I really wish duolingo had been around when I was home educating my children. What you are doing is fantastic.

I'm not a teacher, although I do tutor Chinese at the local Confucius Institute. I tried the Schools feature to track the learning progress of my family members, especially my sister's. Her school requires all the students learning French to go on Duolingo. It has become part of their official curriculum. After observation, here are two suggestions I have to raise:

1. Allow students to enroll in multiple sessions. Right now, my sister's school is not using the dashboard to track their students' progress, but some day they may. And as her brother, I would also like to know how she is doing at school. Alternatively, different language teachers at her school may want to track her progress in different language courses, for example, both French and Spanish.

2. Create a separate place for students to comment. I'm not quite sure how you can do this, but I know the problem is there. Children don't know the forum regulations, and may leave spam comments when they get bored, especially when they are forced to use Duolingo by their school teachers. To avoid clutter, or at least to reduce the workload of forum mods a little bit, the educators should be allowed to moderate the comments/posts of their students. It would be perfect if there would be a place for educators to follow all the activities of their students. This may also help educators answer their students' questions more quickly.

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I'm a university student who is trying to help build a Language Studies program at my school and I'm using this to not only learn languages myself, but to encourage my friends to learn. Right now, using the Teacher function helps me see what my friends are doing. Here are some suggestions after the first week of me using it:

1) A reminder button to send notifications to students (individual and mass) to practice their language(s). 2) A way to minimize and sort students by language being learned. As someone who is learning multiple languages and who has friends learning different languages, sorting to see who is doing which language and their progress in it would be beneficial. 3) A progress bar for each student on the Dashboard. I can see the total xp for the week they earn, what lesson they've done, etc..but I'd like to see how close they are to leveling up in their language and maybe how far they have advanced down the tree. 4) A "recommended skill" button to suggest to students a specific skill to work on. For example, if I wanted my students/friends to work on Plurals or Food, I could click the button to let them know (individually and/or collectively) to focus on that lesson for the week

I realize that these suggestions might be a lot of work, but that's what suggestions are for. I recommend Duolingo to pretty much everyone who has ever told me that they had an interest in a language and certainly to all of my friends, especially ones in university/college. I love the work you guys are doing and hope to see more great things in the future! Thank you so much!

Thank you Duolingo team. I hope you continue working very good this year and always. I think you can add largest audios or short videos to see real conversations in real situations like a job interview, order food in a restaurant, make a hotel reservation, asking for an address, etc. For example we can listen an audio o watch a video and try to translation all phrases in the conversation, something like that. Another idea is we can record an audio and send it to a teacher o educator and the teacher listen the audio and send us a feedback about our pronunciation and fluency. Thanks a lot and congratulations for your kind support to learn other languages.

Does Duolingo for Schools address the problem for elementary-school students of limiting their access to the social media component of the platform? Is there even a way for a teacher to monitor students' connections with others?

Hi,

Technology integration teacher (with experience of reading intervention, special education, and language learning) here. I wanted to share my thoughts, coming from the ESL side of things.

1. Multiple teacher per student support is a must. Just look at the massive disgust of teachers across the country when Google launched Classroom with only single teacher support. In my school an ESL student has (or can have) classroom teachers, Intervention Specialists, ESL coordinator, and an ESL aide who all want to be able to access student information for support. Google Classroom does a bad job at this, Khan Academy is an example of one that does a great job at offering multiple "coaches".

2. It would be massively more relevant and helpful for any K-12 language learner to have access to the education lessons early on. It is not good practice for me ESL students to be practicing words like vegetarian, when words like "whiteboard, desk, pencil, marker, gym, hallway, bathroom, water fountain" etc are pivotal, and allows them much sooner to understand and make sense of the words they here around them in their environment.

3. Spelling kills. I sat today with an ESL student trying to get him to write 3 sentences because he gets so stuck on spelling. You can ask many teachers, but when punish learners harshly for spelling. We have students (and there are adults out there too, some very bright) who are not great spellers. Duolingo will never be an option of a large portion of our ESL students because they will not be able to pass the lessons. Students with dyslexia or just a very poor sense of spelling.These kids are just cut off from Duolingo forever. I know on the iOS app you could tap words to put them into sentences. An option to set sentence writing to this style would work for those kids.

Thank you so much for offering this. I just started using the dashboard with me AP Spanish class today. I teach High School Spanish 2, 3, AP, and French 1. I used Duolingo with all of them last year so it will be great to be able to track online now.

I just want to thank the Duolingo team for such an amazing resource for teachers. My students are fully engaged and really enjoy using it. What I miss right now is to be able to merge two accounts so that I don't lose my progress and friends in my personal account. I don't know why I chose a different email address when I registered as a teacher :(

I can finally stop my students from repeating easy lessons! Many of my students would decide to just repeat Basics 1 over and over again to meet their daily XP goals. I've now made it very clear to them that they will only get credit for assigned lessons. I've been waiting for this for a long time and it was great to finally see what lessons each student is actually completing. I have 60 students so it has always been difficult to keep track.

