Carnegie Speech spoken-English assessment and instruction software

Carnegie Speech software products are web apps that run on smartphones, tablets, and computers.  Our software delivers assessment and instruction in spoken English skills, including pronunciation, word stress, fluency (connected speech), and spoken grammar.  Our AI tutoring technology creates an individual lesson plan for each student based on their first language and their assessment scores.  By focusing on the skills most in need of improvement, the Intelligent Tutor saves valuable study time.  Patented Pinpointing speech recognition technology provides the user with immediate, understandable feedback, showing their level of success with the focus skill of each lesson.  Voice models are gender matched.  As students improve, the intelligent tutor dynamically adapts the activities to the next most-needed skill.

ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION - TERMS

School is an organizational unit.  All courses, users, classes, and playlists exist within your school container.

Course – A course is a container defined by its name and settings.  There are two types of courses available:

• Carnegie BASICS for learners at CEFR Levels A1 and low A2.  Students in this course type will be presented with a 10-minute guided assessment of pronunciation and word stress, followed by a custom learning path tailored to each student.
• NativeAccent for learners at CEFR Levels B1 and higher.  This course type has a 30-minute assessment of pronunciation, stress, fluency, and grammar skills, followed by an "Intelligent Tutor" customized learning path for each student.

Class - A class is the grouping of students and teachers enrolled in a particular course.

User - a user is any person with login access to your school container (students, teachers, and local administrators)

Roles - There are four user-roles 

• Student
  • Students can be enrolled in one course at any time.  Their role is to take the initial assessment, practice the skills most needed based on their assessment, and take the final assessment.
• Teacher
  • Teachers can manage students in their assigned courses, change course settings, create assignments, and run reports.
• Local Administrator
  • The local administrator can create and delete courses, delete students, and assign/enroll teachers in their classes.
  • The local admin can do all teacher functions. All courses, teachers, and students associated with a school are visible to the local administrator.
• System Administrator
  • This role is used by Customer Care and Tech Support to create schools, initial courses, and users, and to resolve customer support issues.