.
Your portal is optimized for mobile and desktop. Users can submit or track requests from anywhere, at any time.
Your portal is optimized for mobile and desktop. Users can submit or track requests from anywhere, at any time.
Connect your portal to tools like Make or Zapier to streamline notifications, approvals, and order processing.
Give students, faculty, or admins tailored dashboards—so each group sees only the information and requests relevant to them.
Apply rules for who can submit, approve, or view requests. Permissions can be customized for students, instructors, or staff.
Protect user and course information with robust security. Softr is compliant with SOC2 and GDPR standards.
Educators can ask AI for course materials, availability, or status—getting instant answers directly inside your request portal.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Launch your course material request portal in minutes with drag-and-drop blocks and templates.
Add features like approval flows or file uploads as your material request process evolves—no rebuild needed.
Start with a portal, then add dashboards, request forms, or notifications—all in one place, no extra tools.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












A course material request portal is a secure online space where students, instructors, or staff can log in to request, track, and access course materials. It centralizes all material requests, status updates, and document downloads in one place, reducing the need for back-and-forth emails or shared drives. This helps everyone stay organized and ensures materials are easy to find and manage.
Softr makes it easy to build a course material request portal tailored to your institution’s needs. You can connect your data—like course information in Airtable, user details in Notion, or request tracking in Google Sheets—and create a portal where users can submit requests, monitor progress, and access materials, all in one spot.
There’s no need to code. You can start with a template or build from scratch, adjust the layout, manage user permissions, and brand it to match your institution. It’s quick to set up, simple to update, and flexible enough to accommodate changing material needs across courses and semesters.
You can include many features in your course material request portal, depending on your process. Common options include:
\- User logins – so each student or instructor can access their own requests and materials
\- Custom dashboards – to show request status, history, or available materials
\- Forms – for submitting new requests or feedback
\- File sharing – for uploading and downloading syllabi, readings, or other documents
\- Search and filters – to quickly find requests or specific course materials
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – to display requests, deadlines, or material status
\- Comments or status updates – to keep communication about requests in one place
\- Calendar view – to track deadlines or material pickup dates
\- Permissions and roles – so users only see what’s relevant to them
All of these features can be set up using Softr’s drag-and-drop blocks—no coding required. If your needs change, it’s easy to update the portal later.
No coding is required. You can build your course material request portal entirely with Softr’s visual editor. From layout to permissions, everything can be customized without writing a single line of code.
Yes. You can manage multiple departments or instructors in a single course material request portal. Each user only sees the requests and materials assigned to them, based on their login and role. This is especially useful for educational institutions or training organizations that handle requests from different areas or teaching staff.
Softr supports a wide range of data sources. You can connect your course material request portal to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. You can also bring in data from other sources using the REST API.
You’re not limited to just one. You can integrate multiple data sources into the same portal and display them side by side—so your course material request portal can pull in information from both Airtable and Google Sheets at once. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so any changes made in your portal or the data source stay updated automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how users experience your course material request portal. You can customize the layout, navigation, and content to match your institution’s workflow and branding. Each page or block can be shown or hidden based on who’s logged in, so every instructor or department sees only what’s relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, such as instructor, admin, or department coordinator—and define exactly what each role can view or request. For example, instructors can see and manage only their own requests, while admins can oversee all requests across departments. You can also create personalized views by filtering data based on the logged-in user.
This level of customization is especially helpful when you’re managing multiple departments, instructors, or campuses in the same portal. It keeps the experience organized, secure, and tailored to each user.
Yes, you can. You don’t need to bring your course material data from another system to start building your portal with Softr. If you’re starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates seamlessly with your course material request portal.
But if you already have your data in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, you can connect those as well. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in data from other sources. Either way, you have full control over how your data is organized and displayed in your portal.
Yes, you can fully white-label your course material request portal in Softr. You can use your own logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain to make the portal feel like a natural extension of your institution or organization. You can also remove all Softr branding, so your users only see your organization’s identity throughout the experience.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your course material request portal. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page structure to match your institutional branding. You can also choose how each page is organized, decide which blocks go where, and set what different users see based on their roles when they log in.
To display your data, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
\- Table blocks – to show structured data like material requests, approvals, or request status
\- List or Card blocks – to highlight things like course offerings, available materials, or resource catalogs
\- Detail View – to show one record at a time, such as a specific material request
\- Forms – for requesting or updating materials
\- Charts – to show insights, like request volumes or fulfillment rates
\- Calendar blocks – to display deadlines or delivery schedules
If your content or design needs change later, it’s easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your apps are hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr apps also give you full control over who can see and do what in your course material request portal. You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect sensitive information across your entire portal.
For portals connected to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr doesn’t store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You’re always in control of your data and who can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep your information safe.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one app with up to 10 app users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your course material request portal needs more users or features, here’s how the paid plans stack up: <http://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is built to make it easy to create fully functional, user-facing apps—like course material request portals, resource management tools, and internal systems—without needing to write code or rely on developers. What sets it apart is how quickly you can go from idea to working portal, and how well it connects with your existing data.
Unlike some no-code tools that focus on mobile apps (like Glide) or are more dev-oriented (like Retool), Softr is designed for non-technical teams who want full control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build on top of real-time data from tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded portals that students, faculty, or staff can log into.
You can customize everything visually—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes things like user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to patch together multiple tools to launch something polished.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations so you can connect your course material request portal to the rest of your systems. You can sync with tools like Stripe for payments, Intercom for chat, and automate tasks using Zapier, Make, and N8N. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced workflows.
Whether you need to send data to another system, trigger automations based on user actions, or display information from other tools, you can build it into your course material request portal, without writing code.