It's nice to see the new forum section here!

I do math tutoring occasionally and, especially in math, have found it really useful to be able to see how much time a student is putting into the work. So, perhaps we could see a running total of the time each student spends added to the dashboard at some point.

Ideally, it would also help to see when a student worked on things. I've had at least one student who would put a lot of time into his homework, but he did all of it at the end of the week when I was coming back to tutor him; naturally this didn't work out very well. So, something like this might help to pinpoint why a student might not be doing as well as the data suggests.

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Also, progress reports would be nice. Perhaps you already do that and I just have them turned off for some reason; if not, those would be useful from a teacher's perspective and for a student to receive each week. (Maybe they can set an optional goal to try to beat the amount of points they earned the previous week...)

This is my third year to use DuoLingo for my Spanish class. The first year I used it with my second year students. They all agreed that they learned more in that year than in the year before I discovered Duolingo.

One of the things I miss is the vocabulary list that was grouped by topic and lesson. I t made it easy to create vocabulary lists for my kids to double check before testing off line. I also miss the verb conjugation charts that were tied to each verb in the vocabulary lists. I used to be able to view the progress chart or tree and see where they were in completing the different sections. (Like knowing that one student hadn't completed the required topic by the test date.

I LOVE this program. My kids are able to translate more than ever before and have more confidence in their ability to understand and learn Spanish. The fact that you can use the phone app is also a great bonus.

Here are my suggestions:

• could there be a generic letter print out available so we can send home a little letter with the student's username and password? I'm using this in an elementary school and am writing my own letter to send home explaining duolingo and how they can use it at home

• could there be a class forum where students in the same class can comment?

• for younger students I think they would like if the little owl or some little character is on the screen when they do lessons.

• another activity other than just lesson or flashcards (especially something that feels like a game)

Thank you for making this program available for free! Keep up the good work!

Dear colleagues abroad,

I teach grade 5 beginners English class (11 year olds) in Vienna, Austria. Would anyone be interested in connecting our pupils as pen pals?

Greetings,

tinavienna

Thanks again Luis, Duolingo Dashboard and the Educators Forum are really fantastic. Suggestions:

• It would be really nice if teachers could unlock skills that may be pertinent to what they are doing in class;
• It would be nice if a little bell icon would light up next to students' usernames when they post in discussions;
• It would be useful if the date when they studied would be indicated next to what they did. This has been suggested by others, but I'm repeating the request as it's important. Or as an alternative, I wish DL would have a weekly progress bar graph displayed on people's profile. I have a script but it hasn't been working for a long time. :( The script also showed people's trees, which would be useful for me as an educator.

Hi! When does progress tracking for a particular week END? I want to assign an XP amount for my students to earn by a certain date/time, but I do not know when the week ends, according to Duolingo.

I want a chatroom of students and their teacher

I am slightly confused on start Duolingo for Schools. Could anybody help?

As well as using DL at home with my own children, I have also recommended it to my Jr. High students (Germans learning English ). I look forward to seeing how we can best integrate this program into our school English department.

I am so happy that this is happening! I am an English schools worker, living and working in Germany. I teach classes from year 5 to year 10 and I've been telling my older classes that they should use Duolingo. Now I have a solid way to see that they are using it! I haven't got any student's on it yet, so I can't point out flaws or give any solid feedback, I just want to say thank you that this has been introduced!

I am a Spanish teacher currently I am teaching Spanish 3,4 and 5 at a high school level. Thank you for creating this great feature for teachers. In the future I would like to be able to see the type of grammar that students are practicing in each lesson and also if they are having difficulties understanding the topic. I progress report will be also a great help. Thank you again for creating a free tool for students to learn and practice a new language.

Does anyone know of a method to alphabetize the name in dashboard? This would be sooooo helpful. Thank you.

Can I block the discussion and immersion sections for my students? if so how??

Thanks

I just introduced this into my Spanish I classes today offering extra credit for leveling up a certain amount of times and challenging my classes to compete against each other for the most levels completed. However, I have already run into one major problem, one annoyance, and another problem:

1) Students tried to "cheat" by testing out of every level to earn a ridiculous amount of points (they used the Internet for answers). Well, now I can't figure out how to reset their account to zero so they can legitimately participate in our contests. Please have a way teachers can undo testing / work if they know students did it dishonestly. Or have a way users can reset their own accounts without eliminating their account or link to gmail and I'll have the students do that. (Or is there already a way to do this??)

2) Can there please be a quick and easy way for me to get from my own Duolingo home screen to the teacher dashboard? On one of the drop-down menus (preferably the one under my name) can it just say "Dashboard" somewhere?

