The document summarizes upcoming changes to the EnglishCentral learning platform in August that are aimed to improve the student experience. Some of the key changes include: 1. A redesigned video player with improved performance, functionality, and integrated vocabulary quizzing. 2. A new progress tracking ribbon displayed at the top of every page to show students' experience points and completion of video lessons. 3. Enhancements to the video sections including Watch, Learn, Speak and Quiz to provide a more seamless guided experience for students.

1. Highlighted changes for students and teachers
OVERVIEW
This August, EnglishCentral will be making some changes to the way students learn on
EnglishCentral. These changes will dramatically improve the experience of learning
English on EnglishCentral.
This will not affect the class page, student progress and reports or any LMS features.
The major changes are:
 A redesigned video player with improved performance and functionality
 Vocabulary quizzing within the player (except course video lessons)
 Modal instructions in the side bar of the video detail page and 1,2,3,4 pathway
 A new progress tracking ribbon at the top of every page
 Automatic favoriting of words and populating of the vocabulary quiz
FEATURE CHANGES
The progress ribbon
 Students now gain experience points for each video lesson studied.
 Persistent view of progress ribbon at the top of every page
Experience points are awarded for completion of each part of the video lesson.

2. The Video Player
WATCH
 New design and increased speed and performance enhancement
 Students are seamlessly directed through Watch | Learn | Speak | Quiz
 Repeat button now both repeats a line and slows it down
A new start screen. Students can click any word to study it. Selected words will be added
to the final vocabulary quiz.

3. LEARN
 Easy to type interface. Use the “enter” key to advance.

4. SPEAK
 Interactive display and prompt to speak, mid screen.
 Students prompted to rerecord for lines with low scores (red or yellow)
 Compare button appears for low scored spoken lines
A new start screen for SPEAK

5. QUIZ VOCABULARY
 Students get credit (meet goals) for words learned in the quiz
 Quiz now fully integrated in the player (except for course video lessons)
 Improved start screen showing study words (both set and selected by student)

6. MODAL SIDE BAR NAVIGATION
 Students can easily navigate sections of each video lessons
 Students can clearly see the points acquired for each video lesson
 Students can see their finished result for Speak and Quiz
 Final screen indicates total score of the quiz and prompts for the next video.
 Students will have to use their browser’s “return” button to return to the class
page to study the next video selected by the teacher.

7. MY WORDS
Redesigned for easy student review and self-study
Remove words already known, filter by word difficulty
Hear word pronunciation and click the word to view example cliplists
Multiple categories of words for instant study – “Ready To Quiz”
Easily filter you words for “quick quizzing”.

8. CHANGES FOR TEACHERS
ADD TO CLASS
 Add individual videos to the class with the large Add To Class selector
Pronunciation Report (Premium students only)
 Now shows all the weak (red) and average (yellow) phonemes that challenge a
student
Video Details (Transcript)
 Improved formatting of the transcript
 Studied words are now clearly shown
 Easy to print transcript

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We hope you and your students enjoy this new and improved video lesson experience.
If you have questions, please let us know by contacting us directly HERE.