Crystal clear in sound, Edutech's Language Lab Solutions also have advanced options for student recording, pair-work, small group-work, and interactive multimedia activities.

Key Benefits :

• Anytime & anywhere participation - Users can access the lab at anytime, from any school PC and from any location on the campus network.
• Compelling multimedia activities - Teachers can assign reading/viewing, recording, and writing activities that employ audio, video, text, images, and captions to stimulate student participation.
• Personalized student workspace - Each student has his own Student Space to which instructors can post individual or group assignments.
• Tracking student progress - Instructors are able to login when and where convenient to review student progress and responses to assignments

Technology-assisted English learning courseware :

Edutech provides schools with cost-effective English learning software, tests, authoring and assessment tools, and training to support teachers... 

Unique approach to language learning :

Edutech's learning software is a significant advance over traditional textbook-based language instruction. The brain-based, blended approach is supported by extensive real-world experience, language models and multi-skill activities to keep students engaged at an optimum level focusing on mastery of the language. Interesting topics, effective language sequencing, coordinated classroom activities, and the appropriate use of technologies such as Speech Recognition foster learning and make it rewarding and enjoyable.

Edutech's solutions have been developed keeping in mind the needs of today's student population. Our research-based, technology-assisted solutions develop all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) using "the 4-skills path". The solutions are cost-effective and suitable for all levels.

Teacher Console

Teacher Console is provided with control functions to monitor all student positions. With this various batches, their session timings and their respective lessons can be organized. It has got the unique features like options for listening to the native speakers and giving instructions to individual student with personalized attention. Enables teachers to run an impressive range of language learning exercises and activities and support their students individually. The Teacher can co-ordinate the group discussions. Teacher’s system is the monitoring control of the Teacher console. It notifies you when a student logs in with his or her username and password. It gives you an activity status on each student.

• Teachers are able to discreetly monitor student activities even when students are working with live video content.
• Teacher can create his/her own study materials with the help of advanced tools.
• Empowers teachers simply walk-in and teach using any and all of their existing program materials.
• The teacher can add, play and even test the lessons.
• Facility for pre-setting the lessons, batches and sessions for the entire academic year.
• Two way communication with the students.
• Remote listen-in on student microphone.
• Student screen capture facility.
• Text chat and video conferencing facility.
• Media player and text file viewer.
• Inbuilt voice recorder.
• Can be used for teaching any language.
• Review student work.

Student Console :

The student console enables student to listen to model pronunciations or questions; repeat/answer/record the same if required. Listen to his performance and compare the same with the model for self assessment which is the key to fast learning. Students will get the pre-recorded lessons from the Teacher console after logging in. With the help of the student console, each student downloads the respective recorded lessons for the session on to the student system. Students can freely communicate with the teacher. Save recorded, typed files for teacher to hear and observe and evaluate. The student can be part of a group discussion. Correction in case of any erratic pronunciation is possible by the teachers at any stage. Student can interact with teacher from the student console without disturbing others.

1. Effective guidance and individual attention from the teacher.
2. Students listen to the lessons pre-recorded by experts.
3. Self-assessment at the end of each assignment is submitted to Teacher Console for evaluation.
4. Text chat facility.
5. Dictionary.
6. Video conferencing facility.
7. Store/access practice sessions till deletion.
8. Two way communication with Teacher.
9. Empowers students to work at their own pace and privacy.
10. Helps students to cognize the language in a variable context.
11. And in a nutshell, it enables the student to master the language with ease and flow.
12. LearnSOFT Dictionary is an added component of our Language Lab system, which contains more than 25,000 words with meaning, pronunciation and examples. Additional tools are provided for listening pronunciation, recording and comparing. U.K & U.S English pronunciations are available.

Recorders :

Advanced Recorder: - Supports all types of sound cards and devices. Conversion of audio tapes into digital format is supported. Supports multiple sound format [MP3, WAV, OGG etc], wide variety of advanced features

Basic Recorder: -

Easy to use interface, supports only WAV format.

Remote Desktop Access

Language lab being a networked application, the teacher acts as server and needs to monitor all students. For this, we introduced an advanced technology- Remote Desktop Viewer. By using this, teacher is able to capture any student’s screen and view on his /her console. For future reference teacher can save the file as bit map image, later viewed on any photo editor or even from Language Lab Remote Desktop Control. This is one of the outstanding features of Learn SOFT Language Lab, and it acts like Remote Surveillance Camera.

Audio & Video Broadcasting

File transfer system helps teacher to send lessons to students system based on the progress of each student and the student can send back completed exercise to teacher for evaluation. System supports broadcasting of files up to 2GB of file size and the speed depends upon the LAN card. All types of lesson files [MP3, DAT, MPG, AVI, txt etc] are allowed to send over network. The students are able to watch the preview of lessons either directly from the teacher console or by downloading to their local folder. To improve the loading speed and overall efficiency of the program, it is highly recommended to delete all the lessons while quitting the program.

Group Discussion

Group discussion is an unavoidable part in career development. LearnSOFT Language Lab has got the most modern GD facility. The teacher is the initiator and terminator of the GD at anytime at any stage. During GD, students are not allowed to do anything more than GD. Overall control on students is maintained. This helps to keep discipline while talking.

1. Can add multiple students- up to five.
2. Real-time control over the group.
3. Helps to improve the speaking skills of a student among group.
4. Can detach unwanted students from a group.

Learn SOFT Dictionary

LearnSOFT Dictionary is an added component of our language lab system, which contains more than 25,000 words with meaning, pronunciation and examples. Additional tools are provided for the listening pronunciation, recording, and comparing. U.K and U.S pronunciations are available.

Advantages

Learn SOFT English Language Lab can be broadly categorizes and abbreviated as VITI:

1. Versatility- Text, Images, Audio, and Video can easily be integrated and the teacher can remodel and alter materials to fit the needs of a multitude of language teaching programs.
2. Interactivity- Students can record their own voice and play back the recordings, interact with each other and the Teacher, and store results.
3. Teacher Intervention- The teacher can make student-specific oral comments as well as have real-time control of students’ computers via Teacher’s Console, track student work, and much more...
4. Independent Learning- Access to recourses beyond the timetable encourages independent learning.

Privacy & Effective Learning: -

Individual headsets with microphones not only guarantee absolute for student- teacher communications in the multimedia language lab but also ensure effective learning as it encourages even the self- consciously inhibited student to speak with confidence- without being worried about peer- ridicule common in normal classroom setting. Moreover it reduces the classroom distraction as communication between a particular student and his/her teacher is completely independent of the rest of the group. It benefits to practice and assess any language and develop confidence among the learners.

Better Attention & Quicker Comprehension: - 

The Learn SOFT English Language Lab software is more attention-riveting for the student and increases the pace of comprehension as student coaching is purely based on level of study, grasping power as well as language aptitude among others.

Enhances listing skills & Encourages Self-Pacing: -

Listening skills are automatically honed and with the added advantage of being able to pace oneself based on comprehension of recordings, the language is imbibed more naturally