3) As mentioned by many on this forum, we need separate links to teacher accounts for separate languages. One student wants to learn Italian, too, but I don't want her Italian lessons to count toward the Spanish class totals.

Trust high school kids to figure out how to outsmart the system already. :) Now please just help me outsmart them!

I appreciate the expanded ability to filter students and languages. Thank you.

2 suggestions:

1. Can we separate and filter students by Last name as well. Presently, I am making them all change their names to LastName, FirstName format for ease.

2. Can we get an export option. That way I could possibly manipulate data how I please.

Just something else to think about-- I am using the Spanish to English with Heritage Speakers and they are loving that they are learning English. Many are recommending Duolingo to their Spanish speaking family members to learn English at home as well. Targeting and accommodating English Language Learners (ELL's) could take duolingo out of foreign language classrooms and into Core Subject language arts classrooms. I am recommending it to our ESL teachers. Kudos to you guys.

Hi there, my name is Laura and I am a student at the University of Michigan. I love using Duolingo and I believe it is a very beneficial site. While browsing the site, I noticed it is basically ran by the users when it comes to translations. I understand this is a way to keep the site running free of cost, but I sometimes feel unsure about some of the words I am learning because of this. For example, Spanish is a very diverse language among latin cultures, therefore it is generalized within the different Spanish’s but the user would not be able to fully communicate the language in all latin-based places speaking Spanish because some words are used differently then others and different things are called different names by different Spanish-speaking areas. How are the users sure of the learned languages and translations when they are being translated by its own Duolingo users? How accurate are the languages learned?

Thank you, Laura

When you guys assess Duolingo, do you usually do a combination of progress on new skills and xp? I was doing just xp for awhile because duolingo schools didn't exist. I just gave students a meter to gradually color in and told them that the more new skills they added, the more their duolingo would correspond to what we were doing in class. (You don' t want to be stuck back on jobs when in class we are doing the subjunctive, you' d want to be also doing subjunctive for the extra practice.).

anyhow, now that there is duolingo schools, I see that doing basics 1 over and over again is more prevalent than I thought.

Please comment any means you've found for assessing well.

Thanks

Thank you team and community for asking for and creating this feature! My name is Usagi and I'm a volunteer TA and tutor for first year Japanese students. I'm exploring the reverse course (ENG for JPN students) in preparation for the JPN for EN release. I'm very excited about the school feature and looking forward to using it to help the students. I'm loving it so far and looking forward to new developments. Here are a few suggestions I've gathered from around the forum:

• Collapsible progress by student name, month, week, day, and skill.
• Ability to zero in on area students are struggling most with.
• Organize via toggle: students most to least progress, least to most progress (according to their course).
• Moving the minus sign to somewhere less precarious. And giving it either an immediately clear label, or a hover label like the change language portal badge on the Home tab.
• Give students ability to remove educator--student autonomy over the flow of their information.
• Link website guidelines inside of of the school feature.
• Educator to set goal and students to see progress on goal and when they've met goal. (like the golding of a skill, but where a teacher sets the goal.)
• Chat forum for the educator and their students that is separate from the main forums so we can focus on the topics immediately relevant to our students
• Separate Immersion points from course points.
• Keep people from seeing my email when sent the link to join the course.
• Allow educators to know how far away a skill is from becoming gold.
• Small FAQ
• (Already possible( see Dashboard) A way to invite several students at once.
• Total XP column, and progress a daily/weekly progress until daily/weekly goal completion column.

Thank you for considering these suggestions :)

EDIT: For those interested, here is an unofficial School feature user guide.

Thank you! It's already super useful for tracking our studies.

This is sooo helpful, thank you. My whole school is using Duolingo and this year I bought a trophy for the Duolingo champion. I made some certificates but it would be nice to have a template with the logo. One comment: one of my very clever student cracked the system and managed to see all the answers! There must be a loop hole. Also, is there a way to stop students to spend their time on the discussion button instead of doing their work?

I think a feature which might help students to push forward and advance their skills would be if they could see how far they were from the next level - this might spur them to greater progress if they knew they were only one or two practices away!

I teach Sp 9-12 and celebrate this new feature. While checking my Facebook found this link about 11 channels to learn Spanish in Youtube, none of them was Duolingo! We need to establish this community in Facebook too, gee. http://www.fluentu.com/spanish/blog/learn-spanish-on-youtube/

Thank you! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. It's a phenomenal way to give my advanced students something to do with extra class time, review old skills, and have fun with the language. All 110 of my students are using it.

