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Sanako Connect

A web-based language teaching solution suitable for both asynchronous and synchronous teaching. Teach any language. Students participate from any classroom or remote location simultaneously connecting students and teachers in real-time regardless of their location.

Sanako Connect is a scalable browser-based solution. Login with any browser. Use any device including laptops, Chromebooks, tablets and smartphones all that is required is internet access. Easy to manage and hassle-free for your school’s IT department.

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Sanako Connect

Sanako Connect has preset language learning activities and auto-graded quizzes. Sanako makes language teaching easy and fun and improves students’ enthusiasm level and achievement.

Sanako Connect

A teacher-led language solution. You, the teacher, are always in control of your language class whether in the classroom, remotely, live or asynchronously.

Connect includes a class view for the teacher to see the whole class and each student’s status.

Teacher enabled text chat and audio/video calls. Pair/group students for live discussion activities and role plays.

Monitor what each student is doing at any given time. Launch teacher-controlled activities that make sure students are focused on the task and much more.

Manage student pairs and groups easily in one view.

Divide your students into pairs or groups with live video and audio communication. Each group can discuss and view each other on video at the same time without distracting each other. Teacher can listen in and talk with each group.

Launch live activities with this online language hub.

Includes language learning activities tailored for language teaching. Improve the four language skills reading – writing – speaking and listening. Includes preset activities like model imitation, live speaking practice, pairing students, listening and comprehension, describe what you see activities, and writing essays. Access YouTube language lessons.

Collect individual students’ recordings efficiently.

Save time by efficiently performing entire class simultaneous speaking assessments. Students’ recordings are collected automatically. Students can also reflect by listening to their own recordings.

Unique dual track recorder/player essential for students’ recordings also used for all assessments and exams including AP and IB.

Advanced dual track recorder/player allows students to speak and record themselves and listen to the master track at the same time. Advanced recorder/player also allows students to insert their answers to a video or audio files’ master track. Dual track recorder/player is also used for students recording voice portion answers to the AP Exams.

Pronunciation with Auto-Grading

Give students the opportunity to master speaking and pronunciation in their target language by listening and repeating native-like speech models. Sanako Connect provides automatic feedback color coded and 0 to 100 scoring (supports all modern languages).

Video Recording Task

This task allows students to record their video answers. The video recording feature can be used for live translation, ASL and any Sign Language teaching and speaking assessments.

Matching Pairs

Both sides of a pair can use text and images simultaneously giving teachers more options with this activity. When completing the task, students simply link cards by dragging the cards into the correct position.

Features

Sanako Connect offers a comprehensive range of features to meet language teacher’s needs. Below is an overview of the key features that make Sanako Connect easier for teachers and students alike.

  • Round table discussion

  • Create audio files

  • Content Exercise Activities

  • Reading Practice

  • Video Pairing

  • Telephone activity

  • Live Feedback

  • Assign and Collect Homework

  • Teach synchronously or asynchronously

  • AP Exam activities

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Full Features List

  • Teach synchronously or asynchronously

    • Used for synchronous and asynchronous teaching.
    • New interface to manage students easily in one screen view
    • Pair or group students easily with real-time audio and video communication. Can be used for teaching ASL.
    • Screen sharing and video can be used for teaching ASL.
    • Assign language learning activities to include YouTube lessons.
    • A unique dual track student recorder with voice inserts and AP Exam ready.
    • Exams can be set to run in exam mode that includes automated student collection at the end of the exam.
    • Pronunciation tool with auto-grading to improve students’ pronunciation in any language. Fast efficient. No additional grading for the teachers.
    • Paged exercises: Divide an exercise into different pages to create progression within an exercise.
    • Matching pairs can use text and images simultaneously. Students link cards into their correct position.
    • Quizzes – gap fill – multiple choice – true and false all with auto grading. Fast and efficient. No additional grading for teachers.

  • Video Pairing

    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. Student pairs are selected in the same fashion as in Pair Discussion and the students’ video can be recorded during the activity.

  • AP Exam activities

    Teach AP practice AP and take the AP Exams. Sanako have diligently worked with the new 2017 College Board AP Exam procedures to correctly set up an easy fail-safe pre-set step by step procedure with a minimum 5 steps for the proctor for administering the students AP Exam. Only Sanako have a pre-set AP Exam activity where there are no AP Exam do-overs.

  • Create audio files

    Create audio files with the Text to Speech feature. Copy and paste any text and turn it into spoken audio content. Insert bookmarks and subtitles.

  • Reading Practice

    Reading Practice – students read given material to practice intonation in addition to rhythm and pronunciation.

  • Telephone activity

    Telephone activity lets students call each other by selecting from a list on the Student application. The telephone conversations between students can be recorded and collected at the end of the activity.

  • Content Exercise Activities

    Content Exercise Activities pull up a number of content exercises at your fingertips, no longer look for content to use. These content exercises are ready to teach with and students can work at their own pace or any level.

  • Round table discussion

    Round table discussion designed to strengthen oral presentation skills. Instructor sets up small groups with a designated chairman who leads a discussion and passes the microphone around the group.

  • Live Feedback

    Live Feedback with color coded status from each student displayed on the teacher interface.

  • Assign and Collect Homework

    Homework assignments feature to assign and collect homework from a file area integrated in the student’s application allows for easy distribution and collection of homework assignments.

  • Playlists of all lessons

    Playlists of all lessons and content in each of the six color coded groups. Click on a group playlist and all files are displayed and can be launched to students. Students can also access these playlist in self-access mode.

We offer teachers dependable and user-friendly online and software solutions for language teaching

At Multimedia Solutions, Inc., we empower educators with dependable and intuitive language teaching solutions designed to transform classrooms. As the exclusive representative of Sanako, we deliver cutting-edge tools, including innovative software language labs and a live online teaching platform equipped with ASL capabilities. Our mission is to simplify language instruction and inspire engaging, effective learning experiences for teachers and students alike.

Sanako educational technology stands as a global leader in language learning solutions, trusted by educators in over 120 countries and utilized in 80,000 classrooms worldwide. Every week, six million students rely on Sanako’s cutting-edge tools to enhance their language skills and empower their learning journeys.

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