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One QwikTeach subscription for your whole school

Your teachers can now work under one school subscription in QwikTeach. You choose a shared allowance of Lesson Intelligence hours for the team, and your teachers draw from that allowance…

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New in QwikTeach: manage your school and create grammar worksheets
Lesson Planning

You can now bring your school's teachers, managers, students, and groups into QwikTeach, and follow student progress across your team. We've also added interactive grammar worksheets that…

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Bring your in-person lessons into QwikTeach
Lesson Planning

A lesson at a café can move a student forward just as much as one in your online room. Now you can record that lesson yourself, upload it afterward, and keep the teaching record in QwikTe…

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Suggested Speaking and Writing Homework in QwikTeach
Lesson Planning

The lesson ends, and you know your student should practice something before the next one. Coming up with a useful task, writing it out, and sending it later is easy to put off when your n…

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Language teacher reviewing student assignments beside a learning dashboard
Lesson Planning

If your students book and pay through a school or another system, they don't need booking and payment options in their QwikTeach accounts. You can now give them learning only access so th…

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Language teacher reviewing a class set of essays in an organized QwikTeach grading workflow
Lesson Planning

You can now handle a full class set of essays without recreating the same writing task for every student. QwikTeach lets you assign new writing, collect student submissions, or bring in c…

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Lesson Planning

Homework fails in two places: the moment you assign it, and the moment your student remembers it exists. Assigning usually happens hours after class, from memory, in a chat thread with no…

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Reviewing New Concepts Is Where Language Learning Actually Happens
Lesson Planning

Understanding Is Not the Same as Learning A student can nod through a grammar point, repeat a corrected phrase, and sound solid for ten minutes. Then the lesson ends, the pressure changes…

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Online language teacher at a laptop selecting a timed speaking task and a writing task for a student's lesson plan
Lesson Planning

Most recurring students need the same kind of homework every week. A conversation student gets a short speaking task. An IELTS student gets a writing task. Until now, you rebuilt those ch…

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Online language teacher reviewing an adaptive learning roadmap toward a student goal
Lesson Planning

A curriculum should tell you where a student is going without forcing every student through the same fixed syllabus. QwikTeach builds a living roadmap from the learner's current Common Eu…

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Online language teacher choosing among three next-lesson pathways after reviewing a completed lesson
Lesson Planning

The hardest part of planning the next lesson often happens before you write a single activity. You have to decide whether the student is ready to move forward, needs to finish what they s…

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Lesson Planning

A friendly English lesson can feel like a good lesson. The student laughs. They tell you about their weekend. You talk about work, travel, family, films, and the strange behavior of their…

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Lesson Planning

When every lesson lives in a different file Separate lesson files work until a student has been with you for a few months. You teach Marta on Tuesday and share a Google Doc. The next week…

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AI Teaching Assistant: The Complete Guide for Online Language Teachers
Lesson Planning

Most teachers don’t need another clever tool. They need a pressure valve. An AI teaching assistant is useful when it takes work off your desk without taking control out of your hands. If…

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Build a Professional Teacher Landing Page in QwikTeach with Lesson and Consultation Booking
Lesson Planning

A teacher website should lead somewhere useful Most teacher profiles explain what you offer and stop there. A prospect reads your bio, likes your background, and then opens a message thre…

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AI Lesson Planning from Transcripts, Progress Reports, Goals, and Teacher Notes
Lesson Planning

Most lesson planning fails for a boring reason: you are trying to rebuild the previous lesson after the week has already moved on. That is not a creativity problem. It is a records proble…

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AI Pronunciation Feedback for Online Language Lessons
Lesson Planning

Pronunciation feedback is easy to notice live and hard to carry forward later. During the lesson, you hear the hesitation, the sound that keeps shifting, the word the student avoids, or t…

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AI Lesson Transcription and Progress Tracking for Online Language Teachers
Lesson Planning

After a full teaching day, memory becomes a weak filing system. You remember the general shape of each lesson, of course. But the useful details blur: the phrase one student finally used…

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