I am so grateful to have found this website, I have use other programs in the pass but Duolingo has solve most of ours problems. I teach at a private school where there isn't much funding and the computers are limited. So I love the fact that the students can download this program on any device and use any type of headphones. Programs that we've paid for in the pass does not give us the amount of options that Duolingo provides. Best of all students love it cause its fun. I am a new language teacher and this program helps students reiterate what has been taught as well as help me give out assignments. Thanks so so so much. Duolingo has been a life saver. What I would like to see is, the amount of hours a students spent on their assignments and an option to learn Japanese.

Margaret Guetzko from Highland High School in Iowa. All my students are working on Duolingo and really seem to enjoy it! They all started at the beginning level to get a feel for the program and are happy people learning! Thank you Duolingo!

First of all I must thank you team! I'm teaching Japanese in China, in fact, most of my students do not love English ,Because in China , we have to study it hardly from very early time.So students try to learn their favourite things except English,.But as a teacher,I always chat with those kids,and tell them the importance of the English in the work or further study,although they have knew it clearly. Now I can show them Duolinggo,and let them learn their favorite Japanese and English at the same time,it's really a good way for my lovely students and me! That also make me realize the importance of Everyday-Listening .

Thank you for this extension of Duolingo. An interesting feature for the students would be to be able to ask their teacher about errors they made during practice (that they could transmit the error(s) in question and ask their teacher about it).

why is there so much adults on Duolingo there should be more kids.

I am Portuguese as Second Language's teacher in Brazil and teach to the Middle School, in School of the Nations. I'm using Duolingo in PSL classes for four weeks, and students are more interested and engaged in our classes. They are using the DL even when we do not have classes. I am so happy with the results. I am learning about the Dashboard for Educator yet. In same time, I am learning English with Duolingo, and I like it so much. Thanks for all!

Good morning everyone, My name is Angel Castaner, and I am an ESL teacher in the Washington, DC area. At the moment I am teaching advanced level reading and writing to a great variety of students, and am constantly looking for new ways to incorporate technology into the classroom.

I've recently completed two language trees on DL (German and Italian) and absolutely love the ease with which one can improve their language skills. For this reason I was hoping to include Duolingo into my teaching, but I've encountered a problem I was hoping could be addressed.

In short, I have an extremely diverse group of students from all over the world, which means that for some, the prevailing Native Language ---> English model would be unavailable. What I would be interested to see is a "English ---> English" tree, where the goal would not necessarily be learning a new language, but improving skills within one. Explanations could be posted in simplified English to get students thinking about grammatical structures and proper word order and sentence structure. Is this possible? Does anyone know if something like this already exists? I look forward to hearing back from you all!

Angel

I have created a class and have had my students join it via the link but I cannot see their detailed progress on my dashboard. I do not have the pill shaped button on the top right end corner to change progress views. Do I need to do an update of some sort? Thank you!

Is there a way to move students into the sections you've created when they accidentally create their own?

Hola. I teach pre-K through high school Spanish 2 (9th grade). I use Duolingo as a regular homework requirement and would LOVE it if Duolingo would somehow notify me with bells and whistles when a student finishes all lessons/skills on the Spanish tree. I have had four students complete the tree in the last month and I was not aware that they finished. (They came to class and told me, but I didn't know via the Duolingo dashboard.) I like to recognize them for this awesome accomplishment but need to know when it occurs. I teach 150 students so it isn't reasonable that I can individually track each of their trees. Mil gracias.

I've been using Duolingo as required homework practice for my Jr High Spanish students. It is an awesome tool! Thank you for making it available! Every Monday I print their reports to track homework credit. A couple weeks ago I didn't get my weekly reports on Monday, and you Duolingo wizards got that glitch worked out for last week's reports. However, today I don't have reports again. Could you help me get a printable option for weekly reports? Printing the dashboard reports weekly would be ideal.

Hello! I am an English teacher in Colombia and I invite my students to learn English using this program, at the same time, I am learning French! :D This program is just great! I love it! Thank you.

Hi there, is there a way to change the name of a class under our dashboard? I have classes that will be in a different grade and would like to keep the same link. Thank you!

Very excited to start using Duo Lingo with elementary. How young have other users tried it?

I use this in my language classroom and would love to see an option to pause mid lesson. Many of my students have complained about losing work due to spotty connectivity or needing to stop in the middle of a lesson for whatever reason. They have all be redirected to start the whole lesson from the beginning, and get frustrated when the whole motivation is to make progress and count XP points.

English for Arabic speakers on the app version. Is this available? A Kuwaiti student of mine couldn't find it on the app version. I'm excited to get my class signed up for Duolingo for Schools! Thanks! - Jon

Is there a limit to the number of sections I can have? I have three successfully completed and number 4 is not showing up. Most of us would need five - seven sections for schools. This is a very interesting tool for us - particularly for differentiating learners. It will never be the core of my classroom teaching - but might well transform my classroom time into real spoken language practice which is not as well accomplished by Duolingo.

