a follow-up tool for teachers

Actilablang allows teachers to follow up the work of their students at any time.

A complete history of their activities is recorded, including the date and time at which they accessed every tool and the time spent reading documents or completing exercises, or the number of words recorded or modified in their vocabulary list.

Exercises included in their work agendas can be made with the in-built generator, or with the modified version of HotPotatoes (c) accessible from the main menu of the software, which allows Actilablang to record the time spent doing the exercises and the scores.

Teachers can also make contact individually with their students via e-mail, or the video chatroom or even by opening the class's interactive virtual whiteboard, as the names of the students currently online appear in red in the list and they can send them an alarm requesting them to connect themselves either to the chatroom or to the whiteboard.

The advantage of having access to the homework of students is that teachers can correct mistakes found in their work in progress, before they are recorded in their long-term memory when they use their notes for class-work. Moreover, teachers can advise students to focus on certain types of mistakes and direct them to online grammar lessons or other learning tools individually when needed.

Following up the work of students may be time-consuming but experience shows that students knowing that their work is (supposedly) constantly being monitored tend to pay more attention and simply to do what is expected from them, since they know that evidence of their work will be available.

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