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Students and teachers alike are both encouraged to recommend videos they’d like to see on EnglishCentral. We always need more eyes out there – finding great videos! In fact, looking at the two most popular videos right now on EnglishCentral, one of them was recommended by a member. Further, on our suggest a video page, […]
We have updated the Teacher Tools and appreciate all the positive feedback we are getting! Indeed, the new features make managing your classes and students so much easier. Here are the major highlights. (*note – the next and final update will include listening to student recordings, printing reports and copying class curriculum. Read about it […]
We are super excited about our new teacher tools. We’ve released the first of two updates. Meant to give teachers simplicity and functionality so they can help their students through the powerful learning platform of EnglishCentral. I’ve outlined in this video, the changes you’ll see when you click your TEACH tab when registered as a […]
Continuing to look at the changes on EnglishCentral – today, let’s look at how we’ve made the recording features more powerful. Also, how we’ve made it easier for you to keep track of videos. 1. Fluency Feedback Now Working! The player will give students “fluency” feedback as well as that on pronunciation. Meaning, when students […]
Our new release is a few days old. We hope you are enjoying it. Here on the blog, we’ll be highlighting the changes so you might understand them better. Today, we’ll tackle the two most fundamental: Selective Sampling and Vocabulary Levels. 1. Selective Sampling. EnglishCentral still has Basic and Premium features. However now, you get […]
It’s important that students study the vocabulary from the video that is at their appropriate level. Too many hard words in the quiz makes it all guessing and no learning. Too many easy words in the quiz makes it boring, boring, boring. This video shows you an easy way to set the vocabulary at the […]
Teachers really want information about student online activity. It helps them in so many ways. On EnglishCentral, we give teachers lots of information about students but mostly in the form of a class list or a report which you can export. To get visual information about a specific student, you’ll have to download the report. […]
We’ve been working to make the process of inviting students to your EnglishCentral class, much simpler and transparent. Part of the forthcoming changes include notifications to both teacher / student that they’ve successfully enrolled in a class. Also, the ability to enroll many students at once (just send to teachers@englishcentral.com a .csv excel file of […]
One of the things we’ve learned from our recent Teacher’s survey is that many of our members don’t know about our Premium features. That is both good and bad. Good because you are getting the benefit of our free features without constant reminders of “pay”. Bad because members aren’t aware of the awesome power of […]
The player is the core of the EnglishCentral learning experience. It is very powerful and full of features. We want everyone to know about these features and how they can be used. Here’s a nice tutorial by a professor, showing you all of them! Teachers – remember you can also just play the videos in […]
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