I am an ESL and Russian language teacher. I just started using the dashboard for my ESL 1 class. The student's reaction has been very positive. They like seeing their native languages as the site language. Here is a question. I have 2 students from Georgia in my ESL 1 class. The have some knowledge of Russian and are also enrolled in my Russian 1 class. I made Russian their site language. How do they type responses in Russian?
Otherwise, thanks for a great resource!

It would be really useful to be able to upload documents for translation in specific groups - I find that often when I put something useful for my students up, by the time they get there the community has already done most of the work. Clearly Duolingo is a victim of its own success!

Thanks Duolingo for making the school feature. :) This has made it so much easier for me to track the progress of my students. I teach Spanish in Norway, so I hope it will one day be possible to learn Spanish via Norwegian, but learning via English works fine for now.

However, I have encountered a problem. When the students click the link I have generated for my group they don't always arrive at the Progress tracking site. They have to manually click it via settings and then the info in the link is already filled in, but it's not possible to click Save changes before they write something and then erase it again.

As a suggestion I miss being able to sort by the different categories at the top, like xp points and name. Also I wish it wasn't possible to do the same lesson over and over or that I would be able to delete the points they get for doing the same lesson several times.

Thanks again! I'm looking forward to the new developments on Duolingo.

It would also be able to have some more control over the activity feed - prioritising certain types of information (for example levelling up) or certain students (if you've identified a student with particular difficulties, it's good to be able to follow them a little more closely)

I created students accounts last week but this morning I logged on to the Dashboard and none of my students had acheivements. Last night two had completed the basics with one working particularly hard and completed two basic units earning 150+ XPs. What has happened?

I don't know if this is me being unobservant or what but once you generate a link for a class in the teachers section I can't see a way of generating the same link again. Help?

Est ce que ce forum est specific que pour les enseigants ? Ou pour tous...

I love this! Thank you so much for incorporating the class feature! Receiving the reports in my email really saves me some time :-)

I started doing duolingo with one class through duolingo.com. I asked my students to send me their e-mail address so I could send an invitation from my account. They started following me, I am following them back, this way I can see their progress. So far I have seven students. Then for my other class, I did it through dashboard.duolingo.com. I did it using my phone, the screen is little so I missed how to do the different sections, and I ended up creating three for the same class. So far I have three students. I think I will have to give directions again to this class, because I asked them first to go to duolingo.com and look for my section name, they could not find me. Now I have the link for this particular class on the school website; I am also advising them to go to dashboard.duolingo.com and look for my section name in case the link doesn't work.

I would like to start assigning weekly Duolingo homework for my middle school students. Does anyone have any sugguestions on how many XP points or levels for them to reach? I'm still not completely clear on how someone move from one level to the next, so it seems like having them complete 50 XP points per week seems reasonable and doable... most have already started so are on different lessons. Thanks!

How can my students using a tablet add their specific course for my progress monitoring?

Hello all! I'm a new teacher at my school and I've decided to pilot Duolingo with my French students. :) I'm trying to use it in the same way that my fellow English teachers use Membean (for those of you who know about this awesome app!). So, I'm leaving my students with some simple requirements: get a minimum of 70 XP per week in at least 4 different skills.

On the teacher dashboard, it lists the weeks from Monday to Sunday, so I set their assignment to be due by Sunday, but in reality the teacher dashboard resets to the next week on Sunday! :O That's extremely confusing considering that it's linked to dates! Some of my students have worked on Sunday assuming that that day counts towards their goal (& I assumed that also based on the way the dashboard lists the weeks)... Is there a way to fix/change this so that it is more transparent?

Merci! :D

When will it be possible to access the dashboard in the app?

Also, is there LMS integration in the future? (Blackboard, Schoology, Edmodo)

j'arrive pas a parler couramment anglais car j'ai que 10 ans

So in order to experience Duolingo as my students are experiencing it I started to learn Italian and I have some critiques to offer. 1) Love the picture choices, that's a great format because they see pictures, hear the language, plus it is easy to get right. 2) I got SO frustrated with the "Select the missing word" and "Listening" questions because there are NO resources for you to look anything up and they are SUPER picky about spelling. If I miss even one little "i" not only do I not gain points, but I'm knocked back on my total. I actually gave up after a while because I was getting so mad. I kept getting listening question after listening question, I could not figure out how to spell anything, so I lost so many points I was basically back to the beginning. Like I said, I quit in frustration. Please either have less of those questions, provide some sort of dictionary (like the word hover that you offer with the typing ones), or don't make me lose points when I get things wrong! Or if a student is failing miserably at these types of questions give them less of these types of questions. Grrrrr! 3) That's my overall gripe--that students lose points when they get answers wrong. It's so disheartening. STUDENTS SHOULD NOT LOSE PROGRESS FOR GETTING THINGS WRONG, THEY SHOULD JUST NOT ADVANCE. This is my biggest frustration and my biggest piece of advice. 4) The lesson rarely actually taught me the words I needed, it just expected me to know them. A listening or translate question would pop up with verb forms I'd never seen before, there were no additional resources on the page, and I'd be penalized for guessing incorrectly. How can I learn it if I'm never presented with the material first? There should be a way to through the vocabulary of the lesson before you start having to answer questions about it (possibly getting points for going through it), or have a lesson-specific pop-up dictionary always available. 5) Overall waaaaay too much of an emphasis on perfectly correct spelling. I have special education students who are not good typists or spellers but they know what things mean. More multiple choice, matching, pictures, etc. questions would be appreciated so ALL students can use this resource.

