Admin Tools (Student Name, Attendance Control). Intercom, chat & messaging tools, • Control Student PCs, • Monitor Students PCs, 

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.

In Model Imitation students listen to the media source and then repeat after it. Students are automatically recorded onto the student track. Model Imitation allows you to perform exercises where the students repeat words or sentences and answer questions.

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. This allows for a wide range of real-life based conversation exercises.

In Reading Practice the students read aloud onto the student track after which you can let the students go over their work independently. In the Documents to launch field, you can select documents (for example, the text to be read or pronunciation instructions) that will be opened for the students when the activity is started. The students are automatically recorded onto the student track during Reading Practice. At the end of the activity you can click on Free to free the student Player controls and let the students listen to their own work. During the activity student players are locked except for volume, teacher call
and bookmarks.

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.

Study 1200 has up to six sessions. You can initiate different activities for the students and use different methods for each session to individualize learning. More advanced students can be put in a self-study session while you focus on the students who require more support. In the Self-Access mode each student works independently of all the other students.

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 Study 1200 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.

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.

After selecting an activity in the Activity selection menu, Listening Comprehension in our example, select the Text-to-Speech (TTS) option from the Media source selection menu.

(1) Open a saved .TXT file or copy and paste text to the main window, for example from a Web page

(2) Click to show the advanced settings

(3) Select the appropriate Sanako Voice from the drop-down list. Only the voices that you have purchased and installed will be shown.

(4) Click Play to hear the audio

(5) Click Next when you are happy to continue. Save the MFF audio file to where you want and wait a bit for the audio has been encoded. After a short period you will then be able to start begin playing the TTS audio to your students.

In the Voice Insert mode, gaps can be inserted automatically into source material, which means that you do not have to leave silent parts for the answers in the recordings – any audio file can be used. This unique feature allows you to create exercises during playback, and to give oral feedback on student recordings after a test.

Study gives you the control over student PCs, which allows for guidance and support of the students. You can black out the student screens and/or lock the cursors and keyboards to draw their attention. A blocking feature allows you to block the use of Internet or other applications to help students focus on a given task.

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 seeing how assignments progress. Student screens can all be viewed simultaneously as thumbnails.

Software offers all the possibilities for communicating. Teacher can use Talk or Discuss functionalities to give instructions to all students, to a specific group of student, or a single student. Teacher can send messages and receive them from students, Chat can be allowed by teacher Students may ask for help discretely by using call functionality, Teacher and students can discuss privately or teacher can set up pair or group Discussion. A teacher- student discussion may also be shared with others in the classroom. Allowing others to observe a discussion between the teacher and a student combines communicative exercises with peer evaluation.

Subtitles work as a link between spoken word and written text creating possibilities for different speech-to-text and text-to-speech translation exercises. With the ability to subtitle files, students will gain additional valuable language practice working with media files.