TEACHERTOOLS

Description of the tool

  • TeacherTools is a simple, yet powerful online assignment platform for busy language teachers.

  • This website saves teachers’ valuable time while creating meaningful language exercises. ‍

  • It also provides a wide variety of exercises for students to practice speaking, listening comprehension, vocabulary, and sentence structure.

How to access the website

  • Go to google search engine and write “teachertools”.

  • Click on the link www.teachertools.digital

  • Sign up to a basic account.

  • 30 days free trial option is available to decide for the efficiency of this site for your teaching process.

How it works

  • Assignments are easy to create, and delightfully simple to administer with the help of TeacherTools. 

  • You need to just share the link or QR code for your assignments with your students. Thus, neither student registration nor login is required.

  • All TeacherTools assignments can be auto-graded. In addition, personalized scoring and feedback are available for Audio Recordings, Video Recordings and Written Reports.

  • For teachers who already have a website or learning management system, TeacherTools assignments can be easily linked to or embedded just about anywhere.

How it can be used in the classroom

  • TeacherTools features eight assignment types to help teachers teach all four skills of learning a language: speaking, listening, reading, writing.

Speaking Activities:

Audio-Recording: The students are asked a question to talk for 1 minute by clicking on the microphone on the screen and it is recorded.

Video-Recording: The students are given a topic to talk for 1 minute by opening their cameras and it is recorded.

Speaking Drill: The students are given 5 sentences successively and asked to repeat them by clicking on the microphone on the screen in 2 minutes.

Listening Activities:

Video Gap Fill: The students are given a video and some sentences with gaps. They are supposed to fill the gaps.

Reading Activities:

Multi Choice Quiz: The students are supposed to read the texts and answer multiple choice questions.

Writing Activities:

Written Report: The students are given a topic to write a paragraph in a specified time and word limit.

  • Scores, corrections, and personalized feedback from the teachers can be provided via this website.

  • Students receive instant notification when their assignment has been submitted and graded.