Thank you Duolingo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

My name is Lana Frazier. I teacher French/Spanish at Gatesville High School in Gatesville, Tx. I have a question regarding XP's. I have some students refreshing their basic skills. Do they receive less points when they have already done these units previously? Thanks for your responses.

My name is Arthea and I just won't to say Thank you Guy's very much, I think Duolingo is the best way to learn a language and it's free, I'm going to be traveling in the near future so I won't to know the languages of the countries that I'm going to be traveling to and so this is the best way for me. I plan on being fluent in all the languages I attempt to learn, thank you and may God bless y'all

I'm newly a French teacher (after years of music/directing), with one class of 24 middle schoolers in HS level French I... When I set up my school account here, the invite I got in my school email said welcome to learning Spanish? I did go back and add "French from English" to my profile, but how do I make sure the link I generate to invite students is linking them to the right option, the French from English?

Hi everyone! I'm a middle school ESL teacher in Nashville, TN. I have been letting several of my native Spanish speakers use Duolingo to practice English in class. I have a problem though. For the ones who attended school in Latin America, they can read and write Spanish, and thus fully participate in English Duolingo. For the ones who were born here in the U.S. but speak primarily Spanish at home, almost none of them can read Spanish (SO SAD!!). Does anyone else have this problem? I let them sign up with English accounts to learn Spanish; even though they already speak Spanish, I want them to read it--even though they're in my class to learn English. Can anyone else relate or give suggestions? Thanks!

HELP!

I'm trying to set up a class on my Duolingo Dashboard, but many students are not appearing when they clicked the link I generated for their section. I created a "fake" account to try it out myself (I thought they just were clicking "cancel" instead of "allow"), but I couldn't get my fake account to appear in my real teacher Dashboard either- I tried both clicking on the generated link and manually adding the progress sharing under the settings.

Anyone else have this problem or have an idea of how to fix it? Thank you!

Hi..please could any one tell me how to sign in for a Spanish teaching course ?

I am super confused on how I log in to my the dashboard. I put in my username and password but cannot find my students! It just shows me as a user. I have it bookmarked at school but not at home and I cannot see their progress.

Also, I have had no success in receiving support. Has anyone else ever tried to e-mail for certain problems and received a response?

Hello i am Sam and I teach French and German classes. I am happy with this place

I would like to use Duolingo with my year 4s but because it is not a closed system it will be possible for them to interact with anyone through the app and this concerns me. Is it possible to have accounts that can only interact with people in the class or the teacher and not "the outside world"?

My Dashboard changed back to the previous version. The new version I just had told me how many skills and lessons students had done and I could sort them. How do I switch back to that version?

I am so excited this feature is being added! I tried using duolingo for my Spanish classes. I was a great review at first for my Spanish 2 but I felt it started off really advanced for a beginner. For me, I wish I could put the levels in the order I wanted them or type in a small item I am covering and a bubble be generated for me.

Is there a way to see students' current levels? I thought it was in the new group view, but I don't see it any more. It made it very easy to see if students had reached the levels they were assigned. Can that be added back?

I have 4 500 lingots. I would like to donate these to the school course to reward young students when a teacher deems it appropriate. The logistics would appear to be a nightmare though! Three keystrokes to give one lingot away - 13 500 keystrokes in total. And who would the recipient be?

I am also willing to help here as a tutor - but only with Dutch, English and Portuguese.

Hola, yo soy de Argentina!

thats nice and very important

I am a new student who works with Duolingo. This method is mervallous to begin to learn english grammar and to learn to speak currently....

Hi everyone! I love using duolingo myself, and have used it to improve my German since moving to Switzerland. I teach at a primary international school and would love to use it with my class. However I am stuck with the email addresses, as my students are too young to have their own. Is there any way to make a class account without them having to use their email to confirm the link?

Hoping to start an elective class using Duolingo. I'm looking for ideas of how to format the class, grade student progress, and include presentations.....

how do you set lessons to do as homework?

