How many website accounts do your students need for your course? Multi-platform syndrome is the frustration that students feel when their teacher asks them to make accounts on multiple websites, with each website requiring new logins, navigation, and user-experience challenges. Here’s the solution.
AI-powered courses are the future because they give teachers superpowers to develop meaningful lessons, correct errors, and respond to students’ ideas at a level never considered possible before.
If you are like me, you want to maximize the number of opportunities for your students to practice their writing. But if your students are like mine, they won’t write a word unless it is scored, unless they receive actionable feedback, and unless they feel the presence of a reader.…
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Students learn to write better by writing more often. That’s why I have added a new automated evaluation to Labodanglais.com and Labodefrancais.com. It’s a self-scoring writing assignment to evaluate English and French writing. The teacher simply sets thresholds, scores, and feedback messages. Students write, submit, and receive their scores seconds…
Wouldn’t it be great if a student could instantly receive a score and feedback, after watching a video and explaining to a classmate what he or she heard? An evaluation like that would be much closer to the way language is actually used in the world. Labodanglais.com makes it possible. Students watch a video and then record themselves summarizing it. The assignment plugin scores their oral automatically. Doesn’t that sound so much better than giving students a listening quiz?
Writing compare and contrast essays takes time, but evaluating them need not rob teachers of their weekends. Labodanglais and Virtual Writing Tutor can evaluate this type of essay in seconds, hundreds at a time, draft after draft, promoting revision and better engagement.
Teachers like me want an online test that measures all four language skills and arrives at the same level placement recommendation as expert teachers would arrive at. With our innovative new evaluation tools, I think Labodanglais.com is getting closer to that goal. Here’s why.
Would you like to start using the automated evaluation tools on Labodanglais.com with your students—but without a book? You could spend your summer developing a course for your students. Sure. But one summer might not be enough. If only there were some content that you could use! Well, there is.…