In this activity, you can transfer an audio track to students. Students then access their Digital recorders, so that they can work with the source material individually and at their own pace to better comprehend what was said. You may select the students to answer questions to show how well they understood what they heard.

Students listen to and repeat after a model track to practice the stress rhythm and intonation of a foreign language, while their voices are recorded onto the student track. You can either use sources with ready-made pauses in them or manually pause the audio source during the activity.

The Video Pairing activity allows you to set up student pairs for a video chat using the students’ Webcam images. The activity is perfect for a variety of different exercises based on real-life interaction from simple everyday discussions to role-playing exercises and even sign-language discussions.

Allow students to “call” each other with the much requested Telephone activity. allows for a wide range of real-life base conversation exercises.

Reading aloud is a useful way of practicing intonation, rhythm and pronunciation, and is ideal for students’ individual practice. Students read a text which is recorded on the student track, and then practice to improve their proficiency. Everyone in class can read at the same time and at their own pace which saves time compared to the “traditional” reading practice methods, and even the shy students are not afraid to participate.

Text-to-Speech is a powerful addition to Lab learning tools, allowing users to easily create high quality audio material in their target language from any English text, as well as benefit from native voices even in the absence of native staff. The conversion is quick, simple and there is no need to record in advance.

You can simply copy and paste any English text from any source, such as a Web page, and create an audio file with bookmarks and subtitles for your students to work on independently. Created audio files are added to the Study Playlist. The Text-to-Speech feature employs the default Windows voice synthesizer. However, we are also able to offer a selection of high-quality Text-to- Speech English voices for different.

Round table discussion allows teachers to set up small student groups with a designated chairman, who leads the discussion and assigns turns during the discussion by passing a microphone around the group. The activity allows teachers to set up a meeting environment to help advanced language learners strengthen their oral presentation skills. Chairmen and participants for the groups can be defined either manually or with automatic options. Student applications display a list of discussion participants and chairman and students can request the microphone by clicking a request button. Teacher can listen in on each group and participate in the discussion when needed

You can unobtrusively listen to student conversations, allowing your students to feel free to express themselves using their own words, rather than rehearsed textbook responses. In addition to pair and group discussions has a round table discussion that allows you to set up small student groups with a designated chairman, who leads the discussion. You can set up a meeting environment to help advanced language learners strengthen their oral presentation skills.

With the Examination module you can easily create a variety of tests for students. You can use audio, video, images and text in the questions, and customize the grading scale to your needs.

Please note that the Examination module is available as a separate module for Sanako Study 1200, and is not included in by default.

In Tutoring, the teacher or student selected as Media source can talk to the
others while their screen is shared to the session. This allows the teacher or a
selected student to give a presentation or instruct the others by showing
material from their own screen.

If Tutor is selected as media source the Study 1200 Tutor application is
minimized to the taskbar and an On The Air indication panel appears in the
lower-right corner of the tutor screen.

Note: In Tutoring the Stop Transfer button will not end the screen transfer. Instead, you need to end
the activity to stop sharing the teacher screen.
If Student is selected as media source, you can select whether to view the
student screen during the activity.

The screen and audio of the presenter, whether teacher or student, can be
recorded during the activity by selecting Record source screen.

Teacher can switch on student PCs, use Shutdown operations, Lock PCs, Launch programs, and Disable the internet. This can be done in order to get attention, to redirect attention or action, to help in using the pc, or to shut down all pcs in the end of the lesson. If the computers seem to distract the students, teacher can lock the screen, lock keyboard and mouse, or lock the screen, keyboard and mouse of the student PC’s. Teacher is able to launch files and programs in lock mode. Teacher can also Switch on student PCs and restart the computers if necessary.

With Screen control activities, the tutor can monitor, remote control and collaborate with the students by following their screens. The teacher can collaborate with selected students by accessing their computers to help with a task on the student screen and at the same time communicates with the student. Monitoring students allows teachers to listen to selected students’ work and view their screens. Screen monitoring allows the teacher to view the screen activity of multiple student workstations in real time, automatically and
consecutively. Teacher is able to select whether the classroom layout displays student icons or thumbnail images of the student screens. Teacher can at any time view a snapshot of a selected student screen.

Distribute material to students for independent work. Students can save the
files onto a USB drive or other device and continue outside the classroom.