Thanks Duolingo, this is a great program, but I need your help. As an educator it would be great if I can find articles to assign to my students no matter what the level. I found the tutorials on Immersion to be lengthy and overwhelming and was not sure where or how to have them start the articles. Also since I have students learning different languages, is it possibly to have the same article translated into different languages? Thanks for your help

It would be very valuable as a teacher to be able to print (by sections) a list of students and their progress (ie: lessons, skilss, xp points)

Do the colors of the skills (i.e. Blue, Green, and Red) have any significance?

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Hi, I am an instructor teaching a group of English language teaching (ELT) students in Cyprus. I am learning Spanish. The group I am teaching will be English teachers in a few years and to get them understand how it feels learning a new language I added them to my dashboard as Spanish language learners. We are experimenting with the dashboard feature and who knows maybe when they become teachers my students will continue using Duolingo with their students supporting their English language learning ...

Is there any way to double check your own XP points from the previous week? I have a student who only had 10 XP points listed on my Dashboard, but he says he definitely did more than that...and we couldn't find where it shows it on his profile.

Voice Comments on Duolingo

One of a few features I miss from LiveMocha is the ability to record comments.

(I noticed tonight how helpful that would be with the Turkish "su soguk" that Selcen Ozturk says, in comments, is not enunciated correctly. That is good to know, but even better would be if she could then record the phrase for others to hear.)

As a teacher I would like it if my students could record short speaking practice phrases or immersion selections for me to listen to and the ability to record myself in reply so they can hear any differences I may want to point out to them.

I created a dashboard account for a group of independent Norwegian learners so that when the Beta is developed we can monitor the progress of the entire group as a way of encouraging each other. In order to do this I want to allow all of the "students" to have access to the dashboard account so that we can all check in on each other at anytime.

Is there any reason that this would not work? I.e. Will it be an issue if multiple people log in to the user dashboard at the same time?

This was the easiest way I could figure out how to create a duolingo learning team with everyones info all in one place. Before I distribute our group's info to all of the users I just want to make sure that this method will work!

Thanks!

I LOVE the new class view! This makes it SOOOOO much easier to see where my students are! Great work!

An awesome platform - can hardly believe it's FREE!!! Thank you so much for this!!

Hello. I wish there was an easy way to search your forum posts, as someone else may have asked this, but I don't see one, so here I go with my question/concern , , ,

My colleagues and I have just started assigning Duolingo as homework in the past month. We ask students to complete a certain number of lessons each week, which we track on the very useful Schools Dashboard. Just today, I have learned that students are cheating and "completing" whole lessons instantaneously by starting a lesson then turning off their wifi and clicking through the lesson with nonsense answers. When they turn their wifi back on, the lesson is shown as "complete". Students are "completing" multiple lessons and tests, which should take at least 10 minutes each, in 5 minutes time.

Please let me know if there is a fix for this. Otherwise, our use of Duolingo as an assignment may be over.

Thank you.

Hello. Is there the option for me to create small pieces of work for students to complete (and ideally submit online). These would just be small pieces of homework on a weekly basis.

Please add English to the languages in the language drop down menu on the dashboard. I have French, Spanish, and English classes. I am using Duolingo with my French and Spanish classes, but am about to add my English language students and noticed that English is not in the drop down menu. Thanks. :-) Love the program, by the way!

What happened to the Japanese for English speakers course I see mentioned in one of the earliest posts?

I am having a problem getting my ESL students onto my dashboard. Many of them have duolingo on their smart phone, but can't remember their passwords to log onto the computer. I can't send them the link because they don't have email addresses and many of them don't even have access to computers. It is easy to add a professor to share your progress once you log into duolingo via the computer. But, since they cannot do this, is there a way to share progress via the phone app? If there is, I could not find it. Thank you for your help!

What time is the cutoff for reporting student scores for the week? I get an email Monday AM but my kids aren't sure when the week officially ends.

I'd like to be able to create a list of words I'm having trouble with, so I could create my own stack of flashcards and drill a little. Maybe users could tag new words in lessons to keep on the list AND be able to add the flashcards that they didn't know to that list?

I am a Spanish teacher and I am adding students to this app and tracking their progress. But to look at the lessons they have completed, I have to have completed the lesson myself to look at the words they had. I just created an account on this. What I am saying is, do I have to complete my Spanish tree just to see what my students are learning?

Here's how you can move classes into sections (scroll down): https://dashboard.duolingo.com/dashboard_help

HI - I need some help. When last on Duolingo, I was getting an update of how many points my students were getting per week. I was giving them extra credit based on those points. Now Duolingo has changed their system. I cannot see the points and they are not sending me an update. If you hover over the green check a date pops up - I assume it is the date that the student completed the section. But I have a very trustworthy student who says that she completed 200 points recently but her most recent date says Feb. Is there a way to see it under the old system so that I can properly give our extra credit? Thanks!!

I have a student who has determined a "shortcut" that passes him through a level without completing it? I cannot determine exactly what he/she is doing (yet), but it seems highly suspect. Anyone know how he/she is doing this?

