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How it works, in practice.

The questions people ask once they can picture the lesson: what it does on a phone, where the homework goes, what happens when a student needs to move a lesson, and whether it speaks the language you teach in.

Is EdTechCore in my language?

Yes, if you are reading this page in it. The panels for the school, the teacher and the student, and the emails the platform sends, are published in every language this site is published in - the switcher at the foot of this page is that list. Each person chooses their own, so a school can be run in one language while a teacher works in another. The language a course is taught in is set on the course, so an English course stays English for a student whose panel is not.

Can I teach one-to-one as well as groups?

Both, off the same course. A lesson in the timetable is given to a whole course, to one group, or to the students you name - so a Tuesday group and a Thursday one-to-one run off the same material rather than a copy of it.

What kinds of tasks can I build?

Closed ones mark themselves the moment a student answers: Multiple choice, True / false, Type the word, Match pairs, Put in order, Word bank, Categorize, Find in text, Listening, Dictation. Open ones you mark yourself: Writing, Speaking, and a file the student uploads. There are more than these, and the constructor groups them by what they practise, so you pick by the skill you are drilling.

Can I add my own audio, video and PDFs?

Yes. Pictures, audio, video and PDFs go into the lesson, and a YouTube link plays in place instead of sending the class to another tab. What a student hands in is stored privately: an answer is not a file a stranger can open.

How do students do their homework online?

Homework is a lesson you hand over as homework. The student opens it in their own panel, works through the tasks, and the closed ones come back marked at once, while what needs your eye waits in one queue. They see what is due and when. You can give one student more time without moving the deadline for everybody, and you decide whether late work still counts or the deadline closes it.

How homework works

Can a student move a lesson themselves?

They can ask. From their own schedule a student picks a new time and sends the request, and you see whether you are free then before you move the lesson or keep it. They hear your answer in their notifications, and a lesson that moves, moves in every calendar subscribed to the schedule. You set how long before a lesson a request can still come in.

How the schedule works

Will my timetable show up in Google Calendar?

Yes, as a subscription. The schedule gives you a private link that Google, Apple and Outlook all read: your lessons appear in your own calendar, a lesson that moves moves there too, and one that is called off is taken off rather than left sitting in the week. It runs one way - what you write in Google Calendar stays there.

How the schedule works

Does it work on a phone?

The student side is built for one: lessons, tasks, homework and the schedule all work on a phone, and the panel can sit on the home screen like an app. A teacher can run a lesson from a phone too. Building a course is the part that wants a bigger screen.

Can I message my students on the platform?

Yes. Write to one student, to a group, or post an announcement. A lesson's board carries its own chat as well, so a question asked in the middle of a task does not move the class to another app.

What does it cost?

One price per workspace, monthly or yearly, with 30 days free first; a school's teachers pick its tier, and students are never counted. The pricing page lists the tiers and what each holds.

Pricing

Can I see which students are falling behind?

Yes. The student list marks anyone who has not handed in homework by its deadline or has started missing lessons, and filters down to just them, so you read one screen instead of every row. The student's profile says which of the two it is.

Something this page does not answer?

Each audience page answers its own questions, the home page covers what EdTechCore is, and the tour walks through a lesson. Anything else, ask us - while we are launching, a person answers.

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