There are many key differences between the SmartClass digital platform TO TEACH LANGUAGES and the Google Classroom, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams tools that are in vogue for teachers now.
This is different from the other three platforms that can be characterized as General Purpose Video Conferencing Tools (GPVCT). These are general meeting platforms, and language teachers are back to their teaching challenges, only exacerbated by the real-time digital constraints.
Asynchronous is critically important as students at home often share electronic device(s) with the rest of the family. This also allows extending the time spent on practicing the foreign language.
The short amount of time invested in mastering the platform will not be lost, when things return to normal.
No need to juggle with many tools and apps to offer your students a well-planned, comprehensive, and engaging language lesson.
Activities foster writing, comprehension, listening, reading, pronunciation, and speaking skills. Any fun activity can be prepared from scratch in 5 minutes.
This content was pedagogically designed by language teachers for language teachers and is aligned with the international standards of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
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It helps overcome the key challenges facing teachers:
With the Live option, language teachers can assign activities to students in real-time during class promoting cooperative group-learning.
One important benefit of SmartClass is that it can be used with any of the conferencing tools listed above. You do not have to choose between SmartClass and those. You can use both as the conferencing tools are very limited in what they provide language teachers and students, besides a common meeting time. SmartClass is the ideal complement to any language teacher facing typical teaching challenges that do not find a solution in Zoom, Teams, or Google Classroom.