Archive for 'For Instructors'
CL-150 Lesson Authoring Tips: Creative Uses of Slide Show Posted by meaghan on Sep 19, 2019 in For Instructors, Lesson Authoring Tips
As the CL-150’s Lesson Authoring tool continues to evolve, the more possibilities you have when creating your language lessons. To help you make the most of those possibilities, we’re tapping the collective expertise and creativity of the CL-150 instructor community in a series of Lesson Authoring tips. With more than 25 learning activities (and growing)…
New in Reporting: Schedule Recurring Reports Posted by meaghan on Jun 5, 2019 in For Instructors, For Program Managers, New in Admin Reporting, New in Class Reporting
Administrators, program managers, and instructors can now schedule recurring reports in the CL-150 Platform. All admin reports can now be scheduled to run automatically, and you can choose to receive them by email daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. You can access your scheduled reports any time from the Manage Recurring dashboard, where you can also…
Why focus on vocabulary? Posted by meaghan on May 29, 2019 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, Pedagogy
“Why do you focus so much on vocabulary in your language platforms?” We get that question a lot, and it’s a more interesting question than you might think. We focus on language proficiency, which is largely made up of two things: vocabulary (declarative knowledge) and skills like pronunciation, grammar, structure, automaticity (procedural knowledge).[1] The CL-150 Platform and Transparent…
New in Lesson Authoring: Lesson Unlocking, Excel Import, and More Posted by meaghan on May 2, 2019 in For Instructors, New in Lesson Authoring
We recently added another batch of features and updates to CL-150 Lesson Authoring, the lesson creation technology for quickly building compelling, multi-activity language lessons that work on almost all common smartphones, tablets and laptops. Lesson Unlocking We listened to your feedback about lesson unlocking—we know how painful it was to lose progress when editing the…
New in LessonGin: Image Attributions, Table Activity, Incorrect Answer Feedback Posted by gail on Oct 3, 2018 in For Instructors, New in Lesson Authoring
We recently added another batch of features and updates to CL-150 Lesson Authoring, the lesson creation technology for quickly building compelling, multi-activity language lessons that work on almost all common smartphones, tablets and laptops. New image attribution support and improved text editing LessonGin’s Text Details screen, the Vocab Editing screen, and the Slide Show configuration…
New in Class Management: Assignment Subscriptions Posted by gail on Jun 7, 2018 in For Instructors, New in Class Management
Instructors, you can now make automatic assignments based on CL-150 Cohorts or another class using Assignment Subscriptions. The CL-150 Platform’s new Assignment Subscriptions capability allows you to set up subscriptions in which one class receives the same assignments as another, either automatically or after instructor review. And the same is true if you want your…
New in LessonGin: Import from URL, Bookmarklet, and More Posted by gail on Dec 13, 2017 in For Instructors, New in Lesson Authoring
With LessonGin, the CL-150’s language lesson creation technology, lesson creators use authentic content to quickly build compelling, multi-activity language lessons that work on almost all common smartphones, tablets and laptops. We are continually making improvements to enhance the LessonGin experience for learners, instructors and administrators. This week we’ve added another batch of features and updates…