Feedback:

The only homework I generally give my students is to practice their skills on duolingo. I tell them I am able to review their progress and use their current experience as their weekly participation mark. However, I can't quite do this any more since one of my students found out to cheat the system. He now has over 1000XP and gold levels because he figured out how to tamper with the coding. Also, apparently if you turn off the wifi and continue working on duolingo, every answer will be marked as correct not matter what. That same student figured out that he can keep his answers by turning on the wifi connection before leaving the page. He is now incredibly ahead of the class according to duolingo, but in reality, he has 0XP.

Also, is there a way to send a mass email to all my "followers" . I would like to be able to remind students of upcoming tests and such on duolingo.

A couple of students found the cheats for turning on and off the wireless and it pushes them through with garbage answers and scores them as perfect. I am not sure how to "prove" that they are cheating and need some suggestions. As stupid as this sounds, they have put several hours into the cheating effort- which tells you what sort of goofs they are. It could be that their accounts may accidentally be deleted or blocked soon. Darn internet. Then they would have to start over. Can Duolingo 1) fix the cheat 2)send them a note saying "You are cheaters! Our records indicate...." Then I can take some stronger action.... Anyone else have suggestions?

I'm having problems again with students who have done the work (and they are reliable students) but the points aren't showing up on my dashboard.

Thank you Luis! Te lo agradezco.

CAn you tell me how can i make golden ring when i winish one rang.

I would love access to my Spanish students' progress quiz scores, and word counts. Also, I would like to get a notification when one of my students finishes all the skills on the Spanish tree. I feel bad when that goes unnoticed. Gracias for this fantastic teaching tool!

thanks for the help man!

Hello,

I'm really loving the Duolingo Teacher Tools - the programme just keeps getting better. I'm intending to roll the programme out with my colleagues at the beginning of next semester, and everyone who's been involved in the test programme is very happy with it.

One of the few difficulties we have had is getting the students to work on the collaborative translations, not just on the language training. Part of the difficulty seems to be that the translation material is only available on the website, and most of our students tend to use the mobile app. Might it be possible to incorporate the translation element of the programme on the app?

Secondly, Duolingo is partly a victim of its own success, as any texts we teachers publish on the platform tend to be translated by the community before our students can get to it - would it be possible to add a function to the teacher mode where we could publish a text for translation by a specific group that we are following?

As I said, I love the platform, and I know my students get a lot out of it. I think if I can get them to do more translation on top of their language training, it'd be even more useful. Thank you all very much for making this widely available!

Hello teachers! Where do you go online to find language teaching resources? Any discussion forums particularly helpful?

I would like to know in the standards for FL which levels of Spanish are covered in Duolingo. I would like to know if this program can be used for Spanish I and Spanish II.

Does anyone know what users on here are team members and how can you tell if they are a team member?

Hello! I have been using Duolingo for about 4 months, and I think it's great. I'm having a problem getting it set up for my students, though. When they clink the link to join the class, they get a 404 message. What could the problem be?

Hi, I am a professor of secondary and university also, I have more than 8 years working with virtual education and truth Duolingo I feel great and I use in my classes with the DashBoard, would be excellent teachers we could raise or create your own lessons English spara our groups. Greetings from Colombia

I am writing because I have two questions:

As a teacher: It is possible to unlock the language that you teach so I can look at the content that is being taught on each lesson? Or do I have to go through the lessons and pass each of them by myself?

Is it possible to assigned or choose lessons and quizzes to students that already in my roster?

Hello, my name is Schtefan and I am learning French. I am looking forward to join classes as a student and study together with others in a pleasant way. Would be happy to be guided by a teacher and share the knowledge (and the progress :) ).Thank you...

Do we have a friendly way to print the students results by chapter or activity??

I've been using Duolingo to track my about 200 students in French for TWO years now! It's fantastic, and they love it. I would like to give them some lingots so they can do the quiz as a diagnostic assessment, or as a reward for evident hard work. Is there a way to do that?

You have google classrooms as a quick invite but could you add others such as edmodo?

Great program anyway.

All the best

Richard Jones

Are we able to join classes because for me i dont have a lot of time to learn by myself so i think i would be more motivated in a class

:)

Hello, I am Veronica but surely to call me with Eron. Basicly, I join duolingo to enrich my languages skill since I really am in love with challenge especially to learn about the other language beside of my mother tongue. I planned to learn about Dutch, German, and still want to upgrade my English skill. So, I hope people there can give me some assists to reach the goal that I have made. Thank you in advance.

Is it possible to create word lists for each lesson? For instance, I want to print the words the 3 basic lessons on one sheet for homework-review. How can I accomplish this?

Also, it would be great to have verbal only quizzes where the students have to translate from english to spanish or spanish to english without any hints.